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Centrepiece of Pratt & Whitney's outdoor display
Centrepiece of Pratt & Whitney's outdoor display is the Lockheed Electra 10E used by American Linda Finch in her recent around-the-world flight in honour of Amelia Earhart's fatal journey 60 years ago. Finch's aircraft is powered by two restored P&W R-1340 Wasp engines. P&W was a sponsor of ...
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French FOG is clear fibre optic winner
France's revolutionary Hussard 2 FOG unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has successfully demonstrated that its fibre optic cable can be used to remotely control air vehicles. The Conference delegates were shown a test video of the system, which is not vulnerable to enemy jamming, according to programme manager Robert ...
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Chance for unmanned flights at Paris in 1999
Unmanned, uninhabited or remotely piloted vehicles are rising high on the agenda of many nations and a conference in the Paris Meridien Hotel last week to review thelatest developments attracted some 500 delegates. Maj Gen Kenneth Israel, the Pentagon's Director of Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office, was the keynote speaker at ...
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Doctored signal makes radar reading suspect
Electronic warfare could be revolutionised when new Drone Radar Electronic Enhancement Mechanism (DREEM) tech-nology is in widespread use on manned aircraft, towed decoys and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Details of DREEM technology to be deployed on the Bristol Aerospace Hokum-X and Vampire test targets to deceive enemy air ...
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Flying the flag at Le Bourget
While the exhibitors are putting the finishing touches to their stands and exhibitions, it is yet another day in the office for the pilots in the flying display. The couple of days leading up to the official opening are for rehearsals...when the pilots from all over the world ...
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Plan to issue one standard
NATO moves to introduce standardisation in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems will benefit both users and industry, according to the chairman of the Alliance's NIAG SG/53 working group, Guisseppe Leveque. He says the group will produce recommendations by next February to standardise the interfaces needed to pass control ...
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Quiet signs hush deal
European Aviation Air Charter has confirmed a contract with Quiet Nacelle Corporation of Miami for the American company to develop a stage 3 hush kit suitable for its fleet, currently powered by Rolls Royce Spey engines complying with the stage two criteria. The kit will comprise an engine ...
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French sales dip hits Euro defence plans
"They are where the UK was in the late 1980s and early 1990s," says Hadley. "The Americans call it downsizing. The Germans have done it: it's now the turn of the French." The way ahead for the French industry will be signalled by a landmark speech by Jospin ...
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Phoenix with new features
Britain's GEC-Marconi Avionics is pursuing development of advanced features for its Phoenix unmanned aerial vehicle. Company director Ray Dennis says future payloads could include a lightweight thermal imager, dual infra-red/television sensors, synthetic aperture radar, electronic warfare systems, GPS navigation, improved ground stations and developments to the air vehicle ...
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UAVs attract renewed US attention
America's revolutionary high-altitude endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) programmes are back on track after a series of setbacks, say Pentagon officials in Paris. USAF Maj Gen Kenneth Israel, Director of the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office, says it has been a "great year for us". The recent ...
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Too many longbows
The US General Accounting Office says that the US Army requires only 8,329 of the 12,722 Lockheed Martin Longbow Hellfire fire-and-forget anti-tank missiles it now plans to purchase. Source: Flight International
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Are AVIC and Airbus wrong about AE31X?
Sir - I refer to the article "AVIC/Airbus sign AE31X agreement" (Flight International, 21-27 May, P7). The new regional AE31X family, planned to Ìt in below the niche of the Airbus A319, should not have a smaller, five-abreast, fuselage cross-section. This would mean abandoning the Airbus ...
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The X files
Cessna Citation X business jet is the fastest commercial transport in production, yet is designed to be flown from small airfields. Cessna aircraft is responsible for an unusually wide range of types. Its current Citation family consists of six business twinjets - designed to meet the differing ...
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British Airways
Adrian Tighe has been named area manager for central and eastern Europe, and Brian Tickle area manager for Scandinavia, Finland and the Baltics, at British Airways. Tighe, who was head of finance for the UK regions and BA regional until 1996, is general manager for the UK, Africa and the ...
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BMW R-R
Gert Reitsma has been appointed head of purchasing at engine manufacturer BMW Rolls-Royce, of Oberursel, Germany. He was formerly vice-president for procurement at defunct aircraft-manufacturer Fokker Aircraft of the Netherlands. Before that, he was vice-president and general manager at Interturbine Holland. Michael Corne has been named head of marketing and ...
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AOPA
Thomas Chapman, senior vice-president for government and technical affairs at the US Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), has been appointed to the US National Park Overflights Working Group, to develop a plan for air-tour operations over the country's national parks. Source: Flight International
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Cathay Pacific
Swire Group Finance director Peter Johansen has been appointed a director of Cathay Pacific Airways of Hong Kong. Source: Flight International
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Trimble
Satellite-navigation and communications company Trimble's vice-president and chief technology officer, Ralph Eschenbach, has been appointed chairman of the US Federal Aviation Administration's research, engineering and development advisory committee. Eschenbach, who has been a member of the advisory committee since 1995, was formerly Trimble's vice-president of business development and vice-president of ...
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Spar signs
Canada's Spar Aerospace has signed two contracts, worth $85 million, one to supply communications and remote-sensing-satellite components, including antennas and digital products, to Lockheed Martin. The other is for four high-power Ku-band repeater panels for Russia. Source: Flight International
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P&W space
Donald Reed has become vice-president and general manager of USBI, prime contractor for the Space Shuttle solid-rocket-booster (SRB) assembly and a subsidiary of United Technologies, reporting through the Pratt & Whitney Space Propulsion unit. Reed, with USBI for 20 years, was formerly vice-president of the company's SRB programmes. ...