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Business jets in battle for Middle East market
Mark Hannant, Alan Peaford/DUBAI The recovery in oil prices is bringing a sense of economic optimism back to the Middle East. And while defence contractors are talking business at Dubai 2000, the biggest batleground is in the world of the business jet. The business jet manufacturers want to turn optimism ...
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ST Aero bids for Middle East
Singapore Technologies Aerospace (ST Aero) has sent a top-level delegation to Dubai as part of its Middle East market expansion plans. The Singapore team, headed by ST Aero president Wu Siew Kim and Ho Yuen Sang, executive vice-president Military Business Group, will reveal future developments in its maintenance, modification ...
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Sikorsky Shares scheme
Middle East operators are asking Sikorsky whether it plans to expand its Sikorsky Shares helicopter fractional ownership programme to include the region. "We've been talking to them, but the bottom line is that the programme has to prove itself in the New York area before we can commit to international ...
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Helicopter makers SABR rattling for UK orders
Paul Derby/DUBAI The UK's newly-merged future support helicopter programmes have a fresh identity. Competing manufacturers are now bidding to meet the requirements of the Support Amphibious Battlefield Rotorcraft (SABR). The three main contenders, EH Industries, Sikorsky and Bell-Boeing all have a presence at Dubai 2000 and are pushing the EH ...
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Norway holds the key to Nordic helicopter alliance
Paul Derby/DUBAI Norway might commit itself to the Nordic Standard Helicopter Programme but delay a firm purchase to ensure that the four-nation collaboration stays on track, it emerged at the show. Analysts had speculated that the Norwegians planned to pull out of the joint agreement with Sweden, Denmark and Finland ...
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Deal imminent for UAE's F-16s?
The UAE air force's $7-billion order for 80 Lockheed Martin Block 60 F-16s could be signed imminently. Speaking after officially opening Dubai 2000, General Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and UAE Defence Minister says: "We are still negotiating the deal. We are happy with their ...
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Savings claimed for cold gas ejection system
Significant savings are on offer to air forces if they adopt Flight Refuelling's new ejection system on their practice bomb racks. The Cold Gas Cartridge (CGC) is the central feature of the British company's new CBLS 2000 practice bomb carrier, which is being launched at Dubai 2000. ...
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Brimstone passes second test with flying colours
The second flight test of the Brimstone anti-armour weapon was successfully conducted at the Yuma Proving Grounds, Arizona on 27 October. This followed an initial successful test in August. The primary objectives of the latest launch were to test missile flight control over speed and altitude conditions, demonstrate inertial ...
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Airbus pegs regional market at $50bn up to 2020
Mike Martin/DUBAI Airlines in the Middle East and North Africa will buy $50 billion worth of aircraft over the next 20 years. That adds up to 620 aircraft, according to the latest Airbus Industrie market forecast. This prediction is 70 aircraft more than that forecast by Boeing earlier this week ...
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Vintage Bordeaux
It will be a good year for the aerospace industry in Bordeaux in 2000, with the staging of the Aero Solutions expo. The three-day event at the Bordeaux Lac Exhibition Centre will be devoted to aeronautics, space, defence and advanced material technology companies. With some 25,000 direct employees and 230 ...
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Advanced fan engine tests
The next generation of jet engines moved a step closer as CFM International began full-scale testing of the advanced TECH56 swept wide chord fan blade at Snecma's plant in Villaroche, France. The fan installed on a modified CFM56-7 engine will undergo instrumented performance and mechanical testing until ...
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Flying Display - Monday 15th
The proposed order of Flying for today's display is as follows: 14:00 Red Arrows; 14:21 Lockheed Martin F-16; 14:28 Satic Beluga; 14:34 Dassault Rafale; 14:43 Boeing KC-135; 14:48 Mapo MiG 21; 14:46 Airbus A330; 15:02 Pakistan Aeronautical Complex Mushak; 15:08 Tupolev ...
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Voice recorder may help solve crash mystery
US Navy searchers have recovered the cockpit voice recorder from EgyptAir flight 990 raising investigators' hopes of learning why the Boeing 767-300ER plunged into the Atlantic off the American coast two weeks ago, killing all 217 on board. The discovery came four days after the flight data recorder was found, ...
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UK defence giants await US government nod for merger
Tim Ripley/DUBAI British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems executives will be holding their breath over the next two weeks as their "mega merger" awaits US government approval. Marconi chief Sir Charles Masefield says in Dubai that there is still no news from the US on the approval in spite of ...
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Colonel Military a cut above the rest
Mohammad Ilias is living on a knife edge at Dubai 2000 scores of them to be precise. He's here to sell a whole range of knives, together with military apparatus and hunting equipment. His company, Colonel Military, in Hall E (250) also deals in souvenirs and badges. He says: ...
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Marconi Avionics gets F-16 HUD EU replacement contract
Marconi Avionics (E665) is showing its HUD technology, having just won a contract for development of a Commercial Off The Shelf-based (COTS) replacement Head Up Display Electronics Unit (HUD EU) for the Lockheed Martin F-16. The contract covers development, flight qualification and demonstration. The existing HUD EU, which has ...
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Honeywell systems for Spanair's A320 fleet
Steve Nichols/DUBAI Honeywell (Stand E712) is celebrating after winning a contract for flight management (FMS) and air data inertial reference systems (ADIRS) for Spanair's fleet of new Airbus A320 aircraft. Spanair has completed 30 firm orders and has 12 options for the new aircraft. The Honeywell Pegasus FMS offers hardware ...
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Middle East is offered first exports on ASTOR system
Tim Ripley/DUBAI The technology at the heart of the $1.3 billion UK's Airborne Stand-Off Radar (ASTOR) is up for export and Middle East countries are being offered it first. Raytheon is at the show fresh from its ASTOR triumph earlier this year with its Ground Surveillance Radar System (GSARS) ...
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Face The Facts with...Nick Godwin
The regional aircraft sector has stolen the limelight at recent airshows. A string of blockbuster deals, renewed fierce competition in the market and a raft of new products on the drawing board have made the sector a byword for dynamism. Against this background, British Aerospace Regional Aircraft pursues a policy ...
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Denel adds Saudi Arabia to client list
Denel Aviation Transport Aircraft Maintenance (DATAM) representatives will be meeting Saudi Arabian Airlines executives at Dubai 2000 following the signing of a line maintenance agreement under which DATAM will service Saudi Arabian Boeing 777s operating from Johannesburg International Airport. The work currently consists of two turnaround services per week. DATAM ...