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ABL team holds missile-tracking talks with USN
The Boeing-led Airborne Laser (ABL) team is in talks with the US Navy over the collection of missile-tracking data using Northrop Grumman F-14Ds equipped with infra-red search and track (IRST) systems. The YA-1A laser platform, a converted Boeing 747-400F, will be fitted with six Lockheed Martin IRST sensors ...
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Elbit wins Dracula
Elbit Systems will supply the avionics for the Romanian air force Dracula attack helicopter, a version of the Bell AH-1W SuperCobra to be built in Romania. The avionics will be made in Romania by subsidiary AE Electronics, formed recently by Elbit and Romania's Aerostar. The Dracula will be assembled by ...
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Air drop fatalities
Indonesia's IPTN lost its chief test pilot, Erwin Danoewinata, in a crash of a company CN-235 military transport aircraft. Erwin and five other crew died when the aircraft stalled on 22 May during a trial low-altitude cargo parachute drop. The company blames the crash on a failed parachute. Source: ...
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USN poised for supersonic-target contest
THE US NAVY is expected to initiate a competition in 1998 for a new supersonic sea-skimming target (SSST), needed to test shipboard defences against the Russian Raduga 3M-80 (SS-N-22 Sunburn) anti-ship missile. The USN now uses the AlliedSignal Aerospace Vandal extended-extended range (EER) target, remanufactured from Talos surface-to-air ...
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Service centred
INDEPENDENT BUSINESS-aviation service companies are facing increased competition from the producers of the aircraft they support, as those manufacturers push for a larger share of the after-sales market for maintenance, modification and refurbishment of their products. The major independents are thriving, nonetheless, thanks to strong demand for their services in ...
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Time to stop dreaming
The general-aviation industry in the USA is putting its money where its mouth has been for a long time. It is sponsoring a television-advertising campaign in an effort to revitalise the US pilot population and to reverse a decade-long decline in the number of people learning to fly for pleasure. ...
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MAKing aviation work in the CIS
The CREATION OF THE MAK (Interstate Aviation Committee) in December 1991, as the first intergovernmental body to be formed by the then-new CIS, was an acknowledgement of the need to present a common approach to major questions of aviation among the countries of the former Soviet Union. While most aviation ...
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Sharing safety secrets
In the commercial air-transport world, systems for sharing safety data among airlines and across borders are under construction. The military community, with its more conservative culture, is lagging behind, but there are some signs that firm foundations for pro-active safety exchanges are being laid. Many safety-conscious and commercially ...
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Searching for beginnings
If there are other planets in existence similar to Earth in orbit around nearby stars, are any of them habitable, and could one of them serve as a grand exploration target for the human race? These are two of the questions which NASA will be seeking to answer ...
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Russia gets real
Could the Russian aviation industry at last be on the verge of staging a recovery? The evidence is admittedly still a little patchy, but there are some encouraging signs of life from an industry which was left for all but dead following the unceremonious collapse of the Soviet system six ...
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Kawasaki offers improved BK117
Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) has begun marketing avionics and structural enhancements for its locally built version of the Eurocopter BK117, in an effort to boost sales. In May, the Japan civil-aviation bureau completed type certification of KHI's new active vibration-reduction (AVR) system for the 3.5t-class helicopter. The system ...
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Collins advances Pro Line 21
ROCKWELL-COLLINS has embarked on the next step in development of its Pro Line 21 integrated avionics for business and regional aircraft. The US company is testing prototypes of an advanced processing architecture and is evaluating new human-computer interface concepts in a working cockpit mock-up. Pro Line ...
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IAI mates first Galaxy airframe sections
ISRAEL AIRCRAFT Industries (IAI) planned to complete mating all airframe sections for the first Galaxy mid-sized business jet (pictured here in late April) by the end of May. The first flight is due in late 1997, with certification following a year later. IAI had transferred the first wing to the ...
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Transatlantic flight will prove helicopter refuelling
AN IN-FLIGHT refuelling system for commercial helicopters is to be demonstrated on a transatlantic record attempt due to begin on 6 June. French fuel-systems manufacturer Intertechnique plans to fly a Eurocopter AS350B3 non-stop from New York to Paris, with the 6,000km (3,250nm) flight expected to take about 27h. ...
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Honeywell GIV-SP HUD is delivered
GULFSTREAM Aerospace has delivered the first Gulfstream IV-SP equipped with a Honeywell/GEC-Marconi HUD 2020 head-up display. The delivery follows UScertification of the HUD for Category II operations in the GIV. Approval in the long-range Gulfstream V is pending. The Savannah, Georgia-based manufacturer expects to install HUD ...
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Russia's Myasishchev aims for Gzhel go-ahead
Russian design bureau Myasishchev is aiming for preliminary certification of its M-101T Gzhel light turboprop before the end of 1997, as it evaluates a Western-engined derivative. Initial production of the single-engined, six-seat, pressurised turboprop is being undertaken at the Sokol production plant in Nizhne Novgorod. The ...
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Raytheon appeals
Raytheon is to appeal against a US jury's award of $60 million damages to the families of two men killed in 1991 when a Beech Baron 58P piston-twin entered a flat spin. The company will ask for the verdict to be set aside. The jury concluded that Raytheon had failed ...
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Helikopter Service links with Rotex on long-line projects
Norway's Helikopter Service is in the final stages of setting up a joint venture with newly formed central European helicopter operator Rotex to cover long-line work in the oil and construction industries worldwide. David Price, Helikopter Service project manager, says that the Bergen-based company intends to use the ...
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Bearing failures blamed on poor lubrication
The spate of Trent 700 engine shutdowns has been traced to insufficient lubrication of the driving-shaft locator ball-bearing in the Hispano Suiza-manufactured step-aside gearbox. This has resulted in premature fatigue and failure of the bearing, because of overheating. According to R-R, the problem resulted from a weakness in ...
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Cathay prepares to modify gearboxes on Trent 700s
Cathay Pacific and Dragonair are hoping that fitting modified engine-gearboxes to their Rolls-Royce Trent 700-powered Airbus Industrie A330-300s will clear the way for the grounded aircraft to return to service by early this week. Both carriers voluntarily grounded their 15 A330s on 24 May, following an inflight engine ...