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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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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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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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Space Station award for Hamilton Sundstrand
Tim Furniss Hamilton Sundstrand has won a $115 million contract from NASA to design, develop and qualify water and oxygen generator assemblies for the International Space Station. It will be one of the "largest development programmes undertaken by the company", which will shortly be renamed Hamilton Sundstrand Space ...
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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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JSF engine development passes milestone
Pratt & Whitney and Fokker Elmo have reached a milestone in work on the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme. The two companies have completed a critical design review of Fokker's design for electrical harnesses for P&W's F119 JSF demonstrator engines. Fokker has delivered one set of three harnesses ...
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War of words over Eurofighter missile
Tim Ripley As the race to win the UK's billion dollar beyond-visual-range missile contest enters its final stages, US missile giant Raytheon has claimed that sales of the Eurofighter will be boosted by the selection its new Future Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (FMRAAM). "Any other solution represents a dangerous ...
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Tough questions face Aerospatiale Matra boss
Ian Verchere In a studied exercise in political stone-walling, the new supremo of France's recently-privatised Aerospatiale Matra entity, Jean-Luc Lagardere, yesterday fended off hostile media questioning over how the current deadlock over the transformation of Airbus Industrie into a single corporate entity would be broken. While accepting the ...
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Airbus predicts global demand for 15,500 aircraft
Mike Martin Airbus Industrie and Boeing unveiled their latest market forecasts at the show yesterday. There's broad agreement on the basic value of the business over the next 20 years, but interesting differences of view. Lift-off for a new standard in style, being set by Gulf Air ...
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Boeing identifies a need for intermediate twin-aisle aircraft
Tony Stephenson Over the next 20 years more than $1.38 trillion will be invested in new commercial aircraft, according to Boeing's Current Market Outlook report, launched at Le Bourget yesterday. Of that, more than $570 billion will be spent on intermediate twin-aisle aircraft such as the 767 and ...
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New delivery moves 707 re-engining closer
A Boeing 707 re-engining programme involving between 250 and 300 military and commercial aircraft has moved a step closer with the delivery of the first new Pratt & Whitney (P&W) JT8D-219 engine for certification flight testing. Seven Q Seven (SQS) will carry out the flight testing, while demonstrator flights ...
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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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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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Vancouver to host Aerospace NA
North America's aerospace trade show, Aerospace North America, is to open its doors in August to suppliers and visitors from more than 80 countries at a new location in Vancouver, British Columbia. The all-sector aerospace and aviation trade show is from 10-12 August at Vancouver's premier exhibition facility, the ...
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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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Air transport
Smiths Industries Aerospace and Alaska Airlines won the Air Transport award for using Smiths' flight management system (FMS) and GPS to eliminate non-precision approaches. The team pioneered required navigation performance 0.15 approach and departures at Juneau Airport in Alaska. Terrain at the airport rises from sea level to ...
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Corporate and General Aviation
Winner of the Corporate and General Aviation category was UK-based kit aircraft specialist Europa Aircraft. The company has sold 550 kits to 29 countries, including 100 kits to customers in the USA. Judges said Europa had secured major sales success in the face of strong international competition and had ...
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Engineering, Systems and Components
Winner of the Engineering, Systems and Components award was Data Systems and Solutions for its JetSCAN engine condition monitoring tool. The company is a joint venture between Rolls-Royce and Science Applications International and its system, says the judges, represents a significant step forward in engine health monitoring capability. ...
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Propulsion
Rolls-Royce picked up the top award in the Propulsion category for its first full-scale engine test of the swept fan - a major improvement in fan blade technology. The fan was tested at 110,000lb thrust that marks a radical improvement in fan blade technology and promises major cost savings ...
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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 ...