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Sokol flight-tests export Foxhound
Douglas Barrie/LONDON Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW AN EXPORT VARIANT OF the Mikoyan MiG-31 Foxhound heavy fighter, dubbed the MiG-31E, is undergoing flight trials, according to Vladimir Pomolov, general manager of Russia's Sokol plant, which builds the aircraft. Confirming that the export version is being flight-tested, Pomolov ...
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Hungary forced to ground MiG-29As
THE HUNGARIAN air force has been forced to ground its Mikoyan MiG-29A Fulcrum fighter aircraft following the discovery of a design fault which was leading to foreign-object damage (FOD). Initial problems with the aircraft began to emerge shortly after the first Hungarian unit of Fulcrums was declared operational ...
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Weight-lifter
Peter Gray/KUSSNACHT, SWITZERLAND KAMAN AEROSPACE HAS handed over the first K-MAX external-lift helicopter to be delivered to a European customer. The delivery, to Helog of Switzerland, provided an opportunity for a closer look at an unusual aircraft with a growing international presence. The K-MAX is in service ...
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Israel and Turkey near completion of Phantom talks
ISRAEL AND TURKEY are in the final stages of negotiations covering the $580 million upgrade of 54 Turkish air force McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantoms. The conclusion of the deal had been hampered by a downturn in the Turkish economy and by prolonged discussions over the amount of upgrade ...
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Singapore Super Pumas get HUMS
The Singapore Air Force is retrofitting its fleet of Eurocopter Super Puma 1 helicopters with a health and usage monitoring system (HUMS) package, supplied by Eurocopter. Called EuroHUMS 1, the system monitors dynamic systems and analyses performance data to allow diagnostic action. It consists of a data-acquisition unit, ...
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CAE Tests CC-130 EW Kit
CAE Aviation has flight-tested an electronic-warfare self-protection suite on the first of two Canadian Forces Lockheed Martin CC-130 Hercules, modified under a C$3.3 million ($2.4 million) contract. The suite consists of an ALR-56M radar-warning receiver, AAR-47 missile approach-warning system and ALE-47 countermeasures dispenser. ...
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USAF GEN Pays Fares
US Air Force Gen Joseph Ashy, head of US Space Command, has reimbursed the Pentagon $5,020 for a C-21 flight, he and his wife took between Colorado and Washington. The payment was made as the Pentagon's inspector general issued a critical report about Ashy's travel aboard USAF transports in 1994. ...
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First F-5E Tiger IV avionics upgrade tests completed
NORTHROP GRUMMAN has completed the first phase of flight-testing of the F-5E Tiger IV avionics upgrade. The initial 12 flights concentrated on evaluating the air-to-air modes of the Westinghouse APG-66 pulse-Doppler radar, says F-5 demonstration project engineer Tom Cooke. The upgraded aircraft was used to demonstrate a doubling ...
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Bidders line up vertrep deal
KAMAN AEROSPACE, Sikorsky Aircraft and a McDonnell Douglas/Westland team are among those bidding for the US Navy's two-month demonstration of commercially operated helicopters for vertical replenishment (vertrep) of naval vessels. A request for proposals (RFP) was issued by the US Military Sealift Command in May. The USN is ...
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An-70 programme wins support
RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT finance for the Ukrainian-developed Antonov An-70 propfan-powered military transport seems likely to materialise following a meeting between Russian prime minister Victor Chernomyrdin, and Konstantin Titov, the governor of Russian province Samara, where a production line is to be based. Russia and Ukraine signed a deal in ...
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Space sector absorbs most of Lockheed Martin cost cutting
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LOCKHEED MARTIN'S space sector will bear the brunt of a consolidation plan intended to save $1.8 billion a year through the elimination of 12,000 jobs and the closure of 12 plants and laboratories over the next five years. The plan will cost $1.7 billion, the company ...
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Military aircraft bosses ousted at Daimler-Benz
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH THREE SENIOR executives have left Daimler-Benz Aerospace's (DASA's) military-aircraft division following board dissatisfaction with the operation's performance. Division president Klaus-Jurgen Wolfert is to go, along with head of development Wolfgang Kuny and finance and contracts chief Reinhold Faltlhauser. The three are expected to leave ...
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Canada offers to host NATO training
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA CANADA HAS submitted a "power-by-the-hour" proposal to host advanced flying-training for European NATO nations. The NATO Flying Training in Canada (NFTC) proposal is backed by an industry team, led by Bombardier and including British Aerospace and CAE, which would own and operate the aircraft and simulators ...
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Radar first
Westinghouse has received a $3 million contract to retrofit Portuguese air force Lockheed C-130Hs with its APN-241 predictive-windshear radar. Deliveries begin in November. The contract marks the first international, and first retrofit,sale of the radar, which is in production for new US Air Force C-130Hs and the C-130Js now under ...
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Long hot summer
The McDonnell Douglas C-17 is facing its toughest test so far. Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES It is make-or-break time for the McDonnell Douglas (MDC) C-17. The future of the military transport, and that of the US Air Force's global heavy-lift capability, hinges on the outcome of two ...
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Chinook crash: causes debatable
Sir - I have followed with interest recent reports concerning the circumstances surrounding the Chinook accident on the Mull of Kintyre. I read the report of the Board of Inquiry. The findings are unsurprising, if not spectacularly inconclusive. Without the benefits of reports from survivors, eye witnesses, radar ...
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Are they sitting comfortably?
ASSESSMENT SERVICES IS PERFORMING electromagnetic compatibility tests on an actuator unit on behalf of UK ejection-seat manufacturer Martin-Baker. The actuator, destined for use on Dassault's Rafale fighter aircraft, is designed to ensure that the pilot is correctly positioned in the cockpit for optimum use of the aircraft's systems and displays. ...
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Embraer forced to impose job cuts
Brian Homewood/RIO DE JANIERO BRAZILIAN AIRCRAFT manufacturer Embraer, privatised in late 1994, is to make 1,700 of its 5,550 employees redundant in a bid to cut costs, says president Juaraz de Siqueira Britto Wanderley. The redundancies, most of which will be voluntary, began in June. ...
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Avatar rockets into top ranks
A NEW COMPANY has propelled itself into the top level of the world's spares resellers with a $400 million cash deal to buy Delta Air Lines' surplus-parts inventory. Avatar Alliance believes that the acquisition of some 17 million parts for 12 aircraft types "...may be the largest transaction ...