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does pakistan JF-17 COMES INTO indigenous illy developed by pakistan? it is certainly developed by china though they aren`t going to use for themself
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Its Snecma engines will be powering the AN-148 and MTA.
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Though nothing has been finalized as of yet as MTA is still on paper but it was always guessed that Indian MTA will use western engines because Russian high bypass turbofans are infamous for poor TSFC and high noise.
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FARNBOROUGH: UK's Taranis UCAV breaks cover
The possible future direction of the UK's defence aerospace industry was highlighted on the eve of the show, when the nation's Taranis unmanned combat air system technology demonstrator was revealed.
Representing the pinnacle of British technological know-how, the stealthy design was unveiled on 12 July during a secretive ceremony held at BAE Systems' Warton site in Lancashire. Against a backdrop of strobe lighting, dry ice and to pounding music, Taranis was revealed inside a massive anechoic chamber, ordinarily used to support the company's electronic warfare and stealth test activities.
The result of a more than £144 million ($221 million) project involving the UK Ministry of Defence and an industry team including BAE, GE Aviation, Qinetiq and Rolls-Royce, plus more than 100 suppliers, Taranis - named after the Celtic God of Thunder - has so far taken more than one million man hours of work to create.
Launched in December 2006, the programme is intended to prove the UK's ability to produce a stealthy UCAS while maintaining sovereign capability over its technologies and mission equipment.
"We have no dependencies on others beyond the UK," says Nigel Whitehead, group managing director of BAE's Programmes and Support operating unit. The company serves as prime contractor for the work, reporting to the Defence Equipment and Support organisation's UAS project team in Bristol.
Roughly 12m (39ft) long and with a 10m wingspan, the air vehicle is due to undergo flight tests outside the UK during 2011. BAE declines to say where the campaign will be performed, but the majority of its previous unmanned air vehicles have been tested at the Woomera range in South Australia.
Originally valued at £124 million, the Taranis programme has been expanded by £20 million and around one year to incorporate additional test work, such as "to provide further outputs with wider exploitation into manned fast jet aircraft," Team Taranis says. The MoD is providing 75% of the funds required for the effort, with the project's key industry stakeholders allocating the rest.
Before facing the demands of flying such an autonomous system, the members of Team Taranis have first had to overcome what Whitehead describes as "significant challenges" encountered since contract award less than four years ago.
He identifies the air vehicle's tail-less design configuration as having been an issue for BAE's aerodynamics team, "particularly with the active stability air vehicle control". The concealed installation of its R-R/Turbomeca Adour 951 turbofan engine, sourced from BAE's Hawk 128 advanced jet trainer programme, also resulted in "significant issues around the integration of the powerplant to make it invisible, both to the eye and in electrical emissions", he adds.
The integration of further aircraft systems also posed a challenge, due to the relatively small size of the demonstrator, while another was created by having to meet the precision manufacturing demands of assembling an airframe using low-observable materials. With design tolerances having been set at fractions of the width of a human hair, Whitehead says bringing to bear BAE's final assembly skills, honed on manned products such as the Eurofighter Typhoon, was also a tough requirement.
"A number of these technologies have been looked at before, but not all brought together in one platform," he notes.
Aircraft power on was achieved in February 2009, and the system has subsequently undergone ground testing, including of its electrical subsystem equipment, supplied by GE Aviation. These have proved successful, and also demonstrated the availability of the "power-headroom" required to make future adjustments, the industry team says.
Under current plans the demonstrator will have a simulated weapons delivery capability, and be operated under a representative mission profile, ranging from sensing a target to providing battle damage assessment after a strike has been launched. "This is a chosen configuration to demonstrate the technologies; not the specific range and payload," Whitehead says.
However, he notes: "We would like to have some weapons involvement in the future. It's always good to have the wind going past your bomb bays." Some windtunnel testing has already been conducted in support of such a development.
