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Ratier-Figeac acquired
Hamilton Standard has acquired full ownership of French aerospace flight controls and equipment business Ratier-Figeac, in which it has held a minority stake for more than 40 years. The company manufactures controls and components for aero engines, civil and military aircraft and had sales of more than $110 million last ...
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Fair shares ?
Rather late in the day, the US flightcrew training industry has woken up to the fact that Europe is preventing it from taking a direct slice of the Continent's massive new unified market, and it is crying foul. A battle is about to be joined in which politics is ...
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Dassault targets ASRAAMs for Rafale
Dassault Aviation is considering integrating the Matra BAe Dynamics Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missile (ASRAAM) for export variants of the Rafale combat aircraft. Dassault says that the missile "is available as part of the weapons suite, depending on negotiations". The costs of integrating the missile "would probably have to ...
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Diamond Back flight tests scheduled for 1998
GEC-Marconi Dynamics plans to conduct company-funded flight tests of its Diamond Back smart-bomb wing kit at a US military range within the next 12 months, says John Cleveland, the company's project manager. Under development for the last four years, the Diamond Back attachment could be used to extend the ...
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Problems keep Chengdu F-10 on the ground
Chinese aircraft manufacturer Chengdu is carrying out fast taxi trials of its F-10 combat aircraft at its site in southern China, but unspecified problems have so far kept the aircraft from making its maiden flight. Taxi trials of the F-10, which is effectively a derivative of the Israel Aircraft ...
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F-22 manufacturer offers US GAO cost re-assurance
Lockheed Martin/Boeing officials have told US General Accounting Office auditors that delays in the F-22 Raptor's flight test programme should not raise the cost of engineering and manufacturing development (EMD), which is capped at $18.9 billion. The first flight of the F-22 was three months late, and flight testing ...
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Italy pushes ahead with work on integrated air defence network
The Italian air force is aiming to have its integrated air defence radar network in place, and operational, by the end of 1999, with a new command centre at Poggio Renatico. The air defence network is being modernised with 16 improved radars: four Lockheed Martin FPS-177s and two Hughes ...
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JDA seeks cash to fund future attack helicopter programme
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE The Japan Defence Agency (JDA) is seeking initial funding in its next budget to begin a formal study of future attack helicopter requirements. Interested local and foreign suppliers are already formulating a range of options with which to respond. Full-scale funding for the AH-X programme is expected ...
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Daewoo tools up for KTX-1
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Daewoo Heavy Industries of South Korea plans to complete development and operational flight testing of the KTX-1 turboprop basic trainer by September. It is already preparing tooling, in advance of an anticipated final government go-ahead to begin production in 1999. A fifth and final prototype was ...
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UK discusses participation in US decoy project
Ramon Lopez/ORLANDO The UK and US Governments are in discussions over a potential memorandum of understanding for UK participation in the Miniature Air-Launched Decoy (MALD) programme. US industry officials say that the UK is expected to join the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) programme by mid-1998. ...
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Asian missile
Taiwan is emerging as the most likely recipient of the Russian Igla (SA-16/SA-18) shoulder launched surface to air missiles purchased by Singapore. While the infra-red guided missiles are being bought initially by Singapore, sources claim that the island state is not the end user. Taiwan had been seeking to procure ...
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Raptor reduction
Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems says that the man hours required to produce mid-fuselage sections for the Lockheed Martin/ Boeing F-22 Raptor have been reduced by about 60%, beating cost-reduction projections. The company has delivered two mid-fuselages so far and will ship four more this year. Source: Flight International
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Romania plans to update Pumas with Israeli sensors and weapons
Romania is to upgrade 24 of its licence-manufactured Eurocopter Pumas with Israeli sensors and anti-tank missiles. The helicopters are to be equipped with the Rafael NT-D fibre-optic guided anti-tank missile along with a version of the Litening targeting and designation pod. The programme is being implemented as part of ...
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Kentron aims Raptor at export market
Douglas Barrie/LONDON Kentron, South Africa's leading missile manufacturer, is offering unpowered and powered versions of its still classified Raptor precision guided weapon for export. Details have been seen by Flight International. Development of the stand-off weapons family, the export of which remains a sensitive issue in South Africa, ...
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SAIC No-Show
The US Navy's vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) demonstration to test three unmanned air vehicle (UAV) designs has got under way, but one of three contractors missed the 11 March delivery deadline. Bell Helicopter's Eagle Eye and Bombardier's improved CL-327 Guardian UAV both beat the deadline, and testing of these ...
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Russian air force orders limited number of Sukhoi Su-25TMs
The Russian air force has placed orders for the Sukhoi Su-25TM Frogfoot in limited numbers, with deliveries of aircraft expected this year and next, according to its chief designer, Vladimir Babak. Babak says that the air force would resume Su-25TM deliveries at an affordable fly-away price of 50 million ...
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Trade links increase
Almost every week, it appears, a US airline announces a new service to Latin America. Almost every month, it seems, a new codeshare agreement is forged between carriers in North and South America. Every year, it is evident, traffic between the two regions continues to grow. Increasing trade is the ...
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Latin benefits
Latin America's aerospace industry is expected to benefit from both increased defence spending and burgeoning commercial opportunities. Industrial offsets are expected to be part of any fighter sales to Chile, Brazil and Argentina, and aircraft purchases by the region's airliners could bring subcontract work into local factories. It is ...
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Military rein loosens
Latin American armed forces, some held under tight budgetary control in punishment for past excesses, are seeing purse strings being loosened. Re-equipment plans long held in abeyance are being dusted off, and, as a result, defence contractors are gearing up their marketing machines. Brazil is leading the charge, with a ...
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Chile tastes US thaw
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Chile's 10th international aerospace exhibition, FIDAE '98, comes at a time when the prospects for sales to Latin America are better than ever before. Real business will be on the agenda when exhibitors from some 30 countries meet at Santiago's Los Cerillos Airport on 23-29 March, fostered ...