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BAe plans TIALD vibration tests on Harrier GR7
BRITISH AEROSPACE is to carry out flight trials of a GEC-Marconi thermal-imaging airborne laser-designator (TIALD) pod, fitted with telemetry equipment, on a BAe Harrier GR7 fuselage station, to ensure that it can withstand the hostile vibration environment. The company has a contract from the UK Ministry of Defence ...
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B-2 Stealth Bombers Grounded
THE US AIR FORCE HAS suspended training flights of the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit stealth bomber after discovering a cracked engine clamp during an inspection. The grounding began on 10 May, but it was not announced until the USAF began receiving enquiries. The ten B-2s operated by the ...
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Trade demands delay Thai F-18 purchase
THAILAND'S planned purchase of eight McDonnell Douglas (MDC) F-18C/D fighters is being held up by finance ministry demands for counter-trade to underwrite part of the deal. The Thai Government is in receipt of a US letter of offer and acceptance (LoA) for the aircraft, but has not yet signed it. ...
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Russia finds money for Ukrainian ICBMs
THE RUSSIAN Government has issued a decree allocating roubles 17.76 billion ($3.55 million) to finance an agreement reached with Ukraine to acquire ten RS-18 (SS-19 Stilleto) liquid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missiles from Ukrainian arsenals. In 1994, Russia received 14 "dry" (not filled with fuel) RS-18 missiles from an arsenal ...
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Manufacturers must compare
Sir - Comparing notes is certainly a good idea (Letters, Flight International, 10-16 April, P41) - and not just between military and civilian organisations. Manufacturers should surely do the same, especially in matters relating to aircraft structure and integrity. The industry appears not to have learned the lesson ...
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Spritely contender
Peter Gray/BLOOMFIELD, CONNECTICUT Shortlisted for selection by the Australian and New Zealand navies, the "Super" version of Kaman's Seasprite has come a long way from the original launch model. THE KAMAN SEASPRITE was first flown in 1959 and was developed and sold to the US Navy as a single-engined ...
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Fighting gear
McDonnell Douglas has selected BFGoodrich Aerospace's Cleveland, Ohio, Landing Gear division to supply the nose and main landing-gear for its Joint Strike Fighter (formerly Joint Advanced Strike Technology) design. Source: Flight International
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Flat panels tested in A319
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE has tested flat-panel liquid-crystal displays (LCDs) in the cockpit of an A319, but has no plans to introduce the screens on production aircraft. The screens were developed by France's Sextant Avionique for use on the Dassault Rafale fighter and the Eurocopter Tiger helicopter. Jean Marc ...
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US Air Force will upgrade E-4B command posts
US AIR FORCE Boeing E-4B national command-and-control aircraft are to be upgraded to act as airborne operations centres for the US Secretary of Defense. The four modified 747s are to be equipped with a fibre-optic communications "backbone", or local-area network, and UHF and commercial satellite-communications (satcom) capability. The ...
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CAE/TTS share 737-700 spotlight
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA BOEING HAS selected CAE Electronics to build the lead simulators for the new generation 737-700. Thomson Training & Simulation (TTS), meanwhile, has won a Southwest Airlines contract for a 737-700 simulator, and 737-300 desktop trainers, for delivery to its Dallas, Texas, training centre by the ...
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UNC
Overhauler and maintainer UNC Airwork, of Millville, New Jersey, has named Benjamin Johnson director of aviation programmes. With the company since 1987, Johnson was formerly director of military and Government programmes and vice-president of customer support. Michael McCauley becomes national sales director for domestic business aviation. He ...
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Northrop
William Brackney has been appointed vice-president for business operations and Wylie Smith vice-president for finance at the Electronic Sensors and Systems division of Northrop Grumman, of Los Angeles, California. They will be based at Baltimore, Maryland. Brackney, most recently vice-president for business management on the B-2 bomber programme, joined the ...
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P&W
Engine manufacturer United Technologies Pratt & Whitney, of East Hartford, Connecticut, has named James Taiclet vice-president for military after-sales service. Taiclet, a graduate of the US Air Force Academy and a former Lockheed C-141 flight-examiner pilot, will be based in San Antonio, Texas. Source: Flight International
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Sextant signs up for PZL
SEXTANT AVIONIQUE has signed a contract with Polish aircraft manufacturer PZL-Mielec to provide an avionics package for the Iryda jet trainer (Flight International, 24-30 April). The contract, to upgrade 11 aircraft and equip six new ones, was signed on 26 April, and will be completed by the end ...
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Indonesia wants F-16 offsets
US GOVERNMENT efforts to find buyers for 28 embargoed Pakistani Lockheed Martin F-16A/Bs have taken a further twist, with Indonesia demanding industrial offsets in return for buying nine of the aircraft. Research and technology minister B J Habibie wants the USA to buy components worth 30% of the value of ...
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Su-27M prototype suffers flight-control failure
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW A SUKHOI SU-27M development prototype, flown from the Ahktubinsk flight-test centre, suffered a near-catastrophic failure of its fly-by-wire system in April, but was recovered by the pilot. The incident involved what is described as a "double malfunction" of the flight-control system (FCS). The Su-27M (Su-35)was being used in ...
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Europe and USA hold thrust-vectoring talks
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELESAndrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH EUROPE AND THE USA are seeking to co-operate on future thrust-vectoring research. Industry and defence officials from both sides were expected to open talks at the Berlin International Aerospace Exhibition (ILA), which started on 13 May. The discussions could include European ...
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Arrest warrant issued for Serge Dassault
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS and Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS AN INTERNATIONAL arrest warrant has been issued for Dassault Aviation chairman and chief executive Serge Dassault by Belgian magistrates. He is charged with involvement in a BFr90 billion ($2.8 billion) bribe of Belgian Government ministers in exchange for contracts to buy ...
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DASA warns France on defence agreement
Julian Moxon/PARIS DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) president Manfred Bischoff has threatened a possible collapse of the missiles/satellites agreement between Aerospatiale and DASA, if France does not honour its side of the accord forged between German chancellor Helmut Kohl and French president Jacques Chirac in 1995. In ...
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Damaged F-18s survive collision
TWO US NAVY McDONNELL Douglas F-18As landed safely at Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia, after sustaining substantial damage in a mid-air collision during air-combat manoeuvring over the Atlantic Ocean. In the 23 April incident, the aircraft were on a converging course and collided at around 400kt (740km/h), the left wing ...