Next year's flight-test campaign is intended to gather data in support of future investment decisions, but any future purchase hinges on the outcome of the UK government's Strategic Defence and Security Review, which will conclude around October. To outline the nation's military equipment priorities for the next 10-15 years, the process will include an assessment of the possible future mix between manned and unmanned combat aircraft to be operated by the Royal Air Force.
In parallel, consideration is also being given to the possibility of pursuing systems such as new unmanned surveillance aircraft or even UCAS in collaboration with allied nations such as France or Italy. Several other European nations, including Germany and Sweden, have already invested in research and development activities linked to a future offensive air vehicle, but the continent's military operators have so far failed to come up with a strategy to purchase such equipment for frontline use.
Air Chief Marshal Simon Bryant, commander-in-chief of the RAF's Air Command organisation, says a future UCAS could meet three of the service's key operating needs: control of the air, attack and intelligence/situational awareness. Such a system's autonomy and survivability would offer a heightened ability to hold an adversary at threat of attack, he says.
However, the air force sees an enduring and "essential requirement for human intervention" in such operations, Bryant adds, referring to the need to keep a "highly trained, air-minded individual" in the decision-making loop before any offensive action is initiated.
Whitehead believes that a production-standard UCAS could potentially be available for UK use from around 2018-20, and reveals that Team Taranis is already looking at spiral development options in the event that a firm requirement emerges.
Speaking at the Warton event, minister for international security strategy Gerald Howarth described the Taranis programme as "a new benchmark between the MoD and the defence industrial base", and praised the partnership for its "agile thinking" throughout challenging times. "The project remains on track to deliver on all its objectives, and the trials will unequivocally demonstrate UK expertise on the world stage," he says.
A vocal advocate for the aerospace industry and with Farnborough in his constituency, Howarth says the SDSR process will be "policy-led and resource-informed". However, he says key questions have yet to be answered on issues such as "how far are we desirous of maintaining sovereign capability in the UK".
The long-term importance of the Taranis project is not lost on BAE. Describing the effort as "key to sustaining the UK military aircraft sector", Whitehead says the programme has already shown "an outstanding example of British technical capability".
"This aircraft is a prelude to the next generation of fighting capability," he says. "If we didn't play a part then there would be no future for the UK aerospace industry."
Rolls-Royce is also convinced about the benefits of the demonstration. "This is a vital programme for all the team members," says Simon Henley, new product director for its Defence Aerospace business unit. "It has allowed us to learn about the world beyond manned combat aircraft." The effort also holds great potential to attract the engineers of the future to seek a career in the aerospace sector, he adds.
BAE has so far invested more than £100 million of its own money in the pursuit of technologies linked to unmanned systems, including considerable research to date into aircraft autonomy, both from its UK and Australian business concerns.
The company's previous work has included flying unmanned demonstrators including the Raven, Corax and most recently the Mantis; a medium-altitude, long-endurance aircraft also being offered to meet the future requirements of the UK MoD. Recently returned to Warton after completing a successful flight test campaign at Woomera, the autonomous Mantis design will be on show at Farnborough, represented by a full-scale model.
"History teaches us that those who invest in technologies learn the lessons needed for a future industrial role," Whitehead concludes. "Taranis should be no different."
http://www.flightglobal.com/article...arnborough-uks-taranis-ucav-breaks-cover.html
The possible future direction of the UK's defence aerospace industry was highlighted on the eve of the show, when the nation's Taranis unmanned combat air system technology demonstrator was revealed.
Representing the pinnacle of British technological know-how, the stealthy design was unveiled on 12 July during a secretive ceremony held at BAE Systems' Warton site in Lancashire. Against a backdrop of strobe lighting, dry ice and to pounding music, Taranis was revealed inside a massive anechoic chamber, ordinarily used to support the company's electronic warfare and stealth test activities.
The result of a more than £144 million ($221 million) project involving the UK Ministry of Defence and an industry team including BAE, GE Aviation, Qinetiq and Rolls-Royce, plus more than 100 suppliers, Taranis - named after the Celtic God of Thunder - has so far taken more than one million man hours of work to create.
Launched in December 2006, the programme is intended to prove the UK's ability to produce a stealthy UCAS while maintaining sovereign capability over its technologies and mission equipment.
