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Buses to Bosnia
As USAF McDonnell Douglas C-17s are withdrawn from Bosnia, assessment of the transport aircraft begins Tim Ripley/BOSNIA WHEN THE HARSH Balkan winter halted US Army efforts to bridge the River Sava and troop trains became backed-up in Hungarian marshalling yards, US military planners began to ...
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Polish air force MiG-21 Fishbeds Fs will be gone by end of 1996
THE POLISH AIR force is to retire 30 Mikoyan MiG-21PFM Fishbed Fs by the end of 1996, although its 60 MiG-21M Fishbed Js are to be retained until replacement fighters are purchased. The Fishbed Fs have been in service for 30 years and are now flown by the ...
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EMB-120 cleared for flight in icing
EMBRAER'S EMB-120 Brasilia regional turboprop has been cleared for flight in super-cooled large-droplet (SLD) icing, without modification, following a series of ground and flight tests. The tests were required by the US Federal Aviation Administration following the October 1994 crash of an ATR 72, caused by SLD icing. ...
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Spain follows US C-130 update lead
SPAIN IS TO update its 12 Lockheed Martin C/KC-130Hs with new avionics developed for the US Air Force's programme to upgrade C-130s and Lockheed C-141s. CASA is managing the programme, with Lockheed Martin responsible for integration and AlliedSignal Aerospace supplying the avionics. The first Spanish ...
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US Navy recovers 757 recorders from sea
THE US NAVY has found the cockpit-voice and flight-data recorders of the chartered Boeing 757, which plunged into the sea north of the Dominican Republic on 6 February. An USN recovery vessel retrieved the critical components from the aircraft, operated by a Turkish aircraft charter company, Birgenair, which ...
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UK Ministry of Defence clips Pegasus wings
GEC-MARCONI'S PEGASUS bid for the Royal Air Force's conventional stand-off missile (CASOM) requirement, has become the first casualty in the competition, having been effectively eliminated by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD). Although the company has received no formal notification from the MoD, senior-level unofficial channels appear ...
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Fokker given two more weeks to secure its survival
THE DUTCH Government has allowed Fokker a two-week stay of execution until 15 March, to give the ailing aircraft manufacturer time to talk with potential rescuers. The decision to extend Fokker's credit for another two weeks followed the announcement by the Bombardier group that it would not be ...
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USAF to outline upgrade plans
INDUSTRY IS TO be briefed this month on US Air Force proposals to upgrade its Fairchild A-10s, Lockheed Martin F-16s and F-117s and McDonnell Douglas F-15s, under its fighter-configuration plan (FICOP). The FICOP has been revised for 1996. An earlier plan was deemed to be unaffordable within the ...
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Surplus European F-16s may go to eastern Europe
Douglas Barrie/LONDON Andrzej Jeziorski/WARSAW LOCKHEED MARTIN is examining the use of surplus F-16A/Bs drawn from stocks in Belgium and the Netherlands to offer in fighter competitions in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. Belgium has around 32 early-model F-16s, and the Netherlands up to ...
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Airbus military set-up hit by French decision
Douglas Barrie/LONDON AIRBUS INDUSTRIE has shelved plans to unveil the Airbus Military Company (AMC) in the wake of the French Government's decision not to fund development of the collaborative European Future Large Aircraft (FLA) project. Airbus had been intending to formally set up its military-aircraft ...
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MDC/NASA to show X-36 fighter testbed
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) and NASA are to unveil a newly de-classified future fighter research aircraft at the company's St Louis, Missouri headquarters on 19 March. The exact configuration of the X-36, as the sub-scale vehicle is called, is being kept secret until ...
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Russia cuts funding for An-70 series production work
RUSSIAN COMMITMENT to the Antonov An-70 military transport is collapsing, with work being abandoned on setting up the series production line at Aviacor in Samara. Lev Khasis, Aviacor president, says that the company has stopped preparing for production because the Russian Government has withdrawn financial support. ...
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French revolution
Julian Moxon/PARIS SEVEN YEARS AFTER the fall of the Berlin Wall, France has carried out its most far-reaching defence review since the end of the Second World War. The Dassault Aviation Rafale fighter, the Eurocopter Tiger attack helicopter and NH Industries NH 90 medium-lift helicopter have ...
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UAV promises satellite shake-up
AN ISRAELI COMPANY is developing a unique high-altitude long-endurance hovering platform designed to act as a low-cost substitute for a communications or surveillance satellite. The Rotostar, is being developed by Silver Arrow, one of Israel's leading unmanned-air-vehicle (UAV) manufacturers. The Israeli Government, is funding part of the ...
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Clearer vision
Created in 1989, Sextant Avionique has totally refocused its strategy to cope with an ever-tougher global marketplace Julian Moxon/PARIS FEW WOULD DENY that US manufacturers have made most of the running in the race to adapt their aerospace industry to the shrunken markets of the post-Cold War ...
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US Air Force
Col Richard Reynolds has been nominated by US President Bill Clinton and selected by the Senate for appointment to brigadier-general in the US Air Force. Reynolds who was director of the B-2 System Program Office of the Aeronautical Systems Center, at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, is due this month to become ...
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Boeing plans CH-46 lifeline
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES BOEING IS PUSHING A service-life extension of its CH-46 to the US Navy as an alternative to procuring a new helicopter to fulfil the vertical-replenishment (vertrep) role. It has proposed a basic CH-46 fleet-sustainment plan to the US Naval Air Systems Command, ...
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Malaysia ponders F-5 upgrade
BRISTOL AEROSPACE OF Canada has been holding discussions with Malaysian industry about a proposed upgrade of the country's Northrop F-5E/Fs. The Royal Malaysian Air Force's (RMAF) fleet of around 15 F-5s is scheduled to be phased out of service shortly, following the delivery of replacement Mikoyan-MAPO MiG-29N ...
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Thomson-Thorn proposes MMW package for UK
THOMSON-THORN IS proposing to package three millimetre-wave (MMW) radar-guided rocket-boosted sub-munitions in a Hunting BL755 cluster-bomb casing in its bid for the £800 million Royal Air Force air-launched anti-armour weapon. The Advanced Anti-Armour Weapon (TAAWS) proposal draws heavily on the original Thorn EMI Swathe design, although this envisaged ...
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Saab discusses Gripen weapons with Israel
Andrzej Jeziorski/WARSAW Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV SAAB HAS HELD preliminary discussions with several Israeli companies, including missile manufacturer Rafael, about an Israeli-sourced weapons package to be offered as an option with its JAS39 Gripen proposal for the Hungarian air force. Hungarian air force officials are understood ...