All Fixed-Wing news – Page 1334
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West Star
Fixed-base operator West Star Aviation, of Grand Junction, Colorado, has appointed Larry Graham president. Graham, a former US Navy Lockheed Martin C-130 engineer, was previously with Duncan Aviation as Lear Jet programme manager, director of customer service and director of engine and airframe shops. ...
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Alfa tests growth GE T700
GROUND TESTING of General Electric's growth T700/CT7 is under way at revenue-sharing partner Alfa Romeo Avio in Naples, Italy. The 1,850kW (2,500shp)-class turboshaft has already exceeded 2,000kW in testing, says Lou Bevilacqua, general manager of GE's turboprop/turboshaft department. The growth T700 combines the core of GE's CT7-9 turboprop ...
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Talon contest
New avionics will mean that the Northrop T-38 will have a service life spanning six decades. Tony Gill/WASHINGTON DC AFTER PAINSTAKING preparation, the US Air Force is in the final stages of selecting a contractor to upgrade its Northrop T-38 Talon supersonic trainers. Six teams are ...
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Six teams compete
OF THE NINE original contenders for the T-38 avionics-upgrade programme, six remain. Lockheed Martin elected not to bid, later re-entering the competition by acquiring Loral, while teams led by Harris and Singapore Technologies Aerospace, were eliminated from contention by the USAF. The six remaining are: Chrysler Technologies ...
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Hearts and minds
Enforcing peace in the former Yugoslavia has become the largest UK military-helicopter operation since the Gulf War. Tim Ripley/BOSNIA IN THE SIX MONTHS since NATO's Implementation Force (IFOR), took over from the United Nations, the task of keeping peace in Bosnia, it has successfully overseen ...
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Affordable avionics
Substantially cheaper avionics are essential if the Joint Strike Fighter is to be built. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA MORE THAN a decade before the aircraft is due to enter service, pilots are flying simulated Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) missions to ensure that the aircraft meets its primary objective - ...
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Long - Lining
Peter Gray/BLOOMFIELD Exclusive: Flight International is the first magazine to flight test the Kaman K-Max AFTER BEING introduced to the differences between flying helicopters with tail rotors and hydraulic servo systems and Kaman Aerospace's intermeshing rotors and servo-tab systems in the H-43 Husky (Flight International, 1-7 May), Kaman ...
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Ilyushin pushes the boat out on maritime-patrol Il-114
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW ILYUSHIN HAS begun flight-testing a maritime-patrol variant of its Il-114 twin regional turboprop, the Il-114P. The Il-114P is being developed in collaboration with the Proton-Service scientific research centre, NPO Geophisica, NPO Poliot, VNII Radiotechniki "Skala", NII Sistemotechniki and NII Prinbornoi Automatiki. ...
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MDC F-18 selected for aeroelastic wing test
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) and Rockwell have been selected to modify an MDC F-18 for a joint US Air Force/ NASA evaluation of an advanced control concept which makes use of wing warping. Lockheed Martin had considered proposing an F-16 for the evaluation. It declined to bid after ...
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Mistral-armed Gazelles enter French service
Julian Moxon/PHALSBOURG THE FIRST FRENCH army combat helicopters, to be equipped with a dedicated air-defence missile, have entered service with the country's 1st Air Combat Regiment, based at Phalsbourg. Over the next nine months, 30 Aerospatiale Gazelles equipped with the Matra Mistral light air-to-air missile will ...
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Israviation reschedules ST-50 certification
ISRAEL'S ISRAVIATION has set a new schedule for certification of the ST-50 single-turboprop business aircraft, following delays caused by funding difficulties and the recent military action in Israel. Certification is now scheduled for October 1997, with deliveries beginning in December 1997. Israviation president Stephane Juffa says that ...
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Saab prepares delivery of upgraded SK60W
SAAB MILITARY Aircraft is to deliver to the Swedish air force by the end of September the first nine upgraded Saab 105 trainers fitted with the Williams Rolls-Royce FJ44 engine. The upgraded aircraft are to have the military designation SK60W, and Saab says that they will remain in ...
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USA and Japan struggle on F-2 stalemate on F-2
US AND JAPANESE Government negotiators, have failed to reach agreement during meetings in Tokyo to clear the jam, which is holding up a critical industry-workshare agreement on the Mitsubishi F-2A/B fighter programme. The delay is threatening the project schedule. The Japan Defence Agency (JDA) and US Defence ...
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Ericsson looks for next-generation radar
Andrzej Jeziorski/STOCKHOLM ERICSSON MICROWAVE Systems is seeking partners to develop a next-generation combat-aircraft radar. It has held talks with the GEC/Thomson/DASA Airborne Radar (GTDAR) consortium and US companies about a potential partnership. The Swedish company is now studying an active electronically scanned-array radar (AESA), at the ...
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Boeing offers B-52 re-engineing
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE US AIR FORCE'S remaining fleet of Boeing B-52H bombers will be re-engined with Rolls-Royce RB.211 turbofan engines, if the Pentagon accepts an unsolicited offer from Boeing. The bid made to the USAF's Air Logistics Center involves upgrading 94 of the eight-engined ...
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Lockheed Martin and McDonnell Douglas pick up JASSM winners
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC LOCKHEED MARTIN and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) have been selected by the US Air Force to develop contenders for the $3 billion Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) programme. Proposals submitted by Hughes, Texas Instruments and a Raytheon-Northrop Grumman team were rejected. The winning ...
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France slashes Tiger/NH90 numbers
Gilbert Sedbon/PARISAndrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH FRANCE IS TO CUT its orders for Eurocopter Tiger and NH90 military helicopters by half, according to a recently published parliamentary report. The cuts follow a drastic defence-budget squeeze, threatening 1,000 aerospace jobs and calling into question France's commitment to developing its ...
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Jordanian formality
The US Government has formally told the US Congress that it intends to supply Jordan with its first squadron of ex-US Air Force Lockheed Martin F-16A/B fighters. Officials say that the long-discussed military-assistance deal, involving 12 F-16As and four F-16Bs, is expected to go through by the end of July. ...
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JSF tests
The McDonnell Douglas, Northrop Grumman and British Aerospace Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) team, have completed 7,500h of tests to validate its near-tailless design. Tests proved that the fighter's "up-and-away" maximum turn performance is up to 40% better than that of a conventional aircraft because of its contoured fore-body and lack ...
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UK industry to launch research effort
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON AFTER YEARS of failing to win new Government funding for civil research-and-technology programmes, the UK's aerospace companies have taken matters into their own hands and launched a programme of industry-funded technology-demonstrator pilots. They hope that the UK Government will now help build the ...