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Security alert
The TWA Flight 800 crash has caused the USA to look hard at its security measures. Some of the answers could lie in Europe. Chris Yates/MANCHESTER THE 17 JULY TRANS World Airlines (TWA) Flight 800 crash has forced the USA to review the level of security afforded ...
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Turkish air force receives locally built Block 50 F-16s
TURKISH AEROSPACE Industries (TAI) delivered the first Lockheed Martin Block 50 F-16 to the Turkish air force on 29 July under the Peace Onyx II programme. TAI has been producing F-16s at Akinci-Ankara since 1987, under an earlier agreement. To date, the company has delivered 152 aircraft locally and 46 ...
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US industry shapes up for new merger raids
Kevin O'Toole/London US INDUSTRY is shaping up for yet another round of consolidation in the wake of Boeing's announcement that it is to take over the bulk of Rockwell's aerospace interest. Speculation is mounting that McDonnell Douglas (MDC), which abandoned its own talks with Boeing ...
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Romania advances towards Cobra production
THE ROMANIAN defence ministry has signed a memorandum of agreement (MoA) with Bell Helicopter Textron, bringing licensed production of Cobra attack helicopters a step closer. The MoA, signed on 30 July, stipulates that the Romanian army favours the Cobra and supports its production in the country. ...
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Ruhe scrapes the barrel for Eurofighter funding sources
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH GERMAN DEFENCE minister Volker Ruhe is hoping to find alternative ways to fund the Eurofighter EF2000 programme during 1997, to avoid further delays after Germany's latest defence cuts. Project sources say that the EF2000 is included in budget planning for 1997, although no ...
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ValuJet puts fleet on sale
VALUJET AIRLINES is trying to sell or lease the bulk of its McDonnell Douglas DC-9s and MD-80s. The low-cost carrier was operating 51 aircraft when it was grounded on 17 June, but plans to resume service by mid-August with a maximum of 15 DC-9-32s. The airline plans ...
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Military helicopters
PROSPECTS for civil sales are improving, but the military-helicopter market remains oversubscribed. India's Hindustan Aeronautics, with its Advanced Light Helicopter, and Kawasaki, with its OH-X armed scout now in development, are two of the more recent entrants. Kawasaki is also considering offering the OH-X to meet the Japan Air Self-Defence ...
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Thai massage
Thai Airways International is taking steps to smooth its wrinkled image. Paul Lewis/BANGKOK AFTER 36 YEARS of operation, Thai Airways International is facing a massive mid-life shake-up in a bid to rejuvenate an operation which has been showing its age. For many years, Thai was ...
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Saudi Arabians to buy SAR
THE ROYAL SAUDI Arabian Air Force (RSAF) is to purchase 12 Eurocopter Cougar MkII helicopters configured for combat search and rescue (SAR) in a deal worth Fr3 billion ($600 million). It is the first time that France has sold military equipment to the RSAF, and the first export ...
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Cubic aviods collision
Cubic Defense Systems, of San Diego, California, has received a $1.34 million contract to supply 29 ground-collision avoidance systems to CAE Aviation, for a Canadian Forces Lockheed Martin C-130 update programme. Source: Flight International
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Brazil orders missiles and support systems
The Brazilian Navy has ordered Aspide missiles and support equipment from Alenia Sistemi Navali, to equip its fleet of six Niteroi-class frigates, which are the subject of a modernisation programme. The $48 million order includes seven interrogation systems, 13 command and control consoles, and associated maintenance equipment. Alenia won a ...
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Medical FLIR
Sikorsky has selected FLIR Systems' SAFIRE thermal-imaging system for installation on the US Army's Sikorsky UH-60Q medical-evacuation helicopter. Portland, Oregon-based FLIR will supply two systems with options to equip a total of 87 of the modified UH-60A Black Hawk helicopters. Source: Flight International
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The mission equipment
THE SENSORS, display and communications units fitted to the Dash 8 maritime-patrol aircraft (MPA) are typical of the large range of such equipment on offer. There were two choices of radar considered: the travelling-wave-tube (TWT) type, or the power-hungry, but cheaper, magnetron variety. The latter has longer ...
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UK firms gain most as RAF wins order battle
Douglas Barrie/LONDON THE UK GOVERNMENT has headed off an embarrassing political and military confrontation with a last-minute decision to award three key Royal Air Force contracts, worth almost £4 billion, which were being blocked by the UK Treasury. British Aerospace is the prime beneficiary, winning ...
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Keeping out of helicopters' way
Sir - At about 17.45 on 14 July, I observed a Royal Air Force Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules C3 at around 500ft (150m) above ground level, about 5km (3nm) west of Cranfield, Bedfordshire. As this was the day of the British Grand Prix at Silverstone (some 20km north-west ...
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Forward thrust
The RNZAF has been rationalised, and is moving ahead in an increasingly commercial world Nick Lee-Frampton/WELLINGTON WITH LITTLE MORE than 3,700 people on its payroll, operating seven squadrons and more than 50 aircraft, the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) takes personnel matters seriously. Indeed, Air Vice-Marshal ...
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Last of the big MiGs?
Mikoyan's heavyweight fighters languish in development and face uncertainty. Douglas Barrie/LONDON THE VPK MAPO OBJECT 1.42 fifth-generation heavy fighter has yet to get airborne, but it has already been dubbed as the next "flying restaurant" by some of its detractors, a nickname last given to the 42t ...
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Greece to acquire HARM and AMRAAM missiles
THE US DEPARTMENT of Defense is to sell $250 million-worth of military equipment to Greece, including the country's first purchase of Texas Instruments AGM-88B high-speed anti-radiation missiles (HARM) and Lockheed Martin Army Tactical Missiles (ATACM). The US Congress was notified of Greece's plan to buy 84 HARMs and ...
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Flight Visions will deliver L-159 HUD
FLIGHT VISIONS will deliver a prototype head-up display (HUD) in July to Aero Vodochody in the Czech Republic, for the L-159 light-fighter programme. A flightworthy model will be delivered in November, and production of HUDs for 72 Czech air force L-159s, is due to begin in 1997. ...
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USAF develops wide-angle NVGs
PANORAMIC night-vision goggles, (PNVGs) are being developed by the US Air Force, and a prototype will be flight tested by the US Army later this year. The goggles offer a 100° horizontal field of view, compared with 40¡ for the ANVIS goggles in use since the early 1980s and the ...