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Japan to invest in airports
THE JAPANESE Government has approved plans to spend '3.6 trillion ($34 billion) on a series of airport projects, including a new airport at Kanto. The bulk of the funds - '2.83 trillion - has been earmarked for airport construction, but '200 billion has also been pledged for ...
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First production EH101 rolled out
GKN WESTLAND ROLLED OUT THE first production EH Industries EH101 Merlin for the UK Royal Navy on 6 March. Forty-four helicopters are on order to meet the RN's anti-submarine-warfare requirement. The aircraft, referred to as RN01, is not fitted with the mission-systems suite. This will be fitted to RN02 within ...
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R-R stays on course
ROLLS-ROYCE KEPT the good news rolling with an improved set of 1995 financial results to follow its best year ever for commercial engine orders. Recovery in the core aero-engine business and an unexpectedly good performance from the Allison acquisition helped the group drive net profits up by nearly ...
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Aerospatiale unshaken by losses
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS LOSSES AT Aerospatiale more than doubled in 1995, but chairman Louis Gallois is confident that the group will be back in profit within the next two years. Undaunted by a headline loss of Fr981 million ($193 million), Gallois says that the group will ...
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Upgrade RAF F3s in service life until 2010
Douglas Barrie/LONDON THE ROYAL AIR FORCE is to keep its Panavia Tornado F3 air-defence aircraft in service until 2010. Previous plans had envisaged the aircraft being replaced by the Eurofighter EF2000 in the first few years after the turn of the century. The Ministry of ...
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Russia is close to wrapping up Indian arms deal
RUSSIA AND INDIA are on the brink of clinching a $3.5 billion arms deal believed to cover the sale of Sukhoi Su-27 Flankers, technology transfer and licence manufacture of the Su-30MK, and the modernisation of the Indian air force's Mikoyan MiG-21 Fishbeds. Stanislav Filin, deputy director-general of Rosvoorouzheniye, ...
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UK to invest in Ariane 5 programme
THE UK IS TO INVEST $4.3 million in the European Space Agency's (ESA) Ariane 5 satellite-launcher programme to the year 2000 in a belated bid to capitalise on the potential of the booster in the satellite-launcher market. The booster, which is to have its maiden flight from Kourou, ...
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Diamond in talks on Chinese Katana production
DIAMOND AIRCRAFT Industries is in negotiation with the Chinese aerospace-technology group CATIC over the possible licensed production by the latter of the Canadian-built DA20 Katana two-seat primary training aircraft. China is understood to have a requirement for around 800 training aircraft over the next few years, to keep ...
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Accidents prompt F-14 upgrade
THREE ACCIDENTS within a month have prompted the US Navy to proceed with an upgrade to the flight-control system of the Grumman F-14. Funds had previously not been available for the $80 million programme to install a digital flight-control system (DFCS) in the F-14 to prevent flat spins and improve ...
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Unauthorised training
The 8 February crash, of a Lineas Aereas del Caribe McDonnell Douglas DC-8 freighter near Asuncion, Paraguay, was probably caused by an unauthorised training exercise during, which the co-pilot lost control of the aircraft, after throttling back the number one and two engines during takeoff, according to Paraguay's Civil Aviation ...
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Concerns about V-22 downwash crop
BELL BOEING AND the US Marine Corps are playing down concerns over downwash which emerged from testing of the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor. A report rated downwash as a "moderate risk" after a test in which a soldier rappelled 18m (60ft) from the rear ramp of a hovering V-22 and was ...
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Canada starts funding programme for industry
CANADA HAS LAUNCHED a new programme to provide Government funding support for industry, particularly aerospace. The Technology Partnerships Canada fund will replace the Defence Industry Productivity Programme (DIPP), which was cancelled in 1995. Industry had attacked the decision to cancel the DIPP, which was instrumental in providing seed ...
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Disconnected ailerons are blamed for RAF Hawk crash
Douglas Barrie/LONDON THE BRITISH Aerospace Hawk, which crashed at the Royal Air Force training base at Valley, North Wales, in February took off with its ailerons disconnected after maintenance. This was one of a series of human errors contributing to the crash, according to initial investigations. ...
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Dassault demands control of Aerospatiale merger
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS FRENCH GOVERNMENT plans to merge state-owned Aerospatiale with privately owned Dassault Aviation appear to have run into difficulty just two weeks after the proposal was unveiled. Dassault, the fiercely independent combat-aircraft and corporate-jet manufacturer led by chairman Serge Dassault, is refusing to be ...
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Just bad luck?
THE FIRST TWO months of 1996 have proved bleak for the Royal Air Force. It has lost more combat aircraft so far this year than it did in the whole of 1995. A total of nine aircraft have crashed: two Panavia Tornado F3s, two Tornado GR1s, one Sepecat Jaguar GR1, ...
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Riverso resigns in Alitalia reshuffle
ALITALIA CHAIRMAN Renato Riverso has resigned, two years after being brought in to help turn around the troubled Italian flag carrier. Riverso had arrived at the airline, together with chief executive Roberto Schisano, in February 1994, with a brief to push through badly needed cost cutting, at the ...
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AlliedSignal Tests
ALLIEDSIGNAL AEROSPACE is developing a helicopter version of its Mark VII ground-proximity warning system. The Mark VII has been marketed since 1990, for fixed wing aircraft equipped with ARINC 500 analogue avionics and AlliedSignal began a year-long testing programme, for the system on an Era Aviation Bell 212, in November ...
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Four decades of development
THE TILT-ROTOR is a remarkable aircraft. With the "prop-rotor" nacelles vertical, it can hover, fly sideways and backwards and turn on the spot - just like a tandem-rotor helicopter. With the nacelles horizontal, it has the speed, range and cruising altitude of a conventional twin turboprop. The ...
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UK to lead X-ray space telescope team
THE European Space Agency (ESA) has selected a French-German-UK team, led by the UK's Leicester University, to run the X-Ray Multi-Mirror (XMM) space-observatory mission-survey science centre, with UK funding coming from the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council. The XMM, described as the "Hubble Space Telescope of X-ray astronomy", to ...
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Cessna
Michael Shonka becomes senior vice-president and chief financial officer at light-aircraft manufacturer Cessna Aircraft, of Wichita, Kansas. He replaces Ronnie Crawford, who has resigned. Shonka was most recently executive vice-president and chief financial officer at the Fourth Financial Corporation, also of Wichita. Ron Alberti has become vice-president of manufacturing, succeeding ...