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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, ...
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Say it with flowers
There really is a toilet smelling of roses - and it is here at the Paris Airshow in Hall 4, stand E8. Werner Groth is displaying an A330/340 toilet, by filling it with a whole bunch of flowers. The German manufacturer is also displaying a new ...
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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 ...