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Aerospace Industry Awards - Introduction
The Flight International Aerospace Industry Awards are the industry's own way of recognising excellence in achievement. They are the only awards judged independently by an international panel of industry experts; they are the only ones which span the industry; they are the only ones which companies enter, rather than being ...
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Honeywell forms Russian alliance
Honeywell and Avia-pribor, a Russian-based equipment supplier, have formed an alliance aimed at supplying avionics and landing systems for use in the CIS. The Honeywell initiative is focused on a broad range of short-, medium- and long-term projects, unlike previous pioneering moves in the CIS by AlliedSignal and Collins. Those ...
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Burnham: service is the key to growth
AlliedSignal Aerospace is not a company that wastes time - its own or anybody else's. So when company president Dan Burnham calls a press conference, reporters should be on red alert that he has something to shout about. So it proved on Monday at Paris, when Burnham coolly ...
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Korry turns the spotlight on switches
Throwing a bit of light on the matter - that is where Korry Electronics' expertise lies, as visitors to Hall 3/F3 will see. The firm manufactures illuminated push-button switches, indicators, integrated switch panels, and hard-wearing keyboards to name a few of its products. Korry's products can ...
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Sunrock $250m order for 737s
Boeing announced yesterday that it has sold seven 737s - five of them new generation -600s - to the Sunrock Aircraft Corporation in a deal worth $250million. The announcement brings total 737 orders to 3,677 of which 557 are next generation models. Negotiations continue on a ...
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Oklahoma okay
Oklahoma is positioning itself to become a dominant player in aviation research, says the state's Aeronautics Commission director Dana Batey. She is proposing a combined research programme bringing together government, academics and businesses. "The goal will be to target high technology research opportunities and identify and develop the in-state capabilities ...
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Avionics suite
A complete suite of avionics from AlliedSignal Aerospace is on display at the show in the new Boeing 737-700. The company's latest flight safety and other avionics to be found on the aircraft, includes the Quantum Line of communications and navigation systems with its voice/data radio, instrument landing ...
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Engine for Embraer
AlliedSignal is offering a new engine to Embraer for its proposed EMB-135 30-seat regional jet. The AS108 is a derivative of the AlliedSignal LF507 with a new fan, low-pressure turbine and several core changes. It will compete with the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW308B and a ...
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Joint venture
Taiwan aircraft producer Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC) and Aero Vodochody from the Czech Republic have set up a joint venture to develop, produce and sell the Ae270 utility aircraft. The agreement, announced at Le Bourget, enables both parties to exploit the aircraft's potential in both military and ...
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Zero-gravity training aircraft open for business
The doors of the world's largest 'vomit comet' are being thrown open to selected guests at the Paris show. Invitations to inspect the A300 Zero-G parabolic flight training aircraft are being sent out by Novespace, a private company supported by the French Space Agency (CNES). Initially ...
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China switches AE31X assembly plans
Aviation INDUSTRIES of China (AVIC) has switched plans for the final assembly of the proposed AE31X family of regional aircraft from Shanghai to Xian, in an move which threatens to complicate development and logistical support of the international programme. China's State Council is understood to have dropped Shanghai ...
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Latvian passenger tax hits Air Baltic's target
Anew airport-departure tax imposed by the Latvian Government may stop Riga-based carrier Air Baltic from meeting its break-even target this year. Former company chief executive Kjell Fredheim says that a $12-per-passenger charge has been levied from 1 June, and a new fuel tax is forcing the airline to ...
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Air Madeira prepares for transatlantic flights
A new Portuguese airline, Air Madeira, will start operations later this year with a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar 500 on transatlantic charter flights. The airline is also planning to set up a short-haul network. Air Madeira is based in Lisbon and backed by the Portuguese travel group Pestana Hotels. ...
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Atlas Air confirms plans for 747-400 purchase
Atlas Air has confirmed plans to buy new Boeing 747-400 freighters, and has signed a Ìrm purchase contract worth about $1.7 billion for ten aircraft, and options on a further ten. The transaction, which represents the US cargo carrier's first purchase of new aircraft, was forecast earlier this ...
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Virgin Express begins A320 operations
Virgin Express has introduced an Airbus A320 on a wet-lease contract from fellow Belgian charter airline Constellation International Airways. The aircraft is being operated on charters from Brussels in place of Boeing 737s, and that business now represents 40% of the airline's activity. Virgin Express says this enables it "to ...
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Continental goes Boeing
CONTINENTAL Airlines has become the third US major to enter into a long-term, sole-supplier pact with Boeing, following the signature of a letter of intent (LoI) for up to 35 widebodied aircraft to satisfy its future fleet requirements. The estimated value of the deal is more than $3 billion. ...
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EuroLOT primed for take-off as parent suffers 1996 loss
LOT Polish Airlines is preparing to start operations of its regional, low-cost subsidiary EuroLOT in the hope of cutting costs on its shorter routes, after dropping sharply from modest profitability into loss in 1996. EuroLOT, which is expected to become operational early in July, will initially take over ...
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Clinton nominates new FAA administrator and deputy
THE WHITE HOUSE has nominated Jane Garvey as the next US Federal Aviation Administration administrator and George Donohue as deputy administrator. The announcement comes six months after David Hinson quit the top FAA post shortly after US President Bill Clinton's re-election. Garvey is now acting head of the ...
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Air Littoral becomes a Lufthansa partner
Lufthansa has signed a commercial alliance with French regional airline Air Littoral, further strengthening its position in the French market. The deal ends the German flag carrier's hunt for a suitable French partner to expand its services to southern Europe. This will be done through Air Littoral's increasing ...
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Authorities push Air Macau into expansion
Local authorities are pressing start-up carrier Air Macau to expand and diversify its services regionally, in an effort to reduce the Portuguese enclave's overwhelming reliance on traffic between China and Taiwan. After a slow start, traffic at Macau's new international airport is picking up, and is projected to ...