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Fokker 60 military Utility due in May 1996
The first Fokker 60 Utility aircraft for the Royal Netherlands Air Force is undergoing final assembly at Fokker's Amsterdam production plant. First flight is scheduled for September, with deliveries due to begin in May 1996. The Fokker 60 Utility, a development of the Fokker 50 and powered by up-rated Pratt ...
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USA is 'willing to work with Europe'
THE USA WILL WORK with any European nation where there is "...a real commitment to prompt and fundamental liberalisation of air services with the USA", says US transportation secretary Federico Pena. The senior US official made the remark after meeting with his European counterparts in Vienna. Pena recognises ...
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Finmeccanica merges missile companies
Julian Moxon/PARIS ITALIAN HOLDING company Finmeccanica has brought the disparate elements of the Italian missile industry under one banner, preparing it for a possible alliance with the Aerospatiale/ Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) group now being negotiated. The newly formed Alenia Oto Sistemi Missilistici combines the missile ...
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B-2 programme cuts rejected
THE US HOUSE of Representatives turned down an amendment that would have stripped the $553 million in B-2 funding added by the House National Security Committee, but not requested by the Pentagon. US defence secretary William Perry opposes building more than 20 B-2 bombers, but the House voted ...
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Chinook Crash
Controlled flight into terrain has been given as the cause of the Royal Air Force Boeing Vertol Chinook crash on the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland, on 2 June 1994. There were no discernible technical faults, says the official RAF report, although investigators had no flight-data recorder or cockpit-voice recorder to ...
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Lockheed is close to APALS test partners
Kieran Daly/PARIS LOCKHEED MARTIN IS close to securing the airline partners it needs to run trials leading to certification of its pioneering Autonomous Precision Approach and Landing System (APALS) The company has already signed a memorandum of understanding with an unidentified US regional operator to ...
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Boeing narrows NSA propulsion bidders' field
BOEING HAS short-listed three competing turbofan engines to power its proposed 90- to 108-seat New Small Aeroplane (NSA), due to enter service early in the next century. The three candidate engines are the BMW Rolls Royce BR.715, CFM International CFM56 Lite and the planned standard version of the ...
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United studies 727 life-extension
UNITED AIRLINES IS examining the possibility of extending the lives of its Boeing 727s in an effort to reduce fleet-renewal costs. The carrier's work on head-up displays (HUDs) and enhanced-vision systems (EVS) has helped move it towards a life-extension decision. United has been increasingly voluble in its questioning ...
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AlliedSignal cuts down on BAe 146 engine-maintenance costs
ALLIEDSIGNAL HAS pledged to cut LF502 engine maintenance costs for British Aerospace 146 operators to below $40/h over the next five years. The programme is a joint initiative with BAe's Asset Management Organisation (AMO), which handles the manufacturer's 100-strong fleet of leased 146s. AMO managing director Robin Southwell ...
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KAL chooses PW4000 engine family to power 777s and A330s
KOREAN AIRLINES (KAL) has selected the Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engine family for its Boeing 777s and Airbus A330s, in a deal worth about $850 million. KAL's first four 777-200Bs will be powered by the 400kN (90,000lb)-thrust PW4090 and its remaining eight stretch -300s by the PW4098, derated ...
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Mikoyan pushes 1.42 for Mosaero debut show debut
Douglas Barrie/PARIS MIKOYAN IS PUTTING pressure on the Russian Government to allow it to display its fifth-generation fighter, the Article 1.42, at the Moscow air show in August amid continuing doubts as to the programme's future. Mikoyan deputy chief designer Anatoly Belosvet confirms that Mikoyan ...
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Lockheed/Yakovlev discuss ASTOVL
LOCKHEED MARTIN has had to turn to Russia's former advanced short take-off and vertical-landing (ASTOVL) specialist Yakovlev because it has been blocked from gaining access to Western ASTOVL technology. Lockheed Martin and Yakovlev are discussing a technology-access agreement whereby the US Company would be able to utilise Yakovlev's ...
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Four-rotor Cobra crucial to Venom bid
Douglas Barrie/PARIS Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC GEC-MARCONI'S VENOM bid for the UK's £2 billion attack-helicopter programme hangs on its ability to provide the UK with a four-bladed development of the Bell AH-1W Cobra, according to a senior US Navy official. GEC and the US Marine Corps ...
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GE confident of fan blade answer
Graham Warwick/PARIS GENERAL ELECTRIC Aircraft Engines has developed a solution to the fan-blade failure which has grounded GE90-powered Boeing 777 flight-test aircraft (Flight International, 14-20 June, P4). GE has until mid-July to restage the 3.6kg birdstrike test successfully, if Boeing is to deliver the first GE90-powered 777 ...
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Another 777 suffers depressurisation
THE FOURTH FLIGHT-test Boeing 777, returning from the Paris air show, suffered a pressurisation failure while en route from Washington DC to Seattle on 14 June. The incident was a less-serious recurrence of the loose duct-clamps, which caused pressurisation losses on two other 777s. The aircraft had not ...
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IAI's search for partner no threat to Galaxy
Allan Winn/PARIS ISRAEL AIRCRAFT Industries (IAI) chairman Moshe Keret says, that the company is proceeding with the Galaxy business jet regardless of the search for a new business partner for that part of its operations. He says that, "plus or minus a few months", IAI still ...
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Gulfstream V enters final assembly
THE FIRST GULFSTREAM V fuselage was joined in late-May, marking the start of final assembly of the firm's next-generation long-range business aircraft. Fred Breidenbach, Gulfstream Aerospace president and chief operating officer says: "We are on track toward first flight in November." Certification and the beginning of production deliveries ...
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Four engines on offer for A340 stretch
AIRBUS WILL begin evaluating four engine options for the stretched version of the A340 in the fourth quarter of the year, says vice-president, engineering, Bernard Ziegler. The consortium says that it would "...prefer to offer a choice of engines, but that depends on the manufacturers". "We're working with ...
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Hughes' Peace Shield 'six months ahead' on delivery
HUGHES AIRCRAFT will formerly deliver the completed $1 billion plus Peace Shield command, control and communication (C3I) system to Saudi Arabia in July. The integrated system is being delivered "...nearly six months ahead of schedule and on budget", says Hughes, which is building the Peace Shield under ...
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Eurocopter's new EC120 under test
Andrzej Jeziorski/PARIS Franco-German helicopter manufacturer Eurocopter has successfully completed the first flight of the EC 120 light helicopter. A 20min flight was performed on 9 June from Eurocopter's Marignane site in France, with test pilot Etienne Herrenschmidt and engineer Bernard Cortain at the controls. The EC120 ...