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NewsPARIS: CSeries ferry flight operated 'typical airliner' profile
Bombardier's CSeries operated at "typical airliner" cruise speeds for its first transatlantic flights to make its appearance at Le Bourget, test pilot Mark Elliott has revealed.
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NewsPARIS: Bombardier unveils improved CSeries performance
Executives at Bombardier took the offensive on the Sunday before the 2015 Paris Air Show, announcing that the company’s flagship CSeries aircraft will have even better performance than the company had previously predicted.
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NewsPARIS: Raytheon’s robust weapons offering at Paris packs punch
Raytheon Missile Systems has set up shop at the Paris Air Show with hopes of expanding its customer base for advanced weapons like the traditional advanced medium-range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM), AIM-9X sidewinder and joint standoff weapon, but also newly developed offerings like the small diameter bomb (SDB) II.
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NewsPARIS: Honeywell looks towards Global Hawk sense and avoid testing
Honeywell is in discussions regarding testing of its unmanned air vehicle sense and avoid capability on the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk.
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PARIS: Honeywell eyes connected future
Weather data that’s crowd-sourced, an auxiliary power unit and brakes that transmit their maintenance status back to base while in flight, faster internet browsing speeds for passengers and pilots, and electronic flight bags that are updated in real-time.
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NewsPARIS: France displays Fokker 100 with a lot of Rafale inside
Among the aircraft making their first visits to the show this year is a Fokker 100. That might not sound special, but this example differs significantly from commercially-operated examples of the regional twin-jet, because it is in fact part Dassault Rafale fighter.
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NewsPARIS: Honeywell offers AW101 navigation upgrade
Honeywell’s civilian LASEREF VI inertial navigation system has been certificated for use on the AgustaWestland AW101 transport helicopter.
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PARIS: Boeing hunting Chinook sales to fill multiyear buy
Boeing is searching for about 35 Chinook CH-47F sales to fill the production options remaining on its second multiyear procurement contract with the US Army.
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NewsPARIS: CFM prepares for first Leap deliveries to Comac
CFM International president Jean-Paul Ebanga has confirmed that the manufacturer will in the next few weeks deliver the first two engines to China's Comac for the C919 flight-test programme.
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NewsPARIS: Honeywell debuts its 757 test aircraft
Honeywell has brought an industry veteran to Paris in the form of its Boeing 757 test aircraft, with this particular example making its Le Bourget debut.
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OpinionOPINION: Rate 60 – a narrowbody rate too far?
Airline traffic will need to keep growing aggressively to the end of the decade to absorb production rates of 60 narrowbodies a month by each of the big two manufacturers.
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NewsPARIS: Daher debuts TBM 900 turboprop single
French airframer Daher’s latest iteration of its high-speed turboprop, the TBM 900 is making Paris air show debut, 15 months after entering service.
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PARIS 2015: GKN's Cummings heralds new era
GKN Aerospace chief executive Kevin Cummings has the luxury of talking about both continuity and change.
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PARIS: Lockheed Martin to make its civil simulator presence felt
This year’s Paris air show will see Lockheed Martin (LM) adding its brand name to the increasingly competitive market for simulators serving civil airline crew training needs.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Gardner invests in France to be closer to the customer
The Airbus supply chain may span the globe, but pure logistics mean many of the companies producing large sections or components of Airbus aircraft are near its factories. Airia makes the forward structure of the A350’s pylon in Mazeres in the south west of France. “The section is six to ...
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NewsPARIS: CFM expects Leap-1A certification in 'coming weeks'
CFM International plans to wrap up certification testing "within the coming weeks" for the Airbus A320neo-family's Leap-1A turbofan option after completing a milestone test on 13 June, the engine maker's executive vice-president Allen Paxson has disclosed.
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NewsPARIS: Superjet International confident of securing further Western customers
Superjet International is again at Paris in its quest to secure a second Western customer for the Sukhoi Superjet.
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NewsPARIS: Bell bullish on V-22 and V-280 tiltrotors
Bell Helicopter arrives at Paris confident that production of the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor will extend well into the mid-2020s, despite output falling this year to 21 aircraft from 2014’s high of 37 units.
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NewsUSAF awards Raytheon $31M for first small diameter bomb II buy
The US Air Force has placed its first low-rate initial production order for Raytheon’s newly developed small diameter bomb II, securing the first 144 Lot 1 weapons of what is expected to be a minimum 17,000-bomb buy.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: F-35B poised for prime time at last
On an Arizona runway nearly 4,900nm removed from Le Bourget’s festivities, 10 selected Lockheed Martin F-35Bs will be preparing to make history as the Paris air show gets under way.