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JPATS rivals protest over DoD decision
PROTESTS HAVE been lodged by Cessna Aircraft and Lockheed Martin over the Pentagon's selection of the Raytheon Aircraft PC-9 Mk11 as the US military's next-generation primary training aircraft. Losing competitors in the US Air Force/US Navy's Joint Primary Aircraft Training System (JPATS) programme were given ten days to ...
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Pentagon disputes B-2 criticism bomber
THE US DEPARTMENT of Defense (DoD) has responded to criticism of the Northrop Grumman B-2 bomber, claiming that it is meeting stealth and operational requirements. The comment follows allegations in the US press that the US Air Force has yet to demonstrate that the aircraft's design will ...
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GPA cancellation hits MD-11
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES THE McDONNELL Douglas (MDC) MD-11 programme has received another blow, with the long-anticipated cancellation of 13 firm orders placed by leasing company GPA. The cancellations were revealed in MDC's quarterly financial report, which says that "...existing orders for 13 tri-jets from a ...
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MDC increases earnings
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES INCREASED INCOME from the F-15 and C-17 programmes have helped McDonnell Douglas (MDC) to record operating earnings of $328 million in the first six months of 1995 - a 21% increase over the same period in 1994, when net profits were $272 million. ...
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FAA calls for check on THY JT8Ds overhauls
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration will issue an airworthiness directive (AD) calling for detailed inspection of Pratt & Whitney JT8D turbofan engines overhauled by Turk Hava Yollari (THY), an FAA-certificated aircraft and engine-maintenance shop in Turkey. The AD results from an investigation of the 8 June uncontained failure ...
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DASA gets ready for French joint ventures
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) is restructuring its satellite and missile divisions in preparation for the founding of two joint ventures with Aerospatiale of France. The German company has announced plans to form two new daughter companies in these fields - Dornier Satellitensysteme (Dornier Satellite ...
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Europe plans 12-month trial to advance ADS forward
Kieran Daly/LONDON THE WORLD'S BIGGEST trial of satellite-based automatic dependent surveillance (ADS) will begin in Europe by the end of the year. The European Commission-funded ADS Europe programme will gather data from at least 11 aircraft - ten of them airliners on revenue flights. ADS ...
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Italian air force to close SAM units
THE ITALIAN air force will disband a further three of its obsolete Nike-Hercules surface-to-air missile (SAM) units in the next two years. Of the original 12 defence missile squadrons - known as Gruppis - only seven now remain under the control of the 16th and 17th Stormi, or ...
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Aer Lingus A330 launches new service
Aer Lingus put its fourth Airbus A330 into service on 13 July on a new transatlantic service linking Belfast in Northern Ireland with New York and Boston via Shannon. The aircraft, originally built for Air Inter, has been leased for seven years. The new service is being marketed as Vacation ...
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Haitian airlines are banned from USA
HAITIAN AIRLINES have been banned from US skies following a US Federal Aviation Administration judgement that the country's national aviation authority safety-oversight standards are "unacceptable". The Philippines has effectively been given a warning about the same issue. FAA foreign-safety decisions are given ratings, based on each country's effectiveness ...
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Good results so far for C-17
McDONNELL DOUGLAS C-17 transports were achieving an overall 98.36% departure reliability rate by the end of two "wartime surge" days, representing the most critical phase of the exhaustive 30-day US Air Force evaluation exercise. After the second "surge" day, the participating fleet of 12 C-17s had notched up ...
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US Navy tests F-14 DFCS
THE US NAVY HAS begun flight-testing a Grumman F-14D equipped with a digital flight-control system (DFCS) designed to prevent flat spins and improve carrier-approach handling qualities. The 1.3h first flight on 14 July demonstrated safe operation of the system in clean and landing configurations, the Navy says. ...
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USAF conducts successful DGPS bomb tests
ROCKWELL GBU-15 glide-bombs modified with global-positioning/inertial-navigation systems (GPS/INS) were dropped from US Air Force Lockheed Martin F-16s with a mean accuracy of 5m (16ft), or better, in recent tests using differential GPS (DGPS) to enhance precision guidance. Six bombs were released at altitudes of 24,000-30,000ft and slant ranges ...
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Australian Army officers want to scrap Nomads
A TEAM OF SENIOR Australian Army officers has recommended to defence minister Robert Ray that the Defence Force's 22 Nomad utility aircraft be permanently grounded and disposed of as unfit for military service. The Army has also sought approval to acquire replacement aircraft. Ray is expected to make ...
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BAe to lead Storm Shadow sales drive
Douglas Barrie/LONDON BRITISH AEROSPACE will lead bids to sell a variant of the Matra Apache stand-off missile to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as part of a collaborative agreement with the French manufacturer. The two companies have teamed to offer a derivative ...
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DASA announces Mehdorn successor
DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) has named Mannesmann Anlagenbau chairman, Dr Dietrich Russell, as the successor to aircraft division president Hartmut Mehdorn, who is leaving the company later this year. The appointment is conditional on the agreement of engineering company Mannesmann. DASA president and chief executive Manfred Bischoff says that ...
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Southwest Airlines makes plans for Florida expansion
SOUTHWEST AIRLINES plans to expand into Florida early in 1996. Share prices of airlines already serving the leisure-dominated Florida market fell sharply with the news of Southwest's first expansion eastward since it established a presence at Baltimore/Washington Airport in September 1993. Dallas, Texas-based Southwest will begin services to ...
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Brussels clears DASA/Zeiss optronics deal venture
MONOPOLIES OFFICIALS of the European Union (EU) have given the all-clear for the founding of a defence-optronics joint venture by Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) and the Carl Zeiss Group. The new venture will be called Zeiss-Eltro Optronic, and will be based at Oberkochen in Germany, with a second site ...
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Sabena/Swissair tie-up gets EC approval
THE EUROPEAN Commission (EC) has given its blessing to the alliance between Swissair and Belgian flag carrier Sabena. Under the deal, Swissair will take a 49.5% stake in Sabena by 2005. The EC says that it is "satisfied" about guarantees that Sabena will remain under European Union ...
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AlliedSignal buys control of SECAN
ALLIEDSIGNAL Aerospace has extended its holding in aircraft heat-exchanger specialist, Societe D'Etudes et de Constructions Aero-Navales (SECAN), by 34%, to 83%. The purchase from Intertechnique of France boosts, AlliedSignal's involvement in the European environmental control systems market. It also strengthens its role in the global heat-exchanger after-market through ...