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USA tries again to close F-16 Indonesian sale
US GOVERNMENT officials are hoping that a planned visit to Indonesia by the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff will revive the flagging deal to sell nine embargoed Lockheed Martin F-16A/Bs which had been destined for Pakistan. Gen John Shalikashvili is due to visit Indonesia in early May ...
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Airship deal at final stage
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC AIRSHIP manufacturing will resume in the UK as soon as a UK investor group finalises its purchase of designs, patents and other assets of Westinghouse Airships. The transaction (Flight International, 10-16 April) will be completed shortly, says Roger Munk, who is leading ...
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Boeing team discloses airborne laser details
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES DETAILS OF ONE of the two airborne laser (ABL) systems being offered for a $755 million US Air Force demonstration contract have been revealed by the Boeing/Lockheed Martin/TRW team. The weapon is designed to destroy ballistic missiles just after launch. The group expects to submit its main ...
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Rising fortunes
Agusta's resurgence has been confirmed with one order from North America. Julian Moxon/MILAN THERE COULD HAVE BEEN no better sign of Agusta's long-awaited revival than the record order from Omniflight Helicopters, which was announced at the Helicopter Association International show in Dallas, Texas, in February. ...
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The first EOS missions
SCIENTISTS HAVE identified seven primary research areas, specifically for the EOS programme, to understand the Earth's climate more fully and the effect the human race has had on it: the role of clouds, radiation, water vapour and rain; the productivity of the oceans, their circulation ...
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Bedek backs 707 as tanker platform
Douglas Barrie/TEL AVIV ISRAEL AIRCRAFT Industries' Bedek group is to stay with the Boeing 707 airframe as the basis for its tanker-conversion business, following internal studies into alternative airframes. Despite the age of the 707 design, senior Bedek officials believe that the airframe still provides ...
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Very-large-aircraft adaptability poser
Sir - The editorial "Missing a trick" (Flight International, 17-23 April, P3), proposing a European involvement in the Lockheed Martin C-141 replacement, seems to raise the more fundamental question of whether a new civil transport could be adaptable to military requirements. While the tanker role presents few ...
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The benefits of glass cockpits
Sir - I get the impression from David Learmount's article "Cracked glass" (Flight International, 3-9 April, P30) that glass-cockpit aircraft today are less than flawless and that there is a revolution, not just an evolution, needed to bring them back on track. Research into cockpit layout and the ...
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P&W uses fluid dynamics to cure F119 fan flutter
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA PRATT & WHITNEY has used computational fluid-dynamics (CFD) to develop a remedy for fan flutter on the F119 engine for the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22. CFD analysis identified an airflow disturbance over the inlet guide-vanes which was causing vibration and flutter of the hollow fan blades. The F119 is ...
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Wavionix Customer
The UK Civil Aviation Authority's Safety Regulation Group has become the first UK customer for Wavionix Software's Procedures Designer. The Swiss company's software is designed to automate the production of take-off and landing-procedures charts for pilots. Source: Flight International
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GKN joins UK management go-round
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE RESHUFFLE OF senior management within many of the leading UK aerospace groups continues, setting up the industry for a potentially wide-ranging re-organisation over the next couple of years. The latest company to make a change is GKN, the automotive engineering group which ...
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BAe introduces 'smart' monitoring to EF2000 structure
Martin Hindley/LONDON BRITISH AEROSPACE has revealed that the Eurofighter EF2000 is the world's first combat aircraft to be designed with an integrated structural health-and-usage monitoring system. The system is used to perform real-time airframe-fatigue calculations and to monitor "significant structural events and flight-performance parameters", says BAe. ...
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China wants Airbus Industrie to join AE-100 programme
Paul Lewis/TOULOUSE CHINA HAS ASKED AERO International (Regional) (AI(R)) to modify its regional-jet partnership proposal to include Airbus Industrie, to improve marketing and after-sales support for the planned Air Express AE-100. The involvement of Airbus is among key demands made by Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) during recent discussions with ...
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China flies updated F-8II Finback at last
CHINA HAS ANNOUNCED the successful first flight of the improved Shenyang Aircraft (SAC) F-8 IIM Finback fighter, fitted with the Russian Phazotron Zhuk-8 II radar. The F-8IIM had originally been scheduled to fly at the end of 1995. In addition to the new multi-mode pulse-Doppler Zhuk-8 II radar, ...
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Rockwell regains Navstar initiative
Tim Furniss/LONDON ROCKWELL International has won back work to build US Air Force Navstar global-positioning- system (GPS) satellites. The California-based company has now won 73 of the 93 Navstar contracts let by USAF. Up to 33 Navstar Block 2F spacecraft will be built by Rockwell ...
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STAe poised for TigerEye modification
SINGAPORE Technologies Aerospace (STAe) is expected to win a contract to modify eight Taiwanese Northrop F-5Es to RF-5E TigerEye reconnaissance aircraft, after more than a year's delay to the order. Taiwanese defence minister Chiang Chung-ling has re-affirmed that STAe is the preferred choice over local companies. He ...
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Cargo conundrum
Steady growth is predicted for world air-cargo market. Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURERS and conversion specialists are watching the burgeoning growth in world air-cargo traffic with eager anticipation. Every forecast points to steady and continuous growth, but not all agree on whether most of it will be ...
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Winglet benefits
Winglets could bring operational benefits to the Boeing 747-200F. Guy Norris/SEATTLE Aviation Partners, a Seattle-based modification company specialising in advanced winglet designs, is developing a lightweight winglet for the Boeing 747-200F. The company predicts that the revised wing could yield a 7% cruise-drag reduction, among ...
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Preaching conversion
Buoyant demand spawns new wave of widebody freighters. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA SO FAR, THE WIDEBODY freighter-conversion market has been dominated by the Boeing 747. Now, a new wave of widebody freighters is being rolled out of modification centres to meet the buoyant demand for cargo aircraft. ...