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FBS wins UK training
THE FR Aviation, Bristow, Serco (FBS) team has won a ú400 million ($625 million) contract to run the ab initio helicopter flying training for the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) for the next 15 years. Shorts and Bond teamed with Hunting were also competing for the business. The ...
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Phoenix fix boosts GEC plans
Douglas Barrie/LONDON GEC and Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) are in talks over potential teaming arrangements covering future unmanned- air-vehicle (UAV) projects. GEC's long-term plans to meet UAV requirements received a fillip with the UK Ministry of Defence's (MoD's) decision to proceed with the ú250 million ($390 ...
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Damage fears resurface with RAF Tornado F3 crash
Douglas Barrie/LONDON The crash of a Royal Air Force Panavia Tornado F3 is again raising concerns as to the extent to, which a group of aircraft was inadvertently seriously damaged by contractor Airwork during maintenance on the aircraft. The Tornado was being flown by British Aerospace ...
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Lyulka Saturn
Lyulka Saturn has developed a thrust-vectoring version of the AL-31F engine that powers the Sukhoi Su-27. Designated AL-37F, a pair of the power plants have been fitted to a modified Su-27M, dubbed the Su-37 by the design bureau. The AL-37F has thrust-vectoring in pitch only, although the bureau ...
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GE expands with overhaul buys in Malaysia/Brazil
General Electric is forging ahead with international expansion of its growing engine overhaul business, with deals agreed in the last few days to take controlling stakes in the Malaysia Airlines (MAS) engine- overhaul unit and Brazil's CELMA repair centre. Under an agreement understood to have been signed between ...
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You have control
Several recent airliner accident reports have identified problems with cockpit automation as principal or contributory causes of the accidents. Much of the conventional reaction (especially by pilots) to these incidents is of the "automation must be stopped" or "automation has gone too far" variety. That reaction, in human terms, is ...
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Recorder retrieval: technology exists
Sir - In response to the letter "Make recorders easier to recover" (Flight International, 11-17 September, P60), I would point out that there have been automatically deployable flight-data/cockpit-voice recorders on the market for more than 25 years. They have been fitted to every type of airframe - from ...
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Northrop Grumman gets E-8C approval
PRODUCTION OF 19 Northrop Grumman E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack RadarSystem (JSTARS) aircraft has been approved by the US Department of Defense (DoD), despite a last-minute bid by the Congressional General Accounting Office (GAO) to block full-rate production. Defence undersecretary Paul Kaminski approved production on 26 September, despite ...
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Workers revolt threatens Sukhoi merger
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW MOVES TO MERGE the Sukhoi design bureau (OKB) and its associated manufacturing plants are being jeopardised by resistance in at least one of the major production sites, despite the plan being secretly sanctioned by the Government. The setting up of APC Sukhoi (Aviation Production ...
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RSAF will upgrade KC-135 tankers' cockpit avionics
THE REPUBLIC of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) is planning a follow-on cockpit avionics upgrade for four Boeing KC-135A tanker aircraft being purchased from the US Air Force. Singapore wants to retrofit the four tankers with new two-man avionics suites eventually, similar to those in the USAF's KC-135 Pacer ...
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DERA helps UK to optimise Apache performance using Hovers simulator
DERA helps UK to optimise Apache performance using Hovers simulator THE UK DEFENCE Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) is reconfiguring its helicopter mission simulator to accurately represent the McDonnell Douglas/Westland WAH-64 Longbow Apache. The DERA says that the capability will enable it to investigate "system trade-off issues" and advise the ...
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Boeing upgrades transonic tunnel
BOEING IS refurbishing its 52-year-old transonic windtunnel as part of efforts to reduce development times for new models. The upgrade comes as Boeing's product-development work approaches recently unprecedented levels. At the core of the windtunnel upgrade is a new drive system made by French manufacturer Cegelec. It includes ...
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Israel nears Candid AEW resolution
Russia and Israel appear to be nearing an agreement over the sale of an Ilyushin -Il-76 Candid airframe to Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) for conversion to an airborne-early-warning aircraft for China. The IAI proposal has been stalled by its inability to secure the Il-76 airframe for conversion. ...
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India looks at RAF C-130s
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE INDIA IS considering an offer to purchase up to ten secondhand Lockheed Martin C-130K transport aircraft, scheduled to be phased out of Royal Air Force service with the delivery of replacement C-130Js. The aircraft are among 25 C-130Ks Lockheed Martin has agreed to buy ...
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Pacific Aerospace seeks certification for CT4C trainer
PACIFIC AEROSPACE is proceeding with the certification of its turboprop CT4C trainer, in response to what the New Zealand company says has been strong renewed regional interest in its low-cost military trainer. The CT4C, on which considerable certification flying has already been carried out, is powered by an ...
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USAF plans to use JASSM variants
THE US AIR Force is planning to eventually deploy a family of variants of the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM). The USAF has told Lockheed Martin and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) Missiles, the two contractors working on the programme-definition and risk-reduction (PDRR) phase of the project, that it foresees ...
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USA transfers equipment to boster anti-drug operations
Aircraft and other military equipment worth $112 million (£70 million) are to be transferred to Latin American and Caribbean nations for anti-drug operations under plans announced by the US Government. US Congress has been notified of proposals to transfer surplus Bell UH-1H helicopters and Fairchild C-26 observation aircraft ...
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Beriev introduces Be-103 prototype
The first prototype Beriev Be-103 amphibian was scheduled for its debut at an air show in Gelendzhik, Russia, in late September. The five-passenger piston twin has been manufactured at the Komsomolsk-on-Amur aircraft factory in Siberia, better known for producing the Sukhoi Su-27 fighter. Komsomolsk-on-Amur plans to build two ...
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Military coup
Reflectone has received a five-year, $5 million (£3.5 million) US Navy contract, to operate and maintain Boeing CH-46 and Sikorsky CH-53 helicopter simulators, at three Marine Corps bases and a five-year $2 million US Air Force contract, to continue providing academic and simulator training for Grumman EF-111 crews, at Cannon ...
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IDF simulator bound for Taichung
Aero Industry Development Centre (AIDC) of Taiwan is scheduled to deliver its first Ching-Kuo Indigenous Defence Fighter (IDF) simulator to the Taiwan air force in early 1997. The simulator is understood to incorporate a 7.3m (24ft) partial dome system, a 180¡x60¡ display and ESIG-3000 image generator from Evans & Sutherland. ...