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Global presence
Leach International has marked its growing global presence by setting up a third operating business unit. The company, which manufactures electrical switching and control devices for the aerospace and rail industries, has opened Leach International Asia-Pacific in Kowloon, Hong Kong. The new operation is headed by newly-appointed president ...
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Forum forward
With a 500-strong network of companies turning over an estimated £2.5 billion in regional aerospace business, the West of England Aerospace Forum is confident it can woo more potential investors at Le Bourget. The forum, formed 18 months ago as a means of bringing together the region's wealth ...
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First aid
Tyrolean Jet Service of Innsbruck, Austria, has brought to the show what it claims is Europe's largest and most modern air ambulance, a Fairchild Dornier 328 with capacity for four intensive care patients. Operated by Tyrolean Jet service's subsidiary, Tyrolean Air Ambulance, it will be on static display ...
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Recaro sitting pretty with AA
Recaro Aircraft Seating of Germany has just received an order from American Airlines (AA) to equip the carrier's entire narrow-body fleet with economy class seats. It's the first order American Airlines has placed with an aircraft seat supplier from outside the USA. Recaro will replace coach ...
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OK for Explorer
McDonnell Douglas MD Explorer helicopters are back in the air following Federal Aviation Administration approval and extensive laboratory tests. As a precaution, the company asked the FAA to ground the helicopters at the end of May after a broken adjustable collective link was discovered on a customer-owned aircraft. ...
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Rolls-Royce engine deal kick starts new Airbus models
Airbus Industrie (AI) has announced the commercial launch of the four-engined A340-600 and -500 versions - and has chosen the Rolls-Royce Trent 500 as the engine. However, the deal - announced at the show yesterday - does not rule out other engine manufacturers in the long term. ...
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Air Malta leaning toward Airbus
Politics are certain to play a key role in a probable fleet rationalisation programme at Air Malta, reports Reed Aerospace's online news and data service Air Transport Intelligence (ATI). Flight Daily News' sister product, which will be formally launched tomorrow, says Malta's hopes of securing membership of the ...
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Research supports ST-50 small size
"A flying Mercedes, not a minibus", is how Israviation president Stephane Juffa describes his company's ST-50 turboprop executive aircraft. Making its debut at the Paris Show, the ST-50 can be found in the static park between the Eurofighter and the Israeli pavilion. It's also flying in the daily ...
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Eurowings expands ATR fleet
Geoff Thomas German airline Eurowings announced at Le Bourget yesterday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to buy five ATR 42-500s - plus options for a further five aircraft. Eurowings operates the largest ATR fleet in Europe which comprises 17 ATR 42-300s; six ATR 72-200s; and ...
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Pierson raps Boeing on exclusive deals
Mike Martin Exclusive aircraft sales deals between Boeing and several American airlines contravene European competition law, Airbus Industrie (AI) president Jean Pierson said at the show yesterday. He called on the European authorities to tackle the airlines - Continental was the most recent - which have signed long-term aircraft supply ...
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BMW-RR to power new Tupolev
BMW Rolls-Royce is set to sign a collaboration agreement today with Tupolev, to power the Russian aircraft manufacturer's Tu-334-120 regional aircraft with BR710-48 engines. The Berlin-based German-British joint venture company has been anticipating the growth of a market in the CIS for several years. It first ...
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Boeing defends record in Europe
An escalation in trade friction between Europe and the US would hurt industry on both sides of the Atlantic, a Boeing official warned yesterday. Nevertheless, although it is having to defend its planned merger with McDonnell Douglas before the European Commission, Boeing will fight any opposition to the ...
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No room for national egos in high-tech air industry
The future of high technology in Europe is at stake if national egoism continues to play a role in the aerospace industry, Manfred Bischoff, chairman of Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa), said at the show yesterday. "A partnership based on equality is the only key to success," he says. ...
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Americans move to defuse fears over mega-merger
Tim Ripley Moves by the European Union to oppose the proposed controversial merger of US aerospace giants Boeing and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) are likely to end in compromise, say MDC sources at Paris. "We are confident the differences will be worked out," says Fred Hill, McDonnell Douglas senior vice-president for ...
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US special offer to Europe in JSTARS war
America has upped the stakes in the battle to supply Nato with Northrop Grumman E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) aircraft by offering a 74% offset deal to European industry participating in the $3billion project. Northrop Grumman executives said at Paris yesterday that the US Government's ...
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Electra special date
Centrepiece of Pratt & Whitney's outdoor display is the Lockheed Electra 10E used by American Linda Finch in her recent around-the-world flight in honour of Amelia Earhart's fatal journey 60 years ago. Finch's aircraft is powered by two restored P&W R-1340 Wasp engines. P&W was a sponsor of Finch's ...
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Avrotec double
Avrotec, the maintenance and refurbishment arm of British Aerospace Regional Aircraft, comes to Paris '97 on the back of two new contract wins. The first deal involves undertaking four-year structural checks, repainting work and the retrofit of engine life computer systems on seven China Northwest BAe 146-300 aircraft. ...
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Schrak pack
Making its debut at the Paris Air Show is Austrian Airspace, formed from the amalgamation of Schrak Aerospace and ORS. The company manufactures electronics and mechanical components for spacecraft and related ground support equipment and thermal hardware for the protection of spacecraft. Meggitt growth ...
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Gyro replacement wins contract
Litton's Aero Products division announces at the show a $35 million contract to retrofit gimballed C-IV Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) for Northwest Airlines. INS is currently installed on 33 Northwest B747 and 21 DC-10-40 aircraft. Existing INS systems will be replaced with strapdown Ring Laser Gyro LTN-92 INS. ...
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Now you can make your own judgement
An Embraer EMB-145 regional jet sporting one of the designs new (a Celtic image created by Timothy O'Neill) is gracing the display area of Le Bourget. The EMB-145 is the first of five destined for delivery to Manx Airlines, part of the British Regional Airlines Group. ...