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Pressure breathing kit targeted at combat flyers
Spare parts distributor Transaero is hoping that the Canadian Armed Forces will be the launch customer for G-Macs, the Gentex-Mustang air combat system. The new system, which helps provide a steady flow of air to aircrew, is still under development. It can be seen in Hall 3/F15. ...
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Adour variant developed for BAe Hawk
Rolls-Royce Turbomeca is launching a new variant of the British Aerospace Hawk powerplant. The Adour 900 is designed to meet customers' demands for lower life-cycle costs, better reliability and maintainability well into the next century, says the joint venture. Today Adour powers all variants of the ...
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Demos draw in the crowds at Aeroquip-Vickers
Hands-on activities at Hall 4/B5 are drawing in the crowds to the Aeroquip-Vickers stand. The attractions are live demonstrations of a new aerospace Target-Pro particle counter and interactive software. Aeroquip and Vickers are exhibiting as Aeroquip-Vickers, a new name adopted in April 1997. The ...
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US Tomcat is back on the prowl at Paris
It's been 21 years, but the Cat is back. After more than two decades away from Paris, the Northrop Grumman F-14 Tomcat flew into Le Bourget on Tuesday night to prove it still has many of its nine lives left. Lt Dan Sullivan (right) and Lt Eric Altshuler ...
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Flying display
Wednesday 18 June 1300: Breitling aerobatic display 1314: Extra 300S 1319: Sukhoi SU-29M 1327: Cayliss 1331: Robinson helicopter 1338: NHIndustries NH90, Eurocopter EC120, EC135, Tigre 1355: Socata TBM-700, Tangara 1402: Airbus A319, A340 1416: Dassault Falcon 900, Falcon 2000, ...
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Finalist: Fokker Services
Finalist: Fokker Services Location Woensdrecht, The Netherlands Achievement Maintaining service levels for Fokker aircraft despite the manufacturer's collapse. When Fokker Aircraft went into bankruptcy at the start of 1996, one of the main concerns among aircraft operators and owners was over what levels of support service ...
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Ready, steady,-wait!
To battle-hardened veterans of the Eurofighter EF2000 programme, the latest bout of German jitters must illicit a distinct feeling of déja vu, with German politicians once again threatening to put the project into a tailspin. For some of those veterans, however, German defence minister Volker Rühe's posturing ...
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Finalist: Northrop Grumman, Electronics
Finalist: Northrop Grumman, Electronics & Systems Integration Division Location Rolling Meadows, Illinois, USA Achievement Weight and cost savings through a miniaturised radio-transmitter unit. Northrop Grumman's highly miniaturised C-Band Microwave Power Module (MPM) is already offering significant weight savings in use on the US Navy's E-2C Hawkeye ...
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Systems & components
Joint Winner: BFGoodrich Avionics Systems Location Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA Joint Winner: Meggitt Avionics Location Fareham, UK Achievement Development of solid-state electronic standby instrument systems. Over the past couple of decades, the modern flight-deck has changed out of all recognition. Old ...
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France aims for closer military-engine co-operation with UK
The French armaments directorate DGA is mounting an initiative designed to push co-operation between France and the UK on research into advanced military engines. A senior DGA source says that there is a "possibility" of an announcement as early as this week's Paris air show on a joint-venture ...
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US Air Force embraces EGPWS
THE US AIR FORCE will begin buying enhanced ground-proximity warning systems (EGPWS) even before the US Federal Aviation Administration requires its installation on transport-category aircraft. The USAF joins a handful of US airlines which have voluntarily elected to install copies of the upgraded safety device on their aircraft ...
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Boeing battles to cut F-22 costs
Boeing is attempting to slash costs on the Lockheed Martin/ Boeing F-22 fighter by up to $12 billion over the life of the programme, partly through a series of production initiatives. The move follows the review of the Joint Estimate Team (JET) US Department of Defense price watchdog, ...
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Indonesia examines alternatives to F-16s
Indonesia has begun to focus attention on a range of alternative Russian and European-built fighter aircraft, following the Government's decision to cancel its planned purchase of nine Lockheed Martin F-16A/Bs from the USA (Flight International, 2-8 April). An Indonesian military delegation is understood to have already visited Russia ...
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Development of new JSF gun is planned
DEVELOPMENT OF AN advanced gun has been proposed for the US/UK Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) because of concerns over the weight, cost and effectiveness of the current M61 20mm cannon. The four services planning to buy the JSF have yet to agree whether it should have an internal gun. ...
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China reveals F-7 armed with Python 3
China has released for the first time pictures of the Rafael Python 3 short-range air-to-air missile being carried by a Chinese air force Chengdu F-7. Python-3 AAMs, known as PL-8s within the Chinese armed forces, were bought from Israel in the late 1980s. China has shown a short-range surface-to-air missile ...
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Taiwan hopes to see more Mirages
Taiwanese officials are hoping that the newly elected French socialist Government will approve the possible sale of a follow-on batch of 60 Dassault Mirage 2000-5 fighters. According to Taiwan's China Times newspaper, Taiwanese minister without portfolio Tsai Cheng-wen says that Paris is considering a planned new deal to ...
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Super survivor
Ghost Connie, you're cleared for flypast," calls the tower as Captain Charles "Chuck" Grant drops the nose of the Lockheed C-121C and asks flight engineer Jerry Steele for more power. The four turbo-compound Wright R-3350-93s howl louder and the Super Constellation thunders along the crowd line at El ...
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Fast exit
It is almost 51 years since, on 24 July, 1946, the first live test-ejection took place using a Martin-Baker ejection seat, and 49 years since Jo Lancaster made the first emergency Martin-Baker ejection from the prototype Armstrong Whitworth AW.52 flying wing. Those ejections used pre-production versions of Martin-Baker's ...
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AS350 transatlantic crossing attempt fails
THE ATTEMPT by a Eurocopter AS350B3 civil-helicopter crew to fly non-stop from New York to Paris has failed because of a faulty fuel-tank weld. The two French pilots, trying to follow the path of aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh, had to abandon the effort in mid-journey when a fuel ...
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Lockheed Martin selects JSF HUD
Flight Visions has won a contract from Lockheed Martin Skunk Works to supply its newly developed Night Hawk weapon delivery system/head-up display (HUD) for the company's X-32 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) concept demonstration aircraft. Despite the fact that the HUD is only on order for a demonstrator and ...