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Hughes attempts to draw US Stinger ban
Hughes Aircraft is seeking to get around the US Government's refusal to sell the shoulder-launched FIM-92 FMP surface-to-air missile to South-East Asian countries by instead offering a tripod-mounted version of the weapon The US manufacturer is already in the process of seeking Government approval to sell its dual-mount ...
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F-22 restructuring freezes cost growth
A SPECIAL US Defense Acquisition Board (DAB) meeting on 29 January will decide whether to endorse a memorandum of agreement signed by the US Air Force, Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Pratt & Whitney on restructuring the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 programme. The agreement is based on recommendations from the ...
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Belgian UAV growth
Belgium has approved army plans to replace Epervier unmanned reconnaissance aircraft by 2002 and extend the army division's surveillance capability from 30km (16nm) to 80km by 2002. Source: Flight International
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Emery
Kerry Fielden has been appointed to the newly created position of sales manager for the UK, Ireland and southern Africa by the UK division of international aviation-services company Emery Worldwide, of Redwood City, California. He was most recently business-development director for UPS, based in London, UK. Source: Flight ...
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Winning number
WITH 95 AIRCRAFT delivered in the first year, production running at 10-12 a month and the orderbook full for the next year, Bell Helicopter Textron has a success on its hands, the scale of which the helicopter industry has not seen for some years. By offering a ...
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Sabena denies Swissair rumours
Sabena chief executive Paul Reutlinger has denied growing speculation that Swissair is preparing to pull out from the alliance with its struggling Belgian partner if the carrier's unions fail to agree on new working conditions and wage structures. Rumours of a possible pull-out were revived by confirmation that ...
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Cathay will launch FANS 747 flights by year's end
Cathay Pacific Airways plans to finish equipping its entire fleet of Boeing 747-400s with future-air-navigation system (FANS-1) equipment by March and hopes to be operating on the first communications, navigation and surveillance/air-traffic-management (CNS/ATM) route across the northern Pacific Ocean by the end of the year. The Hong Kong ...
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UCI works on shock treatment
A new technique for reducing the exhaust noise of jet engines for supersonic aircraft is being developed by a team at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), led by the concept's inventor, Professor Dimitri Papamoschou. Work on the noise-suppression concept, known as the Mach Wave Eliminator, is being ...
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The big issue
BOEING'S REVELATION that it will not be competing in the very-large-airliner market with a derivative of the 747, thus apparently leaving Airbus Industrie's A3XX with a clear run, has certainly raised more questions than answers. While attention has focused on Boeing's doubts about lack of "sufficient market demand" ...
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Belgium provides for more F-16 upgrades
The Belgian air force has been given Government clearance to upgrade a further 24 Lockheed Martin F-16s to the mid-life update (MLU) standard in addition to the 48 fighters already earmarked for the upgrade. The Government is providing BFr 3.5 billion ($105 million) for the additional work. It ...
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P&W proposes Asian F-16 engine upgrade
Pratt & Whitney is pushing its further improved F100-229 Increased Performance Engine (IPE) (Plus) to Asian air forces as an upgrade option for the Lockheed Martin F-16C/D, with Singapore and South Korea likely candidates for the upgrade. The engine, which has also been designated as the -229A, is ...
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Corporate Chinese
The Chinese Government has ordered five Canadair Corporate JetLiners from Bombardier in a deal valued at $116 million. The aircraft, a corporate version of the 50-seat Canadair Regional Jet, will be operated by the military-run China United Airlines and used as government VIP transports. The first three are due for ...
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R-R and airlines wrangle over cost of -524G/H problems
Rolls-Royce is facing demands that it bear the brunt of the massive costs airlines are incurring because of reliability and performance shortfalls of their RB.211-524G/H engines. The problems, which affect more than 100 RB.211-powered Boeing 747-400s and 767-300s, are estimated already to have cost the airlines more than $200 million ...
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New Piper launches Seneca V
TWO YEARS AFTER starting work on the aircraft, New Piper Aircraft has unveiled its Seneca V cabin-class piston twin, its first new product since emerging from the bankruptcy of the former Piper Aircraft (Flight International, 8-14 January). "We look at the Seneca V as a dual-purpose aircraft, with ...
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Raytheon E-Systems picks A310 for Australian AEWcompetition
Raytheon E-Systems will offer the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) four modified Airbus Industrie A310s to meet the RAAF's airborne early warning and Control (AEW&C) System requirement, "Project Wedgetail". The four A310s are being provided by Airbus Industrie, the aircraft are likely to be second hand aircraft held ...
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MDC lines up MD-80 freighters
McDonnell Douglas (MDC) has had "informal" talks with China Eastern Airlines about the setting up of a cargo-modification line for MD-80s in Asia, and particularly China. Although freighter versions of the DC-9 were built, MDC has never delivered a main-deck cargo-door-equipped MD-80. The talks are believed to have ...
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Fairchild Dornier selects P&WC for new turbofan-powered 328
Fairchild Dornier has selected Pratt &Whitney Canada to supply a powerplant for the proposed turbofan-powered derivative of its 328 regional turboprop aircraft. According to North American sources, the companies were poised to sign a contract at the time of going to press, once a final offset question had ...
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Bombardier gives go-ahead to CRJ-X
BOMBARDIER'S BOARD has approved the launch of the CRJ-X stretched, 70-seat derivative of the Canadair Regional Jet. Bombardier's Regional Aircraft division says that it has firm orders for the CRJ-X from "at least one" customer, although the manufacturer declines to give details. The first flight is planned for ...
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Lockheed studies unmanned F-16
LOCKHEED MARTIN IS proposing a demonstration of automatic in-flight refuelling as the first step towards developing an unmanned tactical aircraft based on the F-16. Modified F-16s are being studied to meet emerging US requirements for a new class of aircraft called uninhabited combat air-vehicles (UCAVs) One ...
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Solar storm is suspected in Telstar 401 satellite loss
NASA scientists at the Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland, believe that a Solar storm on 6 January created enough geomagnetic activity to knock out the AT&T's Telstar 401 communications satellite in geostationary orbit (GEO) on 11 January. The satellite is a total loss (Flight International, 22-28 January). The ...