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Alenia Marconi signs FMT deal
Alenia Marconi Systems has signed a £7 million-plus ($11 million) deal to supply a Full Mission Trainer (FMT) to Racal Defence Electronics. It will be used to provide AEW Observer training to the Royal Navy, which is upgrading its fleet of Westland Sea King AEW Mk2 helicopters with a ...
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Dubai takes Bell 407
Dubai Air Wing is joining the family of Bell 407 light helicopter operators, announcing that it is to take delivery of a single-engine machine before year-end. Hawker Pacific, which represents Bell in the Middle East, announced the sale at the show. Aircraft marketing manager Alan Parsons and general manager, ...
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AGS radar system offer to Middle East clients
Tim Ripley/DUBAI Northrop Grumman is offering Middle East customers a business jet-mounted version of its Joint STARS airborne ground surveillance (AGS) radar system. The US defence electronics giant says the system can be available by the middle of the next decade at a "competitive" price. The company ...
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UAE offset deal makes Dassault a fish-farmer
Mike Martin/DUBAI If you think that sea bream and sea bass are naval missiles, you should change your diet. They play a modest but important role in the $3.4-billion deal in which the UAE is buying 30 Dassault Mirage 2000-9s. Fish farming, not to mention flowers and a business ...
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Sicma takes a load off weary feet
Show-goers weary from hours spent tramping around the halls of Dubai 2000 should stop at the Sicma Aero Seat stand (W322)and try out the French company's latest first class seat. Sicma is demonstrating the seat specially developed for the Emirates Airbus Industrie A330-200 fleet. It features a range of electrically-driven ...
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Singapore site for new gear JV
A joint venture between Singapore Aerospace Manufacturing (SAM) and Messier-Dowty International will produce landing gear assemblies and related components in the Far East from 1 January 2000. SAM's chairman Loh Chuk Yam and Messier-Dowty's chairman and CEO Dominique Paris signed the agreement that will see SAM transferring its landing ...
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Low-light camera makes first appearance
FLIR systems (E520) is showing its UltraMedia LE (UMLE) TV-only surveillance camera at Dubai for the first time. Its low-light capabilities, longer focal length and proprietary gimbal design add to FLIR's range of products for the Law Enforcement market. The UltraMedia series has been the system of choice ...
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Florida shines in more ways than one
They say small is beautiful, and they don't come much smaller than Enterprise Florida's stand (E703). But as director Ken Cooksey points out: "We may be just one state, but we have a lot to offer. The organisation represents 1,400 companies with 90,000 employees, generating $15 billion of revenue - ...
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Adcom shows the way
Abu Dhabi-based Adcom (W902) is showing Garmin's new GPSMAP 295 for the aviation market, first deliveries of which should take place within a few weeks. The unit features a 16-colour display and many improvements over its predecessor, including the ability to load specific city data from a Garmin MapSource CD. ...
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JV opens Japan market for GE Engine services
GE Engine Services is moving into the Japanese market, having signed a Memorandum of Intent (MoI) to acquire a controlling interest in an aircraft maintenance partnership between All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries (IHI). The resulting joint venture - in which ANA and IHI will maintain a ...
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Seat comfort draws on luck of the Irish
Mark Hannant/DUBAI An enterprising Irish company hopes to make long-haul flights more bearable with the unveiling at the show of its self-moulding seat cushioning technology. Long Haul Technologies, part of the Vita Cortex Group, has its airbag-based seat cushions now tested and approved for a 16-G environment and on ...
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Boeing scorns arguments for super-large aircraft
Geoff Thomas/DUBAI Boeing is back... at least according to executive vice-president sales and marketing Seddick Belyamani. Speaking at the show yesterday he said that the Seattle-based company was back on course toward convincing its shareholders that the ills of the past decade are behind them. "Our goal is ...
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It's all a matter of scale
If you've always wanted your very own Lockheed Martin F-16 but couldn't afford the multi-million-dollar price tag, fear not. You can now get a much cheaper version, albeit the scaled-down variety, at the Long Prosper Enterprise stand at W782. The Taiwan-based model-making company has a huge selection of display aircraft ...
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Crash suspicion
US National Transportation Safety Board chairman Jim Hall has met privately with FBI director Louis Freeh to discuss which agency should lead the investigation into the crash of EgyptAir's Boeing 767-300ER. No final decision has been made on shifting control of the investigation, but additional analysis of the recently ...
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Dubai airport aims to lead in technology
An ambitious plan to make Dubai International Airport one of the most technologically advanced in the world is under way by Dnata Airport Services and Mercator, the IT subsidiary of the Emirates Group. Both have been commissioned by the Dubai Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) to set up an ...
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Volvo applauds China deal for GE engines
China Airlines' selection of General Electric engines for its 13 new Boeing 747-400 aircraft is good news for Volvo Aero which supplies components for the engine. The order value to the Swedish manufacturer is expected to be $25 million. The total order for CF60-80C2 GE engines is 52. ...
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Hableel-Nordisk target aerospace
Dubai's Hableel Engineering is expanding its aerospace business following a joint venture agreement with Nordisk Aviation Products, it was announced at the show. The deal covers marketing and maintenance of LD1 and LD3 containers across the Middle East and South East Asia. The maintenance work will be added to ...
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Big advances in new Honeywell display
Honeywell (E712) is promoting its new CD-820 flight management (FMS) Control Display Unit (CDU) which offers size, weight, power and display improvements over its predecessors. It will be available in February 2000. The CD-820 has a large, full-colour, 13.8in Active Matrix LCD and is designed to interface with Honeywell's ...
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African carrier opts for Ayres
Geoff Thomas/DUBAI One of the stars of the air display at Dubai 2000 has undoubtedly been the Czech-produced Ayres 7000 Regional Aircraft (née LET L-610) and yesterday at the show the manufacturer announced its first two sales. The two aircraft - including the one in the display - have ...
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Political thaw brings hint of new Middle East markets
The sun will set on the final day of Dubai 2000 with memories of a world-class show site and intriguing possibilities on the horizon in the Middle East. Like some mirage of the desert, the possibilities of new markets are glimpsed and become clearer. Likely civil aircraft deals in ...