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Paveway III cleared for carriage on F-16
THE TEXAS Instruments Paveway III (GBU-22) laser-guided bomb has been cleared for carriage on the Lockheed Martin F-16. The company-funded trials programme was carried out by the US Air Force at Eglin AFB, Florida. Source: Flight International
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Into the space corridor
RUSSIAN COSMONAUT VALERI KORZUN is pictured inside the node connecting the modules of the Mir 1 space station during the recent STS79 Shuttle Mir Mission 4. The node, attached to the Mir core module, which was launched in 1986, now provides access to the Kvant 2, Kristall, Priroda and Spektr ...
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Stretching forward
Guy Norris was among delegates to the 40th symposium of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, in Beverly Hills on 2-3 October, to hear progress reports on several new aircraft.Source: Flight International
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Using the open market for finance
Sir - In "Centralised ATM is on the cards for UK" (Flight International, 2 - 8 October, P11) you quote the UK Department of Transport as saying that borrowing on the open market is disallowed. It is surely time that this restrictive application of Treasury rules was challenged. ...
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US aviation data are on sale in UK
Sir - With reference to the letter "Inefficiency with US directives" (Flight International, 25 September -1 October, P55), may I respectfully point out that such information from the US Airworthiness Authorities, and any other information put out from the US Government Printing Office (GPO), aviation related or otherwise, can be ...
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Northrop
Northrop Grumman has named Ralph Crosby as corporate vice-president and general manager of Northrop, the company's Commercial Aircraft division. He succeeds Gordon William, who will begin a special assignment until his retirement at the end of this year. Crosby has served as the Commercial Aircraft division's corporate vice-president and deputy ...
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Swearingen
Jack Braly is the new president and chief executive officer of Sino Swearingen. He comes from Rockwell International, where he served as vice-president and general manager of Rockwell's North American Aircraft Modification division. Source: Flight International
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AAR
Steven McConnel has become president of AAR Aircraft Turbine Center. He became senior vice president and vice president in 1989. David Storch succeeds Ira Eichner as chief executive officer, effective 9 October. Storch became president and chief operating officer in 1989 and has been responsible for day-to-day operation. ...
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Greenwich contracts
Greenwich Air Services has won engine-overhaul contracts worth almost $60 million from Federal Express (Pratt & Whitney JT8Ds); Qatar Airways (General Electric CF6s); Alfa Romeo, for Alitalia (JT8D-200s); the Royal Moroccan Air Force (P&W JT3D-3Bs); McDonnell Douglas Lease Finance (CF6-50s); US Turbine Engine (P&W JT9Ds); Midway Airlines (International Aero Engines ...
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Alitalia cats
Israel's Rada Electronic Systems has received a $2.65 million order from Alitalia for its Commercial Aviation Test System for Boeing 767 avionics. Source: Flight International
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Contract landed
Messier-Dowty has agreed a deal with British Aerospace to supply new main and nose landing gear for Nimrod maritime-patrol aircraft being rebuilt to the Nimrod 2000 configuration for the Royal Air Force. Source: Flight International
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Viking gear
Heroux has won a two-year, $4.2 million US Navy contract to repair Lockheed S-3 Viking landing-gears. Source: Flight International
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Lufthansa agents
Deutsche Lufthansa plans to cut the cost of travel agents' commissions through a new payment scheme to be launched in the first half of 1997. The aim is to trim sales distribution costs from the current 25% of total expenses back to 20% by the end of the decade. ...
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BE Aerospace climbs
BE Aerospace (BEA) continues its climb back to profits, showing a net profit of $3.2 million for the first half of its financial year to the end of August. A year ago, the group had notched up losses of more than $40 million as it battled with a slow market ...
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Tracor acquires
Tracor has completed the $65 million acquisition of Cordant, an employee-owned company providing information-technology services to the US Government. Cordant has revenues of around $120 million and the newly formed Tracor Information Systems is expected to reach revenues of $200 million in 1996. Source: Flight International
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Singapore basing
Singapore has asked to base two of its four planned refurbished Boeing KC-135R tanker aircraft at March AB, California, for crew training. Singapore, which is short of airspace, already keeps nine leased Lockheed Martin F-16s at AFB Luke, Arizona, and is now training crews for its six new Boeing CH-47D ...
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South Korean SAR
Lockheed Martin has received a $181 million contract to install upgraded asars-1 synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) on four Raytheon Hawker 800XP business jets for the South Korean air force. One fixed and two mobile ground-stations are also included in the contract. Source: Flight International