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Kaman eyes H-2 for new Australia bid
Graham Warwick/BLOOMFIELD Kaman Aerospace plans to offer an armed-reconnaissance version of its SH-2G Super Seasprite shipborne helicopter for Australia's Air 87 requirement, if the country's defence force decides to acquire a multi-role machine rather than a dedicated attack helicopter - a choice expected to be made later this ...
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Boeing hopes to clinch Kuwaiti Apache contract
Boeing expects to sell 16 AH-64D Longbow Apache helicopters to Kuwait before 1998, but the foreign-military-sales deal may not cover the Longbow fire-control radar (FCR). In September, the Clinton Administration disclosed that Kuwait is seeking to buy 16 AH-64Ds, 384 Hellfire missiles, spare engines and other related weapons ...
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Anti-satellite laser test is successful
The US Army successfully tested the TRW-built Mid-Infrared Advanced Chemical Laser (MIRACL) at the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, on 17 October. During two firings, lasting about 1s and 10s respectively, the 2m- wide laser beam was aimed at the infra-red camera aboard a US Air Force ...
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Boeing delivers E-3 kit
Boeing has begun delivery of radar-system improvement kits to Daimler-Benz Aero-space for installation on 18 NATO E-3 Sentrys. Kits will also go to the US Air Force and Royal Air Force. Source: Flight International
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RAH-66 team prepares for 'snap turn' tests
The Consolidated Test Team working on the Boeing Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche attack helicopter has begun to expand the high-speed envelope and plans to make first tests of the aircraft's unique "snap-turn" capability shortly. After a slow start, caused by two major updates and down periods, the team has ...
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Royal Thai Air Force unwraps extended-range Paveway LGB
Paul Lewis/UTAPAO The Royal Thai Air Force has unveiled an extended-range development of the Texas Instrument GBU-12/Paveway II laser-guided bomb, equipped with extendible wings and a global-positioning-system (GPS) antenna. The strap-on Longshot modification kit is claimed to extend the range of the 227kg munition to up ...
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Surplus Seasprites offered to Thailand
The US Government has offered the Royal Thai Navy ten surplus Kaman SH-2F Seasprite helicopters to be rebuilt and modernised for shipboard use. Rival manufacturers are also to submit initial tenders shortly to the Thai army for 36 new utility helicopters, while the air force is seeking 14 replacement search-and- ...
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Airbus supplement: A320 family
The decision to develop the Airbus A320 around a fly-by-wire flight-control system was "-one of the most difficult I ever made", says the consortium's ex-president Roger Béteille. "Perhaps we were too bold - we had no choice. Either we were going to be first with new technologies or we could ...
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Airbus supplement: A330 A340
When Airbus first discussed the A340 seriously with potential customers in the mid-1980s, "...the maximum range requirement was not much more than 6,000nm [11,100km]," recalls Airbus vice president strategic planning Adam Brown. "By launch in 1987 this had grown to 6,600nm [12,200km], and the A340-300 now in production can fly ...
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Airbus supplement: A3XX
When it enters service in 2003, the A3XX will be the world's biggest civil aircraft. Perhaps more significantly, at least from the commercial point of view, the European giant will complete the Airbus range and remove at a stroke Boeing's long-held monopoly in extra-large people carriers. For three ...
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Airbus supplement: Pioneer to pace-setter
Airbus Industrie's ultimate greatest impact will be on the shape of the European industry, but for much of its history so far the biggest headlines have been about its technology. The driver of much of that headline-grabbing technology has been Bernard Ziegler, who recently retired as senior vice president engineering. ...
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Airbus supplement: Restructuring
Wherever aerospace executives gather to discuss consolidation of Europe's aerospace industry, it will not be long before the talk turns to Airbus Industrie and its anxiously awaited restructuring. Whatever other pitfalls may yet befall Europe on the way towards the holy grail of consolidation, it has become an ...
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Airbus supplement: Airbus; 25 years after take-off
Airbus Industrie has come a long way since its first aircraft, the A300, took to the air 25 years ago this week, on 28 October, 1972. What was once regarded as something of a curiosity by its rivals across the Atlantic has emerged as the only world challenger to the ...
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Airbus supplement: Personalityfile
The principal current and past Airbus Industrie managers who were interviewed for or contributed to the creation of this special report Roger Béteille - former president of Airbus Industrie. Became head of the flight-test department in 1952 at Sud-Est Aviation in Toulouse. From 1957 to 1970 he held senior posts ...
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Airbus supplement: A300 A310
When Airbus Industrie rolled out its first A300 at Toulouse in September 1972, the aircraft received perhaps less attention from the assembled crowd than it deserved. Parked opposite was one of the prototype Concordes, which was still grabbing headlines around the world. Yet, while the sleek supersonic airliner may have ...
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Asteroid prospector
SpaceDev proposes to launch the first private interplanetary spacecraft Tim Furniss/LONDON There is a fortune to be made from mining asteroids, believes SpaceDev of Colorado, a private corporation engaged in the commercialisation of space - and it plans to make it. It is proposing ...
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Born-again trainer
The Phoenix Fanjet could provide ab initio to ATP training in one aircraft Dave Higdon/Lakeland Canadian John McIntee and his American ally, Ray Johnson, believe that they have an aeroplane for which the time has come, a special-purpose aircraft for a special mission: training airline pilots - ab ...
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American Blimp lines up A-150 production
American Blimp lines up A-150 production American Blimp, of Severna Park, Maryland, has launched production of the nine-passenger Lightship A-150 having "-clearly identified" customers for the first five airships. The A-150 was awarded US certification in September, and the first airship has been delivered to The ...
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Boeing and Executive Jet set up fractional-ownership venture
Ramon Lopez/NEW YORK Executive Jet Aviation (EJA) and Boeing Business Jets (BBJ) have formed a joint venture which will introduce Boeing's $34 million corporate aircraft into EJA's pioneering NetJets fractional-ownership programme. Acquiring the BBJ, which combines the fuselage of the Boeing 737-700 with the strengthened wing ...
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EC135 orders on the up
Eurocopter is to step up production of its EC135 light twin. The Franco-German helicopter manufacturer claims to be picking up orders for the eight-seat helicopter "at record speed", with 85 sales confirmed to date. To meet market demand, the production schedule of around 20-30 units for 1997 will be increased ...