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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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Boeing hits the heights at Aerospace Industry Awards
The aviation industry's achievements of the past year were recognised at the sixth Flight International Aerospace Industry Awards last night in Paris. In what was a stunning and eventful evening at Le Musée des Arts Forains, Bercy, the winners and finalists in the 11 categories - including the 1999 ...
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Airbus chalks up A320 orders
Airbus Industrie has won a $1.5-billion order for 30 aircraft from its single-aisle A320 family, it was announced at the show yesterday. The order, from leasing company Debis AirFinance, is for 15 A320s, 10 A319s and five A321s, with some flexibility in model selection. Deliveries will begin in ...
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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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Horizon Air launches QUIET Q400 in North America
Alan Peaford Horizon Air has become the North American launch customer of Bombardier's Q400 in a $321-million deal announced at the show yesterday. The Seattle-based airline placed a firm order for 15 of the super quiet 70-passenger aircraft with options on an additional 15. Bombardier announced a ...
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Rolls-Royce clocks $88m orders for jets
Geoff Thomas Rolls-Royce announced at Le Bourget yesterday that it has won new business worth up to $88 million for its AE 3007 engines to power Embraer ERJ-145 regional jets. Italian regional operator Alitalia Express has ordered six aircraft with options for an additional 10, with deliveries due ...
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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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IAE confirms $600m in orders from leasing firms
Geoff Thomas International Aero Engines (IAE) announced yesterday at Le Bourget that it had new, firm orders worth $600 million for its V2500 family of engines. The orders are from three international leasing companies which will use the engines to power aircraft from Airbus Industrie's A320 family. ...
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Embraer announces record $4.9bn order
Karen Walker Embraer has announced a stunning $4.9 billion order from Crossair for 75 firm aircraft with 125 options. The contract marks the Brazilian manufacturer's formal launch of its new ERJ-170 and ERJ-190 family of regional jets. The deal is described by Crossair president and chief executive ...
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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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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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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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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 ...
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Smiths Industries lifts Hercules contract
British company Smiths Industries Aerospace has won a contract to supply equipment for the power distribution system on the Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules transport aircraft. The contract is with Smiths' Display and Control Systems division and involves the provision of an enhanced electronic circuit breaker unit (ECBU) system, ...
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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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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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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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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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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 ...