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HEADLINES UK bids for stake in JAST fighter project BY GUY NORMS IN SEATTLE The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) is in talks with the USA over possible involvement in the US Air Force/Navy Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) programme aimed at developing new tactical fighters for the 21st century. UK participation in the JAST programme could evolve as a potential extension of the long standing US-UK memorandum of understanding covering joint work on the Advanced Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing (ASTOVL) project. Although originally intended SECOND EUROFIGHTER FLIES Fast on the heels of Eurofighter development aircraft 1 (DAI) making its first flight from Manching Germany, the second prototype, DA2, made a 50min maiden flight on 6 April from British Aerospace's Warton site in the northern UK. Despite both prototypes now having been flown, an appearance at the UK's Earnborough air show in September is stil! being opposed because it would have an adverse affect on the development schedule. as a Harrier replacement study, the ASTOVL programme is now thought more likely to be absorbed, or at least closely tied to, the JAST projectand could be developed to replace a range of tactical aircraft, rang ing from the Lockheed F-16 to the Grumman F-14. Boeing Military Airplanes, advanced tactical-aircraft pro gramme manager Michael Michellich says: "There have been a number of conversa tions between personnel on the JAST programme and the UK MoD. It wouldn't surprise me to see JAST become a multi- nation programme." The UK is already heavily involved with French industry in studying sys tems for a next- generation com bat aircraft. Boeing is now closely linked to the ASTOVL and JAST efforts, hav ing confirmed on 7 April that it had signed a $32 mil lion research agreement with the US Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) on 25 March. The company also re vealed that it will submit a proposal to the JAST pro gramme office on 15 April, in time for the concept- and technology- exploration effort to begin in May. "We believe our proposed JAST concepts studies and ASTOVL work are very synergistic, since we propose to work on common aeroplane designs," says Mich ellich, who adds: "We believe it is possible to design a com mon modular aircraft to reduce costs. Components of the F- 18E/F and F-22 would be used selectively." Cost reduction is a key driver and the resulting aircraft could be produced for " F-16-like prices". Michellich says: "Talks are going on at ARPA at this mo ment, to see how those activi ties can be merged. It will be late 1996 or early 1997, at the earliest, before they could come together." As predicted, Boeing is teamed with Rolls-Royce and Pratt & Whitney on the AS TOVL effort, which uses direct- lift technology similar to that employed by the current Har rier (Flight International, 2-8 February). Two other ASTOVL concepts being funded by ARPA include Lockheed's shaft-driven remote-fan design and McDonnell Douglas gas- driven remote-fan concept. The ASTOVL programme aims to generate a single airframe which provides for short take-off and vertical land ing and conventional take-off and landing capability. A flying prototype will be tested in the "1998-1999 time frame", says Michellich. The outline JAST programme timetable calls for demonstra tion aircraft to begin flying by early 1997, with development of a definitive demonstrator in 1999. The JAST programme should lead to engineering and manufacturing development in 2000, with the first flight of a spin-off prototype around 2005 or 2006 and initial operational capability by 2008-10, a timetable which may be optimistic. • A310 crash: Conflict over BY ALEXANDER VELOV1CH IN MOSCOW Apilot of the crashed Aeroflot-Russian Interna tional Airlines (ARIA) Airbus Industrie A310 was instructing his children on how to fly the aircraft at the time it went out of control, according to a state ment by the Russian Ministry of Transport (MoT). The statement, however, was later disputed by an official on the investigation committee and by Valeriy Eskuzian, gen eral manager of ARIA. The investigators have promised to publish a conclusion on the cause of the crash by 15 April. The accident happened on 22 March, when the aircraft was 4h into a flight from Moscow to Hong Kong. The flight-data recorder (FDR) shows that it rolled violently into a spiral dive, according to Vladimir Kofman, an official from the CIS Interstate Avia tion Committee (MAK). It crashed near Novokuznetsk, killing all 75 people on board. The MoT's statement says that the investigation commis sion has preliminary details from the A310's FDR and cock pit-voice recorder (CVR), and states: "The flight from Moscow to Novokuznetsk pro ceeded without any distur bances. No signals indicating any faults in the airframe, en gines or their systems had been registered. Judging from the CVR, it was discovered that a daughter and a son of one of the crewmembers who flew as passengers on that flight were in the cockpit. That crew- member demonstrated and ex plained to them the principles of controlling the aircraft. Four minutes after overflying Novo kuznetsk, the aircraft went into a right bank, exceeding the permitted limit, which resulted in its high-rate descent and impact into the ground." Vladimir Mokritsky, the head of the sub-commission of the investigation board re sponsible for evaluating the crew's performance, denounced the MoT report, saying it v FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 13 - 19 April. 1994
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