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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 ...
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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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Italian/Russian fighter trainer prototype on display
Paul Derby A demonstrator prototype of the Italian/Russian joint venture fighter trainer, the Yak/AEM-130, is being displayed at Paris by partner companies Aermacchi, Yakovlev and Sokol. Development of the aircraft is continuing, says Aermacchi, with flight testing of four pre-production prototypes due to begin in 2001 and delivery ...
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Record-breaking ACJ heads for Paris
Mike Martin The Airbus Industrie Corporate Jetliner (ACJ) has set a new record for a flight by a large, single-aisle aircraft, flying non-stop from Toulouse to Buenos Aires in a 14hr 50min flight, it was announced at the show yesterday. The flight, completed the day before, covered an ...
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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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Chinese predict return to profit
Taiwan's China Airlines (CAL) is reporting an average load factor for the five months leading up to May of 72% - up five percentage points over the previous year - and continues to forecast a 1999 year-end return to profitability. CAL says its average load factor from January to ...
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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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Engine component maker weighs in
Paris '99 marks the first international appearance of engine component manufacturer Aero Tech Peissenberg. Despite being a relatively new name in the field, Aero Tech boasts a strong pedigree with almost 30 years' experience in its former incarnation as a branch of Motoren und Tubinen Union (MTU). Still servicing ...
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Bearing up during centennial
Bearing manufacturer Timken Aerospace has chosen its centennial year to make its first appearance at the Paris air show. With 55 faculties worldwide, the company recently took over Split Ball Bearings (SBB) to complete its production line. Timken counts among its customers most of the engine builders exhibiting ...
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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 ...