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Northrop Grumman wants AIDC as F-5E/F partner
NORTHROP GRUMMAN is negotiating a partnership agreement with Taiwan's Aero Industry Development Centre (AIDC) for the upgrade surplus F-5E/Fs for resale on the international market. The company is seeking foreign partners to participate in its F-5 Tiger IV modernisation programme. The US manufacturer is hoping that international tie-ups ...
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SITA close to US airline deal
TELECOMMUNICATIONS network giant SITA is on the verge of concluding its first satellite-based communications agreement with a US airline. The contract, with a "major US carrier" will, says assistant vice-president, marketing, Rene Azoulai, "...give us the entry point we needed in this very competitive market". SITA has also ...
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Honeywell co-operates with Trimble for GPS retrofit market
HONEYWELL HAS teamed with Trimble Navigation to develop and market global-positioning-system (GPS) products for the air-transport retrofit market. The agreement, signed on the eve of the Paris air show, does not affect Honeywell's alliance with Canadian Marconi, which supplies the sensor for the US manufacturer's new-airliner GPS products. ...
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High-speed ATR 72 tops AIR product agenda
A HIGH-SPEED version of the 74-seat ATR 72 is likely to be the first product developed by the new regional alliance formed by the ATR consortium (Aerospatiale and Alenia) and British Aerospace. ATR says that it is "studying possible engines" for a higher-speed version of the ATR 72. ...
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A340 ruled out of JSTARS
NORTHROP GRUMMAN and the main Airbus Industrie partners have ruled out the Airbus A340-200 as the basis for a NATO Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) in favour of the Boeing 707. The US company says, that a study team including British Aerospace, Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) ...
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MDC chief attacks civil doubters
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) chief executive Harry Stonecipher has moved to quash speculation over the group's commitment to the airliner market, admitting that the doubts have been "hurting" sales prospects. In a blustering performance at the Paris air show, he claimed that, if MDC were not already in the ...
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RAF EH101s to get Nemesis
WESTLAND/Agusta EH101 transport helicopters for the Royal Air Force are to be fitted with the Nemesis directed infra-red countermeasures system, forward-looking infra-red (FLIR) sensor and in-flight refueling (IFR) probe. The UK Ministry of Defence and Westland are believed to have concluded details of the procurement this month. ...
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BAe and Saab seal Gripen export deal
BRITISH AEROSPACE and Saab have formally unveiled a joint venture covering the export of the latter's JAS39 Gripen multi-role fighter aircraft (Flight International, 7-13 June). The deal covers joint marketing, manufacturing and support of export derivatives of the JAS39, which BAe believes will meet its requirement for a ...
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NASA Backs Brant
Fifty Black Brant sub-orbital rockets are to be built by Bristol Aerospace in a $12.7 million deal with NASA. The rockets will be used by in scientific-research missions. Source: Flight International
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Bombardier costs Dash 8-400 development
DEVELOPMENT OF THE de Havilland Dash 8-400 high-speed regional turboprop will cost C$450 million ($327 million), Bombardier says, with the Canadian company performing half of the work and risk-sharing partners the rest. Bombardier launched the stretched, 70-seat, Dash 8 at Paris with 18 firm orders, including 12 from ...
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CFMI to ground-test improved A320 engine
CFM INTERNATIONAL (CFMI) will begin ground-testing the first improved CFM56-5B/P turbofan for the Airbus A320 family in July. The engine is based on the core of the CFM56-7 under development for the next-generation Boeing 737. The new engines will have wide-chord fans, three-dimensional aerodynamic design, new materials and ...
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Honeywell/GEC-Marconi combine for F-16 HMD
HONEYWELL HAS teamed with the UK's GEC-Marconi Avionics to develop a helmet-mounted cueing system for the Lockheed Martin F-16. An advanced prototype of the helmet-mounted display (HMD) will be flight-tested on the aircraft manufacturer's new F-16D technology-demonstrator in 1996, says Jerry Vandevoort, general manager of Honeywell's Military Avionics division. ...
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Bell Boeing targets Osprey price cuts
BELL BOEING HAS REMOVED more than 900kg of empty weight from the V-22 tilt-rotor transport, compared to the prototype, which had its first public appearance at Paris. The first of four production-representative aircraft, scheduled to fly in December 1996, is projected to be 160kg under its weight target, the team ...
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Airbus takes charge of the FLA
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE has formally taken over management of the Future Large Aircraft (FLA) military-transport programme, bringing together the five major European aerospace companies involved under a single banner. The question of Italian involvement in the subsidiary was settled only minutes before the FLA announcement at Paris. Alenia ...
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Saab to step up 340B production
SAAB AIRCRAFT IS looking to raise output rates on the 340B regional turboprop to four a month following American (AMR) Eagle's firm order for 25 aircraft. The rise in 340 production, together with the build-up of Saab 2000 deliveries, would put the manufacturer on course to achieve its ...
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Germans plan European missile
THE GERMAN MINISTRY of Defence is attempting to build a next-generation European short-range air-to-air missile (AAM) programme around Bodenseewerk Geratetechnik's (BGT) IRIS-T AAM. The German defence ministry earlier this month invited partners from the European Sidewinder consortium, which manufactured the missile under licence, to participate in the IRIS-T, ...
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Socata to manufacture Cougars
AEROSPATIALE subsidiary Socata has signed with American General Aircraft for the rights to manufacture its Cougar twin-engined piston aircraft. Socata president Jean-Marc de Raffin Dourny says, that the aircraft renamed the TB320 Tangara, will be aimed particularly at the trainer market, complementing the existing range of trainers offered ...
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GIV SIGINT aircraft bound for Sweden
GULFSTREAM WILL deliver the first of two GIV-based signals-intelligence (SIGINT) aircraft to Sweden in August, and is talking to Germany, the UK and Japan about supplying similar aircraft. The company has teamed with US SIGINT-systems manufacturer TRW to market the special-mission version of the GIV business-jet. Flight-testing ...
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Frakes Aviation
FRAKES AVIATION DISPLAYED a Turbo-Mallard amphibian at Paris to gauge demand to place the 17-passenger aircraft back in production. Texas-based Frakes owns the design rights to the Grumman-developed Mallard and has re-engine 12 of 59 aircraft already built with Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A turboprops. The company sees a market ...
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Piper Back
Piper Aircraft expects to emerge from bankruptcy protection following a confirmation hearing scheduled for 10 July which is expected to confirm a re-organisation plan, under which 50% of Piper will be sold to an investment firm, 25% to engine manufacturer Teledyne and 25% to creditors. Source: Flight International