"We have no dependencies on others beyond the UK," says Nigel Whitehead, group managing director of BAE's Programmes and Support operating unit. The company serves as prime contractor for the work, reporting to the Defence Equipment and Support organisation's UAS project team in Bristol.
Roughly 12m (39ft) long and with a 10m wingspan, the air vehicle is due to undergo flight tests outside the UK during 2011. BAE declines to say where the campaign will be performed, but the majority of its previous unmanned air vehicles have been tested at the Woomera range in South Australia.
Originally valued at £124 million, the Taranis programme has been expanded by £20 million and around one year to incorporate additional test work, such as "to provide further outputs with wider exploitation into manned fast jet aircraft," Team Taranis says. The MoD is providing 75% of the funds required for the effort, with the project's key industry stakeholders allocating the rest.
Before facing the demands of flying such an autonomous system, the members of Team Taranis have first had to overcome what Whitehead describes as "significant challenges" encountered since contract award less than four years ago.
He identifies the air vehicle's tail-less design configuration as having been an issue for BAE's aerodynamics team, "particularly with the active stability air vehicle control". The concealed installation of its R-R/Turbomeca Adour 951 turbofan engine, sourced from BAE's Hawk 128 advanced jet trainer programme, also resulted in "significant issues around the integration of the powerplant to make it invisible, both to the eye and in electrical emissions", he adds.
The integration of further aircraft systems also posed a challenge, due to the relatively small size of the demonstrator, while another was created by having to meet the precision manufacturing demands of assembling an airframe using low-observable materials. With design tolerances having been set at fractions of the width of a human hair, Whitehead says bringing to bear BAE's final assembly skills, honed on manned products such as the Eurofighter Typhoon, was also a tough requirement.
"A number of these technologies have been looked at before, but not all brought together in one platform," he notes.
Aircraft power on was achieved in February 2009, and the system has subsequently undergone ground testing, including of its electrical subsystem equipment, supplied by GE Aviation. These have proved successful, and also demonstrated the availability of the "power-headroom" required to make future adjustments, the industry team says.
Under current plans the demonstrator will have a simulated weapons delivery capability, and be operated under a representative mission profile, ranging from sensing a target to providing battle damage assessment after a strike has been launched. "This is a chosen configuration to demonstrate the technologies; not the specific range and payload," Whitehead says.
However, he notes: "We would like to have some weapons involvement in the future. It's always good to have the wind going past your bomb bays." Some windtunnel testing has already been conducted in support of such a development.
Next year's flight-test campaign is intended to gather data in support of future investment decisions, but any future purchase hinges on the outcome of the UK government's Strategic Defence and Security Review, which will conclude around October. To outline the nation's military equipment priorities for the next 10-15 years, the process will include an assessment of the possible future mix between manned and unmanned combat aircraft to be operated by the Royal Air Force.
In parallel, consideration is also being given to the possibility of pursuing systems such as new unmanned surveillance aircraft or even UCAS in collaboration with allied nations such as France or Italy. Several other European nations, including Germany and Sweden, have already invested in research and development activities linked to a future offensive air vehicle, but the continent's military operators have so far failed to come up with a strategy to purchase such equipment for frontline use.
Air Chief Marshal Simon Bryant, commander-in-chief of the RAF's Air Command organisation, says a future UCAS could meet three of the service's key operating needs: control of the air, attack and intelligence/situational awareness. Such a system's autonomy and survivability would offer a heightened ability to hold an adversary at threat of attack, he says.
However, the air force sees an enduring and "essential requirement for human intervention" in such operations, Bryant adds, referring to the need to keep a "highly trained, air-minded individual" in the decision-making loop before any offensive action is initiated.
Whitehead believes that a production-standard UCAS could potentially be available for UK use from around 2018-20, and reveals that Team Taranis is already looking at spiral development options in the event that a firm requirement emerges.
