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'Nothing new' about F-22 overspending
REPORTS OF COST and weight overruns on the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 are "nothing new", the manufacturing team says. An US Air Force review, estimates that the $10.5 billion engineering and manufacturing development programme, will come in $572 million over budget, when it is completed in 2002. Lockheed Martin ...
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Lockheed answers arms-sales queries
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LOCKHEED MARTIN says that it is responding to "...three unrelated federal subpoenas seeking information...on its use of consultants on foreign sales". Documents requested concern the sales of F-16s to South Korea and at least five other countries since 1990, plus the sale of ...
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Feel-good factor remains elusive
ALTHOUGH 60% of UK corporate and general aviation operators admit to a growth in business optimism over the last six months, this figure is only 5% higher than two years ago. According to the General Aviation Manufacturers and Traders Association (GAMTA), this suggests that economic conditions in the industry are ...
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NBAA urges Euro action
EUROPEAN AIRCRAFT manufacturers and operators have been urged by US National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) president Jack Olcott to launch an advocacy campaign in support of corporate aviation. He has suggested that it be run along the same lines as the NBAA's own "No Plane, No Gain" programme in the ...
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UK schools angry at US training plan
FLYING SCHOOLS based in the UK have reacted angrily to the UK Civil Aviation Authority's decision to allow two flight centres in the USA to run CAA-approved courses for commercial pilot training (Flight International, 2-8 August, P20). Acting on the UK schools' behalf, the General Aviation Manufacturers ...
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USAir heads for profit
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC USAIR HAS surprised analysts with an upbeat forecast that it will end the year with its first profits since 1988. Over the past six years, the carrier has built up losses of more than $3 billion USAir ended the first half of this ...
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RAF signs Chinook deal
BOEING HELICOPTERS and the UK Ministry of Defence have completed contract negotiations for buying 14 HC Mk II CH-47D Chinook heavy-lift helicopters for the Royal Air Force. The $365 million contract calls for deliveries to begin in 1997 and be completed by early 1999. The RAF will eventually ...
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US Navy plans to modify Osprey V-22 radar design
THE US NAVY has directed the development of specific terrain-following/terrain-avoidance radar-design changes and related modifications needed to create the CV-22 special-operations variant of the Bell Boeing MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft. A contract to be awarded in 1996 will pay for the conversion of one engineering and manufacturing development ...
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ANZ posts record year and promises more to come
AIR NEW ZEALAND (ANZ) has turned in record profits for its latest financial year, despite the effects of Japan's Kobe earthquake and the grounding of ten Boeing 737-200s in February because of fan-blade failures (for which the carrier is seeking compensation). ANZ raised net profits by more than ...
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Air France and BA aim to please passengers
TWO OF EUROPE'S largest airlines have committed huge sums of money to woo the high-yield passengers with new concepts in first-class cabins. Air France launched its new L'Espace service on long-haul routes to the Americas and Asia on 11 September, while British Airways is expected to reveal its ...
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BMA extends its Euro network as Paris competition intensifies
BRITISH MIDLAND IS TO expand its European network in October, continuing its strategy of joining battle on Europe's busiest routes. The UK's second-largest scheduled carrier will serve Zurich and Prague from London Heathrow from 29 October, and reveals that passenger traffic grew by 13% during the first half of the ...
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Japan plans thrust-vectoring engine trials
JAPAN'S TECHNICAL Research and Development Institute (TRDI) plans to equip its future fighter demonstrator engine with a thrust vectoring nozzle and has already begun ordering long lead components for the power plant. The TRDI is evaluating either equipping the XF3-400 engine with two-directional thrust deflection paddles or the ...
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Japan's MITI raises request for state aerospace funding
JAPAN'S POWERFUL Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) is asking for a rise of nearly 8.6% in state aerospace funding for 1996 to help support the country's collaborative programmes. MITI's request asks for nearly '12 billion ($120 million), against '10.8 billion allocated for the current year. Much ...
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UK's Birmingham Airport makes Irish connection
AER RIANTA, the Irish Airports company, has beaten National Express and Airport Group International to the chance of taking a substantial share in Birmingham International Airport. The leaders of the seven West Midland District Council shareholders of the airport, have agreed to begin detailed negotiations with Aer Rianta, which are ...
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Pentagon plans to test variant of Russia's AS-17 Krypton
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC MCDONNELL DOUGLAS Aerospace (MDA) officials and their Russian counterparts hope that the Pentagon-funded evaluation of a variant of Russia's Zvezda Kh-31 (AS-17 Krypton) rocket-/ramjet-powered anti-ship missile will lead to multi-year procurement of MA-31 aerial targets for test and evaluation and training by the US ...
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Greek air-traffic control causes serious pilot-concern
Julian Moxon/Paris EUROPEAN PILOTS' associations have raised major concerns over continuing "very serious" air-traffic-control (ATC) problems in Greece. The German and Scandinavian Airline Pilots Associations have called the situation "disastrous", citing a survey of pilots which found that they were frequently unable to understand the instructions ...
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Pilots unhappy with Iberia
PILOTS OF SPANISH flag carrier Iberia are protesting that the restructuring plan agreed with the airline in 1994 is not being carried out, and are refusing to go along with further measures to cut costs. The pressure comes as the European Commission (EC) is due to decide before ...
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Team Tackles ERGM
Alliant Techsystems has teamed up with McDonnell Douglas to bid for a US Navy contract to develop the Extended Range Guided Munition (ERGM), or Hammer projectile, for the Naval Surface Fire Support programme. The ERGM is a 5in rocket-assisted ship-to-shore projectile, to be fired from a Mk45 gun, using global-positioning/inertial-navigation ...
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United 777s: heavy but happy
Guy Norris/Los Angeles UNITED AIRLINES admits that its first Boeing 777s is overweight, but is still satisfied with the aircraft's performance. New 16G crash-worthy seating is the largest single contributor to the higher-than-expected operating empty weight (OEW) of the initial aircraft, says the carrier. In United's ...