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Chinook Crash
Controlled flight into terrain has been given as the cause of the Royal Air Force Boeing Vertol Chinook crash on the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland, on 2 June 1994. There were no discernible technical faults, says the official RAF report, although investigators had no flight-data recorder or cockpit-voice recorder to ...
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Mikoyan pushes 1.42 for Mosaero debut show debut
Douglas Barrie/PARIS MIKOYAN IS PUTTING pressure on the Russian Government to allow it to display its fifth-generation fighter, the Article 1.42, at the Moscow air show in August amid continuing doubts as to the programme's future. Mikoyan deputy chief designer Anatoly Belosvet confirms that Mikoyan ...
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Four-rotor Cobra crucial to Venom bid
Douglas Barrie/PARIS Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC GEC-MARCONI'S VENOM bid for the UK's £2 billion attack-helicopter programme hangs on its ability to provide the UK with a four-bladed development of the Bell AH-1W Cobra, according to a senior US Navy official. GEC and the US Marine Corps ...
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Hughes' Peace Shield 'six months ahead' on delivery
HUGHES AIRCRAFT will formerly deliver the completed $1 billion plus Peace Shield command, control and communication (C3I) system to Saudi Arabia in July. The integrated system is being delivered "...nearly six months ahead of schedule and on budget", says Hughes, which is building the Peace Shield under ...
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Eurocopter's new EC120 under test
Andrzej Jeziorski/PARIS Franco-German helicopter manufacturer Eurocopter has successfully completed the first flight of the EC 120 light helicopter. A 20min flight was performed on 9 June from Eurocopter's Marignane site in France, with test pilot Etienne Herrenschmidt and engineer Bernard Cortain at the controls. The EC120 ...
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US information system tested
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES THE FIRST ELEMENT of a new real-time information system for US Navy and Air Force combat aircrews will be test flown in July on a McDonnell Douglas F-15E from Nellis AFB, Nevada. The first test flights of the entire airborne tactical-information-management system (ATIMS) will ...
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BMW Rolls-Royce defines family to rival GE CF34
BMW Rolls-Royce has defined the configuration for a new 35-62kN (8,000-14,000lb)- thrust engine family to rival the General Electric CF34-8C. A military-trainer engine is one of the potential applications. A final launch decision on the new BR500 engine family, which comes in below the thrust range of ...
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Northrop Grumman wants AIDC as F-5E/F partner
NORTHROP GRUMMAN is negotiating a partnership agreement with Taiwan's Aero Industry Development Centre (AIDC) for the upgrade surplus F-5E/Fs for resale on the international market. The company is seeking foreign partners to participate in its F-5 Tiger IV modernisation programme. The US manufacturer is hoping that international tie-ups ...
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A340 ruled out of JSTARS
NORTHROP GRUMMAN and the main Airbus Industrie partners have ruled out the Airbus A340-200 as the basis for a NATO Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) in favour of the Boeing 707. The US company says, that a study team including British Aerospace, Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) ...
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BAe and Saab seal Gripen export deal
BRITISH AEROSPACE and Saab have formally unveiled a joint venture covering the export of the latter's JAS39 Gripen multi-role fighter aircraft (Flight International, 7-13 June). The deal covers joint marketing, manufacturing and support of export derivatives of the JAS39, which BAe believes will meet its requirement for a ...
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Honeywell/GEC-Marconi combine for F-16 HMD
HONEYWELL HAS teamed with the UK's GEC-Marconi Avionics to develop a helmet-mounted cueing system for the Lockheed Martin F-16. An advanced prototype of the helmet-mounted display (HMD) will be flight-tested on the aircraft manufacturer's new F-16D technology-demonstrator in 1996, says Jerry Vandevoort, general manager of Honeywell's Military Avionics division. ...
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Germans plan European missile
THE GERMAN MINISTRY of Defence is attempting to build a next-generation European short-range air-to-air missile (AAM) programme around Bodenseewerk Geratetechnik's (BGT) IRIS-T AAM. The German defence ministry earlier this month invited partners from the European Sidewinder consortium, which manufactured the missile under licence, to participate in the IRIS-T, ...
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GIV SIGINT aircraft bound for Sweden
GULFSTREAM WILL deliver the first of two GIV-based signals-intelligence (SIGINT) aircraft to Sweden in August, and is talking to Germany, the UK and Japan about supplying similar aircraft. The company has teamed with US SIGINT-systems manufacturer TRW to market the special-mission version of the GIV business-jet. Flight-testing ...
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Lockheed Martin seeks export F-22
LOCKHEED MARTIN and Boeing are negotiating with the US Department of Defense for clearance to develop export variants of the F-22 fighter, initially aimed at McDonnell Douglas F-15 operators. Mickey Blackwell, president of Lockheed Martin's Aeronautics sector, says that the company has begun to look at a "tailored ...
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Lynx life extended
WESTLAND Helicopters is developing a life-extension programme to allow the Lynx to stay in service until 2035. The company has already started talking to potential suppliers as part of a plan to upgrade the helicopter and reduce the cost of ownership. The UK helicopter maker, is believed ...
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IAE works on variable-area nozzle
INTERNATIONAL AERO Engines (IAE) and Calcor Aero Systems are to develop the world's first variable-area exhaust nozzle for a civil aero-engine. IAE, a joint venture between Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce, MTU, FiatAvio and Japanese Aero Engines, will work with California-based Calcor to produce a technology demonstrator for IAE's ...
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Kidde develops fire detector for F-22
A HIGH SENSITIVITY ultra-violet optical detector has been developed by Kidde Aerospace for incorporation on the Lockheed/Boeing F-22 advanced tactical fighter for the US Air Force. The sensor, used in the UK Company's optical fire-detection system, provides ultra-fast detection of flames in engine or auxiliary-power-unit compartments. ...
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DarkStar comes into the light
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES LOCKHEED MARTIN and Boeing have unveiled their DarkStar low-observable unmanned air vehicle (UAV) contender for the US Department of Defense's Tier III Minus programme. The slim-line plan-form is optimised for a low radar-cross-section while providing aerodynamic efficiency. The 21m-span UAV is designed ...
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C-17 costs cut to save programme
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is gearing up to propose on 1 August a new multi-year C-17 procurement package to the US Air Force which would cut unit cost to $212 million, from about $300 million, and possibly even lower, for production of aircraft 33 to 120. The move is ...
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Daewoo in search for KTX-1 partner
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE DAEWOO HEAVY Industries of South Korea is looking for an international partner to help market and sell its KTX-1 turboprop basic trainer to potential foreign buyers. The KTX-1 has been under development for several years by Daewoo, in conjunction with the Government's agency ...