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2002
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Cover story Eurofighter European debut at the European Business is still Aviation Conference & Exhibition (EBACE) searching in Geneva in May. for its first The skies over Farnborough promise to export be relatively quiet by air show standards, customer with confirmed flying displays by highl and will performance fighters limited to the Boeing hope to F/A-18F Super Hornet, Eurofighter, Lock- impress at heed Martin F-16 and Saab/BAE Systems the show Gripen. Dassault's Rafale was displayed at Farnborough in 1998, but will miss the event this year as it did in 2000. Other fast jets scheduled to fly include Aero's L-159B, BAE Systems' Hawk 100 and the upgraded Panavia Tornado GR4, which entered Royal Air Force service last year. The show comes at a key time for Eurofighter, as the four-nation company works towards handing over the first pro duction aircraft to customers by year-end. The Typhoon is still looking for its first export order, Greece having postponed negotiations until after the 2004 Olympics. South Korea rejected the aircraft in favour of Boeing's F-15K (two US Air Force F-15Es will be on static display), but Eurofighter is still in the running in Austria. Singapore will launch a fighter competition next year and Australia is a long-term prospect. Also targeting Australia and Singapore, Aero Boeing could arrive at Farnborough with Vodochody's its first export customer for the F/A-18E/F L-159B will Super Hornet, with Malaysia believed to be make is first close to signing an order. The F-16 and public Gripen, meanwhile, will share the appearance Farnborough skies at a time when the two aircraft are locked in procurement battles in Austria, Brazil and Poland. The Saab/BAE team's hopes of finalising a 24- aircraft order with the Czech Republic by Farnborough have faded because of delays in parliamentary approval for the deal. Aero is also awaiting a Czech contract for its L-159B advanced trainer, although the two-seater is expected to be included in the air force's order for 72 L-159s. Export targets include neighbouring Slovakia as well as India. Super Lynx debut AgustaWestland's Super Lynx 300 will make its static display debut in production form, complete with glass cockpit and LHTECT800 engines. Malaysia and Thailand have each ordered naval versions of the helicopter, while Oman has ordered 16 multirole battlefield variants. The Italian-UK company will also display the Apache AH1 and Merlin HC3. Alenia and Lockheed Martin will bring the C-27 Spartan tactical transport back to the show having secured a launch order from Greece for 12 aircraft. An Italian air force order for 12 is pending and a compe tition is under way in Brazil. The C-27J's larger stablemate, Lockheed Martin's C-130J, will be included in the US Department of Defense's static display. Regional airliners will feature strongly, led by the Embraer 170, with the second prototype set to fly. Bombardier will have its 70-seat offerings, the CRJ700 regional jet and Dash 8-Q400, on static display, but attention will focus on the Canadian com pany's progress towards pos sible take-over of bankrupt Fairchild Dornier's 728/928 regional jet family. A deci sion could come in late July. Regional turboprops are finding a niche in the cargo market, and two new pro grammes will make their Aircraft static/flying Bombardier Dash 8 (CT-142) s Aero Vodochody L-159B Aerostar MiG-21 Lancer AgustaWestiand Merlin HC3 AgustaWestland Super Lynx 100 AgustaWestiand Apache AH1 Alenia/Lockheed Martin C-27J Antonov An-74TK-300 ATR 42-500 ATR 72 Cargo BAE/Boeing Harrier GR7 BAE Systems Hawk 100 BAE Systems Nimrod MR2 BAE Systems/West Air ATP Boeing C-17 Globemaster Boeing C-40A Clipper Boeing CH-47D Chinook Boeing F-15E Strike Eagle Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet Boeing 737-600 Connexions testbed Bombardier Challenger 604 Bombardier CRJ700 Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 Bombardier Global Express Bombardier Learjet 45 Bombardier Learjet 60 Dassault Falcon 2000 Dassault Falcon 900EX Elbit Systems/TAM Su-25KM Embraer EMB-135BJ Legacy Embraer 170 General Atomics RQ-1 Predator UAV Grumman E-2C Hawkeye Lockheed Martin F-16 Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules Lockheed Martin P-3C Orion Lockheed Martin S-3B Viking Northrop Grumman C-2A Greyhound Panavia Tornado GR4 Piaggio P180 Avanti Pilatus PC-12 Saab/BAE Systems Gripen Sikorsky UH-60L Black Hawk Slingsby Firefly T67M s f s s s f s s s f s/f f s s/f s s s s/f s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s/f s s s s f s s f s s/f debuts: the first large-door freighter con version of an ATR 72, by Italy's Aeronavali; and a similar modification of the British Aerospace ATP by BAE Systems and West Air Sweden. The ATR 72 freighter is des tined for launch customer Farnair of Swe den for use in FedEx's European operation. The business jet presence is down signif icantly on last year's Paris show and Farnborough in 2000, in part because of the depressed market. Bombardier, Dassault, Piaggio and Pilatus are exhibiting aircraft, but Boeing Business Jets, Cessna, Gulfstream and Raytheon are not. While their latest designs are tied up in flight test, manufacturers have had ample op portunity this year to present their estab lished product lines at ILA in Berlin and EBACE in Geneva. • www.flightinternational.com FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 18-24 JUNE 2002 49
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