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BASE contracted for DIRCM work
Andrew Doyle/LONDON BRITISH AEROSPACE (Systems and Equipment) (BASE) has been awarded a contract worth an estimated £10 million to supply a range of components for the Nemesis Directed Infra-Red Countermeasures (DIRCM) system, being developed by a Northrop Grumman-led team. The Nemesis is designed to protect ...
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NASA puts JAST model through hover tests
AN 86%-SCALE MODEL OF THE FUSELAGE of the Lockheed Martin Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) demonstrator aircraft, constructed from glass-reinforced plastics and steel, is being used for hover testing at NASA Ames Research Center, California. A screened cover protects the Pratt & Whitney F100-220 main engine and Allison Engines shaft-driven ...
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P&W and Energomash join for motor study
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA PRATT & WHITNEY and Russian rocket-engine manufacturer NPO Energomash are jointly studying a tri-propellant motor for NASA's X-33 reusable launch vehicle (RLV) technology-demonstrator. Near-full-scale combustion tests are being conducted in Russia under NASA contract, says the US Company. News of the tie-up emerged ...
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Raytheon Aircraft delivers all-cargo 1900Cs to Falcon
RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT has delivered, the first of four all cargo Beech 1900Cs, to Dubai-based Falcon Express Air Cargo (FECA), which will use the aircraft for express-package services in the Gulf region. The used 1900Cs have been modified with aluminum cabin liners, cargo nets, plugged windows, special interior lighting ...
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AkroTech introduces two-seat G-200
AKROTECH AVIATION has introduced a two-seat version of its G-200 aerobatic kitplane. First flight of the Giles G-202 is scheduled for September. The kit price is $54,500, excluding engine and avionics. The aircraft will be suitable for unlimited-class competition aerobatics. Troutdale, Oregon-based AkroTech says that performance differences between the G-200 ...
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Starships will be crash-tested
TWO STARSHIP airframes donated by Raytheon Aircraft to NASA's Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiments (AGATE) programme will be used for nondestructive testing and crash-simulation tests (Flight International, 17-23 May). Raytheon has donated two of the three Starship certification prototypes, having first removed the engines, avionics and systems. Initial ...
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Europeans united on Sino-Korean 100-seat aircraft
A SENIOR SOUTH Korean industry source has confirmed that a joint European aerospace delegation, including British Aerospace, is due to visit Beijing soon to discuss development with China and South Korea of a new 100- to 120-seat passenger aircraft. China and South Korea are expected to select a ...
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USAF reviews Black Hawk shootdown
ALL ADMINISTRATIVE and personnel actions taken in the wake of the 14 April, 1994 shooting down of two US Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters over northern Iraq will be reviewed by Gen. Ronald Fogleman, the US Air Force's chief of staff. Twenty-six people were killed in the ...
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EW F-18 under development
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) and Northrop Grumman have formally agreed to develop jointly a derivative of the F-18E/F Hornet strike aircraft as an electronic-warfare (EW) aircraft. It is proposed as a replacement for Northrop Grumman's EA-6B Prowler early in the next century. Although they are teamed on the F-18 ...
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Carry on Loral
Loral will continue to operate and maintain electronic-combat systems at the US Air Force's Weapons and Tactics Center Range in Nevada. An $86 million contract calls for Loral to continue providing technical support until the year 2000. Loral has held the contract since 1980. The aerial-combat range includes anti-aircraft artillery ...
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Thai needs new aircraft and another chairman
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Thai Airways International is considering purchasing the Airbus Industrie A340, or additional McDonnell Douglas (MDC) MD-11 tri-jets to meet its requirement for new long-range aircraft for use on thin routes. The aircraft are needed to replace larger Boeing 747-400s on existing under-utilised routes ...
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Phoenix Airways rescued
PRIVATELY OWNED South African airline Phoenix Airways has been taken over by Cape Town-based charter operator Atlantic Air. The buy out, follows weeks of speculation on imminent bankruptcy hotly denied by the low-fare airline's managing director, Hugo Smit. The uncertainty surrounding Phoenix in the weeks before ...
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UK research satellites find dynamic radiation belts
THE EARTH'S van Allen radiation belts are more dynamic than previously thought, according to data returned from the Space Technology Research Vehicles STRV 1A and 1B, launched in June 1994. These satellites, built by the UK's Defense Research Agency (DRA) at Farnborough, were expected to survive only for ...
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Orbcomm success
ORBCOMM'S NETWORK Control Centre in Dulles Virgina, received messages on 25 July which had been transmitted to a passing Orbcomm satellite by a prototype subscriber communicator near the Dead Sea, Israel. The intercontinental transmission and receipt of the store-and-forward Globalgram messages proves the Orbital Sciences subsidiary's ability to ...
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High flyer
The European Space Agency's Ulysses spacecraft, the first probe to pass over the poles of the Sun, reached its maximum latitude of 80.2° north of the Sun's equator on 31 July. The spacecraft had traveled 2.56 billion kilometres since its deployment from the Space Shuttle Discovery in October 1990. ...
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Too many cooks?
Is Russia's recipe for arms-export success too rich? Alexander Velovich/MOSOCW EIGHTEEN AIRCRAFT being offered by eighteen agents, including a Russian popular singer with alleged mafia connections. No wonder the sale of Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrums to Malaysia proved such a tortuous process. Russia's attempts to "rationalise" ...
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Cathay profits turn up over first half of 1995
CATHAY PACIFIC produced a better-than-expected performance for the first half of 1995, after overcoming what the airline admits was a poor start to the year. Japan's Kobe earthquake early in the year resulted in the cancellation of ten Cathay flights and added further gloom to the already depressed ...
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Taiwan says 'no' to ex-Pakistani F-16s
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE TAIWAN HAS ruled out purchasing any of Pakistan's embargoed Lockheed Martin F-16A/Bs from the US Government, because of a lack of commonality with the F-16s it has already ordered. The US Government is trying to find a buyer for the 28 completed F-16s ...
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Textron piston production to grow
Ramon Lopez/WILLIAMSPORT TEXTRON LYCOMING production of piston engines following Cessna Aircraft's decision to revive its single-engined general-aviation (GA), and Piper Aircraft's emergence from four years of bankruptcy protection. Cessna, a sister company within the Textron group, decided to re-introduce the 172, 182, 206 and Turbo ...
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Northwest and KLM increase US-Europe frequencies
NORTHWEST AIRLINES and KLM will inaugurate a joint daily non-stop service between Washington's Dulles International and Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on 29 October, replacing the present thrice-weekly frequencies. The new service will be flown with McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30s. The two airlines now offer joint schedules from 11 North American ...