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Long-life ballscrews
Umbra's bid to attract customers outside the US and Europe has brought the ballscrew manufacturer back to Paris where it can be found in Hall 4/E4. The company manufactures ballscrews for aeronautic and industrial use. Very few changes have been necessary since the original design 50 years ago; Umbra ...
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Fairchild sales coup catapults Envoy order book
Fairchild Aerospace has signed a $760-million order from US fractional ownership company Flight Options for 25 Envoy 7 business jets. The deal massively increases Fairchild's order book for the new Envoy 7, which stood at just three individual sales until the Flight Options coup. Flight Options chairman Kenn ...
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Lockheed Martin's watching brief
Geoff Thomas A Lockheed Martin symposium entitled 'How to Watch an Air Show' proved an interesting diversion at Le Bourget yesterday. Somewhat surprisingly, it didn't advise attendees to stand with feet slightly apart, head tilted back and eyes wide open. What it did do was to provide a ...
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Business jet market sees growth through fractions
Karen Walker Who would have thought that selling aircraft bit by bit could end up being bigger business than selling them whole? Thanks to fractional ownership, that is where the business jet industry seems to be heading. It explains why some of the largest and most talked about ...
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Crew collapse traced to cargo door crack
New details of a depressurisation incident on the world's highest time Boeing 737-200 now revealed by investigators tell how the captain and senior flight attendant spent several minutes unconscious when a crack that had gone undetected for 17 years let cabin air escape. The aircraft, of UK charter ...
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Cathay set to return to full service
Cathay Pacific Airways is targeting 18 June for the resumption of normal services as it re-trains returning pilots and closes charters with other carriers established under its pilots' recent 'sick-out'. Spokeswoman, Diana Fung, says from Hong Kong that the carrier will operate at 89% of normal capacity today, ...
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Fighter rivals square off for Israeli contest
Tim Ripley A battle royal is developing between US giants Boeing and Lockheed Martin to win a $2.5-billion Israeli fighter order - lilaly the last big fighter contest of the century. Israeli Prime Minister-elect Ehud Barak has put back until August the decision on buying more than 50 ...
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No smoke problems with CSE Engineering
Steve Nichols Smoke in the cockpit is a pilot's nightmare and one of the biggest causes of air crashes according to official data. Recent incidents involving a Swissair Flight 111 and ValuJet Flight 592 prove just how difficult it is for pilots to see what they are doing ...
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'Dramatic progress' since last Paris show: Robins
Ian Verchere With an order backlog worth $20 billion and the broadest range of engines in the aerospace industry, Rolls-Royce chairman Sir Ralph Robins says the UK manufacturer has made "dramatic progress since the previous Paris air show in 1997". In civil aerospace alone, he adds, there is ...
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Elisra looks overseas for expansion
Steve Nichols Elisra Electronic Systems from Israel is a major supplier of electronic warfare (EW) systems to all branches of Israel's defence forces. Now the company, displaying at Exterior 22, is building a strong reputation with other worldwide customers too. Forces operating in areas where radar-guided surface-to-air ...
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IAE lets the market do the talking for new variant engine
Geoff Thomas International Aero Engines (IAE) has announced that it has begun to evaluate a new variant of its V2500 engine, which powers Airbus A320 family aircraft. The formal launch of the -A7 version could happen by the end of this year, says IAE president and chief executive ...
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VGS certification
Certification is expected to be completed this summer for Cat3 operation of Marconi Avionics' Visual Guidance System (VGS) on board a Boeing 737-800. This programme is directly linked to the award of a contract for up to 500 Visual Guidance Systems planned for American Airlines new-build Boeing 737-800 fleet ...
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717 rolls on
There'll be some very proud Israelis watching the Boeing 717-200 in the flying display - the entire undercarriage is made by the SHL division of Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI). SHL has so far delivered 15 landing gear systems for the 100-seat airliner, having been awarded the contract in 1998. The ...
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Romanian aerobatic trainer makes world debut
Geoff Thomas The Paris air show marks the world debut of the Romanian-built Aerostar Iak-52W, flown by UK advanced aerobatic champion Mark Jefferies and also on display in the static park. This latest version of the popular Iak-52 aerobatic piston trainer - with a +7/-5g capability - has ...
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Airbus juggles final assembly sites for flexibility
Hamburg has been chosen for the final assembly of the 107-seat Airbus Industrie A318 - but some of its A319 production will move to Toulouse, it was announced at the show yesterday. Airbus chief executive Noel Forgeard says the decision to split the A319 final assembly offers production flexibility. ...
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ATR confident of sealing Indian assembly deal
Alan Dron Discussions between ATR and Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) to assemble ATR turboprops in India are "progressing fairly well", ATR chief executive officer Antoine Bouvier said at the show yesterday. He made the comment as Indian carrier Jet Airways announced it is to acquire five ATR 72-500s by ...
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Merger makes BFGoodrich number two in industry
Debbie Packman BFGoodrich is in confident mood as the completion of its $2.2-billion merger with Coltec Industries draws tantalisingly close. CEOs Dave Burner (BFGoodrich) and John Guppy (Coltec) appeared together at the show yesterday to reveal that the 'friendly' union awaits a final decision from the appeals court ...
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HGS breakthrough for flight simulators
The landing approach being shown above is to Tokyo Haneda airport and is being demonstrated on the first Boeing 737-700 full flight simulator produced by the Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Simulation Systems division of FlightSafety International. About to be shipped to the UK, it will join the Flight- SafetyBoeing fleet of ...
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Flagship chosen
Litton Industries has announced at Le Bourget that its California-based Aero Products division has been awarded a 10-year sole source contract by German airline Lufthansa to provide 260 LTN-101 Flagship global navigation air data inertial reference units. The units are for 88 Lufthansa aircraft, and are in addition to ...
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Condor project evaluates integrated data system
Condor Flugdienst, the charter affiliate of Lufthansa German Airlines, has installed the Rockwell Collins Integrated Information System (I2S) on two A320 aircraft as part of Condor's Aircraft Integrated Network (CAIN) project. This project, which Rockwell Collins and Condor have conducted in Europe, tests the technologies required to link an ...