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Boeing scours world for engineers
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELESand Andrew Doyle/LONDON BOEING IS STEPPING up a massive worldwide recruitment drive in an effort to find engineers to cope with a record number of commercial-, space- and military-product developments. "We're hiring everybody we can get," says the company, which is searching for up ...
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Eurocopter embargo payment judgment due in October
A FRENCH Commercial Court will judge on 3 October on whether Eurocopter should pay an international arms dealer for allegedly arranging the sale of 50 Super Pumas to South Africa during the United Nations arms embargo to the country (Flight Inter- national, 1-6 May). The ...
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First Czech Sokols ready
THE FIRST OF 11 POLISH-BUILT W-3A SOKOL helicopters are to be delivered to the Czech air force's 6th Aviation Unit this month. The first batch will consist of three transport helicopters and will be followed by four more by the end of November. Four W-3As equipped for search-and-rescue duties will ...
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Banging out
The Denel Group is introducing a canopy-fragilisation system (which eases ejection from a military aircraft) for use in combat aircraft. The South African companies PMP division has qualified the system on jet-aircraft types and is installing it for the South African Air Force. Source: Flight International
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Date is set for Eurocopter hearing
THE LEGAL action being brought by Beverley Securities (BSI) against Eurocopter alleging that it failed to pay commissions on defence equipment supplied to the apartheid regime in South Africa, is to have a public hearing on 12 September in Paris (Flight International, 1-6 May). BSI claims that Aerospatiale's ...
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Cruise-missile strikes on southern Iraq satisfy US officials
PENTAGON officials say that they are "satisfied" with the success of the air and cruise-missile strikes carried out on 3 September in the southern Iraq no-fly zone, which followed Iraqi military action against Kurdish safe havens in the north. Fourteen Hughes Tomahawk land-attack missiles (TLAMs) were fired from ...
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F-18s are shown to Hungary
Gabor Szekeres/BUDAPEST McDONNELL DOUGLAS has joined the competition for the Hungarian air force's multi-role-fighter requirement, with a demonstration of its F-18 Hornet to senior defence officials at the Kecskemet Air Force base. The F-18D was taken on a ten-day tour of Hungary, the Czech Republic ...
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US military suffers spate of crashes
THE CRASH OF A US AIR Force McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle during a training flight in Idaho on 27 August, rounded off a series of US military accidents to take place during the month. The pilot of the F-15E, which was assigned to the 390th Fighter Squadron ...
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Re-engined AH-1S expected to fly by year-end
AN ISRAELI AIR FORCE prototype of the Bell Helicopter Cobra AH-1S, re-engined with a version of the General Electric T-700-701C, is due to start demonstration flights before the end of the year. The air force has decided to replace the original Avro-Lycoming T-53 engines to improve the Cobra's ...
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Kaman flies SH-2G composite blades
Kaman Aerospace says it has successfully flight-tested second-generation composite main rotor blades (CMRB2s) for its SH-2G Super Seasprite helicopter. The CMRB2s are designed for improved durability and lower life-cycle costs, compared with existing metal blades. "Flight tests indicate that the CMRB2 'rotor' has four-times the life of a ...
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Eurocopter pessimistic
Julian Moxon/PARIS EUROCOPTER SAYS that it faces stagnation in the helicopter market "for the next five years", with a virtually no-growth forecast in military business until well into the next century. Military sales account for the largest element of the Franco-German consortium's balance sheet, but ...
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Kuwait to buy armed UH-60L Black Hawk
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC KUWAIT IS EXPECTED to complete the purchase of an armed version of the Sikorsky Aircraft UH-60L helicopter within the next several months, say industry officials. In 1994, the Pentagon offered Kuwait 16 McDonnell Douglas Helicopters AH-64A Apache gun-ships, plus 500 Hellfire laser-designated-anti-tank ...
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UH-60Q Dustoff under development
SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT hopes that a UH-60Q medical evacuation helicopter two-year qualification programme will lead to the purchase of more than 300 UH-60Q Dustoff rotorcraft lasting through to the end of the century. In February, The US helicopter maker won a $14.6 million Phase II contract from the US ...
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Luftwaffe Tornado ECRs to lose IIS reconnaissance mission
THE GERMAN AIR force's Panavia Tornado ECRs are to lose their secondary reconnaissance capability as their Honeywell infra-red imaging system (IIS) is transferred to new reconnaissance pods. The ECR variant's primary defence-suppression mission is too demanding to allow an additional, secondary, reconnaissance role, according to German air force ...
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TWA bomb evidence mounts up
SUSPICIONS THAT A BOMB brought down Trans World Airlines Flight 800 on 17 July have been reinforced by additional traces of explosive residue and a Boeing analysis of a centre fuel-tank explosion. Accident investigators and federal law-enforcement officials still cannot say, that the TWA Boeing 747-100 was downed by a ...
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Sukhoi Su-37 display steals the show
Not content with introducing the "Cobra" manoeuvre into the display vocabulary, Sukhoi has gone a step further with an even more stunning manoeuvre from its thrust-vector-modified Su-27M. The aircraft, dubbed the Su-37, stole the show with a display which saw it entering a Cobra-like manoeuvre, only to continue beyond the ...
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MDC brings YC-15 out of the desert
THE McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) YC-15 is being brought out of mothballs, after almost 15 years of desert storage, to act as an advanced-technology test bed for the US Air Force and MDC. Likely uses include advanced flight- and propulsion-control technology. The aircraft went into storage at Davis Monthan AFB, Arizona, ...
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Dornier and Thomson sign radar MoU
DORNIER AND THOMSON-CSF have signed a memorandum of understanding to co-operate on the provision of future synthetic aperture radar (SAR)-based airborne reconnaissance systems. The initial target for the Franco/German partnership is a proposal to supply the SARTO all-weather reconnaissance system for German air force Panavia Tornados. Dornier's Information and Communications ...
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More join race to win Australian AEW competition
AUSTRALIA'S airborne-early-warning (AEW) competition is intensifying, with Boeing proposing development of a new 737-based AEW aircraft and Northrop Grumman teaming with Lockheed Martin to offer the AEW&C variant of the C-130J. Boeing is considering developing an AEW derivative of the new 737-700 twinjet, as a low-cost solution to ...
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UK backs the Eurofighter
THE UK GOVERNMENT has committed "in principle" to the production phase of the Eurofighter EF2000 just weeks before two German Government committees sit to deliberate a critical funding decision for the fighter. The German budget and defence committees are due to sit later this month to consider the ...