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Dasa struggles to gain support for AT-2000 definition phase
Paul Lewis/Singapore Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) is facing an uphill battle to drum up international support for its proposed AT-2000 advanced jet trainer, ahead of the start of a planned year-long definition phase. Following the conclusion of an initial conceptual study at the end of July, Dasa is preparing ...
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Pentagon launches micro-air-vehicles project
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has earmarked an initial $12 million for design of micro air vehicles (MAV) and development of enabling technologies for the miniature 150mm MAVs. The Pentagon picked six research organisations to develop flight-enabling MAV technologies over the next three years. The contracts, ...
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Eurofighter signs look good
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH The defence ministers of the four Eurofighter partner nations were due to meet in Bonn on the morning of 22 December to sign the long-awaited production investment and production memoranda of understanding (MoUs). The signature of the MoU has been made possible by the go-ahead from ...
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Super Mysteres return to service
The Honduran air force is to return its 11 Dassault Super Mystere B2s to service in 1998. The aircraft have been in open storage for 24 months. They were acquired from the Israeli air force in the late 1970s, with Rafael Shafrir short-range air-to-air missiles. Source: Flight International
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A TAD more
Lockheed Martin has won a $100 million foreign-military-sales contract from the US Army to build 30 Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor (TADS/PNVS) systems for installation on Netherlands Boeing Apache AH-64 attack helicopters. Source: Flight International
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Allison IHPTET
The US Air Force has awarded Allison Engines, a unit of Rolls-Royce, an additional $37 million for continued involvement in the Integrated High Pressure Turbine Engine Technology (IHPTET) research and development programme. Source: Flight International
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Swallows go south
The Belgian air force's aerobatic display team, the Swallows, has been wound up. The team flew Siai-Marchetti SF-260M trainers of the Elementary Flying School at Beauvechain. The two most recent pilots have moved to operational units, with no other aircrew volunteering to take their place. Source: Flight International
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Commander grounds crash-plagued Russian air force
Alexander Velovich/moscow A one-week ban on all flights of Russian air force aircraft "-except those directly connected to combat duty" has been ordered by Commander in Chief Gen Piotr Deinekin. The order was issued after an air force Antonov An-12 collided on landing with a civil Mil Mi-8 ...
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Launch failures of Indian Sea Eagles mystify Matra BAe
Matra BAe Dynamics has failed to uncover the cause of two consecutive test-launch failures of Indian navy Matra BAe Dynamics Sea Eagle anti-ship missile, finding no evidence of problems with the navy's missile stock. The Indian navy tests of stock Sea Eagle missiles were carried out from a BAe ...
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UAE orders Mirage 2000-9s and goes ahead with upgrade work
Julian Moxon/Paris The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is to procure 30 Dassault Mirage 2000-9s and associated weapons, as well as an upgrade package for the air force's Mirage 2000s. The deal, worth between Fr17 billion ($2.9 billion) and Fr20 billion, includes conversion of the UAE's 33 existing Mirage ...
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Over the ocean in a DC-4
Paul Duffy/SHANNON At 08.58 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) on 4 May, 1997, Swissair flight 4001 lifted off from Shannon's Runway 24, outbound for New York, with a refuelling stop scheduled at Gander. You might be forgiven for questioning the need to refuel, but this was no ordinary flight ...
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Rocky Mountain high
Guy Norris/VANCOUVER We pull out of a 3g turn over Garibaldi Lake and fly towards the Black Tusk rock. The immense flanks of the mountain rear up in front and, for a moment, it seems as if my flight with the Canadian Forces Snowbirds aerobatic display team is about ...
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Super send-off
Allan Winn/Bristol - Bremen FOR 26 YEARS, THE JOKE was that every Airbus had its first flight on a Boeing wing - as a collection of components carried in one of the consortium's Super Guppy outsize transporters. (It was not strictly true - the first two A300s did not, ...
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Eurocopter wins big German helicopter order
The German interior ministry has placed a DM220 million ($124 million) order for 22 new Eurocopter helicopters to modernise the border-guard fleet. The order includes 13 AS365 Dauphin N4s to satisfy a light transport helicopter (LTH) requirement, and nine more EC135s, with two options, to meet a requirement for ...
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Bombardier takes over FlexJet
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Bombardier is to take control of the FlexJet business-jet fractional-ownership programme, which began as a joint venture with US fixed-base operator AMR Combs. The Canadian manufacturer says that fractional ownership has become a key part of its business-aviation strategy. It wants to "-take over the whole ...
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Century orders
Century Aerospace says that it has 15 firm orders for its Century Jet single-engined business jet, and expects to finish the year with over 20 orders. Specification changes mean that the latest schedule has the aircraft roll-out and flight test set for mid-1999. First deliveries will come at the end ...
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India's Taneja takes over management of P.68 spares distribution
India's Taneja Aerospace and Aviation (TAAL) has become the sole distributor for P68C spares following the collapse of the light twin's former manufacturer and designer, Partenavia, earlier in the year. The company is looking at setting up a worldwide parts distribution network from its Hosur, Ban- galore base, and ...
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747-400IGW gets go-ahead
Guy Norris/SEATTLE The Boeing board has given its civil-aircraft sales team authority to offer a growth version of the 747-400 with a maximum take-off weight of 413,140kg and a range of up to 14,245km (7,700nm). The decision is the first significant growth step for the aircraft since the ...
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Alitalia confirms KLM alliance
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Alitalia plans to start its alliance with KLM from November 1998, shortly after the opening of the Italian carrier's new Milan hub at Malpensa Airport, which is seen by both carriers as a cornerstone of their partnership. Alitalia's choice of European alliance partner on 17 December ...
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AlliedSignal puts fan engine core on test
AlliedSignal is testing an engine core which will provide the basis for the company's next generation of business and regional turbofans. First run on 7 December, the "technology-validation core" consists of three axial and a centrifugal compressor driven by a single-stage high-pressure (HP) turbine. Some elements are derived from ...