Speaking at the Warton event, minister for international security strategy Gerald Howarth described the Taranis programme as "a new benchmark between the MoD and the defence industrial base", and praised the partnership for its "agile thinking" throughout challenging times. "The project remains on track to deliver on all its objectives, and the trials will unequivocally demonstrate UK expertise on the world stage," he says.
A vocal advocate for the aerospace industry and with Farnborough in his constituency, Howarth says the SDSR process will be "policy-led and resource-informed". However, he says key questions have yet to be answered on issues such as "how far are we desirous of maintaining sovereign capability in the UK".
The long-term importance of the Taranis project is not lost on BAE. Describing the effort as "key to sustaining the UK military aircraft sector", Whitehead says the programme has already shown "an outstanding example of British technical capability".
"This aircraft is a prelude to the next generation of fighting capability," he says. "If we didn't play a part then there would be no future for the UK aerospace industry."
Rolls-Royce is also convinced about the benefits of the demonstration. "This is a vital programme for all the team members," says Simon Henley, new product director for its Defence Aerospace business unit. "It has allowed us to learn about the world beyond manned combat aircraft." The effort also holds great potential to attract the engineers of the future to seek a career in the aerospace sector, he adds.
BAE has so far invested more than £100 million of its own money in the pursuit of technologies linked to unmanned systems, including considerable research to date into aircraft autonomy, both from its UK and Australian business concerns.
The company's previous work has included flying unmanned demonstrators including the Raven, Corax and most recently the Mantis; a medium-altitude, long-endurance aircraft also being offered to meet the future requirements of the UK MoD. Recently returned to Warton after completing a successful flight test campaign at Woomera, the autonomous Mantis design will be on show at Farnborough, represented by a full-scale model.
"History teaches us that those who invest in technologies learn the lessons needed for a future industrial role," Whitehead concludes. "Taranis should be no different."
http://www.flightglobal.com/article...arnborough-uks-taranis-ucav-breaks-cover.html
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FARNBOROUGH: Elbit reveals CockpitNG avionics concept
Elbit Systems is offering its CockpitNG to at least three platform manufacturers. The CockpitNG for fighter aircraft, helicopters, trainers and airlifters is being unveiled at the show.
The CockpitNG is based on a smart central large area display which includes all avionic components in one suite. The display is fully integrated with the helmet mounted and head-up displays.
According to Elbit all of the system's components incorporate multi-touch-screen technology to allow the pilot to operate the aircraft in a smooth and customisable manner.
This modular solution enhances mission performance and reduces aircrew workload, and can be tailored to multiple platforms offering full multi-mission support for attack, emergency services, training and air support.
The modular and flexible high-resolution displays are all video-capable and feature extended day and night field-of-view.
The Elbit development team says that to ensure timely and accurate presentation of mission data, the CockpitNG includes a full suite of next generation avionics applications, simultaneously supporting Windows-based and real-time applications. Advanced data and sensor fusion, a smart electronic flight bag and a 3D vector map including embedded video and highway-in-the-sky (HITS) representation are fully integrated into the solution.
The team claims that embedded Virtual Avionics (EVA) with full support for virtual radar, EW and targeting pod further extend the solution to provide a cost-effective, virtual advanced fighter for training purposes.
http://www.flightglobal.com/article...elbit-reveals-cockpitng-avionics-concept.html
Elbit Systems is offering its CockpitNG to at least three platform manufacturers. The CockpitNG for fighter aircraft, helicopters, trainers and airlifters is being unveiled at the show.
The CockpitNG is based on a smart central large area display which includes all avionic components in one suite. The display is fully integrated with the helmet mounted and head-up displays.
According to Elbit all of the system's components incorporate multi-touch-screen technology to allow the pilot to operate the aircraft in a smooth and customisable manner.
This modular solution enhances mission performance and reduces aircrew workload, and can be tailored to multiple platforms offering full multi-mission support for attack, emergency services, training and air support.
The modular and flexible high-resolution displays are all video-capable and feature extended day and night field-of-view.
