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Aviall wins R-R contract
US-based Aviall has been awarded exclusive 10-year rights to distribute parts for the Rolls-Royce Model 250 turboshaft and turboprop engines. The company says the contract will add $90 million to its net sales in 2000 and that its network of more than 40 customer service centres around the world will ...
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Military manoeuvre
A J Walter Aviation, the UK component supply and management business, has announced its entry into the military market with the acquisition of spare parts for the British Aerospace Harrier and Sea Harrier. The $48 million purchase consists of 16,000 lines from the UK Ministry of Defence. The move ...
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Messier lands Kuwait contract renewal
Kuwait Airways has renewed its contract with Messier Services for landing gear repair and overhaul on its entire Airbus fleet - A300-600, A310-300, A320 and A340. The $8 million deal will see 200 Messier personnel overhauling landing gear at its Molsheim plant in France. Messier Services Asia has ...
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Hawk reputation spreads worldwide
The British Aerospace Hawk, the Red Arrows' display aircraft, has been in service with the RAF since 1976. It has established a reputation as a fast jet trainer and its success is reflected in sales to 16 customers worldwide. Most recently, in November 1996, Australia and Qatar selected the ...
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Boeing condensation woes put focus on Zonal Drying System
The revelation of Boeing's production problems with the cockpit devices designed to combat on-board condensation puts new focus on a Swedish system now entering airline service and designed to kill off the long-standing issue of excess water on airliners. Condensation is a fact of life for jet operators and ...
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Dragonair growth
Hong Kong's Dragonair has revealed it may take more aircraft than originally scheduled next year on the back of the sustained recovery in regional economies. Dragonair chief executive officer Stanley Hui says that consistent signs of recovery from the mid-1997 regional economic downturn have led it to review "business ...
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Boeing resumes deliveries after drip shield replacements
Boeing has resumed deliveries of aircraft that required replacements of flight deck drip-shields and parts related to environmental control system (ECS) ducts that did not meet US FAA requirements. The manufacturer says it continues to assess the in-service fleet of affected aircraft to determine the extent and nature of ...
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Air France cuts days
Mike Martin/DUBAI Air France Industries has unveiled a new service at Dubai 2000 - D-checks on Airbus Industrie's A320s in just 31 days. That is seven to 10 days faster than any competitor, says Pierre Yves Reville, vice-president marketing and sales. "We have reduced the time to create a ...
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Coining it in with Dimo
How would you like to be coining it in? You could be if you visit the Dimo stand at W960, where they're giving away a bag of gold plated coins every day in their free prize draw. The one-cent coins have been finished by Quaker City Plating, which ...
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Abu Dhabi to get hi-tech training institute
Steve Nichols/DUBAI A multi-million-dollar agreement for a new hi-tech training institute in Abu Dhabi was signed at the show yesterday. The deal, between France's Thomson CSF and the UAE's Centre of Excellence for Applied Research and Training (CERT), creates a new joint venture company, the CERT Thomson Institute (CTI). ...
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Learjet sale is music to Bombardier ears
Music and dancing spilled out over the apron alongside the Learjet 45 as Bombardier handed over the all-new business jet to South African customer Aaron Searll, chairman of Seardel Investment, part of the Execujet programme. The local dancing, tea, fresh dates and Arabic music were there to celebrate the ...
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Raytheon chalks up $170m Hawker sale
Alan Peaford/DUBAI A deal worth $170 million for 14 Hawker 800XP business jets broke the drought of sales at Dubai 2000 yesterday. And the announcement means good news for potential business aircraft users in the region as the Saudi-based National Air Services (NAS) has added the aircraft to the ...
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Sheikh Ahmed looks to buy narrow bodies for Emirates
Alan Peaford/DUBAI Emirates Airline is to broaden its fleet with the acquisition of narrow-bodied aircraft to meet a growing demand for regional transport. Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, chairman of Emirates and president of the Department of Civil Aviation, says he will be talking to both Boeing and ...
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Typhoon in running for European sales
Tim Ripley/DUBAI Eurofighter Typhoon is still firmly in the running in the Greek and Norwegian fighter contests, according to leading executives of the four-nation consortium that produces the hi-tech combat aircraft. Press reports that the Greeks had re-opened their fighter contest, after deciding last February to select the ...
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Rolls-Royce aims to build on Trent success
Geoff Thomas/DUBAI Rolls-Royce and its international partners, which have a major presence in the Middle East in both civil aerospace and defence markets, are demonstrating the group's broad product range at Dubai 2000. The Trent is winning customers throughout the region and Rolls-Royce has nearly 1,000 military engines in service, ...
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P&W claims engine is best in the world
Geoff Thomas/DUBAI Talk to Pratt & Whitney's Rick Moran about his baby, the F119-PW-100 turbofan engine, and you'll quickly want to buy one of your own. Moran is one of this world's true enthusiasts and his eloquence on the 35,000lb vectored-thrust engine - two of which power the Lockheed ...
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Denel's helicopter upgrades
Paul Derby/DUBAI Denel Aviation is aiming to build on its growing success in offering individually tailored upgrades to the world's operators of Eurocopter Puma helicopters. Among the options offered by the South African company is an autopilot replacement which involves replacing the original analogue system with a digital version ...
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Honeywellto lead team
Honeywell (E712) has been selected as the lead team to provide the fly-by-wire flight control system for the Fairchild Aerospace 728JET aircraft family. Honeywell flight controls, coupled with its Primus Epic next-generation integrated avionics systems on the 728JET, will feature less weight, higher reliability and an integrated maintenance system. ...
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Service and solutions from FedEx
For the third consecutive Dubai airshow, Federal Express (FedEx) is official courier and is offering show visitors a 40% discount on services. Visitors can drop off packages when they drop in to the FedEx cyber café (W635) and receive the discount on UAE list rates for full services including ...
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Face The Facts with...Manfred Schindler
The Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) defined a new market for large corporate/VIP aircraft and its success surprised even Boeing. The Middle East is a key market for the aircraft and more so for the recently-announced BBJ 2, a larger aircraft based on the Boeing 737-800 fuselage. First orders for the ...