All Fixed-Wing news – Page 1367
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USAF reviews Black Hawk shootdown
ALL ADMINISTRATIVE and personnel actions taken in the wake of the 14 April, 1994 shooting down of two US Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters over northern Iraq will be reviewed by Gen. Ronald Fogleman, the US Air Force's chief of staff. Twenty-six people were killed in the ...
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Too many cooks?
Is Russia's recipe for arms-export success too rich? Alexander Velovich/MOSOCW EIGHTEEN AIRCRAFT being offered by eighteen agents, including a Russian popular singer with alleged mafia connections. No wonder the sale of Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrums to Malaysia proved such a tortuous process. Russia's attempts to "rationalise" ...
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Taiwan says 'no' to ex-Pakistani F-16s
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE TAIWAN HAS ruled out purchasing any of Pakistan's embargoed Lockheed Martin F-16A/Bs from the US Government, because of a lack of commonality with the F-16s it has already ordered. The US Government is trying to find a buyer for the 28 completed F-16s ...
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Good initial results for C-17 test
PRELIMINARY FINDINGS from the vital 30-day US Air Force evaluation of the McDonnell Douglas C-17 transport suggest that the aircraft performed better than expected, achieving launch-reliability rates of 99.4%. Twelve C-17s logged 2,252h in the Reliability, Maintainability and Availability Evaluation (RM&AE), transporting 5,000t of cargo. Out of 513 ...
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Canadian trainer options tighten up
SELECTION OF A turboprop trainer for Canada's proposed industry-operated NATO flying-training programme will begin soon. The choice is expected to narrow to the Embraer EMB-312H Super Tucano, the Pilatus PC-9 and the PC-9-based Raytheon Beech MkII, winner of the US Joint Primary Aircraft Training System (JPATS) competition, which had its ...
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Canada nears SAR choice
THE CANADIAN Cabinet is expected shortly to approve a C$600 million programme to acquire 15 new search-and-rescue (SAR) helicopters. Agusta/Westland, Boeing Helicopters, Eurocopter and Sikorsky have indicated their intentions to bid for replacing the Canadian Forces' Boeing CH-113 Labradors between 1998 and 2001. Alongside the ...
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Measuring safety
Measuring safety by comparison is difficult. The Royal Australian Air Force's (RAAF's) MacKinnon explains: "The problem with measuring performance with other nations is that there are a number of definitions as to what constitutes an accident." For example, what the Royal Air Force calls a Category 4 accident is close ...
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Overhaul deal
Miami-based Greenwich Air Services is to overhaul and upgrade the Pratt & Whitney J52 engines of ex-US Navy 36 McDonnell Douglas A-4M Skyhawks being refurbished and upgraded by Lockheed Martin Aircraft Services for the Argentine air force. The contract is worth more than $20 million. Source: Flight International
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Downtown
Maintenance Company Downtown Airpark, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has named Adriano Davila director of international sales. Over the past 14 years, following US Air Force service, Davila has been a pilot and technician instructor at both Colorado Aerotech and FlightSafety International. Greg Groves has become interior department manager, replacing Ed ...
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Bright idea excludes unwanted daylight
INTEGRATED PHOTOMATRIX (IPL) HAS DEVELOPED a system designed to make liquid crystal displays (LCDs) in cockpit panels and head-up displays (HUD) easier to read. The Dorchester, UK-based company's 10530-AAE detector monitors incident daylight and specifically excludes any near infra-red radiation, ensuring that the illumination of the LCD is instantly adjusted ...
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Primal screen show
Avionics usually come first when it comes to upgrades to military aircraft such as the F-15, F-16 and F-18. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LOCKHEED MARTIN'S F-16 and McDonnell Douglas' F-15 and F-18 represent the single largest constituency of modern Western-built fighters in service worldwide. With some 6,400 F-15s, ...
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Ringing in the new
What does the new Bell 407 offer over its predecessors? Graham Warwick/MONTREAL IF BELL IS renowned for two things in the commercial-helicopter field, they are the Model 206 and the two-blade rotor. These traditional Bell strengths have threatened to become weaknesses, however, as the prolonged ...
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RAF deal clinched by Reflectone
REFLECTONE HAS finalised its contract with Lockheed Martin to provide training equipment and services to support the Royal Air Force's purchase of 25 C-130J Hercules 2 transports. The $77 million contract, is the largest in the US simulation company's history. Reflectone will supply two full-flight simulators, a flight-training ...
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USAF Upgrade
FlightSafety International has received a $52 million US Air Force contract to upgrade seven Lockheed C-5 simulators with articulated, 225° field-of-view, MultiView display-systems, Lockheed Martin CompuScene PT2000 image generators and database-generation systems and larger motion bases. FlightSafety Services operates the C-5 simulator on behalf of the US Air Force. ...
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MDC offers the USAF 88 more Globemasters
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) has submitted a proposal to the US Air Force covering the purchase of up to another 88 aircraft at prices ranging from $212 million, down to around $190 million per unit. The proposal was submitted to the USAF as part of the preparations for the ...
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JDA lists aircraft requirements
THE JAPAN DEFENCE Agency (JDA) has provisionally requested funding in the 1996 fiscal year budget to purchase a total of 85 new military fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. The Japan Air Self-Defence Force (JASDF) seeks 42 aircraft, the Ground Self-Defence Force (JGSDF) wants 26 and the Maritime Self-Defence Force ...
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Pentagon threat puts Heliwing UAV on hold
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC US DEPARTMENT of Defense moves to kill the Boeing Heliwing project have led to plans for a second unmanned-air- vehicle (UAV) demonstrator being at least put on hold by the manufacturer. Boeing had decided to build a second demonstrator, but says that its ...
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Poles eye Falcon to fulfil fighter need
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH THE POLISH ministry of national defence has confirmed that it is considering buying 100 Lockheed F-16C/D fighters from the USA to replace aging Mikoyan MiG-21 Fishbeds. Poland needs a new multi-role combat aircraft to replace 220 MiG-21s in fighter, ground-attack, training and reconnaissance ...
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UK eyes used AH-64s
Douglas Barrie/MIDDLE WALLOP THE BRITISH ARMY Air Corps (AAC) could eventually supplement its procurement of attack helicopters by picking up secondhand McDonnell Douglas AH-64A Apaches from US Army stocks. In an exclusive interview with Flight International, Maj. Gen. Simon Lytle, Director Army Aviation, made it ...
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Power surge
Arms race or just re-equipment - either way, Southeast Asian nations are on a buying spree Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE DEFENCE EXPENDITURE in Southeast Asia is at an all-time high and is continuing to grow, prompting many ob-servers to suggest that the region is in the throes ...