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UAE weighs up its counter to Kilos
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE THE UNITED ARAB Emirates (UAE), has modified the mission requirement for its planned fleet of maritime-patrol aircraft, to include, an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capability. Competing manufacturers were briefed to supply four aircraft configured primarily for anti-surface-vessel (ASV) strike, armed with McDonnell Douglas AGM-84 ...
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US DoD considers punishment for Lockheed over C-130 Egyptian bribe
THE US DEPARTMENT of Defense (DoD) is reviewing whether to bar Lockheed from receiving Pentagon contracts after the company pleaded guilty to paying an Egyptian politician $1 million for help in securing a $79 million contract for three C-130H Hercules transports. The US State Department has been ...
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B-1Bs pass operational readiness evaluation
THE US AIR FORCE'S Rockwell B-1B bomber fleet has passed a six-month, Congressionally mandated, readiness test intended to establish the aircraft's operational availability. Gen. Mike Loh, commander of USAF Air Combat Command, says that the test showed that the aircraft can fulfil its potential if, Congress provides sufficient ...
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Government veto blocks PC-9 sale to Mexico
The Swiss Government has banned the export of 48 Pilatus PC-9 turboprop trainers to the Mexican air force, which in 1994 used armed PC-7s to quell a revolt in Mexico's Chiapas region. The manufacturer had sought export approval for the SFr300 million ($238 million) deal. "After carefully ...
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Denver to open with stop-gap bag system
DENVER International Airport will open at the end of February, using a combination of manual and automated baggage-handling systems. The airport was due to open in October 1993, but problems with its integrated automated baggage-handling system, has forced the opening to be delayed four times. In ...
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TransAsia ATR 72 was flying 'too low'
TAIWANESE investigators examining the nighttime crash, of a TransAsia Airways ATR 72 on 30 January, are trying to determine, why the aircraft was around 1,500ft (430m) below its prescribed altitude. The ATR 72 turboprop was cleared to land and the pilot was about to begin the approach to ...
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Russia to re-start Hokum production
THE RUSSIAN Government has released funding to re-start series production of the much-delayed Kamov Ka-50 Hokum attack helicopter. Series production originally began in 1993 at the Progress plant in Arseneyv in the Russian Far East. Funding shortages, however, brought work on the helicopter to a halt. ...
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Russians reveal Su-24MP cockpit
THE FIRST photograph of the Sukhoi Su-24MP (Fencer F) electronic-warfare (EW) aircraft cockpit shows a considerably revised layout for the electronic-systems operator. The rarely seen aircraft is used by the Russian air force for EW combat training at the Lipetsk air base. Only a dozen Su-24MPs (pictured above) ...
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Recovery damage guided Phoenix review
DAMAGE TO the GEC-Marconi Phoenix unmanned air vehicle (UAV) during recovery is behind an UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) decision to undertake a review into the future of the programme (Flight International, 25-31 January). GEC admits that, on recovery, the UAV occasionally sustains more damage than is acceptable ...
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Western partners lose patience over An-124
Kieran Daly/LONDON WESTERN CARGO companies with interests in the Antonov An-124 Ruslan outsize freighter are expressing growing exasperation with its engines. The combination of the D-18T turbofan's unreliability and future difficulties in coping with noise restrictions has led to a showdown with Ukrainian engine design ...
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UK placatory on European workshare
Douglas Barrie/LONDON THE UK GOVERNMENT is holding out an industrial olive branch to Germany in a move aimed at avoiding damaging disputes over work-share on the Eurofighter 2000 and the Future Large Aircraft (FLA). Senior Whitehall sources say that the UK will be relatively flexible ...
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Swissair runs into turbulence over Sabena alliance
FURTHER controversy has blown up around Swissair's alliance talks with Sabena, following the disclosure that the Swiss carrier is planning to make a revised offer which will include a call for "substantial" Belgian Government help in recapitalising its national carrier. "Swissair will formulate a new offer later this ...
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UK spells out London airports policy
THE UK GOVERNMENT'S long-awaited response to the report by the "Runway capacity to serve the south-east" working-group rules out the possibility of a third Heathrow runway, but allows for a close, parallel, runway at Gatwick. Transport secretary Brian Mawhinney is asking the Civil Aviation Authority to study further ...
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US airlines remain in the red
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE US AIRLINE industry again failed to produce the long-awaited return to profitability in 1994 as carriers paid for their latest round of restructuring. Two airlines, USAir and Continental Airlines, have warned of further job losses and aircraft deferrals to come. With most ...
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Boeing offers UK 200% offset
BOEING IS offering the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) a 200% offset deal if it purchases the CH-47 Chinook to meet the Royal Air Force's £1 billion support-helicopter requirement. The company hopes that the offset offer will counter what it perceives to be a growing political lobby in ...
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Emergency landing mars 777 test success
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES JUBILATION OVER THE "flawless" first flight of a General Electric GE90-powered Boeing 777 on 2 February was overshadowed by an incident on another 777 test aircraft which was forced into an emergency landing at Boeing Field later the same day. Boeing launched ...
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GE wins stretched Regional Jet vote
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES BOMBARDIER HAS selected a new variant of the General Electric CF34 turbofan to power the yet-to-be-launched CRJX, a stretched version of the 50-seat Canadair Regional Jet. The choice of the CF34-8C was revealed to Canadair's CRJX airline advisory group at a meeting in ...
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Delta/Virgin code-share approved
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA THE US DEPARTMENT of Transportation (DoT) has approved Delta Airlines' space/code-sharing deal with Virgin Atlantic Airways, for which Delta first applied in April 1994. The agreement will give Atlanta, Georgia-based Delta its first access to London Heathrow through seat blocks purchased on Virgin ...
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Order cuts spark Boeing job losses
BOEING IS TO CUT 737 and 767 production rates and has forecast around 7,000 job losses for 1995, only six weeks after company chairman and chief executive Frank Schrontz predicted that the employment forecast would be "level or slightly down". Admitting the dramatic effect of some recent ...
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Hand-Me-Down Hokum
The US Department of Defense (DoD) is doing, on the surface, what any responsible government department anywhere would do. It has thousands of helicopters (and parts for them) which have been paid for once by the taxpayer and are now surplus to requirements. Rather than scrapping or mothballing them, the ...