All news – Page 7370
-
News
Lockheed Martin joins A-10 bidders
Martin has joined Northrop Grumman in a competition to provide long-term contractor support of the Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt, which is to be used as a close-air-support/forward-air-control aircraft until at least 2018. Boeing is also expected to bid on the contract for A-10 system-integration work, which could be worth $500 ...
-
News
Evergreen has to switch VERTREP demonstrators
The US Navy's USS Saturn is due to depart at the end of April for five months at sea with different aircraft from those originally envisioned to be operated by commercial operator Evergreen Helicopters. The Military Sealift Command (MSC) sea trial marks the third in a series of ...
-
News
Participation in JSF gathers momentum
THE Netherlands and Norway have formally joined the US Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) project, but Denmark has yet to decide on participation. On 16 April, the two countries signed a JSF requirements-validation memorandum of agreement (MoA), which commits them to the JSF. The US Department of Defense says ...
-
News
European lead
Europe's flag carriers may be leading the charge into the brave new world of liberalisation, but there are signs that the region's airports, too, are beginning to wake up to some of the new commercial realities of running as efficient businesses rather than as government arms. Airports have ...
-
News
Direct to target
INTERNATIONAL INTEREST in the US Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) is growing as flight testing continues to demonstrate an accuracy better than the 13m (40ft) requirement. McDonnell Douglas (MDC) has already proposed the JDAM to at least one foreign country. JDAMs have been dropped from the Lockheed Martin ...
-
News
Airport role-reversal
On 1 January, 1998, the two main airports of Italy's second city will start a process of gradual role-reversal. Linate, which has always been Milan's main airport, is almost logjammed, while Milan Malpensa opens the first stage of a development which will give it more than twice Linate's capacity, both ...
-
News
Swissair strategy advances
A year ago, when Swissair first presented Philippe Bruggisser as the incoming chief executive, he promised to take a firm hand with the group's costs and inject a touch more pragmatism to its alliance strategy. Twelve months later, Bruggisser appears to be making headway on both fronts. His ...
-
News
Germans choose Elisra
The German army will equip its Sikorsky CH-53 helicopters with the Israeli Elisra SPS-65(V) integrated airborne self-protection system. A limited number of systems was rushed to Germany and installed on CH-53s which were flown on missions in Bosnia. The German army is now negotiating a deal to purchase the Israeli-developed ...
-
News
Howmet and P&W set up Sprayform
Sprayform Technologies International has been established as a joint-venture company by Howmet and Pratt & Whitney. Greenwich, Connecticut-based Howmet is the majority shareholder in the new company. Sprayform has been established to develop Howmet's Spraycast-X process, which directly converts vacuum-melted superalloys into semi-finished ring shapes, suitable for use ...
-
News
Pie in the sky?
Meet the demands for air travel, but do it with existing resources, the UK Government has told airport operators in the country's busiest region, London and the south-east. This may be beyond them, however. The signs are that air-traffic control may be able to cope, but that airports may not ...
-
News
Resolving contradictions
One down, one to go - or, at least, that would appear to be the case, following the US Department of Defense's recent decision on its Hughes AIM-9 Sidewinder replacement, which ended the battle for the air-to-air missile's succession. The next decision to be made is over which ...
-
News
Airports in growth again
A burst of growth towards the end of 1996 kept traffic increasing for the year at the world's airports, and the signs are that the good news could continue. Preliminary returns from the Airport Council International (ACI)which represents close to 500 airports around the world, suggest that growth ...
-
News
Joint boost
A new joint venture has been set up to manufacture and market Russia's RD-180 and RD-120 rocket engines. The partners in the new company, known as RD AMROSS, are Pratt & Whitney (P&W) Space Propulsion of West Palm Beach, Florida, and Russia's NPO Energomash (NPO-EM), of Khimky, outside Moscow. ...
-
News
The quiet runway
There are few airport managements which can claim that, by doubling the number of their runways, they will reduce noise nuisance dramatically. At Bogota's Eldorado International Airport, however, that is precisely what the Colombian Aeronautica Civil (civil-aviation authority) promises, even though the second runway will increase air-transport movement (ATM) capacity ...
-
News
Letfreezes work on L-610M but gears up for -610G
Regional-aircraft manufacturer Let Kunovice has frozen its L-610M twin-turboprop-aircraft programme to dedicate its energy to the much-delayed certification of the Westernised L-610G variant. The 40-seat L-610G is now scheduled to receive certification in the third quarter of 1998 to US Federal Aviation Regulations Part 25 requirements. The programme ...
-
News
Peace Programme
Jeff Peace has been appointed programme manager for Boeing's 777-200X/300X derivatives, as the manufacturer moves towards a launch of the long-range twinjets at the Paris air show in June. Peace was formerly programme manager of the 777-300, the first example of which is now being assembled. ...
-
News
Trimble releases GPS training for GA pilots
Trimble, the California-based global-positioning-system (GPS)-navigation specialist, has developed a comprehensive instrument-flight-rules GPS training system for general-aviation use. The system combines a CD-ROM-based, multi-media tuition programme with a free-flight simulator developed for Trimble by Initiative Computing, an international software-development company specialising in aviation "teachware" products. The CD-ROMs, ...
-
News
Delta 2 go ahead
McDonnell Douglas hopes to resume launches of its Delta 2 satellite booster on 1 May, after the US Air Force concluded that the loss of one of its global-positioning satellites on 17 January was due to a split in a solid-rocket booster which caused its Delta 2 to explode after ...