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Smiths waits a year for delivery upturn
THE FULL IMPACT of the upturn in civil and military aerospace markets will take another year to feed through to the bottom line, forecasts Smiths Industries, as it turns in another steady set of annual results. The aerospace business saw sales edge up a little, to ú377 million ...
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High-profile Hercules
A multi-national C-130 squadron has been supporting NATO in Bosnia for almost a year. Tim Ripley/RIMINI NORWEGIAN AIR FORCE Col Lasse Hobber, commander of NATO's multi-national Lockheed-Martin C-130 Hercules squadron in Bosnia, says: "When our capability became known around the theatre, we started to be asked ...
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SAS to begin using ADS-B system in 1997
Scandinavian carrier SAS is to equip "at least" ten commercial aircraft, and ground vehicles, with automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) systems in 1997, and plans to equip its new Boeing 737-600s in 1998. The trials are part of the European-Commission-funded North European ADS-B Network programme, which has established a ...
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General Electric Aircraft Engines
General Electric Aircraft Engines (GE) received 180min extended-range twinjet operations (ETOPS) clearance for its GE90 turbofan, early in October. It is one of three power plants offered for the Boeing 777. US Federal Aviation Administration approval followed the delayed completion of 1,000-cycle testing in July. British Airways plans to begin ...
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Lockheed Martin details advanced design studies
Graham Warwick/MARIETTA LOCKHEED MARTIN is nearing completion of a study into upgrading the US Air Force's C-5A/B Galaxy transports, and believes that there is "significant interest" in proceeding with the programme. The company has also revealed details of the New Strategic Aircraft (NSA) it is studying to replace ...
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E-8 JSTARS needs improvement, say USAF evaluators
Northrop Grumman's E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) requires "significant improvements" to meet its performance requirements, says a US Air Force test report. The US Department of Defense (DoD) has approved production of 19 JSTARS aircraft despite an operational-evaluation report, which is critical of the system's capability (Flight ...
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V-22 team proposes rate increase
The Bell Boeing joint venture has proposed to the US Department of Defense that it could save $9 billion over the life of the V-22 Osprey programme if it were allowed to accelerate production of the tilt-rotor aircraft. At present, the joint venture will deliver 425 MV-22Bs to ...
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Israel nears Candid AEW resolution
Russia and Israel appear to be nearing an agreement over the sale of an Ilyushin -Il-76 Candid airframe to Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) for conversion to an airborne-early-warning aircraft for China. The IAI proposal has been stalled by its inability to secure the Il-76 airframe for conversion. ...
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Boeing targets 1998 for Eagle test flight
BOEING WILL test fly a fuselage-mounted infra-red search and track (IRST) system on board an E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft in the third quarter of 1998. The IRST and laser ranger package, called the Eagle, will be used to look at the feasibility of employing the ...
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Military coup
Reflectone has received a five-year, $5 million (£3.5 million) US Navy contract, to operate and maintain Boeing CH-46 and Sikorsky CH-53 helicopter simulators, at three Marine Corps bases and a five-year $2 million US Air Force contract, to continue providing academic and simulator training for Grumman EF-111 crews, at Cannon ...
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Improved VLF
Rockwell has won a $38 million development contract to modify miniature receive terminals (MRTs) and secure communications systems which are used on US Air Force Boeing E-4B and US Navy E-6B airborne command aircraft. The MRTs will provide them with an enhanced high-data rate very-low-frequency (VLF) mode and a supportable ...
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AlliedSignal wins USAF GPS order
ALLIEDSIGNAL Avionics has been awarded a $2 million contract to supply the US Air Force with 1,685 global-positioning system (GPS) receivers. The equipment, an AlliedSignal Aerospace hand-held KLX 100 GPS receiver and a moving-map display will be used on USAF transports. The company must provide the equipment by ...
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Raytheon wins FAA contract for terminal radar modernisation
RAYTHEON HAS been selected to modernise the US Federal Aviation Administration's terminal radar-approach-control (TRACON) system, and stands to earn more than $1 billion from its Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (STARS), when combined with US military procurements. Raytheon beat teams headed by Boeing and Lockheed Martin to win ...
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US GAO fears tanker-aircraft shortfall
ALTHOUGH US military refuelling-aircraft meet current needs, satisfying future requirements may be difficult, concludes a recent US General Accounting Office (GAO) report. The US Department of Defense operates almost 900 tanker aircraft, including 550 Boeing KC-135s and 60 McDonnell Douglas KC-10s, which also have a cargo role. The ...
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MDC reveals KC-17 cargo/tanker details
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) has unveiled details of proposed KC-17 cargo/tanker versions of its C-17 transport, which could form the bulk of as many as 50 aircraft predicted as potential foreign military sales. Details of the aircraft configuration were given to senior British Army ...
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Boeing scours world for engineers
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELESand Andrew Doyle/LONDON BOEING IS STEPPING up a massive worldwide recruitment drive in an effort to find engineers to cope with a record number of commercial-, space- and military-product developments. "We're hiring everybody we can get," says the company, which is searching for up ...
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JSTARS E-8 faces NATO re-engineing
NORTHROP GRUMMAN is to re-engine the Boeing E-8 Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) aircraft to be offered to NATO. The US company is already in talks with potential suppliers BMW Rolls-Royce and CFM International about the BR 715 and the CFM 56-3B, respectively. The effect of ...
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Cruise-missile strikes on southern Iraq satisfy US officials
PENTAGON officials say that they are "satisfied" with the success of the air and cruise-missile strikes carried out on 3 September in the southern Iraq no-fly zone, which followed Iraqi military action against Kurdish safe havens in the north. Fourteen Hughes Tomahawk land-attack missiles (TLAMs) were fired from ...
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Taiwan
The Pentagon plans to sell Taiwan 1,299 Stinger heat-seeking air-defence missiles, 74 training missiles, 74 vehicle-mounted missile launchers, 96 high-mobility multi- purpose wheeled vehicles, and 0.50 calibre ammunition, worth an estimated $420 million. US contractors benefiting from the foreign military sale include Hughes Missile Systems, Boeing Missiles and Space and ...
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Kuwait to buy armed UH-60L Black Hawk
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC KUWAIT IS EXPECTED to complete the purchase of an armed version of the Sikorsky Aircraft UH-60L helicopter within the next several months, say industry officials. In 1994, the Pentagon offered Kuwait 16 McDonnell Douglas Helicopters AH-64A Apache gun-ships, plus 500 Hellfire laser-designated-anti-tank ...