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f>AR§S FIRST NEWS Dash 8 stretch launched BOMBARDIER HAS launched the stretched de Havilland Canada Dash 8-400 regional turbo prop, following an order for 12 air craft from Great China Airlines of Taiwan. A formal announcement is expected at die show. The Taiwanese domestic carrier is understood to be one of several launch customers for the 70-seat aircraft, including at least one other Asian airline. The Great China deal alone is thought to be worth $316 million. Bombardier has been seeking around 40 orders to launch the Dash 8-400. The company's board of directors gave the go-ahead in April for the aircraft to be officially marketed. It had previously delayed launching the stretch vari ant because of poor market demand. The -400 is a stretched and more powerful development of the earlier Dash 8-100/200/300 series. It will feature a 4.6m-longer fuse lage, new forward baggage door, aft cargo door and a strengthened wing/fuselage joint. It will be pow ered by twin 3,670kW (5,000hp) Pratt & Whitney Canada PW150 turboprop engines, and have a cruising speed of 3 50kt (650km/h). The first Dash 8-400 is sched uled to have its maiden flight in the first quarter of 1997, with the aim of achieving airworthiness certifi cation in the final quarter of 1998. The first delivery is expected short ly afterwards. Great China expects to receive its first Dash 8-400 in 1999. The 12 aircraft will replace seven Dash 8- 300s and four smaller Dash 8-100 turboprops. The aircraft will be employed on Great China's 58 domestic routes in Taiwan. • Pratt & Whitney sets thrust- vectoring-nozzle flight date PRATT & WHITNEY'S multi-directional thrust-vec toring nozzle is due to be flown on a modified McDonnell Douglas (MDC) F-15 at Edwards AFB, California, in September. The thrust-vectoring pitch yaw balanced beam nozzle (PYBBN), will be flight tested at NASA Dryden on the modified F100-229- powered F-15 short take-off and landing/manoeuvre technology demonstrator. The tests are part of thejointNASA/USAirForce/MDC/ P&W programme known as ACTIVE (advanced control tech nology for integrated vehicles). P&W, which is demonstrating a working PYBBN at the Paris show, is also expected to reveal more details of development work on its fourth-generation nozzle, die spherical convergent flap nozzle. Although it shares the axisymmet- ric, 360° vectoring capability of the PYBBN, the newer nozzle will be more responsive and have improved thrust-reversing capability. • Transformed Popeye unveiled RAFAEL HAS UNVEILED ITS radically revised derivative of the Popeye stand-off missile being offered to meet the Royal Air Force's Staff Requirement (Air) 1236 for a conventional stand-off missile. While retaining the Popeye front-end, the airframe has mid-body pop-out wings, a reconfigured tail and a lower rear-body engine intake. See Paris First News, PI 5 First customer close for An-38 VOSTOK AIRLINES, of Khabarovsk, Russia, is expect ed to be named as the first cus tomer for the Antonov An-38 regional airliner. The 27-seat An-38 will be deliv ered to Vostok in October 1996. The twin-turboprop was developed by Ukraine's Antonov design bureau from die earlier An-28, but includes extensive Western-supplied equip ment. It is built by Russia's Novosibirsk Aircraft Production Association, and is die region's first aircraft to be designed and built widi Western engines. Antonov anticipates 600 An-38 sales in airline, cargo and special utility versions. AlliedSignal, which supplies die aircraft's TPE331-14 engines, and which integrates the entire propulsion package, believes that up to Si.6 billion in revenues could be generated over die life of die twin turboprop. Antonov says diat nearly 90 test flights have been completed, and 112 of the 250 flight hours needed for the projected flight-test pro gramme accumulated. The aircraft is scheduled to be certificated by die Russian authorities in the first quarter of 1996. Antonov is to give more details at Paris of renewed efforts to speed up US Federal Aviation Admini stration approval, stalled by difficul ties in achieving US-Russian bi lateral-certification agreement. • The Paris air show opened on 10 June with the promise of providing considerably more of interest than some of its recent predecessors. Several aircraft and helicopter launches are expected to be announced by the end of the show on 18 June — pointing to an industry where confidence is returning. Douglas Barrie, Andrew Chuter, Arie Egozi, Paul Lewis, Ramon Lopez, Guy Norris, David Learmount and Gilbert Sedbon contribute to this report. FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 14 - 20 June 1995 11
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