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Finalist: Japan Airlines
Finalist: Japan Airlines Location Tokyo, Japan Achievement Support for a scientific project to monitor greenhouse gases in the upper Earth's atmosphere. For the past five years, Japan Airlines (JAL) has been actively supporting a scientific study to measure the extent of greenhouse gases in the Earth's ...
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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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Finalist Antonov Aeronautical Scientific/ Technical Services
Finalist: Antonov Aeronautical Scientific/ Technical Complex Location Kiev, Ukraine Achievement Development of the propfan An-70 transport, including the second prototype. Despite setbacks, the Ukraine's Antonov design bureau is now back on track with its unique propfan An-70 military-transport programme. The original An-70 prototype had ...
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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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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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Finalist: Aeromedic Innovations Group
Finalist: Aeromedic Innovations Group Location London, UK Achievement: Official licensing for providing airline medical kit. In October 1996, Aeromedic Innovations became the first company in the world to be licensed by a regulatory authority - the UK's Medicines Control Agency - to make and maintain a ...
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Hokkaido Airlines expects profits by 1999
Hokkaido International Airlines, which plans to launch low-fare domestic services in Japan in 1998, has revealed bullish profit projections in only its second year of operation. The airline plans to start operations at the end of April 1998 with a single Boeing 767-300, flying three daily services from ...
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Indonesia examines alternatives to F-16s
Indonesia has begun to focus attention on a range of alternative Russian and European-built fighter aircraft, following the Government's decision to cancel its planned purchase of nine Lockheed Martin F-16A/Bs from the USA (Flight International, 2-8 April). An Indonesian military delegation is understood to have already visited Russia ...
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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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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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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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Fast exit
It is almost 51 years since, on 24 July, 1946, the first live test-ejection took place using a Martin-Baker ejection seat, and 49 years since Jo Lancaster made the first emergency Martin-Baker ejection from the prototype Armstrong Whitworth AW.52 flying wing. Those ejections used pre-production versions of Martin-Baker's ...
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Sino Swearingen upgrades SJ30-2's turbofans
SINOSWEARINGEN Aircraft (SSAC) has grounded its prototype SJ30-2 light business jet for installation of the uprated Williams Rolls-Royce FJ44-2 turbofans planned for the production aircraft. The company has completed some 100h of flight testing of the prototype, following its modification to represent the stretched SJ30-2. The original FJ44-1 ...
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Boeing's next-generation 737 has European debut at Le Bourget
Boeing has brought the fifth Boeing 737-700 to Le Bourget - the European debut for the next-generation 737 family. The 737, which is destined to be delivered to Germania in 1998, is painted in a special colour scheme for the show, and is configured with examples of the new cabin ...
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Jet Airways investors take first steps towrds share sale
Domestic Indian carrier Jet Airways has held talks with shareholders Gulf Air and Kuwait Airlines about divesting their stakes in the airline, following the Indian Government's decision to change rules on foreign ownership. Gulf and Kuwait invested around $8 million in the carrier when it started five years ...
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Matra seeks to broaden European space alliance
Matra-Marconi Space and proposed partner Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) want to widen pan-European space-industry co-operation to encompass alliances with France's Aerospatiale and Alenia of Italy. The planned Matra-Marconi/ Dasa joint venture is keen to expand existing bilateral collaboration with state-run companies Aerospatiale and Alenia to compete more effectively against ...
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Airbus makes Trent 500 deal with Rolls-Royce
Airbus Industrie has struck a non-exclusive deal with Rolls-Royce for the supply of its Trent 500 engines. The agreement ends Airbus's search for a powerplant supplier for the A340-500 and -600 ultra long-range/stretch versions of the A340. It is believed that Airbus continues to keep the ...
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United tests weather display on a DC-10
United Airlines is flight-testing an advanced cockpit weather information (CWIN) system on a McDonnell Douglas (MDC) DC-10 under a contract from the NASA Langley Research Center. The six-month, in-service evaluation will "-determine the cost savings from use of the system", says MDC, which is leading the CWIN consortium. ...
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Aerospatiale combines with Onera to tackle structural flexing
Aerospatiale and the French research agency Onera have developed an active-control technique to overcome problems of structural flexing in airframes. With the adoption of fly-by-wire technology, there are opportunities to optimise the control laws which translate pilot inputs into aircraft dynamics, which in turn determine aircraft performance, passenger ...
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NASA Ames to lead capacity-expansion effort
NASA Ames Research Center in California is to lead a $450 million programme aimed at tripling the all-weather capacity of the US aviation system within the next decade. NASA's new Aviation System Capacity programme will integrate three existing research programmes (into terminal-area productivity, advanced air-transportation technology and short-haul ...