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Lockheed/Boeing evaluate F-22 mission derivatives
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LOCKHEED AND Boeing will study derivatives of the F-22 Advanced Tactical Fighter under a US Air Force contract to be awarded within the next two months. Missions to be studied include strike, defence-suppression and reconnaissance, says F-22 programme general-manager Gary Riley. The F-22 ...
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MDC shuts down plants after Tomahawk loss
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is to close its missiles plant in Titusville, Florida, following the group's failure, to win the US Tomahawk cruise-missile competition. Another electrical-equipment plant is also to close at St Charles, Missouri, bringing group redundancies to 1,300. The Florida plant will deliver its last Tomahawk sea-launched ...
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NASA selects new Discovery missions
NASA HAS SELECTED the Lunar Prospector as the third low-cost Solar System exploration mission in the Administration's Discovery programme. To be launched in June 1997, the $59 million, 1.3m-diameter, hatbox-shaped craft will go into orbit around the Moon. It will be used to map its chemical composition and ...
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Pegasus to launch satellite trio
ORBITAL SCIENCES (OSC) will begin a new era in satellite data communications later this month with the launch of the first two Orbcomm satellites aboard the Pegasus XL. Also on board will be the first OSC Microlab piggyback science satellite for NASA. The Orbcomms, originally scheduled to have ...
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Martin Marietta plans three Atlas launches
THREE MARTIN Marietta Atlas boosters, are scheduled to be launched, from Cape Canaveral, Florida and Vandenberg AFB, California, this month. The Intelsat 705 communications satellite will be launched from Cape Canaveral on 19 March, aboard an Atlas 2AS vehicle, and will be followed on 31 March by American ...
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Ramjet technology
Ramjet technology is neither new, nor difficult, at least on paper. Implementing such a power plant on a missile, however, poses considerable demands on propulsion designers. The attraction of ramjet propulsion is that it offers both extended range and increased mean velocity during missile flight, with an ...
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Brazilian Skyjet begins operations
A NEW BRAZILIAN charter carrier, Skyjet, has started operations with flights to Margarita Island in Venezuela, Cancun, Mexico and the Virgin Islands, operating a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30. Skyjet will take delivery of a second DC-10 by the middle of this year. It hopes to operate it on proposed ...
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Swissair supports Fokker 100
SWISSAIR HAS written to Fokker to make clear that it has no criticism of the Fokker 100, despite its probable dropping of the type from its fleet. The airline says, that its public comments on the Fokker 100's economics, when it said that the aircraft had "accounted ...
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Dassault calls for defence reform as industry suffers
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS, SERGE DASSAULT, speaking as president of French aerospace-industry association Gifas, warns of another bleak year for the country's embattled industry and renews calls for reform of the French military-procurement system. Presenting the association's year-end report, Dassault warns that 1995 is likely to bring ...
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IAI uprates Kfir fighter for new Philippines sales drive
ISRAEL AIRCRAFT Industries has stepped up efforts to sell its Kfir fighter to the Philippines, with an upgraded variant of the aircraft, dubbed the Kfir 2000, now being proposed. The Israeli Company is offering the Kfir C-10, which is a post-production model with a revised avionics suite. It ...
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IAI proposes low-cost radar upgrade for MiG-21 Fishbed
ISRAEL AIRCRAFT Industries (IAI) is proposing a low-cost radar upgrade for the Mikoyan MiG-21bis Fishbed, based on modification of the aircraft's existing radar. One contract has already been signed. The radar package is based on modifying the MiG-21's existing radar, so that its video output is displayed either ...
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NTSB urges ASDE-3 movement
THE US NATIONAL Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is urging the Federal Aviation Administration to allow the immediate commissioning of the Westinghouse Norden Systems ASDE-3 surface-movement radar installed at 23 US airports. It also wants the FAA to speed up development of the associated Airport Movement Area Safety ...
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EC tries to close ranks over US open-skies deals
Julian Moxon/PARIS EUROPEAN TRANSPORT ministers will be asked to toe the line on a common "open-skies" policy for the European Union in a crucial meeting to be held in Brussels on 13-14 March. The matter has moved to the top of the agenda as the ...
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United boss warns USA on fuel tax
A MOVE BY the Clinton Administration to begin collecting a transportation fuel tax from US airlines could shut down some financially struggling US carriers, United Airlines chairman and chief executive Gerald Greenwald, has warned. The previously enacted fuel surcharge, was waived by the US Government until October 1995, ...
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Corporatised NZAC cuts ATC cost charges
AIRWAYS CORPORATION of New Zealand, which supplies air-traffic services to the country, has reduced its charges by a further 3% for en route instrument-flight-rules operations and international airport-approach services. The reductions follow a 10% discount already in place from October 1994. Airways Corporation chairman, Rex Loach says, that ...
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USAir cuts point-to-point routes as it retreats into primary hubs
USAIR PLANS TO retreat from low-cost point-to-point competition and re-focus operations around its major hubs. The re-organisation will result in a 5% cut in capacity across the carrier's route system. The beleaguered airline, which is still trying to win labour concessions from union workers, will retrench ...
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Belgian scandal results in 'suicide'
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS A FORMER CHIEF of the Belgian air force has apparently committed suicide as a result of Belgian police investigations into the widening corruption scandal surrounding the Ministry of Defence's purchase of Agusta A.109 helicopters. Gen. Jacques Lefebvre, chief of staff of the ...
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Hughes LEAP test fails to hit target
A HUGHES KINETIC kill vehicle failed to hit a simulated Scud target during an exo-atmospheric intercept test on 4 March off the coast of North Carolina. Telemetry from the Lightweight Exo-Atmospheric Projectile (LEAP) test shows that deviations from the expected interceptor missile flight path may have contributed to ...
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UK restructuring pays dividend
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON TWO YEARS OF SEVERE cost-cutting is beginning to pay dividends for UK aerospace companies, with Rolls-Royce and British Aerospace leading a better round of financial results for the industry. Both groups also confirm that their programmes of plant closures and redundancies are now coming to ...
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Cat III GPS 'feasible', USA will tell ICAO
Kieran Daly/LONDON THE USA IS TO present data to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) which, it says, demonstrate the feasibility of Category III satellite-navigation precision approaches. US delegates to the key Communications/Operations Divisional meeting (COM-OPS 95), due to take place in Montreal between 27 ...