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Day of reckoning nears for FOA and the RAF
The future of the Royal Air Force's strike capabilities, and possibly that of the European military aircraft industry, is at stake as work starts to determine the requirement for Britain's future offensive aircraft (FOA). "The FOA is at the very early stages," says Mike Rouse, BAe Military ...
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British eye role in US fighter project
The countdown has started for British participation in the multi-billion-dollar US Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) project, with just over two months to go before the Pentagon chooses the two contenders to develop a demonstrator aircraft. BAe has pinned its colours to the McDonnell Douglas/Northrop Grumman bid and hopes to ...
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Taiwan Matra missile order ready
The first batch of Matra's multimission Mica air-to-air missile has been dispatched to Taipei for the Taiwan Air Force's first squadron of Dassault Aviation Mirage 2000-5 combat aircraft. Taiwan has ordered 60 Mirage 2000-5 fighters and 1,000 Mica missiles, in a multi-billion dollar deal, with a 70% cash down ...
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Technicians take hats off to helmet
Helmet mounted displays (HMDs), once the preserve of fighter pilots, are now migrating to ground-based applications as aerospace technicians grapple with larger quantities of data and ever decreasing turn-round times. To help this vital operation, Rockwell Collins (H3/A20) is demonstrating Trekker, the new PC-based information system with personal HMD. ...
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Crew aids
Aircrew effectiveness is set to increase with the newly-available glass cockpits and digital avionics for Black Hawk helicopters, says manufacturer Sikorsky. The digital Automated Flight Computer System (AFCS) is designed to simplify pilot workload. Among the options on offer is an Electronic Flight Information System (EFIS) which will ...
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Bosnia air operations in the picture
Another exciting chapter has turned the life of Tim Ripley, aviation writer and Flight Daily News journalist. The much-travelled correspondent has compiled a photographic account of the air operations over Bosnia. The 112-page publication, which contains more than 200 colour photographs, goes on sale in all good book ...
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Birds of a feather
Lockheed Martin now has the first three C-130J Hercules 2s flying on its test programme, as this latest shot taken over Georgia shows. The difference in fuselage lengths between the first US Air Force C-130J ‘shortbody', seen here flanked by the first two C-130J-30s for the Royal Air Force ...
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Westland is riding the crest of success
Riding a crest of a wave from a bulging order book, GKN Westland has brought its biggest-ever presence to this year's show. The GKN Westland Visitor's Centre, located behind the Boeing 777, is a demonstration of the company's new-found confidence and determination to reach a global market, says GKN ...
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Maintaining sales
Portuguese company OGMA is at Farnborough to promote its expanding list of maintenance contracts for private clients and foreign Air Forces. OGMA (H3/C5) has been in operation since 1918 and is now under the control of the Portuguese Ministry of Defence. The company has been appointed as a ...
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Farnborough goes live with a show TV
Page 31 A live television service - the first of its kind at a major international air show - is providing eight hours of expert coverage each day at Farnborough. UK-based REW is bringing together the TV project through its subsidiary, Aerospace Communications, and has set ...
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Canopy system cuts risk of ejection injuries for pilots
Ejecting from a fighter aircraft without canopy jettison systems can be a painful business. Many pilots have suffered broken collar bones or worse. Now PMP, a subsidiary of South Africa's Denel, has designed and manufactured a canopy ‘fragilisation' system that works on those aircraft which have canopy reinforcement ...
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Messire-Dowty looks back
The Anglo-French amalgam Messier-Dowty celebrates its Farnborough debut with a display which showcases six decades of aeronautical history. The joint venture between TI Group of the UK and Snecma of France is now the world leader in the design, development and production of aircraft landing gear, with more than ...
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MiG-AT makes debut over Farnborough
Russia's new generation MiG-AT trainer makes its international debut at Farnborough ‘96, with scheduled daily demonstration flights. The Russian-French training system combines the aircraft's aerodynamic characteristics, high thrust-to-weight ratio, Sextant state-of-the-art avionics and reconfigurable fly-by-wire control system with a ground-based training system to ensure a dramatic time and cost ...
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Derco double
Derco Aerospace has announced double distribution deals at the Show. Michelin Aircraft Tire has appointed the company as a distributor of all its US-manufactured bias-ply military aircraft tyres, after Derco's success in marketing the C-130, F-16, F-5, F-4, Boeing 707 and P-3 aircraft tyres. In another announcement PTI ...
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Civil spinoff
Honeywell has gained US Federal Aviation Administration certification for the avionics it is developing for the Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules. The FAA has granted Honeywell a technical standard order (TSO), which certifies that the equipment complies with applicable FAA standards. It is the first time that Honeywell has ...
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McDonnell works out a phantom identity for AS&T
McDonnell Douglas has coined the term "Phantom Works" to give a popular identity to its Advanced System & Technology group (AS&T). The slogan represents the formation of a single corporate-wide entity to identify future market needs and provide design and prototyping services for the different parts of the group. ...
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Yves sings the praises of Rafale
French military aviation's sole presence in the flying display is the naval version of the Dassault Rafale, flown by chief test pilot Yves Kerherve. He made the first flight of the carrier-capable Rafale in December 1991 and is still in love with the aircraft. "It is a wonderful ...
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Future is looking bright for French
The French are at Farnborough in force, riding the momentum of a general upturn in the aerospace industry's fortunes. The mood among the 28 major companies occupying more than 1,300m2 in Hall 1 under the Gifas banner, and in a number of chalets, is one of optimism as they ...
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Min for max
Kaman Aerospace's K-MAX ‘aerial-truck' helicopter has achieved highly competitive Director Operating Costs (DOCs) of $475 per flight hour after 15,000 total fleet operating hours, reports the manufacturers. The cost contrasts dramatically with the DOCs of larger aircraft with similar payloads at high density altitudes. With 13 aircraft serving ...
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Military spinoffs from civil advances
Transfer of technology from military to commercial aerospace products is a well-recognised process, but some companies are seeing the trend reverse. Walter McConnell, Honeywell's vice-president and general manager of Defense Avionics Systems, believes that the practice of applying advanced commercial aerospace technologies to military programmes will become more widespread. ...