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FARNBOROUGH REPORT EFA aims for Farnborough '92 The European Fighter Air craft (EFA) is to make its show debut at Farnborough 92. The first EFA prototype is now scheduled to roll out in late 1"991 with first flight early in 1992. This will be followed by .seven more flying prototypes Political uncertainty is not preventing between 1992 and 1999. The third prototype will be the first with a two-seat configuration, and .the fifth will be the first aircraft with a full avionics fit. Two test airframes are also being manufactured. By the time the first aircraft EFA taking shape CONTROLLING THE BOOM Air Transport through the Nineties Delft, The Netherlands, 4-5 October 1990 Symposium organised by the Netherlands Civil Aviation Depart ment, the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering of Delft University of Technology and the Society of Aerospace Students "Leonardo da Vinci". Issues: Identifying the Boom, the Industry View, Environment and Infrastructure, Multilateral Trends, Aircraft Production, Finance and Airworthiness. Speakers: Dr. A. Kotaite (President ICAO Council) Prof. M. Levine (Dean Yale School of Organisation and Management) LimChinBeng (Deputy Chairman SIA) K. Mack (Director-General Eurocontrol) L. van Wijk (Director designate KLM) G. Thompson (Chief Executive Manchester Airport) R. den Beston (President Amsterdam Airport Sch iphol) R. Abraham (Deputy Chairman retd. Lufthansa) S. Orlandini (Former President KLM) V. Eggers (Director General of Civil Aviation Den mark) H. Ostendorf (Vice President Industrial Cooperation and Technology Airbus Industrie) D. Warren (Vice President Quality Control McDon nell Douglas Corporation) (Member of the Board Fokker Aircraft) E. J. Nederkoorn Fee: Dfl. 550, US$325, including documents, lunches and dinner. Registration: Contact VSV Leonardo da Vinci, Kluyverweg 1,2629 HS DELFT Telephone: 31-15-785366. Fax: 31-15-623096 enters service "...3,000 hours will have been flown...and around 5,000 hours will have been flown by the end of devel opment in 1999", says Gerrie Willox, managing director of Eurofighter. Willox says: "The structural drawings for the early proto types are now virtually com plete and the partner companies are now well into manufactur ing the aircraft". The first proto type's front fuselage structure is now complete and will be shipped by British Aerospace to 'MBB at Manching in early 1991. Airframe static testing will start at the beginning of 1992 and fatigue testing will begin later in the same year. Fourteen windtunnel models have been built, and ten are under test, with around 11,000 test runs having been carried out. Decisions by the four participating nations on produc tion investment and production have to be taken in 1992 to allow production release by the turn of 1992-3. Following reports that Saudi Arabia has held informal talks with BAe on joining EFA, man agement company Eurofighter will only say there is "...every reason to suppose Saudi Arabia will eventually look for aircraft in the class of EFA". • Software rights exercise NATO NATO is trying to resolve the key issue of software ownership before the award of a contract for a substantial air- defence upgrade project, the Radar Integration Southern Re gion (RIS) programme. A decision on the contract is expected within the next few months, but the competing companies and NATO have yet to agree the crucial issue of the exact status of the software for the project. It is understood that initially NATO wanted complete owner ship of the software developed for the project - a move unac ceptable to companies involved since it would mean surrender ing intellectual property rights. NATO has adopted the posi tion because it has run into difficulty in the past on several programmes where companies retained complete ownership, and to a considerable degree control, of software. Following expressions of con cern, NATO is now believed to be moving away from demand ing full ownership, and to Be negotiating on unlimited and limited software rights. It is understood that RIS is intended to allow7 "...any radar to get into the NATO Air De fence Ground Environment". • Learjet launch to 'bridge the gap' Learjet is to launch a new, medium-sized aircraft to bridge the gap between its S7 million Lear 55 and the $16 million Challenger corporate jet built by Bombardier sister com pany Canadair, says Learjet chairman and chief executive Brian Barents. Learjet has done several pro gramme studies over the years, including the Lear 65 which had been expected as the com pany's next step forward. Barents says that next month's US National Business Aviation Association convention in New Orleans could see "...some exciting news from Learjet, which will indicate our future". Canadair Challenger di vision president Bryan Moss says that, following the Bombar dier acquisition of Learjet, "...the urgency, if any, is to compare our market intelli gence". Moss emphasises that for the moment Canadair must keep its options open. There will be no immediate loss of Learjet identity. "Bom bardier has issued no mandate for us to merge," says Moss. "The acquisition is on a stand alone basis with a philosophy for both entities to work inde pendently." Moss reports a'Tairly signifi cant increase" in Challenger sales interest and says that in Pacific Rim countries Canadair has "only scratched the surface" - a region where Learjet has "an excellent feel". • 20 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 12-18 September 1990
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