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Raytheon SAR on JDAM
Raytheon has been selected over Loral to demonstrate the compatibility of the Hammerhead synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) seeker on the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM). The US defence contractor received an initial $12 million US Air Force contract to provide three Hammerhead SAR seekers and associated equipment to test on JDAM. ...
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Corporate competition
Was it Vegas glitter or industry recovery, which brought record crowds to this year's National Business Aircraft Association convention? Graham Warwick/LAS VEGAS AGGRESSIVE MARKETING gave the 1995 NBAA convention in Las Vegas an edge not previously experienced at this generally amiable annual event. Bombardier and Gulfstream were ...
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Lucas pays the price for US Navy dispute
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON LUCAS INDUSTRIES has agreed to pay $88 million to settle its long-running contract dispute over the supply of accessory gearboxes for US Navy McDonnell Douglas F-18s. The group says that the Lucas Western Geared Systems operation in Utah, which was at the heart ...
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ZFL reveals helicopter-transmission concept
Andrew Doyle/ AN INNOVATIVE power-transmission system for the next-generation of advanced helicopters has been unveiled by ZF Luftfahrttechnik (ZFL), which claims its design gives scope for significant weight savings and increased reliability. Friedrichshafen, Germany-based ZFL presented the idea to delegates attending the Aerospace Transmissions Technology ...
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Meggitt in Citation deal
Meggitt Avionics has won a production contract for its solid-state secondary flight-display system from Cessna Aircraft, for incorporation in the Citation family of business jets. Meggitt Avionics, based in Fareham, UK, claims that the product is the first system integrating conventional instruments indicating attitude, altitude and airspeed into a single ...
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Airbus ozone project gathers momentum
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE is close to completing in-flight analysis of the ozone layer in the first phase of a European Union (EU)-backed atmospheric research programme. Airbus, which is leading the project with France's Centre National de la Recherche Scientific (CNRS), hopes that the results of the project will be used by ...
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FANS pays its way
Airlines are demanding hard cost benefits as FANS moves off the drawing board and into the sky. Kevin O'Toole and Julian Moxon/AMSTERDAM ALMOST BY definition, the debate over the Future Air Navigation System (FANS) has been strong on the benefits of tomorrow's technology, but a little weaker ...
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DC-10 misses Frankfurt runway - by 300km
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS David Learmount/LONDON A NORTHWEST AIRLINES McDonnell Douglas DC-10-40 carrying 241 passengers from Detroit to Frankfurt missed its intended destination by 300km (160nm), landing at Brussels Airport by mistake on 5 September. The pilots of Flight 52 only realised their error when they ...
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USAir Express launches Magellan GPS/ACARS
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA USAIR EXPRESS HAS become the launch customer for Magellan Systems' CNS-12 communication/navigation/surveillance system. USAir has ordered systems to equip around 100 de Havilland Dash 8s and Dornier 328s operated by subsidiaries Allegheny, Jetstream International and Piedmont Airlines. Magellan says that it plans to ...
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Honeywell lands Moscow GPS order
HONEYWELL IS TO install a satellite-based landing-system at Moscow's Zhukovsky airfield for use by Russia's Department of Air Transportation to establish certification and operational procedures for precision approaches using the global-positioning system (GPS) and its Russian equivalent, GLONASS. The US company will supply its SLS-2000 differential-GPS (DGPS) ground ...
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Speech-recognition success
A "flight-worthy" speech-recognition system has achieved a 98.5% word recognition success rate while in operation in a noise and vibration environment representative of the cockpit of a Westland Lynx helicopter, according to the UK Defence Evaluation & Research Agency (DERA). The DERA is working with GEC-Marconi Secure Systems to introduce ...
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Space Station funding passes major milestone
Tim Furniss/LONDON THE US HOUSE of Representatives, has cleared a hard fought Bill, authorising NASA to spend $13.1 billion on the international space station over the next seven years, during which time, construction of the base is scheduled to be completed. The unprecedented financial forward ...
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Identified flying object
THIS IS ONE FLYING SAUCER which can be identified. It is the Wake Shield free-flying spacecraft seen after deployment during the Space Shuttle Endeavour/STS69 mission in September. Control problems and overheating reduced the craft's production of ultra-thin semiconductor films in the pure vacuum created in the wake of the Shuttle's ...
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Kamov fits Zvezda anti-radiation missile to single-seat Hokum
RUSSIAN HELICOPTER manufacturer Kamov is carrying out integration of the Zvezda Kh-25MP (AS-12 Kegler) anti-radiation missile (ARM) with its Ka-50 Hokum single-seat attack helicopter. A Ka-50 displayed during the MosAero show in August had its port inboard stub-wing pylon converted to carry the Kh-25MP, with the missile on ...
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Grob fears for Strato future funds
GERMAN AIRCRAFT manufacturer Burkhart Grob says that its Strato 2C high-altitude research aircraft programme is being threatened by the refusal of the Government to hand over outstanding funding for the project. The Federal Ministry of Research and Technology has still not paid the DM46.75 million ($31 million) ...
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Czech bank offers Let funding to certificate GE-powered L-610G
CZECH REGIONAL manufacturer Let Kunovice has been offered funding to complete certification of its General Electric-powered L-610G turboprop. The money - understood to be CKr450 million ($17 million) - is being provided by Czech bank Komercni Banka as a long-term loan. Let now believes that it can complete ...
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Ayres considers Dual Pac power for new types
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES FRED AYRES, developer of the Ayres Turbo Thrush agricultural aircraft, is designing a series of new types - ranging from a fire fighting tanker to a utility freighter - using the Soloy Dual Pac with two Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6As as the power plant. ...
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Raytheon modifies its plans for advanced Hawker 1000
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT has slashed the development budget of a proposed stretched Hawker 1000 upgrade, and is now considering a more modest improvement to the aircraft than originally planned. The next-generation Hawker could be unveiled at the 1996 National Business Aircraft Association (NBAA) ...
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Saab postpones SK60 debut flight
THE FIRST FLIGHT of Saab's re-engine SK60 jet trainer has been deferred by around two months because of compatibility problems with the engine and airframe. The first aircraft to have its Turbomeca Aubisque turbojets replaced by the Williams-Rolls FJ44-1C is now undergoing ground test engine runs. ...
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Air India takes wet-lease route to expansion
AIR INDIA IS to wet-lease five 200/250-seat aircraft to advance its expansion plans. With effect from December, two long-range Lockheed L1011-500 TriStars and one Airbus A310-300 will be leased from Antigua-based Caribjet, and two more A310-300s from Air Club International, of Montreal, Canada. The new ...