The Elbit development team says that to ensure timely and accurate presentation of mission data, the CockpitNG includes a full suite of next generation avionics applications, simultaneously supporting Windows-based and real-time applications. Advanced data and sensor fusion, a smart electronic flight bag and a 3D vector map including embedded video and highway-in-the-sky (HITS) representation are fully integrated into the solution.
The team claims that embedded Virtual Avionics (EVA) with full support for virtual radar, EW and targeting pod further extend the solution to provide a cost-effective, virtual advanced fighter for training purposes.
http://www.flightglobal.com/article...elbit-reveals-cockpitng-avionics-concept.html
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FARNBOROUGH: Northrop steps up efforts to secure UK Global Hawk sale
Northrop Grumman aims to hold further discussions at the show with the UK Ministry of Defence over the potential use of the Global Hawk unmanned air vehicle to meet the country's surveillance requirements.
The US company, which has a major industrial presence in the UK, is exhibiting its full-scale Global Hawk model, alongside the Fire Scout helicopter unmanned air vehicle.
Describing Northrop's efforts to sell Global Hawk to the UK as "aspirational", Ian Milne, Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems vice-president for the UK, Scandinavia and the Baltics, says the company is prepared to look at a variety of different options including service provision arrangements.
The large UAV platform is being offered in competition with many other platforms to meet the UK's Scavenger requirement, which seeks a persistent intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance capability to enter use from around 2015 to 2018. The Global Hawk has already been selected by NATO, and the Eurohawk version being developed together with EADS to meet Germany's signals intelligence needs recently had its first flight.
"If you look at the range of roles that the Global Hawk is currently doing, from broad area maritime surveillance using SAR/GMTI radars, to SIGINT packages, to lots of other things, there may well be an opportunity in the future if the UK decides a substantial UAV could take on some of these roles," says Milne.
For a UK acquisition of Global Hawk, there are "a number of different innovative business models we could consider", he says.
"This is something that the company could offer if it is to address markets that are fiscally stretched, such as the UK."
Northrop believes that the long-endurance multi-intelligence vehicle (LEMV) hybrid airship - recently selected by the US Army - could also be a candidate for Scavenger. The company is partnered with UK-based Hybrid Air Vehicles for the project.
"That may be an opportunity in the UK, maybe for Scavenger or maybe something else," says Milne. "The MoD has shown a little interest."
http://www.flightglobal.com/article...teps-up-efforts-to-secure-uk-global-hawk.html
Northrop Grumman aims to hold further discussions at the show with the UK Ministry of Defence over the potential use of the Global Hawk unmanned air vehicle to meet the country's surveillance requirements.
The US company, which has a major industrial presence in the UK, is exhibiting its full-scale Global Hawk model, alongside the Fire Scout helicopter unmanned air vehicle.
Describing Northrop's efforts to sell Global Hawk to the UK as "aspirational", Ian Milne, Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems vice-president for the UK, Scandinavia and the Baltics, says the company is prepared to look at a variety of different options including service provision arrangements.
The large UAV platform is being offered in competition with many other platforms to meet the UK's Scavenger requirement, which seeks a persistent intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance capability to enter use from around 2015 to 2018. The Global Hawk has already been selected by NATO, and the Eurohawk version being developed together with EADS to meet Germany's signals intelligence needs recently had its first flight.
"If you look at the range of roles that the Global Hawk is currently doing, from broad area maritime surveillance using SAR/GMTI radars, to SIGINT packages, to lots of other things, there may well be an opportunity in the future if the UK decides a substantial UAV could take on some of these roles," says Milne.
For a UK acquisition of Global Hawk, there are "a number of different innovative business models we could consider", he says.
"This is something that the company could offer if it is to address markets that are fiscally stretched, such as the UK."
Northrop believes that the long-endurance multi-intelligence vehicle (LEMV) hybrid airship - recently selected by the US Army - could also be a candidate for Scavenger. The company is partnered with UK-based Hybrid Air Vehicles for the project.
