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Meggitt hat trick
Meggitt Avionics has announced a hat trick of awards here at the Paris air show, two of them for oil sensors. Williams International has chosen Engine Oil Level Switches on the FJ44-2 engine to replace an existing sight gauge with an electronic sensor. Features on the ...
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Hushkit secret is in honeycomb treatment
Astech and Burbank Nacelle have joined forces to create a P&W JT8D Hushkit for the Douglas DC-9. It can be seen here at the Paris show in Hall 3/B11c, where the American firm Astech is making its debut appearance. Manager Marco Cavazzoni says: "This model has ...
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Brazilians opt for Airbus
Another billion-dollar deal was announced at the show yesterday - by Airbus Industrie. Brazilian airline TAM is to take five A330-200s, with options for a further five, and has chosen Pratt & Whitney PW4168 engines. The engine choice between P&W and Rolls-Royce was made so late ...
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Continental eyes 30-seaters
US regional airline Continental Express says it could be ordering 30-seat jets as early as August and eventually become an all-jet operation. During yesterday's announcement that Continental is firming up options on 25 more Embraer EMB-145 regional jets, the airline's president David Siegel said he was "-extremely interested" ...
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Aeroflot to install Collins avionics
Russia's international airline Aeroflot is spending just over $6million to equip its 10 new Boeing 737-400s with an advanced Collins avionics suite from Rockwell's Avionics and Communications. Each aircraft will be equipped with Collins comm/nav radios and sensors, forward looking windshear radar, a TCAS system and a Series ...
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JSF: BAe locks on to Lockheed Martin
British Aerospace (BAe) is joining forces with Lockheed Martin on the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme, it was announced at Paris yesterday. The decision to go with Lockheed Martin rather than the rival Boeing project - reached two days ago in Paris - is described by BAe chief ...
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328 JET sales kicked off by French order
Fairchild Dornier announced its 328JET launch customer yesterday with a $70million order for six aircraft from French regional carrier Proteus Airlines. Simultaneously, it revealed the aircraft's North American launch customer as Aspen Mountain Air, in a $50million order covering four firm orders and four options for the 32-seat ...
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R-R orders hit $2billion mark
Rolls-Royce announced another big order yesterday, bringing its total sales revealed during the show to $2billion. The latest order, worth $700million, is from Gulfstream for Tay engines to power GIV-SP aircraft. "With deliveries scheduled to 2003, we look forward to entering the next millennium as a ...
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Demos draw in the crowds at Aeroquip-Vickers
Hands-on activities at Hall 4/B5 are drawing in the crowds to the Aeroquip-Vickers stand. The attractions are live demonstrations of a new aerospace Target-Pro particle counter and interactive software. Aeroquip and Vickers are exhibiting as Aeroquip-Vickers, a new name adopted in April 1997. The ...
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Acquired taste
Acquisitions in the logistics and repair management sector will be the order of the day, says an industry financial report by Smith Barney. The report charts a spate of acquisitions, such as Kellstrom's acquisition of IASI, the Greenwich acquisition of UNC and the subsequent General Electric acquisition of both Greenwich ...
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Three for DHL
Brussels-based cargo carrier DHL is leasing three A300B4-200s freighters from Pinnacle Aircraft Leasing of the US. DASA Airbus is converting the aircraft in Dresden. Source: Flight Daily News
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Japan cargo growth
Japan has approved daily FedEx flights from New York, Chicago, Anchorage and Houston to Tokyo and Naha, Okinawa, continuing to other Far East destinations. Another US parcels carrier, UPS, has substituted a Boeing 747-100 freighter for a 767-300 on five-times-weekly flights from Chicago to Tokyo Narita. ...
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JAL turbulence
Eleven passengers and crew were injured, four seriously, aboard a Japan Airlines (JAL) McDonnell Douglas MD-11 after the aircraft encountered severe air turbulence on 8 June. The aircraft was en route from Hong Kong to Nagoya carrying 169 passengers and 11 crew, when it encountered the turbulence about 25min before ...
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Electromagnetic hazards
Sir - Much has been documented about the effects of electromagnetic interference on modern aircraft-navigation systems, particularly those elements of the "glass-cockpit" electronic flight-instrument system, and how to deal with those problems. It has been only recently that passengers have become aware of the effects of electromagnetic interference. ...
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Lockheed
Dr Brian Dailey has been named vice-president for strategic development, at US aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin. He succeeds Dr John Egan, who is to retire in 1998, and was previously vice-president, business development for the company's space and strategic-missiles sector. The company has also created the new post of vice-president ...
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Honeywell for LM200
Ayres and FedEx have selected Honeywell's SPZ-5000 integrated avionics system for the Loadmaster LM200 freighter. The suite will include the IC-500 Integrated Avionics Computer, which combines the functions of autopilot, flight director and display processor, and Honeywell's Primus II navigation/communication radios and Primus 440 colour weather radar. The LM200 is ...
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Bomnardier is foiled by Embraer 50-seat scoop
Two regional jet manufacturers; two $1 billion contract announcements; and the same customer. But the atmosphere at each press conference yesterday could not have been more of a contrast. American Airlines' subsidiary AMR Eagle's decision to purchase its 50-seat regional jets from Embraer and its 70-seaters from Bombardier clearly ...
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GE and Snecma win American Eagle deal
The American Eagle contract for 25 Canadair RJ 70s brought a boost to the joint-venture engine company of GE and Snecma. The GE CF34-8C power plant has been selected. The deal is believed to be worth in excess of $250million. The manufacturer was celebrating another contract - worth ...
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Airbus testing
The final series of ground-based tests on Airbus Industrie's A330-200 has begun in Toulouse, leading to its first flight in mid-August. The A330-200, which will seat 253 passengers in a standard three-class layout, is the newest member of the growing A330/A340 family. A comprehensive 630h flight-test ...
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Canair signs with Pemco
Canadian cargo carrier CanAir has agreed a maintenance deal for its five Boeing 737-200s with Pemco World Air Services. The Mississaugua, Ontario-based airline will have C-level maintenance checks, together with service bulletin and airworthiness directive work carried out on its three combis and two freighters at Pemco's Dothan, ...