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GEC-Marconi sets its sights on Kuwaiti AH-64 orders
Kuwait has become the main target for GEC-Marconi Avionics in its bid to secure export orders for its Helicopter Integrated Defensive Aids System (HIDAS) following a contract from the British Army to fit the equipment on its Boeing WAH-64 Apache attack helicopter. The UK Ministry of Defence signed the ...
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Indonesia's IPTN wants gas turbine engine capability
Indonesian aircraft manufacturer IPTN wants to develop a gas-turbine capability as part of its selection of a powerplant for the proposed new N2130 regional-aircraft. IPTN's Universal Maintenance Centre (UMC) is discussing becoming involved in component manufacture and possibly engine assembly. An expanded capability for UMC is part of ...
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Air Maldives signs leasing deal for Airbus A310-200
Air Maldives has become the latest customer for the Airbus A310-200, following the signing of a deal with the European airframe builder to lease a single aircraft for three years, with an option to purchase. The carrier will use the aircraft to replace a larger A300B4 on wet lease ...
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Simulator solution
CAE Electronics is to open a customer-service distribution centre at Dubai Airport. The centre is planned to become operational by August 1998, providing support for customers in the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent. The Canadian-based company has also signed a deal which gives Emirates Airlines the ability to offer ...
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Saudi air force may add on 25 more F-15s to Boeing order
The Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) has begun preliminary discussions with Boeing over the acquisition of as many as 25 F-15Ss to complement the 72 it already has on order. The RSAF has asked for "pricing and availability data" on the two-seat variant of the F-15. The purchase would ...
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S-37 design 'experimental' says Sukhoi
Sukhoi general designer Mikhail Simonov took the opportunity of the show to discuss, for the first time, the design bureau's S-37 forward-swept-wing fighter programme. While remaining guarded over the genesis of the project, Simonov stresses the "experimental nature" of the radical Sukhoi design, with the aircraft being used as ...
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Sirocco enters Lufthansa Tu-204 talks
Sirocco Aerospace International is negotiating with Lufthansa Cargo to lease between eight and ten Tupolev Tu-204-120C freighters. A deal which could see the aircraft introduced on Lufthansa's intra-European routes during 1999 is possible in the first half of 1998. Sirocco will not comment on the negotiations. Sirocco already ...
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Gulfstream introduces fractional ownership to the Middle East
Gulfstream Aerospace is to combine with Executive Jet and a group of regional investors to launch the Middle East's first fractional-ownership programme. Bill Boisture, Gulfstream's president and chief operating officer, says that the investor group also intends to put into place a complementary scheme offering a smaller aircraft to ...
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STAe seeks second overhaul/maintenance site in USA
Singapore Technologies Aerospace (STAe) is planning to acquire a second overhaul-and-maintenance site in the USA in a bid to relieve capacity constraints at its Mobile subsidiary. Speaking at the show, STAe chief operating officer Wee Siew Kim said that the company is in the process of looking for a ...
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FMS hitch holds up Saudi air force's tanker-fleet plans
The Royal Saudi Air Force's (RSAF) ambition to replace its fleet of five Boeing 707 tankers is being delayed by problems servicing Saudi Arabia's Foreign Military Sales (FMS) debt to the USA. The impending resolution of Saudi Arabia's purchase of commercial aircraft from Boeing for Saudia, its national airline, ...
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Tiltrotor will be used to support oil-production operations
Dubai is to play host to the first company in the world set up solely to operate the Bell Boeing 609 Tiltrotor aircraft. The company, Petroleum Tiltrotors International, is a joint venture between Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Sheikh and an unnamed Dubai oil and gas support company. ...
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Westland will take a look at resurrecting Egyptian Sea Kings
GKN Westland will send an evaluation team to Egypt in the first quarter of 1998 to examine grounded Sea King helicopters with the aim of bringing them back to a flyable state. Egypt has some 30 Sea Kings, a mix of Mk47s, Mk1 and Mk2 Commandos, VIP and electronic-warfare ...
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ERA chief speaks out on liberalisation
Regional-airline operators in the Middle East will have to persuade governments in the area to liberalise their air service agreements, cut bureaucracy and ease travel restrictions if the industry is to grow, according to Mike Ambrose, the European Regions Airline Association (ERA) director-general. Ambrose was in Dubai to gather ...
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Bridge building in Baku
Andrew Chuter/BAKU The terminal at Baku's Bina Airport stands like a monument to the collapse of the Soviet Union's writ in Azerbaijan in 1991.The building has lain uncompleted and virtually in ruin, the funds required to complete the project having dried up several years ago with the retreat of ...
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Towards hypersonic flight
Ian Sheppard/LONDON Progress in the development of airbreathing powerplants for hypersonic vehicles has been hampered since the 1960s by unexpected complexities encountered with the scramjet (supersonic-combustion ramjet), until recently the only real candidate for powering such high-speed craft. In an effort to address the impasse, leading international figures in ...
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The Mars burn
Tim Furniss/LONDON British Aerospace Defence wants to sell its Royal Ordnance Rocket Motors division - which supplies about 50% of the world's spacecraft liquid apogee engines and thrusters. Among the potential buyers are Primex, Marquardt and AlliedSignal (Flight International, 5-11 November). The sale offer comes at a time ...
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Secure communications
Tim Furniss/RAF OAKHANGER Matra Marconi Space (MMS) of Stevenage, UK, is completing production of the first of three uprated Skynet 4 UK-dedicated military-communications satellites, which are to be launched on a Boeing Delta booster from Cape Canaveral in January 1998. The Skynet 4D will be followed by crafts ...
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Saywell relocates
RF Saywell has relocated its UK aircraft-parts supply business from its site in Rustington, West Sussex, to a newly constructed £2.5 million ($4 million) centre in nearby Worthing. "The move is designed to bring about efficiency improvements and to create room for expansion," says the company's owner and managing director, ...
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Ross Aircraft is given amber light on amphibian
KateSarsfield/LONDON Ross Aircraft (RAC) plans to start developing its first twin-engined amphibian aircraft in early 1998 after appointing UK investment bank Austin Friars to provide a financing package for the certification programme. Chief executive Kenn Heeley says that the UK company needs about $9 million to take a ...
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BD-10 gives rise to PhoenixJet
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Rights to the defunct Bede Jet and its ill-fated BD-10 supersonic jet have been acquired by Vortex Aircraft, which has already begun redesigning the aircraft as the Vortex PhoenixJet for civil and military applications. The major change will be a slightly larger, but subsonic, wing. ...