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Avionics suite
A complete suite of avionics from AlliedSignal Aerospace is on display at the show in the new Boeing 737-700. The company's latest flight safety and other avionics to be found on the aircraft, includes the Quantum Line of communications and navigation systems with its voice/data radio, instrument landing ...
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Continental goes Boeing
Ramon Lopez/WASINGTON DC CONTINENTAL Airlines has become the third US major to enter into a long-term, sole-supplier pact with Boeing, following the signature of a letter of intent (LoI) for up to 35 widebodied aircraft to satisfy its future fleet requirements. The estimated value of the deal is ...
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Continental goes Boeing
CONTINENTAL Airlines has become the third US major to enter into a long-term, sole-supplier pact with Boeing, following the signature of a letter of intent (LoI) for up to 35 widebodied aircraft to satisfy its future fleet requirements. The estimated value of the deal is more than $3 billion. ...
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India's jet challenger
Even its most ardent supporters would have to concede that India's airline deregulation has been less than successful. Of the wave of airlines which emerged in the early 1990s to challenge the Indian Airlines domestic monopoly, only a handful are still flying. Their cause has not been helped by a ...
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Corporate strategy
Winner: Embraer Location Sao Paulo, Brazil Achievement Successfully launching the EMB-145 onto the world market, while battling with privatisation and overcoming heavy losses. The new management which took over Embraer following its privatisation at the end of 1994 faced a seemingly desperate situation. Hit by Brazil's ...
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Russia's Orient and East Line to merge
Russian airline Orient Avia and one of the country's leading freight carriers, East Line Air, are to merge. The merged airline will concentrate operations at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport. Orient, which flies to Vladivostok and Petropavlovsk in the Far East and Kaunas in Lithuania, from Moscow Sheremetyevo airport, operates ...
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Engine for Embraer
AlliedSignal is offering a new engine to Embraer for its proposed EMB-135 30-seat regional jet. The AS108 is a derivative of the AlliedSignal LF507 with a new fan, low-pressure turbine and several core changes. It will compete with the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW308B and a ...
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Meeting the FANS
WORLDWIDE implementation of the future air-navigation system (FANS) is still years away, but civil-aircraft manufacturers and operators are already adopting satellite-based avionics, for several near-term reasons. These include the availability of fuel-saving routes for suitably equipped aircraft, the pending decommissioning of the Omega navigation system, and the approaching ...
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Finalist: Messier-Bugatti
Finalist: Messier-Bugatti Location Velizy, France Achievement Development of a miniature pump to allow decentralisation of aircraft hydraulic systems. Messier-Bugatti set itself the goal developing a miniature pump for electro-hydraulic actuator (EHA) units, which are sufficiently small and light to be sited alongside flight-control equipment, so allowing ...
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Taiwan hopes to see more Mirages
Taiwanese officials are hoping that the newly elected French socialist Government will approve the possible sale of a follow-on batch of 60 Dassault Mirage 2000-5 fighters. According to Taiwan's China Times newspaper, Taiwanese minister without portfolio Tsai Cheng-wen says that Paris is considering a planned new deal to ...
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Infrastructure
Joint Winner: Luftfartsverket Location Norrkoping, Sweden Joint Winner: SAS Location Stockholm, Sweden Achievement Pioneering work within the NEAN project to demonstrate the potential of ADS-B to modernise Europe's overburdened air traffic control (ATC)infrastructure is already constraining air-transport growth in the region ...
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Maintenance
Winner: Richard Wolf Location Knittlingen, Germany Achievement Combining grinding and borescope tools to allow compressor-blade repairs without engine removal. Like many of the best innovations, this year's winning entry in the Maintenance category is a relatively simple concept, but one which could save the aviation industry ...
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Marketplace
++ Montreal-based Royal Airlines has sold two Boeing 727s to Texan leasing company Aircorp for C$10 million ($7.25 million), to help pay for three Airbus A310-300s. The carrier still operates five 727s, as well as two Lockheed L-1011 TriStars. ++ Boeing has delivered its 757th 757, a Pratt & Whitney ...
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Personality of the year
Winner: Shen Yuankang Title Vice Minister of General Administration of Civil Aviation of China Achievement Helping to strengthen air safety oversight in China's fast-growing civil aviation sector. The improvement in China's levels of air safety has been dramatic over the past three years. The country's civil-aviation ...
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MIS Embraer hit
Embraer is providing airline operators with an electronic maintenance information service (MIS). The user-friendly, up-to-date MIS, developed by US-based aviation services company Jeppesen, replaces existing paper manuals. It gives maintenance workers simultaneous access to information via computer screens and provides electronic links between manual sections for ...
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Bombardier looks to change perception of regionals
North American airline passengers are disenchanted with turboprop aircraft because they see them as noisy, cramped and subject to greater turbulence. But the development of new wide-body turboprops is changing this perception, says Pierre Lortie, president of Bombardier regional aircraft division. Speaking at Le Bourget yesterday, Lortie says ...
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Jetstream family gets extra payload boost
Improvements to the hot and high performance of British Aerospace's Jetstream 19-seat turboprop family that could be worth up to 350kg of extra payload will be on the market from July. British Aerospace produced around 400 of its Jetstream 31s, Super 31s and 32s, putting most of them into ...
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Design goes well with showgoers
It's unanimous - British Airways has pulled off an artistic masterstroke with its inspirational new logo and tailfin designs, if the views of Paris showgoers are an accurate barometer. The airline unveiled its new corporate image - one of the biggest rebranding exercises in corporate history - on 10 ...
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Dry season
Since the invention of the pressurised cabin, water and the condensation it produces have been problems for airlines. Swedish manufacturer CTT Systems, a first-time visitor to Paris, has solutions on show (Hall 5/G10). Visitors to the stand can see the problems and the potential solutions on ...
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Long range Emb-145 under development
Embraer has begun developing a long-range version of the EMB-145. The new version of the 50-seat regional jet is expected to be launched next April. Powered by a new Rolls-Royce Allison AE3007A1 engine with increased thrust, the long range EMB-145 features improved climb and hot-weather cruise ...