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Systems & components
Joint Winner: BFGoodrich Avionics Systems Location Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA Joint Winner: Meggitt Avionics Location Fareham, UK Achievement Development of solid-state electronic standby instrument systems. Over the past couple of decades, the modern flight-deck has changed out of all recognition. Old ...
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Finalist: Aeromedic Innovations Group
Finalist: Aeromedic Innovations Group Location London, UK Achievement: Official licensing for providing airline medical kit. In October 1996, Aeromedic Innovations became the first company in the world to be licensed by a regulatory authority - the UK's Medicines Control Agency - to make and maintain a ...
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Training & safety
Winner: The Flight Data Company Location West Drayton, Middlesex Achievement Making flight-data analysis accessible and affordable running on a PCModern airliners generate a wealth of flight data, which if properly interpreted can prove invaluable in enabling carriers to improve safety and reduce costs. The difficulties lie ...
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U-buy stake
Taiwan's U-Land Airline says that it is negotiating to buy an undisclosed stake in Vietnam's struggling Pacific Airlines. The two-year-old Taiwan domestic carrier wants to use Pacific Airlines to help expand internationally. U-Land operates four McDonnell Douglas MD-82s and plans to acquire two more. Pacific Airlines is struggling to survive, ...
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Hokkaido Airlines expects profits by 1999
Hokkaido International Airlines, which plans to launch low-fare domestic services in Japan in 1998, has revealed bullish profit projections in only its second year of operation. The airline plans to start operations at the end of April 1998 with a single Boeing 767-300, flying three daily services from ...
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Sun Air privatisation goes into the final furlong
South Africa has announced a shortlist of four bidding groups to go forward to the next phase in the privatisation of domestic airline Sun Air. Malaysian Airlines, Virgin Atlantic and rival regional Comair are listed. Each of the three airlines, together with a fourth bid led by Phoenix ...
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Germany and UK deny French Airbus claims
French assertions that the four partners of the Airbus Industrie consortium have reached agreement on the future shape of the company have been denied strongly in Germany and the UK. Aerospatiale president Yves Michot claims that the four company presidents, meeting on 26/27 May, had agreed on "a ...
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France aims for closer military-engine co-operation with UK
The French armaments directorate DGA is mounting an initiative designed to push co-operation between France and the UK on research into advanced military engines. A senior DGA source says that there is a "possibility" of an announcement as early as this week's Paris air show on a joint-venture ...
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US Air Force embraces EGPWS
THE US AIR FORCE will begin buying enhanced ground-proximity warning systems (EGPWS) even before the US Federal Aviation Administration requires its installation on transport-category aircraft. The USAF joins a handful of US airlines which have voluntarily elected to install copies of the upgraded safety device on their aircraft ...
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Boeing battles to cut F-22 costs
Boeing is attempting to slash costs on the Lockheed Martin/ Boeing F-22 fighter by up to $12 billion over the life of the programme, partly through a series of production initiatives. The move follows the review of the Joint Estimate Team (JET) US Department of Defense price watchdog, ...
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Boeing speeds hypersonic weapon push
Boeing North American has completed initial wind-tunnel work on a scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet)- powered waverider lifting body. Now the company is pressing the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to support the effort as part of the development of future hypersonic weapons. The call ...
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Indonesia examines alternatives to F-16s
Indonesia has begun to focus attention on a range of alternative Russian and European-built fighter aircraft, following the Government's decision to cancel its planned purchase of nine Lockheed Martin F-16A/Bs from the USA (Flight International, 2-8 April). An Indonesian military delegation is understood to have already visited Russia ...
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Development of new JSF gun is planned
DEVELOPMENT OF AN advanced gun has been proposed for the US/UK Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) because of concerns over the weight, cost and effectiveness of the current M61 20mm cannon. The four services planning to buy the JSF have yet to agree whether it should have an internal gun. ...
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Czechs guarantee cash for production of Aero L-159s
The Czech government has finally guaranteed funding for the production of 72 Aero Vodochody L-159 Advanced Light Combat Aircraft for its air force. The move was revealed by Czech defence minister Miloslav Vyborny at the roll-out on 12 June of the first prototype at Aero's production plant, near ...
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Belgian Airbus hunt
The Belgian air force wants to replace the ageing Boeing 727-100QCs of its 21 squadron with two Airbus Industrie A310s. Belgium's defence minister Jean-Pol Poncelet has asked the country's national airline Sabena to buy two of the airliners for use in the troop transport role. "The Boeings have reached the ...
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More UC-35As
The US Army has awarded Cessna Aircraft a further $52 million to build five additional UC-35A (military Citation V Ultra) transports. The US Department of Defense is buying 35 of the medium-range aircraft over five years, plus contractor logistic support and pilot training worth an estimated $157 million. ...
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Pentagon extends Outrider probation
Flight testing of the Alliant Techsystems Outrider tactical unmanned air vehicle (UAV) is being put on the fast track as the company has been given additional time by the US Deparmtment of Defense to prove the drone's capabilities. The Outrider was six months late in being flown, and ...
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China reveals F-7 armed with Python 3
China has released for the first time pictures of the Rafael Python 3 short-range air-to-air missile being carried by a Chinese air force Chengdu F-7. Python-3 AAMs, known as PL-8s within the Chinese armed forces, were bought from Israel in the late 1980s. China has shown a short-range surface-to-air missile ...
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Russian air force/air defence units face merger proposal
The merger of Russia's air-defence forces with the air force is high on the agenda of a restructuring plan to be submitted to President Boris Yeltsin in July. The plan has been drawn up by the recently established commission on military reform, led by Russian prime minister Victor ...
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Taiwan hopes to see more Mirages
Taiwanese officials are hoping that the newly elected French socialist Government will approve the possible sale of a follow-on batch of 60 Dassault Mirage 2000-5 fighters. According to Taiwan's China Times newspaper, Taiwanese minister without portfolio Tsai Cheng-wen says that Paris is considering a planned new deal to ...