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Super survivor
Ghost Connie, you're cleared for flypast," calls the tower as Captain Charles "Chuck" Grant drops the nose of the Lockheed C-121C and asks flight engineer Jerry Steele for more power. The four turbo-compound Wright R-3350-93s howl louder and the Super Constellation thunders along the crowd line at El ...
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Fast exit
It is almost 51 years since, on 24 July, 1946, the first live test-ejection took place using a Martin-Baker ejection seat, and 49 years since Jo Lancaster made the first emergency Martin-Baker ejection from the prototype Armstrong Whitworth AW.52 flying wing. Those ejections used pre-production versions of Martin-Baker's ...
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AS350 transatlantic crossing attempt fails
THE ATTEMPT by a Eurocopter AS350B3 civil-helicopter crew to fly non-stop from New York to Paris has failed because of a faulty fuel-tank weld. The two French pilots, trying to follow the path of aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh, had to abandon the effort in mid-journey when a fuel ...
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Lockheed Martin selects JSF HUD
Flight Visions has won a contract from Lockheed Martin Skunk Works to supply its newly developed Night Hawk weapon delivery system/head-up display (HUD) for the company's X-32 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) concept demonstration aircraft. Despite the fact that the HUD is only on order for a demonstrator and ...
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Certification and Ayres agreement boost Allison twice
Allison has received a double boost with the civil certification of its Model 250-C30R/3 turboshaft for the US Army's Bell OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter and the signing of an agreement with Ayres covering the supply of 100 shipsets of LHTEC CTP800-4T turboprops for the LM200 Loadmaster. The 250-C30R/3, ...
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RMPA award
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract worth over $50 million to supply the electro-optical sensor for the UK's replacement maritime-patrol aircraft (RMPA). As part of the contract from Boeing, Northrop Grumman will deliver 21 electro-optical surveillance and detection systems (EOSDS), with the first due for delivery in October 1998. ...
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Finalist: Fatigue Technology
Finalist: Fatigue Technology Location Seattle, Washington, USA Achievement Unique blind fastening system to simplify attachment of nut plates. Every aircraft contains thousands of blind nut plates to attach access panels, components or join structures. Most of these are fixed using at least three rivets, which not ...
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Eurocopter notches up new sales
Norway-based operator Helicopter Services Group has ordered six Eurocopter AAS 365-N4 helicopters, the latest version of the Dauphin 2 family, with an option on another six machines. The first two are due for delivery in November and December 1998, followed by the others at regular intervals. ...
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F-16 'still good for another 20 years'
Contrary to suggestions from its competitors, the Lockheed Martin F-16 will be around at the Paris air show for many years to come, says a senior programme official. Responding to attacks by the SAAB/BAe Gripen team on Monday, F-16 programme vice-president Bob Elrod says the F-16 is to ...
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Honeywell takes F-2 work to Japan
Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems has signed an $8million contract with Yokogawa Electric Corporation for the first year of production of its programmable display generator (PDG) for Japan's F-2 fighter, it was announced at the show. Shipset deliveries are expected to continue over the next 10 years, beginning with ...
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GE defuses Gripen engine rumours
Speculation in the Hungarian and British press that Gripen engine supplier GE favours the Swedish fighter's two competitors in a Hungarian air force competition are untrue. So says George Bolln, GE Aircraft Engines general manager, F404/F414 project. The F-16 and F-18 are also in the running ...
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Northrop Grumman picks up JSTARS contracts
Northrop Grumman has picked up two contracts for the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) worth a potential $132million. The JSTARS programme, which will run for 30 months, comprises a base $47million contract and a $58million increase for additional improvements. Under the base contract, Northrop Grumman will ...
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Question hangs over BAe's slice of the JSF cake
British Aerospace will get a larger share of the work in the US Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) project if it joins a team sooner rather than later. "The main challenge for BAe is selecting the team which will win," says David Wheaton, Lockheed Martin's JSF programme manager. "BAe ...
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New concept in moving targets from Meggitt
Meggitt Target Systems, part of Meggitt plc, has announced a double development at the show. Yesterday it launched what it describes as a new concept in air-to-air and surface-to-air weapon training, the GT-400, and the next-generation aerial target, the Banshee 400. The new GT-400 should fill ...
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US to test UK's Broach warhead
Saddam Hussein, Colonel Gadaffi and other leaders around the world may be interested - or worried - to hear that the Pentagon has decided to test Britain's deep penetrating Broach missile warhead. The Broach is a high-technology warhead designed to blast through the layers of concrete of buried ...
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Canada to host new NATO fighter training programme in 1999
The skies over Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada, will be the training zone for trainee fighter pilots from the UK, Norway and Denmark when the first intake of Nato Flying Training in Canada (NFTC) students get airborne in 1999. Following nearly two years of talk since NFTC announced its ...
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Thomson-CSF scores radar breakthrough in Japan
France's Thomson-CSF defence electronics manufacturer has made a breakthrough in Japan with the sale of three Ocean Master radars. The contract is for the Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force's Shinmaya US1A search-and-rescue amphibious aircraft upgrade programme, and coincides with the delivery of Japan's first Ocean Master radar, ordered ...
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US-French teaming for Hawkeye assemblies
Major US aviation group Northrop Grumman has selected French company Potez Aeronautique, from Aire-sur-l'Adour, to produce entire empennages for the E-2C Hawkeye airborne early warning command and control aircraft ordered by the French navy. Part of the US company's industrial benefits programme, the agreement is expected to bring ...
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United States Army selects Grumman radar
The US Army Communications Electronics Command (CECOM) is to take nine Northrop Grumman Tactical Endurance Synthetic Aperture Radar (TESAR) payloads. Also in the $16.2million contract is provision for two spares and a set of ground control station displays. TESAR is a compact, lightweight, low-cost surveillance radar ...
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Ready, steady,-wait!
To battle-hardened veterans of the Eurofighter EF2000 programme, the latest bout of German jitters must illicit a distinct feeling of déja vu, with German politicians once again threatening to put the project into a tailspin. For some of those veterans, however, German defence minister Volker Rühe's posturing ...