"That may be an opportunity in the UK, maybe for Scavenger or maybe something else," says Milne. "The MoD has shown a little interest."
http://www.flightglobal.com/article...teps-up-efforts-to-secure-uk-global-hawk.html
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FARNBOROUGH: Turkey's first 737-based AEW aircraft makes UK debut
Boeing's 737-based airborne early warning and control system aircraft is making its UK debut this week, with the company having brought the Turkish air force's first example to the show.
Ankara has ordered four AEW&C platforms, which feature equipment including a Northrop Grumman multi-role electronically scanned array, or "Top Hat" on the modified airliner's fuselage.
Boeing is in negotiations with Turkey over the delivery schedule for the new type, which has been the subject of development delays. Turkish Aerospace Industries has already completed work to modify the air force's second and third aircraft, and the fourth is "well under way", Boeing says.
Turkey could receive its first operational aircraft during 2011, an industry source suggests.
The Royal Australian Air Force is now conducting training with its first three of six "Wedgetail" AEW&C aircraft, and Boeing also recently conducted the first flight of the adapted 737 for South Korea, its remaining other customer for the type.
http://www.flightglobal.com/article...ys-first-737-based-aew-aircraft-makes-uk.html
Boeing's 737-based airborne early warning and control system aircraft is making its UK debut this week, with the company having brought the Turkish air force's first example to the show.
Ankara has ordered four AEW&C platforms, which feature equipment including a Northrop Grumman multi-role electronically scanned array, or "Top Hat" on the modified airliner's fuselage.
Boeing is in negotiations with Turkey over the delivery schedule for the new type, which has been the subject of development delays. Turkish Aerospace Industries has already completed work to modify the air force's second and third aircraft, and the fourth is "well under way", Boeing says.
Turkey could receive its first operational aircraft during 2011, an industry source suggests.
The Royal Australian Air Force is now conducting training with its first three of six "Wedgetail" AEW&C aircraft, and Boeing also recently conducted the first flight of the adapted 737 for South Korea, its remaining other customer for the type.
http://www.flightglobal.com/article...ys-first-737-based-aew-aircraft-makes-uk.html
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You are correct...MKI's are not any more foreign plane...India is incorporating indegenously developed technologies into MKI's now........
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Someone is in love with the JF-17 :emot180:I never brought in MKI, did i?
anyways Another pic of JFTs
looks good though.....LCA kab aayega airshow's mai??? :angry_10:
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India, Pakistan showcase aviation wares at Farnborough airshow
Led by their respective state-run agencies, India and Pakistan are exhibiting their aviation wares at the Farnborough International Airshow that got underway Monday at this town, some 55 km from southwest of London.
India's Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) and the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) are among 1,393 exhibitors from 40 countries taking part in the 47th edition of the show at this Hampshire town, one of the biggest in the aviation calendar.
India's Minister of State for Defence M.M. Pallam Raju is leading the Indian delegation, which includes Defence Production Secretary Raj Kumar Singh and the chief of the Southern Air Command, Air Marshal S. Mukerji.
HAL gained credibility as a serious exhibitor in the international arena after two star products from its stable — the Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) 'Dhruv' and the Intermediate Jet Trainer (IJT) — made a mark at the previous edicition of the show here in 2008.
A specialist defence news website, globalnews.net, has said that American giant Lockheed Martin is likely to display an aerial refueling device at the airshow, which was co-developed with HAL for the F-16 fighter aircraft.
'This makes it the first time an Indian company was involved in a high-technology sub-system development of the F-16 fighter aircraft,' it said in a recent report.
Lockheed Martin's intention to display the device at Farnborough 'was to show the high tech capabilities of its Indian partner and expose the world market for F-16 aircraft to the possibility of buying F-16 sub-systems from India', the website said.
'With over 500 F-16 fighters in service with 22 countries, the Indian probe-and-drogue refueling system could find a wide market provided it was tested and certified by the military aviation authorities in the buyer countries.'
The F-16 is one of the six jets in contention for an Indian Air Force order for 126 medium multi-role combat aircraft in a deal valued at $10 billion.
Pakistan is displaying its JF-17 fighter jet, developed with China's help, for the first time at the airshow.
