December 3, 2001

December 3, 2001

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Impending Policy Changes Aimed At Improved Aerospace Industry

By ROBERT WALL

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

New Comanche Restructuring Adds Cost, Delays Fielding

By ROBERT WALL

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Delta Set For Double Launch

By FRANK MORRING

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Impending Policy Changes Aimed At Improved Aerospace Industry

WASHINGTON The U.S. Aerospace Commission and the Defense Dept. envision a number of near-term measures that could aid U.S. aerospace companies and enhance their long-term financial outlook. Pentagon acquisition chief Edward C. (Pete) Aldridge told the commission last week at its first hearing that two policies are being developed that could improve contractors’ balance sheets.

By ROBERT WALL

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

New Comanche Restructuring Adds Cost, Delays Fielding

WASHINGTON The U.S. Army is making over the RAH-66 Comanche armed reconnaissance helicopter program, prolonging its development, raising its price and incurring the ire of senior Pentagon officials. The Army plan, which hasn’t been blessed by Pentagon acquisition officials, could increase the program’s development price $1.5-2 billion and tag two years on to its schedule, said one Defense Dept. official.

By ROBERT WALL

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Delta Set For Double Launch

WASHINGTON NASA has set a Dec. 7 launch date for two spacecraft— one designed to continue detailed study of the world’s oceans, and the other to initiate worldwide study of a section of the upper atmosphere that has previously gone unexamined because it has been too high for airplanes and balloons, and too low for direct observation by satellites.

By FRANK MORRING

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COVER STORY

Korea's Ambitions Fly On Back of Golden Eagle

The T-50 trainer offers supersonic performance, fly-by-wire controls and an integrated avionics/cockpit design. Can it find a market?

By MICHAEL MECHAM

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COVER STORY

French Group Launches New Utility Turboprop

PARIS Geci International, a French engineering group, has launched a utility twin turboprop called Skylander and hopes to obtain FAA and European JAA certification in September 2004. Powered by 1,100-shp. Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-65Bs, the unpressurized Skylander will carry up to 19 passengers or 3 metric tons of freight.

By PIERRE SPARACO

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EDITORIALS

Does Homeland Czar Need More Clout?

By Paul Mann

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EDITORIALS

Does Homeland Czar Need More Clout?

By David Bond

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AIRLINE Outlook

The Transportation Dept. will review the Orbitz airline-fare Web site “within a few months” and complete its updating of computer reservations system (CRS) rules “promptly,” Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta told Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ernest F. Hollings (D-S.C.).

By FRANCES FIORINO

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AERO byte

AERO byte

The U.S. Air Force is going to consolidate the intranets from 110 bases around the world into a single electronic portal called My.AirForce. The centralized system is to start operating in early 2002 and will include millions of pages from 28,000 information systems and 1,500 Web sites.

By MICHAEL A. DORNHEIM

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WORLD NEWS ROUNDUP

WORLD NEWS ROUNDUP

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