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Singapore delays tanker choice
SINGAPORE HAS pushed back selection of a new multi-role aerial-refuelling tanker/transport aircraft until April, allowing the air force more time to re-assess its programme requirements. Four competing bids have been submitted by Airbus Industrie, Boeing, Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) and McDonnell Douglas (MDC). A decision was planned for ...
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Dornier orders
Dornier Luftfahrt has won new Dornier 328 orders from customers in France and Italy. Italian start-up regional carrier Minerva has placed two firm orders for delivery in the second quarter, and one option. Dijon-based Proteus has ordered a further two aircraft, which it will fly for Europair from April as ...
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DoD close to releasing proposals for JAST
THE US DEPARTMENT of Defense (DoD) will release the formal request for proposals (RFPs) for its Joint Affordable Strike Technology (JAST) project at the end of February, kicking off a competition to produce an estimated 5,000 fighter aircraft. Three responses to the RFP are expected, from Lockheed-Martin, Boeing ...
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Singapore looks beyond F-16C/Ds
The REPUBLIC OF Singapore Air Force (RSAF) has begun to study its fighter requirement beyond the Lockheed Martin F-16C/Ds now on order, with a tentative in-service date for its future combat aircraft planned for between 2005 and 2010. Several European and US manufacturers are keen to address the ...
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Airbus closes on A330-200 sale
AIRBUS CLAIMS to be in final negotiations with Korean Air (KAL) and two other unidentified international carriers to place the first orders for the recently launched A330-200 "shrink". According to Airbus senior vice-president John Leahy, KAL is looking for between 12 and 15 A330-200s, and up to six ...
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Fokker holds talks with potential buyers
FOKKER CHAIRMAN Ben van Schaik says that the company has spoken to some 30 parties potentially interested in taking over all or part of its operations, but is focusing initial negotiations on the "...six or seven" which may want to take on the entire company. He says that ...
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IPTN renews interest in Bell 430
INDUSTRI PESAWAT Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) is signalling renewed interest in assembling the new Bell 430 helicopter in Indonesia. The Indonesian manufacturer originally signed an agreement with Bell Helicopter Textron in December 1994 to either assemble or re-assemble the 430 for sale to the local civil market. There has ...
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MDC poised to pick partner for MD-95 supplier
McDONNELL DOUGLAS will announce shortly the selection of its final MD-95 supplier partner to develop and produce the twinjet's empennage. The US company has shortlisted Spain's CASA, Fleet Aeronca of Canada, Gamesa of Spain and Shenyang Aircraft of China. The selected company will fund development of the empennage. ...
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Supersonic record
A British Airways Aerospatiale/British Aerospace Concorde (G-BOAD) has recorded the fastest-ever Atlantic crossing by a commercial aircraft, having been flown between New York Kennedy Airport and London Heathrow Airport in 2h, 52min 59s. The flight on 7 February shaved 90s from the previous record, set in April 1990. ...
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Fatally flawed?
The increasingly troubled Sino/Korean Air Express AE-100 airliner programme proves that, not only have many in the established Western aerospace industries not learned the lessons of the last 50 years, but that neither have those in the emerging industries. The one thing which has blighted the European aerospace ...
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Nautilus fired
A test-firing of the Nautilus laser gun, a US-Israeli system designed to kill incoming missiles, went ahead on 6 February, earlier than expected. The system locked onto an unarmed Russian-built BM-21 artillery rocket for 15s and hit the target with the laser beam. Source: Flight International
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USA flight-tests advanced helmet
FLIGHT-TESTING of an advanced helmet under the US Joint Advanced Strike Technology programme is scheduled to begin in early February and continue to the end of March. The integrated helmet audio-visual system (IHAVS) combines a helmet-mounted display, three-dimensional (3-D) aural cueing and voice control in a bid to improve pilot ...
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Infrastructure
Winner: Airways Corporation of new Zealand Location: Wellington, New Zealand Achievement: Implementing the first satellite-based oceanic traffic control system, opening up the use of Future Air Navigation Systems in the Pacific. Airways Corporation of new Zealand has become the first air-traffic-control organisation to install a satellite-based oceanic ...
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Systems & components
Winner: Messier-Bugatti Location: Velizy, France Achievement: Head-up display for first 737 Category IIIB certification SEXTANT AVIONIQUE'S head-up flight-display system (HFDS) allowed L'A‚ropostale to become the world's first carrier to gain certification for Category IIIB operation of Boeing 737-300s, in September 1995. The judges ...
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Australian delivery
The Australian army has taken delivery of the first of three used Raytheon Beech King Air B200s to replace four Embraer EMB-100 Bandeirantes leased after its Government Aircraft Factories Nomads were grounded in 1994. The aircraft will be used for command and control, surveillance, electronic warfare and photography. ...
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S Koreans chase KTX-II trianer deal
SOUTH KOREA IS pushing to reach a partnership agreement with Spain and South Africa to develop the KTX-II advanced-trainer/light-combat aircraft, as talks with Lockheed Martin have stalled over workshare and the transfer of technology. CASA of Spain has been in long-running discussions with Samsung Aerospace to amalgamate its ...
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USA will let Thailand receive AMRAAMs
THAILAND WILL receive up to 50 Hughes AIM-120 advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles (AMRAAMs) for its pending purchase of McDonnell Douglas F-18C/Ds. The US State Department has been swayed by Department of Defense arguments to release the AMRAAMs after blocking the move. Although there is no mention of the ...
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DASA wants Airbus to scale down large-aircraft plans
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE partner Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) wants the consortium to drop its A3XX 500- to 650-plus-passenger aircraft study in favour of a 400- to 550-seat aircraft to rival new stretched variants of the Boeing 747 now under study. The DASA move comes in the wake of recent bruising ...
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Boeing nears launch order for 747 stretch 747
Guy Norris/SINGAPORE BRITISH AIRWAYS, Lufthansa and Singapore Airlines are close to negotiating launch orders with Boeing for the 747-600X, the stretched version of the present 747-400 and the first major derivative of the 747. The airlines will meet Boeing in early April at a crucial meeting ...
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MDC reveals its long-term plan for MD-11 plan
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is in the final stages of defining two new versions of the MD-11, which will enable the company to compete head-to-head with Airbus and Boeing in the Boeing 747-100/200 replacement market and the emerging extra-long-range market. "We got to the point that we had to ...