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AlliedSignal expands package for Hawker Horizon controller
AlliedSignal has revised its recent systems agreement with Raytheon Aircraft for the Hawker Horizon to cover the development of a single integrated pneumatic controller (IPC) which effectively links the auxiliary power unit (APU) and the environmental-control system (ECS) to act as a single system. The IPC is believed ...
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Bombardier and Lufthansa set up maintenance centre
Bombardier Aviation Services (BAS) and Luthansa Technik will open their first European service centre on 20 November, bringing to eight the total number of BAS service centres worldwide. Called Lufthansa Bombardier Aviation Services (LBAS), the centre, based at Berlin Schonefeld Airport, will be responsible for service, maintenance, repair and overhaul ...
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Sukhoi delivers aerobatic trainer
Sukhoi has delivered its first Su-31M sport aerobatic trainer equipped with the new SKS-94 super-light ejection seat, to UK-based aircraft distributor Richard Goode Aerobatics. The $35,000 ejection system is designed by Advanced Sukhoi Technologies and Zvesda, Russia's main manufacturer of military-ejection seats. Source: Flight International
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Grob builds variant of GF200
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH German composite aircraft manufacturer Burkhart Grob Aerospace is making a prototype variant of its four-seat GF200 business aircraft. The company, which has been searching for a partner for the project, says that it has decided to proceed with the prototype because a Teal Group ...
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Myasishchev forms niche venture with US investors
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON GrahamWarwick/WASHINGTON DC Russia's Myasishchev Design Bureau has formed a joint venture with General Aircraft USA and several other US investors to "produce four niche aircraft for the world market". General Aircraft USA will be responsible for assembly, engine and avionics installation, and US ...
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Australia race
A London-to-Sydney air race will form part of the celebrations of the centenary of Australia's federation in March/April 2001, with A$500,000 ($350,000) in prize money. Talks are under way to start at Biggin Hill Airport near London. Source: Flight International
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Boeing remains committed to 777-200X/300X
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing says that plans to develop the ultra-long range 777-200X and long haul -300X are "still going forward" despite continuing uncertainty over engine availability and the decision of a potential key customer, EVA Air of Taiwan, to sign a letter of intent for the rival ...
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IATA plea leads to delay of B-RNAV
Julian Moxon/PARIS Eurocontrol has delayed by three months the deadline for introduction of basic radio navigation (B-RNAV) standards to European airspace after a last-minute request from the International Air Transport Association (IATA). The original deadline, 28 January, 1998, has been put back to 23 April, which ...
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Dassault nears Netjets contract
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Dassault Aviation has joined the rush for orders from the burgeoning fractional- ownership market by agreeing a deal with Executive Jet Aviation to supply up to 24 Falcon 2000 business jets for its Netjets programme. The French aircraft manufacturer has not ...
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FedEx opens talks in hunt for Fokker F27 successor
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC FedEx is talking to Saab Aircraft, Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) and Ayres about developing a turboprop-powered, all-cargo aircraft to replace its fleet of 36 Fokker F27 freighters, says chairman Frederick Smith. IAI and FedEx are known to be discussing the development of a ...
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FAA cheers trinidad
Trinidad and Tobago now fully complies with safety standards set by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), says the US Federal Aviation Administration, based upon its International Aviation Safety Assessment (IASA). Morocco has similarly had its IASA safety oversight rating raised to the top level. ICAO is considering forming its ...
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GEC-Marconi hopes to seal Argus 2000 radar deal with China
GEC-Marconi is to open commercial negotiations with China to supply the Argus 2000 airborne-early-warning (AEW) radar. This follows agreement with Ilyushin and British Aerospace on integrating the system into the Ilyushin Il-76 transport aircraft. The UK manufacturer is understood to be about to begin contractual talks with the ...
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UK helps R-R pay for new
The UK government is to provide Rolls-Royce with £200 million ($330 million) of funding over four years to enable the UK manufacturer to launch three variants of its Trent turbofan. R-R says that the Government will receive a commercial return which is based on sales of the three engine derivatives. ...
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Lockheed Martin and Tracor work
Lockheed Martin and Tracor Flight Systems are to collaborate in the development of the next-generation aerial target based on Lockheed Martin's F-16 fighter as well as uninhabited combat air vehicles (UCAVs). "US Air Force inventory F-16s are being considered to support the collaboration," says the US aircraft manufacturer. ...
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EC calls for a common armaments policy
Julian Moxon/Paris The European Commission (EC) is proposing to push the issue of a common armaments policy within Europe as part of a two-pronged strategy to accelerate restructuring in the region's defence industry. Industry commissioner Martin Bangemann, who has been making increasingly urgent calls for action ...
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European Commission strengthens A3XX effort
Ian Sheppard/LONDON The aerospace industry has been granted "key action" status as part of the European Commission's (EC) ratification of the structure of its proposed Fifth Framework programme for research and technology development. The move will focus research spending on key development programmes such as the Airbus Industrie ...
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Honeywell develops intuitive aircraft flightdeck system
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Honeywell is demonstrating to aircraft manufacturers an intuitive autoflight system which integrates the autopilot controls and flight-management system (FMS). Honeywell says: "It is not the interface which makes an FMS difficult to use, it is the functionality, and that's what we hope to ...
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IAI tip light
Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) has developed a self-contained helicopter rotor-tip warning light, and will soon test a prototype on a Bell AH-1 Cobra helicopter. The unit has a lithium battery, is easily attached to the rotor tip and does not affect performance, says IAI. Source: Flight International
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Procurement puzzle
Douglas Barrie/LONDON It is a case of in one door and out the other as far as the aspirations of Northrop Grumman and the US Government of selling Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) technology into Europe are concerned - back into the UK, but out of ...
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Aerospatiale contract
Aerospatiale has won a contract from Eutelsat to build a fourth Eutelsat W communications satellite. Three similar satellites were ordered in 1995. The Spacebus 3000-series craft, with 32 high-power Ku-band transponders, will be launched in 1999. Aerospatiale has delivered its fifth Spacebus 3000 satellite, the Sinosat 1, to the German-Chinese ...