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US cruise missiles slam Iraqi targets
US air and naval forces launched 27 cruise missiles at air defence sites in Iraq hours before US President Bill Clinton announced a major extension of the No Fly Zone to the outskirts of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. The attack was a much anticipated response to Iraq's incursion into ...
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Early warning for market as heavyweights join forces
In a teaming of US giants, Lockheed Martin and Northrup Grumman have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to capture business in the international airborne early warning/command & control (AEW&C) market. The two companies plan to market an AEW&C variant of Lockheed Martin's C-130J Hercules. Northrop Grumman's vice-president ...
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£70m MoD engine support deal
Roll-Royce Aero Engine Services has won a £70 million contract from the UK Ministry of Defence for the support of RB211-524B4 engines for the Royal Air Force fleet of Lockheed L1011 TriStars, it was announced at the Show yesterday. The overhaul and repair arm of Rolls-Royce Aerospace Group, RRAESL ...
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The answers to RNZAF dilemma
The answers to RNZAF dilemma Sir - Having read the article on Royal New Zealand Air Force training "Forward thrust" (Flight International, 24-30 July, P27), I have to say that RNZAF training is going nowhere fast. Your article reflects an appalling state of affairs. Air Vice-Marshal ...
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Military mapper
The US Department of Defense plans to fly a Space Shuttle mission tomap the Earth in close-up. Tim Furniss/LONDON ACCORDING TO DR MICHAEL Kobrick of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California, "-we have a better global map of Venus than we do for the Earth". He has conceived ...
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British Airways
BRITISH AIRWAYS John Wood has been named director for Asia-Pacific at UK national carrier British Airways. Wood, most recently general manager/ vice-president for Canada, based in Toronto, replaces Val Gooding, who is to leave the airline. LITTON Steven Lambert has been appointed president ...
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Congress digs its heels in over Pakistani F-16s for Indonesia
MEMBERS OF THE US Congress are threatening to block a $160 million sale to Indonesia of nine former Pakistani Lockheed Martin F-16A/B fighters, because of concerns about human rights in Indonesia. Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy has warned US Secretary of State Warren Christopher that the proposed sale could ...
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Joint trainer
Raytheon's Beech MkII may bury the jet-versus-turboprop debate forever. Graham Warwick/WICHITAILLUSTRATION BY Giuseppe Picarella BY EARLY NEXT century, US Air Force and Navy pilots will undergo primary training on the same aircraft type - the Raytheon Beech Pilatus PC-9 MkII. This unprecedented co-operation will be made possible ...
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Premium performance
McDonnell Douglas boss Harry Stonecipher wants to expand the company, but without altering the formula which has made it a profitable defence contractor. Graham Warwick/ST LOUIS THE PRICE is not yet right for McDonnell Douglas (MDC) president Harry Stonecipher. While MDC has yet to participate in the consolidation frenzy which ...
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Budget cuts trim USAF fighter upgrades hopes
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA BUDGET reductions have forced the US Air Force to revise its plans to upgrade existing fighters. An almost 30% cut in the funds earmarked for modification programmes has resulted in a scaling back of the Fighter Configuration Plan (FICOP) first drawn up by the USAF ...
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Lightweight helmet unveiled for F-22
HELMET INTEGRATED SYSTEMS HAS unveiled a new lightweight helmet developed for the US Air Force's Lockheed/Boeing F-22 fighter. The UK company has been working on the Alpha HGU-86/P for several years following award of a contract from Boeing. The helmet is undergoing integration trials with USAF fighter-aircraft oxygen-mask systems. The ...
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Does the RAF need the Harrier?
Sir - The British Aerospace Harrier, featured in the UK BBC national television programme Defence of the realm on 22 August, has been part of the Royal Air Force inventory for 30 years or more. The question which must surely be asked is why the RAF has operated ...
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Lockheed puts its money on JSF pedigree
Lockheed Martin believes that its experience in building fighter aircraft, including the F-16, F-117 and F-22, is a key advantage in its bid to win the US Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme. Confident that it will be one of the two companies that is shortlisted on 7 November, Lockheed ...
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Day of reckoning nears for FOA and the RAF
The future of the Royal Air Force's strike capabilities, and possibly that of the European military aircraft industry, is at stake as work starts to determine the requirement for Britain's future offensive aircraft (FOA). "The FOA is at the very early stages," says Mike Rouse, BAe Military ...
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British eye role in US fighter project
The countdown has started for British participation in the multi-billion-dollar US Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) project, with just over two months to go before the Pentagon chooses the two contenders to develop a demonstrator aircraft. BAe has pinned its colours to the McDonnell Douglas/Northrop Grumman bid and hopes to ...
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Taiwan Matra missile order ready
The first batch of Matra's multimission Mica air-to-air missile has been dispatched to Taipei for the Taiwan Air Force's first squadron of Dassault Aviation Mirage 2000-5 combat aircraft. Taiwan has ordered 60 Mirage 2000-5 fighters and 1,000 Mica missiles, in a multi-billion dollar deal, with a 70% cash down ...
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Technicians take hats off to helmet
Helmet mounted displays (HMDs), once the preserve of fighter pilots, are now migrating to ground-based applications as aerospace technicians grapple with larger quantities of data and ever decreasing turn-round times. To help this vital operation, Rockwell Collins (H3/A20) is demonstrating Trekker, the new PC-based information system with personal HMD. ...
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Crew aids
Aircrew effectiveness is set to increase with the newly-available glass cockpits and digital avionics for Black Hawk helicopters, says manufacturer Sikorsky. The digital Automated Flight Computer System (AFCS) is designed to simplify pilot workload. Among the options on offer is an Electronic Flight Information System (EFIS) which will ...
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Bosnia air operations in the picture
Another exciting chapter has turned the life of Tim Ripley, aviation writer and Flight Daily News journalist. The much-travelled correspondent has compiled a photographic account of the air operations over Bosnia. The 112-page publication, which contains more than 200 colour photographs, goes on sale in all good book ...
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Birds of a feather
Lockheed Martin now has the first three C-130J Hercules 2s flying on its test programme, as this latest shot taken over Georgia shows. The difference in fuselage lengths between the first US Air Force C-130J ‘shortbody', seen here flanked by the first two C-130J-30s for the Royal Air Force ...