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Launch options
In terms of getting aircraft airborne, both the US Navy and the Royal Navy are looking at several options in the replacement of the steam catapult with an electromagnetic launch system. In the USA, Kaman Electromagnetics is working on the Electro-Magnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS). Project officials believe ...
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KC-135 Long Leads
Boeing has received a $10 million contract for long-lead materials needed to re-engine a dozen Boeing KC-135 tanker aircraft - seven for Turkey and five for France. The US Air Force says, that work under the contract is expected to be completed in September. Source: Flight ...
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Private means
The Canadian military has found a solution to training issues in times of cutbacks. Graham Warwick/MONTREAL Canada is turning to the commercial sector for assistance in coping with defence-budget cuts. Nowhere is this more evident than in pilot training for the Canadian Forces. ...
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Finance deal clears way ahead for SJ30
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC FINANCING FOR production of the Swearingen SJ30 light business-aircraft is now in hand, allowing ground to be broken this month for the final assembly plant at the Eastern West Virginia Regional Airport in Martinsburg. SJ30 production is made possible by the formation of ...
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Ground work
Tests being carried out in the USA are proving the worth of ground-proximity warning systems for helicopters. Paul Seidenman/SAN FRANCISCO THE US NAVY AND a civil-helicopter operator have begun evaluation of the world's first ground-proximity warning system (GPWS) to be tested successfully in a helicopter ...
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C-17 launch-reliability tests are successful
Guy Norris/BICYCLE LAKE McDONNELL Douglas C-17s achieved launch-reliability levels of 97.6% during a series of US Air Force exercises, which pave the way for final assessments of the programme in July. The outcome of the mid-year evaluation is critical to the US Government's November decision ...
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Mielec delivers first K-15 Irydas
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH THE POLISH AIR FORCE has taken delivery of its first two PZL-Mielec M-93K Iryda trainers. The aircraft are fitted with 14.71kN (3,300lb)-thrust K-15 turbojets developed by the Warsaw Aviation Institute (IL), giving around 4kN more thrust than the PZL-5 engines powering the predecessor ...
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British Army Air Corps chases Mi-8s in Bosnian war zone
Tim Ripley/GORNJI VAKUF THE UK'S ARMY AIR Corps (AAC) Westland Lynx helicopter crews are being used by the United Nations to chase and identify helicopters breaching the No-Fly Zone over Bosnia-Herzegovina amid growing concern over the dangers of a "friendly-shootdown" incident. Evidence of NATO's inability, or unwillingness, to enforce the ...
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TWA Maintenance
Trans World Airlines (TWA) will perform heavy maintenance on 52 McDonnell Douglas C-9s and DC-9s operated by the US Navy and Air Force. The initial contract is worth $38 million, with options over the next five years, which could take the value to $200 million. Most of the work will ...
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F-22 programme deemed low-risk
A US DEFENCE SCIENCE Board (DSB) task force concludes that the Lockheed Martin/ Boeing F-22 programme schedule sets an acceptable overlap of research and production. The task force's report runs counter to a US General Accounting Office (GAO) study which urges slowing F-22 production because of associated risks ...
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AS-15B Kent spotted at Engels AFB
WHAT IS BELIEVED TO BE THE FIRST unclassified picture of the Russian RKV-500B (AS-15B Kent) strategic cruise missile shows the weapon close to the wing of the Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack long-range bomber, for which it forms the primary offensive armament. The missile pictured at Engels AFB, differs from the AS-15 ...
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Hunter under siege by US Navy opponents
THE TRW/ISRAEL Aircraft Industries (IAI) Hunter joint tactical unmanned air vehicle (JT-UAV) is coming under fire from US Navy opponents who favour deployment of the General Atomics Predator UAV on USN warships. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has tentatively scheduled October for a fly-off between the two UAVs, in which ...
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China provides cash for Israeli cruise missile work
Douglas Barrie/LONDON CHINA IS FUNDING development of an air-launched conventional cruise missile in Israel, with a range of over 400km (220nm). The weapon is a derivative of an existing Israeli unmanned air vehicle (UAV). The missile work is being carried out by TAAS, formerly Israel ...
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Matra to decide on F-16 Mica bid
NORWAY AND THE Netherlands are waiting to find out whether Matra will offer the Mica medium-range air-to-air missile to meet the countries' requirements for a beyond-visual-range weapon to arm updated Lockheed Martin F-16s. Senior air-force officials from the two countries have expressed doubts that the French missile ...
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DC-X: the third element
The third element of NASA's re-usable-launch-vehicle initiative is the McDonnell Douglas (MDC) Delta Clipper - Experimental (DC-X), a single-stage vertical take-off and landing rocket. Flight testing of the DC-X was scheduled to resume in May following repairs to damage caused by a fuel-vapour explosion on the fifth flight, in June ...
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CAE Profits Rise
Canada's CAE reports that profits were up by one-third for its financial year to the end of March, helped by military-simulator sales which offset flat commercial markets. Profits grew to C$47 million ($33 million) as revenues climbed by 11% to the C$658 million mark. The CAE Aviation unit benefited from ...
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Indian Trainer Progress
The Indian air force has finally sanctioned the release of $100 million covering the purchase of an advanced jet trainer. The service has short-listed two trainers, the British Aerospace Hawk and the Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet. The Indian parliamentary defence committee has recommended to the Government that a low-cost Russian trainer ...
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Airmanship is flairmanship
Sir - According to a press report from Bucharest, Romania, initial findings by a commission of inquiry into the crash of a Tarom Airbus A310-300 attributed the accident to a fault in the automatic-throttle system. This caused one engine to deliver substantially more power than the other, resulting ...
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Preparing for Paris
There are many signs that the recession in aerospace is over, and the organisers of the 41st Salon International de l'Aeronautique et de l'Espace will be hoping that their show at Le Bourget, north of Paris, in June will finally prove the point. Last time round, in 1993, ...
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Boeing/Lockheed Martin halt JAST talks
LOCKHEED MARTIN and Boeing have suspended talks over teaming on the US Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) programme at least until contracts are awarded in mid-1996. The two companies began talks earlier this year, when it became clear that the JAST project was going to absorb the advanced ...