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Slow rise to recovery
Although the helicopter industry continues to struggle, the HAI convention booms. Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Julian Moxon/PARIS HELI-EXPO '96, THE Helicopter Association International (HAI) convention in Dallas, Texas, 22-24 February, comes as the industry continues to suffer depressed sales levels for new helicopters and is dogged by ...
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Shenyang test
China's Shenyang Aircraft has ordered a Palomar Products flexible automatic circuit-tester system, to be used to check the cable harnesses and avionics boxes to be installed in Chinese-assembled McDonnell Douglas MD-90s. The Model 8000 system will be delivered in March. Source: Flight International
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Turboprop triumph
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA SELECTION OF the Raytheon Aircraft Beech Pilatus PC-9 MkII for the US Joint Primary Aircraft Training System (JPATS) surprised almost everyone - except, that is, the company itself. Throughout the competition, and the protests which followed, Raytheon remained steadfastly confident in the strength of its proposal. ...
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DTEO upgrades
THE UK DEFENCE Test and Evaluation Organisation (DTEO) is upgrading computers at its altitude test site, with the introduction of a multi-processor Harris Computer Systems NH6000. The NH6000 will be used to collect, process, display and store data, in support of existing data acquisition systems. The test site, at Pyestock ...
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Dassault Aviation revamps its design and development centre
DASSAULT AVIATION has re-organised its design and development centre at its Paris St Cloud base in a move aimed at preparing the company for potential alliances in the civil and military fields. Virtually all of Dassault's computer-aided design (CAD) activities have been grouped at St Cloud, and divided ...
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Boeing delivers F-22 power supplies
BOEING HAS DELIVERED the first flight-worthy power supplies for the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 common integrated processors (CIPs), which form the heart of the fighter's avionics, sensors and display system. The power supply modules, convert aircraft-standard electrical power to a wattage of up to 400W, which is used to ...
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Life support
Bombardier Aviation Services is to distribute and install Spectrum Aeromed modular air-ambulance life-support systems for Learjet and Canadair Challenger business jets. A quick-change adaptor allows passenger-to-ambulance cabin reconfiguration within 20min. Source: Flight International
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MARS together
Russia will provide a laser-ranging instrument to NASA to fly on the Mars Surveyor Lander to be launched in 1998 (Flight International, 20 December, 1995-2 January). The device, which will be used to measure haze and dust in the Martian atmosphere, will be the first Russian instrument to be flown ...
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Planet lap-top
The US Comsat Mobile Communications company has introduced a 2.7kg lap-top-sized personal satellite telephone, called the Planet 1, which can be used anywhere in the world, via the new Inmarsat 3 communications satellites, the first of which will be launched in March. Calls will cost about $3 per minute. ...
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Congress raps Clinton
The US Congress has rebuked President Bill Clinton for promising Jordan 16 ex-US Air Force Lockheed Martin F-16A/Bs without requesting Congressional approval for the transfer. Source: Flight International
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Scandinavian rocket
Denmark and Norway have placed contracts totalling $52 million for their first Loral multiple-launch rocket systems (MLRS). Norway will receive 12 launchers and Denmark eight - becoming the twelfth and thirteenth MLRS customers. Source: Flight International
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TACMS tested
The US Army has successfully test fired a production Block IA Army TACMS missile. The missile is the extended-range variant of the present Loral Army TACMS Block I weapon. The test was the first of three to prove the design, missile hardware and system software. Pending the results of the ...
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Westinghouse deal
The Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Westinghouse a $7 million contract to expedite the development of the tools needed to process the large amounts of imagery being generated by sensors installed on some unmanned aerial vehicles and the Lockheed Martin U-2R. Source: Flight International
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NH90 navigation
Sagem's Saphir inertial-navigation system has been selected for the NH Industries NH90 utility helicopter. The French company's embedded global-positioning/inertial-navigation system inertia device will provide navigation data and inertial references for the aircraft's quadruplex fly-by-wire control system. Source: Flight International
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UAV datalinks
Tadiran will provide ground- control systems and digital datalinks for Israeli-developed Ranger unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) ordered by the Swiss army. The Israeli company, has signed a $35 million contract, with prime contractor Oerlikon Contraves of Switzerland, calling for the systems to be delivered through to 2000. ...
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VSHORAD cameras
Nanoquest Defence Products, part of British Aerospace (Systems and Equipment) will supply thermal-imaging cameras for the very-short-range air-defence (VSHORAD) missiles being manufactured by Thomson Shorts Systems for the French air force. Nanoquest will deliver 17 cameras between July and December, under the £1 million ($1.5 million) contract. Source: ...
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Dassault record
Dassault is claiming two speed records set en route to Asian Aerospace '96 with its Falcon 900EX. Carrying six passengers and four crew, it was flown from Paris to Singapore via Abu Dhabi in 12h 50min - an average ground speed of 499kt (923km/h). ...
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FMS retrofit
Honeywell's FMZ-2000 flight-management system has been certificated for retrofit to the Bombardier Canadair Challenger 601-3A business jet, providing growth capability for satellite-based navigation and precision approaches. Source: Flight International
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SST launch
The UK's Surrey Satellite Technology Minisat will be launched into orbit aboard a Russian Rokot booster from Baikonur in 1997. The 300kg spacecraft will carry communications and high-resolution imaging payloads. Source: Flight International
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Asian clearance nears for AH-64D Apache
THE US GOVERNMENT is about to clear the improved McDonnell Douglas AH-64D Apache helicopter for sale to Singapore and Malaysia. Approval to offer the attack helicopter is "imminent" says a senior US defence source. Release of the accompanying Lockheed Martin/Westinghouse Longbow millimetre-wave radar will take up to another ...