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Japanese FDR sale
Smiths Industries Aerospace has secured three contracts to supply 20 shipsets of flight data recorders for the Japanese Air Self Defence Force Mitsubishi T-4 trainers and the voice and data recorder for Sikorsky SH-60J and OH-X helicopters. Total value is put at $4 million. Source: Flight ...
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On time and on target
The Royal Air Force's Jaguars are equipped to stand off and deliver. Douglas Barrie/BOSCOMBE DOWN Urgent operational requirements (UORs), by their very nature, are not always easy to meet. Haste and progress are not always compatible. The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) was lucky, however, with ...
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Airline seats get off the ground
SIMULA SUBSIDIARY Airline Interiors has secured a launch customer for its 16G airline seats. California-based start-up carrier Trans-Orient Express has signed a letter of intent to install the seats in Boeing 747-200s to be used on services between Los Angeles and Vietnam, beginning in late 1995. Initial deliveries are worth ...
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European and US fighter builders court Norway
EUROPEAN AND US fighter manufacturers are preparing to make initial offset offers to the Norwegian defence ministry as Oslo takes the initial steps towards acquiring a next-generation fighter. A Lockheed F-16 team was in Norway during the first week of March to discuss offset, and Eurofighter will present ...
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Bosnia C-130 suspected in covert flights row
Tim Ripley/LONDON US AIR FORCE denials that it is responsible for covert supply flights to the Bosnian armed forces have been re-inforced by UN Protection Force (UNPROFOR) officials, who suspect that the Bosnian Government is operating its own Lockheed C-130 Hercules. UN observers have reported several ...
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Antonov in dash to assemble new propfan prototype
IN A DESPERATE attempt to keep its An-70 propfan military-transport programme alive, Ukrainian design bureau Antonov is trying to complete a second prototype by the end of this year. This follows the loss of the first prototype in January after it went out of control, collided with the An-72 chase ...
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UK may force Starstreak competition
IN AN ALMOST unprecedented move, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) may force missile manufacturer Shorts to compete for follow-on orders of its much-delayed Starstreak very-short-range air-defence system. Belfast-based Shorts is now completing the first tranche of deliveries to the MoD, with the programme running almost five years ...
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Riding the Tiger
Flight International flight-tests Eurocopter's candidate for the UK attack-helicopter requirement. Peter Gray/MUNICH Everything about the Eurocopter Tiger is modern - the design, materials, the technology and even the way it is operated and managed. The rotor head has no hinges to lubricate and is made of composite ...
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China forces Israel to freeze Taiwan project
PRESSURE FROM CHINA has led to Israel freezing talks about the establishment of a joint maintenance centre with Taiwanese industrial interests. The talks, which started in 1993, had advanced to the point where Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) had signed a memorandum of understanding with a group of Taiwanese ...
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Thais seek funding for fighters
THE THAI AIR force is pushing for funding in the next defence budget for an additional 18-20 fighter aircraft to equip its third frontline squadron. The air force has been receiving informal preliminary briefings from competing manufacturers and is expected to make an official request for more information ...
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BAe studies TIALD for Harriers
BRITISH AEROSPACE is carrying out a project-definition study into equipping the Royal Air Force's BAe Harrier GR.7s with the GEC-Marconi Thermal Imaging and Laser Designation (TIALD) pod. The TIALD pod is already in service with the RAF on its Panavia Tornado GR.1 strike aircraft. The air force has ...
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Lockheed executives retire before merger
KENNETH CANNESTRA, who heads Lockheed's aeronautics unit, has become the latest senior executive to announce early retirement ahead of the US aerospace group's merger with Martin Marietta. Cannestra was to have been in charge of the combined aeronautics division until the end of this year, when he would ...
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Russian An-124 offer fuels FLA fears
A RUSSIAN OFFER to supply Antonov An-124 heavy-lift aircraft as settlement for the country's debt to Germany is raising fears that the Federal finance ministry could use it to undermine procurement funding of the Future Large Aircraft (FLA). According to the German defence ministry, the offer is to ...
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Westland woos Canada on EH101
Jim Bagnall/OTTAWA WESTLAND is again attempting to persuade Canada to purchase the EH Industries EH101 as the helicopter programme is believed to be about to receive a considerable fillip with an UK Ministry of Defence order for around 25 aircraft. A procurement to meet the ...
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IAI offers Phalcon technology to China
ISRAEL AIRCRAFT INDUSTRIES (IAI) is offering China airborne-early-warning (AEW) technology based on its Phalcon AEW aircraft to meet a Chinese air force requirement. The Chinese have an outstanding AEW requirement, with several companies pursuing the business. GEC-Marconi Avionics is believed to have supplied its Argus system, based on ...
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Technical details
The Tiger comes in three configurations - combat support, anti-tank and support (does everything). As well as the sight on the mast, there is also a thermal imager, a helmet-mounted sight display (both crew), a TV camera, laser range finder, missile localiser and night-vision goggles. (Everything in the cockpit is ...
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Second C-17 Squadron
The first McDonnell Douglas C-17 transport has been delivered to Charleston AFB, South Carolina, for the formation of the second operational C-17 squadron. The 14th Sqn of the 437th Airlift Wing is switching to the C-17 from the Lockheed C-141. It will be operated alongside C-17s of the 17th Airlift ...
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Japan's economy set for expansion
The initial reaction of the financial markets and analysts to major natural disasters, particularly when they occur in developed societies, is nearly always wrong. This was true of the Los Angeles earthquake in January 1994, and even more so of the recent disaster in Kobe. The immediate impact on the ...
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An-70 crash threatens programme's future
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW THE ANTONOV AN-70 four-engine military transport-aircraft programme faces collapse following the loss of the prototype aircraft, only two months after its first flight. The prop-fan-powered aircraft crashed on 10 February, following a mid-air collision with an Antonov An-72 Coaler chase aircraft. All seven ...