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Honeywell plans to grow business in Asia
Honeywell is talking to customers at the show about what they want from the new Honeywell/AlliedSignal partnership. Honeywell's Singapore Repair and Overhaul centre has been in operation since 1978 and is a focal point for customer support throughout Asia and the Pacific. It handles APUs, propulsion engines, components ...
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Everything but actually building aircraft: Singapore technologies
Despite the regional economic difficulties, Singapore Technologies (ST) still returned a good performance last year. At Asian Aerospace 2000, the company's focus is firmly on engineering. It has some great new products, and ambitious plans. Singapore Technologies Engineering chief operating officer Tan Pheng Hock reveals all. Q. The regional ...
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Studies back claims for RJX regional status
Alan Dron Several airline board meetings over the coming month may yield order announcements for the Avro RJX regional airliner, and BAE Systems reports greater-than-anticipated interest in remaining production examples of its current RJ model. First metal was cut on the initial RJX-85 and RJX-100 in January. Nose ...
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Rolls-Royce know-how on display
Spearheading Rolls-Royce's defence products at Asian Aerospace 2000 are the EJ200, the Adour and T800 engines. Rated at 20,000lb (89kN) thrust with reheat, the Eurojet EJ200 powers the Eurofighter Typhoon. It has been designed with the potential of a 15% thrust increase with little development cost. Flight-testing is ...
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Australia's Roulettes are straight aces
Geoff Thomas When the Royal Australian Air Force's aerobatic team, the Roulettes, performs its series of crowd-thrilling aerial manoeuvres in the skies over Changi this week, flying in the 'Roulette Six' position will be the world's first and only female military aerobatic pilot-29-year-old Joanne Mein. Flying Swiss-designed, but ...
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Implementation of pacific rvsm set for this week
Reduced vertical separation minima (RVSM) will be implemented in Pacific oceanic airspace on 24 February as part of a longstanding plan to enhance airspace capacity. Under the plan, vertical separation will be reduced to 1,000ft (300m) from 2,000ft between flight levels 290 and 390 for aircraft approved for RVSM ...
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Why leasing makes sense as market gets back on its feet
Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (SALE) has seen phenomenal growth since its establishment in 1993. The Singapore-based aircraft operating lessor, the shareholders of which include Boullioun Aviation Services, Singapore Airlines and two investment arms of the Singapore government, today has a portfolio of 26 aircraft. With 32 more on firm order, ...
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Ikonos satellite imagery knocks security for a loop
Tim Ripley Singapore would opt to purchase a ground station to allow greater access to digital imagery from the Ikonos satellite for "targeting purposes". The commercially-funded satellite was launched last September by Lockheed Martin and the Space Imaging consortium, which involves US giants Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, Japan's ...
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Scout helmet to aid police
Police forces may soon have a new weapon in their airborne fight against crime thanks to a state-of-the-art aircrew helmet being developed for the civil market. The Scout helmet will give helicopter pilots the ability to locate fugitives or find survivors in day or at night and is undergoing ...
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Bombardier CRJs sold to Shanghai Airlines
Shanghai Airlines has ordered three Bombardier Aerospace CRJ200 regional jets. The sale, valued at approximately $68 million, constitutes the third new airline customer for Bombardier in China in less than a year. "We look forward to the addition of Bombardier's CRJ200 Series to our fleet," says Shanghai Airlines president ...
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Sunny days are here again
Hugh McAtear The media often resorts to meteorological analogies to describe the state of the airshow industry, turning to phrases like "clear skies above" in good times, and "dark clouds on the horizon" in anticipation of tougher times to come. So an appropriate question to Jimmy Lau, managing ...
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SIA leads regional recovery
Mike Martin Singapore Airlines is in the market for up to 19 widebody and narrowbody aircraft plus 22 options. The launch of the long-awaited W-aircraft requirement, as reported in today's Flight International, is to replace the Airbus Industrie A310. SIA has issued a formal request for proposals ...
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New Sikorsky deliveries to USN imminent
Sikorsky says the first production CH-60S helicopter will be handed over within weeks for the completion of US Navy development and operational testing. The manufacturer tied up the first of a potentially lucrative series of contracts with the USN before Christmas by completing the sale of the first two ...
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A worldwide web of difference
STEVE NICHOLS Asian Aerospace is fast becoming a "dot-com" show - at least three companies are featuring new e-commerce products and many others are highlighting a WWW presence. SITA and AAR (Stand A720) are launching aerospan.com at the show, a site that will "initially feature spare parts inventory ...
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Chinese commander outlines offensive strategy
The commander of China's People's Liberation Army Air Force, Lt Gen Liu Shunyao, yesterday foreshadowed a more offensive role for his service. Speaking in Singapore at the Millennium Air Power Conference, held as part of Asian Aerospace 2000, Lt Gen Liu told an extraordinarily high-powered collection of senior officers and ...
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China to send men into space
Tim Furniss China is ready to become the world's third nation to put a man into space. The second launch of a Long March 2F booster with the Chinese Shen Zhou spacecraft from Jiuquan in the Gobi Desert is expected this year to test the craft before a ...
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Snecma Moteurs and Pratt & Whitney to collaborate on engine
Pratt & Whitney's space propulsion operations and Snecma Moteurs' rocket engine division have agreed to joint development of a new, high-technology, upper-stage rocket engine. Designated the SPW2000, it is a liquid oxygen and hydrogen 45,000 to 60,000lb (200-266kN) thrust-class engine with potential application for the Ariane 5, Delta and ...
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P&W addresses 'green' concerns with PW6000
As the search to improve the impact of aviation on the Earth's environment goes on, Pratt & Whitney is talking up the advantages of its PW6000 engine, the only engine designed specifically for 100-passenger aircraft. The PW6000's balanced approach to low emissions produces the lowest overall emissions while satisfying ...
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Raytheon wins major US contracts
Raytheon has announced two major contracts that could be worth more than $500 million over six years. The first, worth $55.1 million, is a tri-services agreement with the US Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps to provide total logistics support for McDonnell Douglas C-9 aircraft. If the six one-year ...
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Battle royale looming over radio frequencies
The aerospace industry could face a fight with "voracious" commercial telecoms interests at an international conference to re-allocate radio frequencies, says the International Air Transport Association (IATA). The World Radio Conference of the International Telecommunications Union, which is being held in Istanbul in May, has the power to re-allocate ...