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Transport Vietnam '96 26-30 November,...
Transport Vietnam '96 26-30 November, Hanoi, Vietnam. Contact: Adsale Exhibition Services, 14/F Devon House, Taikoo Place, 979 King's Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong; tel: +852 2811 8897; fax: +852 2516 5024. Airport Regions Conference 28-29 November, Helsinki, Finland. Contact: Congress Team/Area Travel AGency, PO Box 6 (Päivärinnankatu 1), FIN-00251, Helsinki, ...
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BAe's Hawk trainer chosen for RAAF's lead-in fighter project
AUSTRALIA HAS named British Aerospace, with its modified Hawk trainer, as the preferred tenderer for its new lead-in fighter (LIF) project . Although details of the final package have yet to be determined, around 32-38 aircraft will be bought. The first 12 will be built in the UK, ...
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UK faces decision on future strike-aircraft partner
Douglas Barrie/LONDON The UK will have to decide by the end of the feasibility study into its strike-aircraft requirement whether to link with emerging European or US collaborative projects. The study is due to be completed in 1999. Funding for the study was expected to have ...
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China begins to produce stretched FT-7P
CHINA'S GUIZHOU Aviation Industry (GAIC) claims to have completed development and begun production of a stretched version of the tandem-seat FT-7P fighter trainer. The aircraft is a derivative of GAIC's original two-seat FT-7 trainer, incorporating a 600mm fuselage plug, says the manufacturer. The additional space created by the ...
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Greece outlines its ten-year defence-spending proposals
Greece has outlined a $17 billion, ten-year defence spending plan, including the acquisition of a further 60 fighters along with the purchase of three airborne early-warning (AEW) aircraft. The Government is expected to buy 50 more Lockheed Martin F-16s, and ten Dassault Mirage 2000s, as well as financing ...
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Boeing agrees on Chinese Chinook
Boeing and China National Aero Technology Import and Export (CATIC) have reached an outline work-share agreement to co-produce the Boeing 234-100 Chinook helicopter, but are still looking for sufficient orders to launch the programme. The two sides have broadly agreed to split production of the civil heavy-lift ...
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Dassault wants a Rafale deal soon
Dassault and the French Government are close to resolving a major problem over how to fund an earlier service entry of the air force version of the Rafale fighter, to meet export demonstration needs. Dassault had expressed considerable concern over the defence ministry delaying delivery of the air force Rafale ...
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Eurofighter threatened by fresh defence cuts
Andrjez Jeziorski/MUNICH A new danger, to the Eurofighter programme, is looming in Germany with the spectre of further defence cuts early in 1997. Industrial and political sources say that the defence ministry could be facing a new cutback of between DM300 million ($200 million) and DM500 ...
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Prowler crews evaluate F-18 C2W
Graham Warwick/ST LOUIS Operational crews have evaluated the McDonnell Douglas (MDC) F-18 command and control warfare (C2W) variant using a concept simulator at MDC's St Louis, Missouri, headquarters. The C2W variant of the two-seat F-18F is being proposed to replace US Navy and Marine Corps Grumman EA-6B Prowler ...
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Budget reductions hit Germany's Huey fleet
The German army is being forced to retire one-third of its fleet of Bell UH-1D Iroquois fleet ahead of time because of budget shortages. Some 52 transport helicopters from the current fleet of 176 are to be grounded from 1997, and will be cannibalised for spares. The helicopters ...
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US GAO backs CH-60 Black Hawk over Huey upgrade
The US Department of Defense could save more than $700 million if it forces the US Marine Corps to scrap plans to upgrade 100 Bell Helicopter Textron UH-1N utility helicopters and buy new Sikorsky Aircraft CH-60 Black Hawk rotorcraft, say Congressional investigators. "In deciding to modernise its fleet ...
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USAF safety
The US Air Force has achieved its second-best overall flight-safety year on record in fiscal year 1996, with a "Class A" accident rate of 1.26 accidents per 100,000 flying hours. Class A includes fatal accidents or "mishaps" involving destruction or damage worth more than $1 million. Rates for fighter and ...
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GEC-Marconi struggles for Il-76 data
Paul Lewis/ZHUHAI GEC-Marconi is facing difficulty in obtaining the design specifications from Ilyushin needed to modify its Il-76 transport to take the Argus 2000 airborne early-warning (AEW) sys- tem, now being offered to China. There has been some "foot-dragging" on the part of the Russians to ...
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Malaysia is still uncertain on maritime-helicopter choice
Malaysia may not make a final decision on its choice of a maritime helicopter for its two new-build frigates until the middle of 1997, despite clear indications that a variant of the Westland Super Lynx is favoured. First Admiral Mohd Anwar Mohd Nor, the Royal Malaysian Navy Inspector ...
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Anti-Radiation Missiles
Germany's Bodenseewerk Geratetechnik unveiled its Aramis design for an anti-radiation missile (ARM) at the Berlin air show in June. The basic configuration of the dual-mode-seeker, ramjet-powered missile was the result of several collaborative projects with France. This included the SPRINT programme to develop a dual-mode passive-radar/imaging- infra-red seeker. ...
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GEC-Marconi is first choice for Chinese FC-1 avionics
China National Aero Technology Import and Export (CATIC) is set to select the GEC-Marconi Blue Hawk radar and avionics for the new Chengdu Aircraft (CAC) FC-1 fighter. A new F-7 variant has also been revealed. CATIC and CAC are expected to choose GEC-Marconi as its preferred radar and ...
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Derlan contracts
Derlan Industries has received contracts totaling C$17.6 million ($13 million) to supply GE Aircraft Engines with inlet gearboxes for the CFM56-5 and accessory gearboxes for the F110-100, and to supply the US Army with spare gears for the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. Source: Flight International
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Croatia orders Bell 206B-3 JetRangers
Croatia has ordered ten Bell 206B-3 JetRangers, worth $15 million with training and support, for initial-entry helicopter pilot training in its air force. The deal is the first major aircraft purchase by Croatia since the signing of the US-brokered Dayton peace agreement on Bosnia. Pilot and maintenance training ...
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Austria evaluates F-16 and F-18
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA An Austrian air force team has visited the USA to evaluate the Lockheed Martin F-16C/D and McDonnell Douglas F-18C/D as it prepares for a fighter competition expected to get under way in 1997. Evaluation of aircraft, including in-country demonstrations, is expected to be complete by ...
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Turkey issues RFP for F-5 avionics-upgrade plans
Tony Gill/WASHINGTON DC Turkey has issued a new request for proposals (RFP) for an avionics modernisation of its Northrop F-5s. A separate, but interdependent F-5 structural upgrade, to be performed by the Turkish air force and local industry, makes up the remainder of a programme to update ...