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Sextant Avionique pins hopes on its ATM business
Julian Moxon/Paris Sextant Avionique expects its fast-growing air-traffic-management (ATM)-systems business to net more than a one-third share of the market and add nearly Fr500 million ($100 million) in sales by the end of the century. Sextant and its parent, Thomson-CSF, launched a major initiative at ...
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Viasa plans await employee approval
Julia Hayley/MADRID Iberia's plan for restructuring loss-making Venezuelan airline Viasa, which includes cuts to jobs and routes, has been approved by the other major shareholders, but must now be cleared by the employees by 15 January. Iberia put forward the plan in a bid to recover ...
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Virgin Express plans 25-aircraft order
Virgin Express has opened talks with manufacturers over its fleet-renewal plans, which could see the European low-fares airline take up to 25 new aircraft over the next five years. The Brussels-based airline is looking at options to acquire Boeing 737-700s, Airbus A319/ 320s or McDonnell Douglas MD-80/95s, says ...
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Raising the singles bar
Cirrus, with its SR20, sets the style for revitalisation of the USGA industry- -while Cessna delivers on its promise to put piston singles back in production New-production piston-singles are being taken off the endangered-species list as designs old and new become available. Graham ...
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Near enough?
The UK Civil Aviation Authority has investigated the reliability of the global- positioning system (GPS), and found it wanting. GPS, it says, is not reliable enough, in its current form, to be used as a sole means of navigation. In this, the CAA is at odds with the single most ...
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757 prepared for F-22 testbed
Boeing has flown its flight-test 757 to Wichita, Kansas, for modification into an avionics development testbed for the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 air-superiority fighter. The 757 will be fitted with an F-22 forward fuselage, under construction at Lockheed Martin's Marietta site in Georgia. The aft section of the same fuselage will ...
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Safety fears put back UAV's first flight tests
The first flight of the Alliant Techsystems Outrider tactical unmanned air vehicle (TUAV) has been delayed by a month because of safety concerns. The US Department of Defense's UAV Joint Programme Office says: "The delay is primarily to allow additional risk-mitigation efforts to ensure a safe first flight." ...
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Sikorsky supports BD-10 unmanned target for USN
Sikorsky has agreed to provide financial support to Monitor Jet, which plans to produce the Bede BD-10 jet-powered kitplane in Canada as a low-cost trainer and unmanned target drone. The agreement, to provide manufacturing and marketing support, is part of Sikorsky's bid to win the Canadian Search-and-rescue Helicopter programme. ...
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Israel/Ukraine work on Ethiopian upgrade
Israel and Ukraine are proposing jointly to upgrade Ethiopian air force Mikoyan MiG-21 Fishbed fighters. The service wants to upgrade 18 of its MiG-21MFs. It is not known whether all the aircraft are airworthy. The talks came to light when four Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) managers involved in ...
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P&W low-observable nozzle tested on F-16
Lockheed Martin has ground-tested a Pratt & Whitney low-observable axisymmetric nozzle (LOAN) on an F-16 and is planning flight tests. The LOAN, developed for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme office, features shaping, cooling and coatings to reduce radar and infra-red signature. Improved cooling also promises to more than double ...
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Bayern-Chemie studies double-pulse rocket motor
Rocket motor specialist Bayern-Chemie, a joint venture of Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) and Thomson-CSF, is investigating a double-pulse rocket motor for the German HFK hypersonic missile programme. HFK, led jointly by DASA and Bodenseewerk Gerätetechnik (BGT), aims to create a weapons system which has the firepower of a main ...
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First Israeli Rafael NT-D test will be delayed until 1997
The first airborne test launch of the Israeli Rafael NT-D anti-tank missile, a prerequisite for the Polish Government go-ahead for PZL-Swidnik's planned Huzar attack helicopter, has been delayed until 1997. According to Polish political sources, Warsaw will wait for the test results, despite the fact that manufacturer, Rafael, ...
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Multi-purpose GIV delivered to JASDF
Gulfstream has delivered the first of two Gulfstream IV-MPA multi-purpose aircraft to its Japanese agent, Okura, for onward delivery to the Japan Air Self-Defence Force (JASDF) early in 1997. A third aircraft is in production and the company expects to deliver more than 20 GIV-MPA, worth over $300 million, to ...
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Additional partners line up to participate in JSF Project
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON Canada, Denmark, The Netherlands and Norway are soon expected to gain a limited role in the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme, says US Navy Rear Adm Craig Steidle, JSF programme director. Steidle hopes to draw greater international interest in the US/ UK JSF collaboration, ...
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South Korea may bring forward its AEW plans
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE South Korea could advance its planned airborne early warning (AEW) programme by 12 months, in response to criticism of the military's surveillance capability and its failure to detect recent North Korean incursions. According to local industry sources, initial funding for an AEW procurement may ...
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MAPO MiG buys more Larzacs for MiG-AT
French engine manufacturers Snecma and Turboméca have received a contract for ten Larzac 04R20 engines from Russia's MAPO MiG, to power five prototype MiG-AT trainers. The aircraft, in competition with the Yakovlev Yak/AEM 130, will be delivered to the Russian air force for evaluation leading to Russian certification. ...
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Fokker VIP delivery
The Royal Netherlands Air Force took delivery on 22 November of the first of two Fokker 50 VIP passenger aircraft at Eindhoven Air Base. The second is expected on December 6. The two Fokkers are secondhand and replace two phased-out F27s. Source: Flight International
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Peruviam Fulcrum
Peru has taken delivery of a squadron of Russian-built Mikoyan MiG-29 fighters, a move which could fuel a new Latin American arms race. The aircraft's arrival comes as the USA considers lifting the embargo against selling advanced US-made fighters in the region. Peru bought the 12 fighters from Belarus for ...
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Thai Government re-examines defence
He may not be looking at an upgraded radar display, after all Thailand's election of a new Coalition Government, headed by Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, has revived industry hopes that the Star of Siam military-satellite project will go ahead. The former defence minister was forced to shelve the ...
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UK delays helicopter-AAM choice by up to two years
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON The UK Ministry of Defence could delay by up to two years a decision on which air-to-air missile (AAM) to procure for the McDonnell Douglas/GKN Westland WAH-64 Longbow Apache helicopter. When the decision to buy the WAH-64 was announced in July 1995, it was ...