The JF-17 is a single-engined, medium-sized, light-weight multi-role combat aircraft, developed jointly by the Chengdu Aircraft Industries Corp (CAC) of China and the Pakistan Air Force.
Incidentally, the exhibitors from Pakistan and China — the PAC and China National Aero-Technology Import-Export Corp (CATIC) — are shown on the Farnborough website as sharing the same stand at the airshow.
Highlights of this year's show include the eagerly-awaited international debut of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner passenger airplane offering buyers from all over the globe the first opportunity to tour the aircraft.
The flight test airplane ZA0003 touched down at Farnborough Sunday and will remain on static display through to midday Tuesday, the organisers said. State-run Air India has ordered 27 such aircraft, while private carrier Jet Airways has opted for 10.
A biennial event, the Farnborough International Airshow in 2008 was attended by over 130,000 trade visitors with exhibiting companies announcing order figures of $88.7 billion, more than doubling 2006 figures of $42bn.
http://idrw.org/?p=2537
Led by their respective state-run agencies, India and Pakistan are exhibiting their aviation wares at the Farnborough International Airshow that got underway Monday at this town, some 55 km from southwest of London.
India's Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) and the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) are among 1,393 exhibitors from 40 countries taking part in the 47th edition of the show at this Hampshire town, one of the biggest in the aviation calendar.
India's Minister of State for Defence M.M. Pallam Raju is leading the Indian delegation, which includes Defence Production Secretary Raj Kumar Singh and the chief of the Southern Air Command, Air Marshal S. Mukerji.
HAL gained credibility as a serious exhibitor in the international arena after two star products from its stable — the Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) 'Dhruv' and the Intermediate Jet Trainer (IJT) — made a mark at the previous edicition of the show here in 2008.
A specialist defence news website, globalnews.net, has said that American giant Lockheed Martin is likely to display an aerial refueling device at the airshow, which was co-developed with HAL for the F-16 fighter aircraft.
'This makes it the first time an Indian company was involved in a high-technology sub-system development of the F-16 fighter aircraft,' it said in a recent report.
Lockheed Martin's intention to display the device at Farnborough 'was to show the high tech capabilities of its Indian partner and expose the world market for F-16 aircraft to the possibility of buying F-16 sub-systems from India', the website said.
'With over 500 F-16 fighters in service with 22 countries, the Indian probe-and-drogue refueling system could find a wide market provided it was tested and certified by the military aviation authorities in the buyer countries.'
The F-16 is one of the six jets in contention for an Indian Air Force order for 126 medium multi-role combat aircraft in a deal valued at $10 billion.
Pakistan is displaying its JF-17 fighter jet, developed with China's help, for the first time at the airshow.
The JF-17 is a single-engined, medium-sized, light-weight multi-role combat aircraft, developed jointly by the Chengdu Aircraft Industries Corp (CAC) of China and the Pakistan Air Force.
Incidentally, the exhibitors from Pakistan and China — the PAC and China National Aero-Technology Import-Export Corp (CATIC) — are shown on the Farnborough website as sharing the same stand at the airshow.
Highlights of this year's show include the eagerly-awaited international debut of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner passenger airplane offering buyers from all over the globe the first opportunity to tour the aircraft.
The flight test airplane ZA0003 touched down at Farnborough Sunday and will remain on static display through to midday Tuesday, the organisers said. State-run Air India has ordered 27 such aircraft, while private carrier Jet Airways has opted for 10.
A biennial event, the Farnborough International Airshow in 2008 was attended by over 130,000 trade visitors with exhibiting companies announcing order figures of $88.7 billion, more than doubling 2006 figures of $42bn.
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For any of you who wasted money to see the JF-17 air dsiplay... you got ripped off. It will only be a static display. Glad I didn't pony up any cash for this BS.
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What good is it to fly all the way there and not perform a display?DaRk WaVe said:
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leave them alone. they are trying to market their $18mn plane. let them leave in peace.
as Gandhi said Customer is God, we are the God their, we have $10Bn in Hand and making cry by asking every Plane "what a Plane have you made"???
