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GEC and Honeywell to offer civil HUD
GEC-Marconi Avionics and Honeywell have signed a memorandum of understanding to modify and market a derivative of their jointly produced business-jet head-up display (HUD) for commercial airliners. The move is designed to challenge the growing strength of Sextant Avionique and, particularly, Flight Dynamics in the market, the latter ...
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AAlliedSignal cleans up
Aircraft lighting specialist Grimes Aerospace has been bought by AlliedSignal from investment firm Forstmann Little for an undisclosed sum. Ohio-based Grimes makes interior and exterior lighting systems, strobes, night-vision imaging systems and power supplies in addition to a range of aircraft engine systems, electronic and windshield systems. AlliedSignal has also ...
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NetJets heads eastwards with Gulfstream
Gulfstream and Executive Jet International plan to extend their fractional-ownership programme to the Middle East within the next six months and to the Asia-Pacific region within 12 months. The joint Gulfstream Shares marketing venture has also now been extended to cover the new Gulfstream V. Executive Jet chairman ...
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USA corrects Czech F-16 versus F-18 gaffe
US DEFENCE secretary William Cohen has moved to defuse a row over a letter, apparently favouring the Lockheed Martin F-16, sent by a US embassy official in Prague to the Czech defence ministry. The F-16 is being offered in competition with the McDonnell Douglas F-18 for a Czech air force ...
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Foreign aircraft safety checks get green light in EU
European transport ministers have given the political go-ahead for the safety assessment of foreign aircraft (SAFA) programme, under which airlines suspected of operating unsafely will be submitted to ramp inspections at European Union (EU) airports from 1999 or possibly sooner. Final clearance for the SAFA programme, which embraces ...
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F-22 first flight delayed by engine FOD
LOCKHEEDMARTIN has replaced one of the Pratt &Whitney F119s in the first F-22 after the engine suffered minor foreign-object damage (FOD) during ground runs. The incident is likely to delay the maiden flight of the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 until early July. Minor impact damage to the three fan ...
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GE and P&W hold talks over new 777 engine
General Electric and Pratt & Whitney are negotiating a radical widening of their existing GE-PW Engine Alliance to develop a joint powerplant for the Boeing 777. The move, which follows Boeing's decision to raise the maximum take-off weight (MTOW) of the proposed ultra-long range 777-200X to as much ...
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BAe joins Lockheed Martin's JSF team
Douglas Barrie/PARIS British Aerospace is to team with Lockheed Martin on the USA's Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme, having spurned Boeing's overtures to join its team. The US companies have been courting BAe since the US Department of Defense (DoD) rejected the McDonnell Douglas bid for ...
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Sweden Gripen order
The Swedish Government has approved plans to go ahead with the purchase of a third tranche of 64 Saab JAS 39 Gripen fighters. The procurement, budgeted at SKr28 billion ($3.7 billion), includes provision for work on improving the aircraft's computers and displays, as well as the launch of a programme ...
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Northwest signs MoU for another 50 Airbuses
Northwest Airlines has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a further 50 Airbus Industrie narrowbody aircraft, bringing the total number of firm orders for the consortium's main US customer to 136. The MoU outlines a requirement for 50 125-seat A319s, with options for 50 more aircraft. If ...
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American Airlines in massive seat-upgrade deal
AMERICANAIRLINES has placed orders exceeding $268 million for more than 70,000 new and upgraded passenger seats for its entire fleet. The deal has been split between three seat suppliers: US manufacturers B/E Aerospace (BEA) and Weber Aircraft, and Germany's Recaro. Installation is to be completed by the year ...
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COBRA program cures F-22 and JSF composites together
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC LOCKHEEDMARTIN is looking at simultaneously curing composite parts for the F-22 and Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) in one autoclave run, to reduce costs for both programmes. The procedure presents "-a unique opportunity for simultaneous cost reduction", the company says. Batch curing of F-22 ...
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ANPC demonstrates TLS
Advanced Navigation &Positioning (ANPC) planned to demonstrate the tactical, air-transportable version of its transponder landing system (TLS) on 20 June at The Dalles, Oregon, using aircraft including the McDonnell Douglas F-15, F-18 and AV-8B, Lockheed Martin C-130, C-141 and P-3, Sikorsky UH-60 and Airbus A300. Source: Flight International
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Lockheed Martin readies VISTA/F-16 for thrust vectoring
Lockheed Martin is awaiting funding to complete modification of the F-16 Variable Stability In-flight Simulator Test Aircraft (VISTA) with thrust vectoring. The US Air Force's VISTA/ F-16, operated by Calspan Flight Research and re-engined with a Pratt & Whitney F100-229, is to be fitted with P&W's axisymmetric thrust-vectoring pitch/yaw balanced-beam ...
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Paris '97
Paris '97 will go down in the aviation history books as the "nearly" show. AI(R) nearly launched the AirJet, Boeing nearly launched the 777X and Embraer nearly launched the EMB-135. In the event the strategists had a field day and good news was largely left to the sales departments of ...
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France and UK fail to sgree guided-bomb framework
Attempts by the French and UK defence ministries to pull together a joint next-generation guided-bomb programme have faltered with the failure of the countries to agree a basic framework for the requirement. France and the UK were exploring the joint release of a request for information (RFI) covering ...
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EJ200 thrust-vector nozzle nears test
Rolls-Royce's Spanish partner on the EJ200 engine for the Eurofighter EF2000 says that it will test a thrust-vectoring nozzle in January 1998. While no decision has been made on fitting the nozzle to the EJ200, R-R says that the device has "excellent potential" to improve the EF2000's manoeuvrability ...
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Hispano-Suiza makes Airbus A3XX first target for new 'scoop' thrust-reverser
Hispano-Suiza has revealed a "new concept" in thrust reversers aimed at high-bypass ratio engines. The new design will be offered for the Airbus A3XX, says the French thrust-reverser company. Claimed to offer a 20% improvement in efficiency over current cascade-type devices, the "scoop" reverser is also safer, says ...
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Daewoo expects 1998 approval for KTX-1
South Korea's Daewoo Heavy Industries expects the Government to give full approval for production of its KTX-1 primary trainer by the end of 1998. The company is now completing its fifth KTX-1 airframe, with the configuration effectively similar to that of a production-standard aircraft. The South Korean air ...
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Europe 0, USA 1
Airbus Industrie v Boeing; Boeing v Airbus. British Aerospace (BAe) with Lockheed Martin; Lockheed Martin perhaps with Airbus. Embraer perhaps with Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) If there has been a theme to the 1997 Paris air show, it is that of transatlantic relations, good and bad. It is ...