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Philippines air force plans to extend life of F-5A fleet
The Philippine air force plans to bolster and extend the life of its fleet of Northrop Grumman F-5A/Bs as interim lead-in fighters, until a replacement trainer aircraft can be funded. Despite the F-5's advanced age and problems with airframe cracking, the air force wants to retain the type, ...
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USA bars Israelis from launch sites
A team from Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) has been barred from entering NASA's Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Wallop Island, Virginia, launch sites. The move is the latest twist in a battle by the US booster industry to prevent the Israelis from offering their Shavit launcher in the US commercial sector. ...
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The tabular data have been collated mainly from information supplied by the manufacturers. Where no reply was received from the manufacturer, the previous year's entry is repeated, updated wherever possible from other sources Normal empty weight includes equipment and unuseable fluids, but does not take account of crew and baggage ...
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Turkish F-4s arrive in Israel for upgrade
The first two Turkish air force McDonnell Douglas F-4s to be upgraded by Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) arrived at IAI's Lahav plant on 24 February. The two aircraft will be prototypes for a $600 million project which will involve the modification of 54 aircraft. Thirty-two aircraft will be ...
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Deutsche BA
Carl Michel is named chief executive of Deutsche BA, British Airways' German subsidiary, with effect from 1 April. He succeeds Wolfgang Grund, who replaced Richard Heideker in November 1996. Grund moves on to lead Deutsche BA's supervisory board. Source: Flight International
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Lufthansa Cityline
Lufthansa is fighting hub congestion by offering an increasing number of direct city-to-city flights, both within Germany and to destinations in Europe, avoiding its hubs at Frankfurt and Munich. Flying 320 flights daily to European centres on routes for which traffic is too light for a 100-seat aircraft is the ...
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Declining and falling
The annual report of Russia's Federal Aviation Service (FAS), formerly known as the Air Transport Department of the Ministry of Transport, shows that Russian air traffic continued to decline in 1996, and that financial results were negative. Sources in the FAS say, however, that the figures submitted by some regional ...
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Alliant protests over USAF WCMD choice
Alliant Techsystems is contesting the US Air Force's selection of Lockheed Martin to produce 40,000 Wind Corrected Munitions Dispensers (WCMDs), worth $500 million. The US defence contractor has lodged an official protest with the US General Accounting Office (GAO), citing questions about the USAF's cost evaluation. As is ...
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Galilean gallery
NASA celebrated THE Galileo spacecraft's first year in orbit around the giant planet Jupiter on 7 December, 1996. The highlights among its hundreds of images have not been of the planet itself, however, but of its four giant moons, Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa. These are called the Galilean moons, ...
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Corporate Aircraft Directory 1997
Last year was an important one for the business-aircraft fraternity, with several landmark events, including roll outs, first flights and certification approvals. There were also some important new-aircraft developments. The main focus of attention during 1996 was again the large-cabin, long-haul market. Bombardier kicked off flight-testing of its ...
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Changing the guard
Taiwan's Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC), once assured of a steady income from the country's defence ministry, is struggling to become a private corporation by the end of 1999. Its survival is at stake. Government funding for the AIDC-built Indigenous Defence Fighter (IDF) will dry up by the ...
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Making markets
DEVELOPMENT OF THE Canadair Regional Jet Series 700 promises to be less difficult than launching the 70-seat aircraft, jokes John Holding, group executive vice-president, engineering and product development, at Bombardier Aerospace. Certainly, the Canadian company has been talking about stretching its 50-seat Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) for almost as long ...
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Next Hubble service mission will also repair insulation blankets
The next planned Space Shuttle mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope in orbit, in December 1999, will involve repairs to damaged insulation blankets over the telescope's central equipment bays. The damage was probably caused by ultraviolet radiation and atomic oxygen. The damage to the area of the ...
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Business-aircraft deliveries rise
BUSINESS-AIRCRAFT manufacturers have reported broadly increased deliveries for 1996, boosted by first shipments of several key new-aircraft types. Cessna led the field, with deliveries of 122 Citation business jets, plus 107 Caravan utility turboprops. Second-placed Raytheon delivered 164 corporate aircraft - 58 business jets and 106 turboprops - ...
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NTSB urges accelerated 737 rudder programme
The Boeing 737 series no longer complies with the "intent of the [original US Federal Aviation Administration] certification requirements", the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has alleged in a recommendation to the FAA. The Board urges acceleration of a rudder-system modification programme now under way on the aircraft following ...
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Saudi F-16 delay
Saudi Arabia has dampened hopes of an early order for 70-100 Lockheed Martin F-16s to replace Northrop F-5s, saying that it is not ready for such a purchase. Source: Flight International
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F-22 cost overruns 'higher than US Air Force estimated'
A REVIEW BY THE US Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) has concluded that cost overruns on the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 programme could exceed US Air Force projections by $2 billion. An Air Force Joint Cost Estimating Team (JET) reported in December 1996 that the F-22 programme ...