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E&S wins visuals bid
Evans & Sutherland (E&S) has won a US Air Force contract, potentially worth $70 million, to replace the visual systems on up to 25 transport-aircraft flight-simulators. Under the $13 million initial phase of the five-year Air Mobility Command Visual Upgrade Effort (AMC VUE) contract, E&S will upgrade the visuals on ...
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Esterline expands
US test-equipment manufacturer Bauer Aerospace, based in Avon, Connecticut, has been acquired by the UK's Howden Group and renamed Bauer Howden. The company is expanding to offer fuel-nozzle cleaning. and testing services. Source: Flight International
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Kuwait privatisation
Kuwait is reported to be studying the privatisation of carrier Kuwait Airways as part of a wider programme to sell off stakes in state-owned enterprises. Source: Flight International
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Heat exchanger
AlliedSignal Aerospace has agreed to acquire the commercial-aircraft heat-exchanger repair and overhaul business of Nordam Group company LORI. Source: Flight International
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Aviation sales grows
US spares-reseller Aviation Sales, based in Miami, Florida, has acquired the assets of Dixie Bearings' aviation-distribution division, which handles aircraft bearings, power-transmission components and accessories. Source: Flight International
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Air India lease
Air India may offer some of its unused routes for lease to airline partners on a revenue-sharing basis, say reports quoting the country's civil-aviation minister CM Ibrahim. Air India would take 40% of revenues on the routes, which it does not use because of lack of aircraft capacity. ...
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Jersey profits
Jersey European Airways has posted its second consecutive year of profits, despite "intense competition" and "highly competitive" pricing on services to Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands. Pre-tax profits stood at £2.5 million ($3.85 million) for the year to March 1996, while sales rose by 19% to £74 million. ...
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Stowaway fatality
Two boys died after they had stowed away in the nose-wheel bay of a US Air Force Lockheed C-141 which made a 5h flight from Ulan Bator, Mongolia, to Kadena AB in Japan. Source: Flight International
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V-22 EMD progress
Bell Boeing has completed major assembly of the third of four V-22 engineering and manufacturing development aircraft. The first will be flown in December. Source: Flight International
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Inspections ordered
The 86th Airlift Wing at Ramstein AB, Germany, has ordered the inspection of nose landing-gear actuators on all 19 Lock- heed Martin C-130 transports assigned there. The probe was sparked by the discovery of corrosion on one aircraft. The US Air Force says that there is no indication of a ...
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IAI order
The US Navy has awarded Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) a contract worth $600,000 for an initial batch of crashworthy troop seats for the Sikorsky Aircraft CH-53D heavy-lift helicopter. Options in the contract call for procurement of a large number of the energy-absorbing seats made by IAI's Mata Division. The US ...
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Vibrant success
Endevco, part of the UK-based Meggitt Aerospace group, is to supply its vibration-monitoring (AVM) system for the new-generation Boeing 737-600/700/800 series. The Microtrac IIB records engine-vibration data, making re-balancing easier. Endevco's existing deal with Boeing, which covers AVM equipment for all production airliners, has also been extended to 2004 in ...
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Caravan sites
Cessna has appointed Aero Trans International, of Englewood, Colorado; J A Aero, of West Chicago, Illinois; and Modern Aero, of Eden Prairie, Minnesota, to sell the Caravan utility turboprop in the US northern Mid-West. Source: Flight International
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GPS upgrades
AlliedSignal Aerospace has upgraded its Bendix/King KLX 100 hand-held global-positioning-system and communications radio to display special-use airspace on a moving map. Non-directional beacons, intersections, user-created way-points VOR and NDBs can be displayed by pushing the "nearest" key. Source: Flight International
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ANA launch
All Nippon Airways (ANA) plans to launch a new service from Tokyo's Narita Airport to Jakarta, Indonesia, from 30 October. The new route will served twice weekly by a Boeing 767-300 aircraft. ANA is also intending to add Bombay, Frankfurt, Milan and New Delhi to its network of international destinations, ...
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MLRS upgrade
Lockheed Martin Vought Systems has received a $48 million US Army contract to upgrade 34 Multiple-Launch Rocket-System (MLRS) launchers to fire the company's extended-range Block 1 Army Tactical Missile System surface-to-surface missile, with an option to up- grade a further ten launchers to fire the extended-range MLRS rocket. ...
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Litton order
Litton Applied Technology, is to produce up to 500 improved APR-39A (V)2 threat-warning systems for US Marine Corps and Navy helicopters under a contract which is potentially worth $97 million. Marine Bell Boeing MV-22s and Lockheed Martin KC-130s will also be equipped with the new radar warner. ...
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Green pine tests
Israel is to deploy the Green Pine phased-array radar being developed for the Arrow anti-tactical ballistic missile system, as part of tests of the Nautilus laser gun. The prototype of the Green Pine radar will be used to detect rocket targets, while the targeting of the laser beam will be ...
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Northwest A320 choice
Training Devices (TDI), of Englewood, Colorado is building an Airbus A320 Level 5 flight-training device for Northwest Aerospace Training. France's Elan Informatique is supplying simulated avionics, instruments and aircraft parts to TDI for the device. Source: Flight International
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Reflectone win
Reflectone has won a THY Turkish Airlines contract to supply an AI(R) Avro RJ100 full-flight simulator. The Level D-standard simulator is to be in operation at THY's Istanbul training centre by September 1997. Source: Flight International