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Cheryl helps put ladies first in Royal Navy
Cheryl Johnson is a rare find. She is one of just a handful of female aircraft controllers making a career in the Royal Navy and is part of the 10-strong crew here at the show displaying a Westland Super Lynx helicopter. "We're pretty thin on the ground," she ...
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Pro Line flight deck for Citation
Steve Nichols The Rockwell Collins Pro Line 21 flight deck enters service this spring aboard Cessna's Citation CJ1. The Pro Line 21 standard equipment package on the CJ1 includes 10x8in high-resolution, liquid crystal Adaptive Flight Displays. The pilot's Primary Flight Display and centre Multi-Function Display present all ...
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New seats offer J-class comfort in Y-class
Andrew Douse The gap in the market between economy class and business class has now been filled... with Recaro seats, and you can try them out for yourself here at the airshow (Stand A327). The seats are similar to those being used by British Airways on its new ...
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Sale of the Century
Karen Walker Embraer seals $1.8 billion deal for 100 ERJ Regional Jets Embraer kicked off the first trade day yesterday with an order from Continental Express for 100 new ERJ 145 and ERJ 135 regional jets. Although a figure was not announced, it is believed that ...
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Crossair pilots call off strike
Crossair's largest pilots' union is withdrawing a move to terminate its existing collective labour agreement ahead of the negotiations over a new deal, which are due to restart on 25 February. Late last year members of the Crossair Cockpit Pilots Association (CCP) had voted to terminate the existing ...
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Cumulus wins business for airborne observation system
South African manufacturer Cumulus has sealed a $740,000 contract with the Royal Malaysian Fire and Rescue Service to supply its LEO airborne observation system for one of Malaysia's fleet of Mil Mi-17 transport helicopters. Cumulus, a division of Denel, will team up with Malaysian aerospace company Airod to ...
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Flying brightens grey skies
Geoff Thomas Although the skies were scarcely clear, the cloud-base for yesterday's flying display at Asian Aerospace was more than adequate for the aerobatic pilots' skills to be ably demonstrated. Following the opening sequence by the 'home team' - the Black Knights from the RSAF - the interesting ...
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Hurel-Dubois picks dowty
UK-based Dowty Aerospace Wolverhampton has been chosen by French nacelle-supplier Hurel-Dubois as its preferred supplier of thrust reverser actuation systems, giving it a place on three new commercial jet projects. Hurel-Dubois has already been selected to provide aircraft nacelle systems for the Pratt & Whitney PW6000-powered new Airbus A318, ...
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UPS for opts electric locks
The cargo doors on 30 Airbus A300F freighters of the United Parcel Service (UPS) fleet will be secured with electrically-locking actuators made by Eaton Aerospace. Eaton will also supply the actuators for the 30 options if and when UPS confirms the orders. The initial 33 actuators will be made at ...
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All-Vickers mix for Spanair fleet fluid power package
Eaton Aerospace of Cleveland, Ohio has won a contract to supply engine-driven hydraulic pumps (EDP), AC motorpumps (ACMP) and power transfer units (PTU) for the entire Airbus A320 fleet ordered by Spanish carrier Spanair. The order is for 21 A320 family aircraft (A319, A320 and A321) plus 12 re-confirmable ...
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Gulfstream logs two aircraft sales on 'net'
Gulfstream.com has now clocked up two sales of aircraft, says Joe Walker, the firm's senior vice-president sales and marketing. "We have had a great response to the site and sold a used aircraft and a new GV," says Walker. "I believe that this will greatly help the sales." Walker ...
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Rebuke for El Al over long haul
El Al has been publicly reprimanded by an influential committee of the Knesset over continued prevarication concerning its long-haul order from either Boeing or Airbus and says any external political pressure to plump for one or the other must be revealed. Sources within Israel say that Abraham Poraz, chairman ...
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Saab leases extended at the double
Andy Forrester Saab has received a double confidence booster from Australia for its Saab 340 after the completion of two extended lease deals. Kendall Airlines, operating in Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney, has extended the lease of two of its 16 Saab 340s for a further six years, while ...
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Gulf state to sign F-16 deal
Tim Ripley Lockheed Martin is still hopeful that the United Arab Emirates will "soon" sign up for the multi-billion dollar deal to supply 80 F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft. Bill Anderson, vice-president of the US giant's newly formed F-16 business group, says the company "...continues to be actively engaged ...
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Industry boom in Southeast Asia
There's going to be a real boom in industry, the economy and of course, aviation in Southeast Asia. The upbeat prediction was made by Thomas Hirschmann, chairman and chief executive officer of Jet Aviation, a company that provides complete maintenance services and avionics support to business aircraft. Jet ...
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Regional recovery raises Kaman's hopes for sales
Paul Derby US helicopter manufacturer Kaman believes the improving economic climate in Asia-Pacific will open up a number of sales opportunities in the next 12 months and is looking to use show week to lay the foundations. With programmes to supply Australia and New Zealand with the SH-2G ...
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Global cargo alliance strategy driven by customer demand
Chuck Grieve Like it or not, global alliances are the way forward for the air cargo industry. This was the overwhelming sentiment from speakers at Air Freight Asia 2000. Following in the footsteps of the major passenger-focused alliances was the key to meeting clients' needs for quality, reliability ...
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Cargo airports are no replacement
The fact that the majority of cargo is carried in the bellies of passenger aircraft means that all-cargo airports will at best remain niche players. However, that has not stopped Frankfurt Airport from investing in one - Hahn Airport. Cargo airports are certainly no alternative to traditional combi airports, ...
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Lockheed Martin leads bid for stake in Korean sector
Lockheed Martin has come out fighting in the battle to win a prized stake in the South Korean aerospace industry. "We are bullish on South Korea," Robert Young, Lockheed Martin's Asia regional president, declared at the show . The American giant is bidding with Aerospatiale Matra of ...
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Lureau sees plenty to learn from US merger pains
Mike Martin The Europeans will be able to learn from the mistakes made by major US companies over mergers, but it will still be a difficult process, said Sextant chairman and chief executive Francois Lureau at the show yesterday. And he believes that the major part of the ...