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Engine diagnostic system puts FADEC online
Kit helicopter manufacturer Rotorway International has demonstrated an online engine diagnostic system which it claims goes beyond that available with most certificated aircraft. The company developed the system on its Exec 162F kit helicopter, which is equipped with full authority digital engine control (FADEC). This dual-redundant system monitors and ...
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Lockheed Martin sees red hot future for laser manufacturing
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Lockheed Martin has begun making prototype parts using a laser direct manufacturing process that it believes could eventually be used to produce complete wing and fuselage structures as single pieces. Under Project Lightspeed, the company has set up a research facility on the factory floor at ...
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News in Brief
Special operations Honeywell has won a $3.2 million US Army contract for 55 shipsets of Primus 700 colour weather radars to equip Boeing MH-47 and Sikorsky MH-60 special operations helicopters. Power generation AlliedSignal is to supply the power generation and distribution system for Bell/ Agusta ...
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Python 4 upgrade team formed
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Lockheed Martin and Rafael have formally joined forces to modernise the Israeli-developed Python 4 air-to-air missile. But workshare issues will not be finalised until the US and Israeli governments work out export control and other technical issues, according to Lockheed Martin's David Lundquist. In September, ...
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Australia seeks a replacement for Rapier air defence missiles
Peter La Franchi/CANBERRA The Australian Department of Defence is to release a request for proposals late this year for purchase of a ground-based air defence system to replace the Australian Army's ageing Rapier missile batteries. The project, Joint 117, won the Australian defence committee's go-ahead, including funding approval, ...
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Black Hawks to get SAR upgrade
US Army Aviation and Missile Command is to upgrade and modify Sikorsky UH-60L Black Hawk utility helicopters to a search and rescue (SAR) configuration for the Army National Guard. Sikorsky has been awarded a contract to integrate new mission equipment and flight test a modified SAR version of the ...
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USAF awards T-38 wing contract to Northrop
The US Air Force hasawarded a new contract to Northrop Grumman to finalise the design and detailed damage tolerance analysis of an improved wing for the T-38 jet trainer with the eventual aim of rewinging its entire fleet of aircraft. Northrop Grumman's latest contract represents the third phase in ...
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Turkey takes its first upgraded F-4 Phantom
Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) delivered the first of 52 upgraded McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom fighter bombers to the Turkish air force on 1 March. The aircraft is one of two prototypes being used to integrate new avionics systems; the second prototype is due to be completed soon. The upgraded Phantom ...
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Yemen buys L-39C
Aero Vodochody has sold 12 L-39C jet trainers to Yemen. The aircraft will be delivered by the end of this year. The deal covers spares, pilot and ground crew training, and in-service support. Source: Flight International
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On the offensive
Guy Norris/LONG BEACH Boeing's campaign to secure the future of the 717 is going into overdrive Boeing's efforts to establish the 717-200 in the marketplace were boosted on 24 February with the first flight of the premier production example, P-1, at its Long Beach division in California. Even ...
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Aiming high
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Aero Vodochody is upgrading its trainers and light attack aircraft to attract Eastern and Western customers With a 35% shareholding by Boeing, the world's biggest aerospace company, Aero Vodochody is no longer a poor cousin in the trainer/light attack aircraft market. Today, all of its products are ...
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Comrades in arms
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE Lockheed Martin has provided Japan and South Korea with a technology boost by partnering on key aircraft programmes Japan and South Korea, two of the most significant aerospace industrial nations in the Asia-Pacific region, are pressing ahead with combat aircraft programmes that bring in new US technology ...
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Partners in production
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Eurofighter production is getting under way with the help of advanced manufacturing technologies Four separate final assembly lines in four different countries, while politically expedient, is not the most efficient means of producing 620 Eurofighters for Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK. But the partner companies ...
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NASA may make emergency flight to fix Hubble
An emergency servicing mission may be flown to the Hubble Space Telescope in October because the telescope's gyro system could be on the brink of total failure. The third of its six gyros has now failed and NASA is considering whether to replace them earlier than the third servicing ...
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Mir crew lands
Cosmonaut Gennadi Padalka and Slovak guest cosmonaut Ivan Bella returned to earth on Soyuz TM28 on 28 February. Padalka and flight engineer Sergei Avdeyev began their shift aboard the Mir last August. Avdeyev is still aboard with Frenchman Jean-Pierre Haignere and new commander Viktor Afanasyev, who arrived with Bella on ...
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Rotary's Roton test vehicle aims for orbital flights late next year
Guy Norris/MOJAVE Rotary Rocket plans to begin test flights of the Roton atmospheric test vehicle (ATV) by the end of next month, with first orbital flights scheduled for the final quarter of 2000. Details of the test schedule were revealed at the roll-out of the Roton ATV from the ...
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Ariane launches the UK's military Skynet 4E with Arabsat 3A
The UK's Skynet 4E military communications satellite and the Arabsat 3A satellite were launched on board Ariane V116/44L from Kourou, French Guyana, on 26 February. Matra Marconi Space built the Skynet 4E, and the first of the new generation Arabsat 3A communications spacecraft was built by Aerospatiale's satellite division, ...
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Eutelsat First
The US-based Teleglobe international telecommunications carrier will become the first North American user of capacity from European satellite communications organisation Eutelsat. Teleglobe will use a Eutelsat satellite positioned at 12.4¼W in geostationary orbit. Source: Flight International
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More Satellites
Columbia Communications has received US Federal Communication Commission approval to launch and operate two new satellites at 172¼E and 47¼W in geostationary orbit. Source: Flight International
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Execujet Order
ExecuJet Aviation has signed a letter of intent with Bombardier to purchase an ultra-long-range Global Express and a mid-size Learjet 60 business jet. The deal, valued at R300 million ($50 million) "will befinalised in the coming weeks." Lanseria Airport, Johannesburg-based, Execujet is the sole sales agent and service centre for ...