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Spar is Hercules ally
Protecting the C-130 Hercules in the skies and maintaining it in the hangar is a key part of Spar Aviation Services' work. The company, is showing its state-of-the-art electronic Defence systems. Its electronic warfare self-protection suite (EWSPS), as installed in the Hercules, features an advanced radar warning receiver and ...
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Modelling the art of recycling metal
Two stunning sculptures adorn the stand of French company Compagnie Metallurgique de Beauchamp. Made from recycled metals - including aircraft parts - the two sculptures demonstrate a novel use for recycled metal materials. Products Florence Steinmetz, CMB's commercial director, says: "We have sold our recycled products all ...
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Design plaudits for UK industry
Among the UK exhibits are a handful with a special cachet - Millennium Product Status. The products were given the status by the UK Design Council after Prime Minister Tony Blair challenged industry to demonstrate that the UK is the creative powerhouse of the world. Aerospace products have a ...
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Glut makes titanium a bargain
Steve Nichols Now seems to be a good time to buy aircraft-grade titanium. So say exhibitors Airport Metals and Vulcanium (Hall 6/B2). They both agree that prices have stabilised after their dizzy heights of a year ago. Jerry St Clair of Vulcanium says the worldwide price of ...
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Rests a boon for passengers
At the end of a long-haul flight, the last thing you want is a battle with your seat. Awkward leg rests and back rests could be a thing of the past, thanks to Mesag aircraftparts. The Swiss company is using its stand at Hall 4/C11 to showcase its latest ...
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Floor lighting system puts fluorescence to work
Geoff Thomas Airlines and their passengers all get frustrated by delays - especially if the cause is something as simple as the emergency floor-level lighting not working. Wiring can become damaged, bulbs may fail or the emergency battery could be discharged; whatever the cause, the problem puts non-operational ...
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Piaggio revival owes debt to Ferrari
Andrew Douse Mention the colour red to Piaggio's accountants a few years ago and they would have winced. Now that racing red colour has come to the rescue of the Italian firm. In October last year, the Ferrari family - whose brilliant red house colour adorns their ...
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Looking for approval signals
Steve Nichols AlliedSignal is looking for both US and world-wide approval for its new Enhanced TRA 67A Mode S transponder. It has already received Technical Standard Order approval from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), but it has also been designed to meet the new Change 7 and ...
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Chance to play the pilot's role
When does a PC-based flight simulator stop being a toy and become a professional tool? That's a grey area, but take a look at one of the latest offerings at the Datel Defence stand and make up your own mind. Datel is demonstrating a Rafale simulator running on ...
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Breitling flight team brings together a big slice of history
Mark Hannant Long associated with the aviation world as a supplier of time-pieces, both in cockpits and on the wrists of the pilots who sit in them, Breitling has gone one step further with the formation of the Breitling Fighters flight team. The Swiss watch manufacturer has put ...
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Attack tiger gets european go-ahead
Paul Derby French and German defence ministers will today give the long-awaited go-ahead for production of the Eurocopter Tiger attack helicopter, with both nations signing up for initial batches of 80 aircraft each at the show. The move will kick-start the production phase of Europe's largest military helicopter ...
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Mega deals take show tally to record $25bn
Mike Martin Airbus Industrie and Boeing unveiled $2.9 billion worth of orders at the show yesterday, taking the tally of aircraft orders for the whole show to a world record $25 billion plus. It concluded a thrilling week for connoisseurs of the big deal. Most stunning of all ...
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Lucas capabilities
Lucas Aerospace is making an impressive display highlighting its depth of technology, breadth of systems capability, global scale and powerful financial backing on its stand. The firm highlights a video/multi-media technology centre and free-standing interactive CD-ROM stations featuring the Lucas Aerospace story, along with a multi-media presentation on the ...
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New mega space company, Astrium launched
The formation of Astrium, a new mega space company comprising Matra Marconi Space (MMS), Alenia Spazio and Daimler Chrysler's space division (Dasa) will be finalised before the end of the year, said Armand Carlier, the MMS chief executive officer, at the show yesterday. Carlier - who will be the ...
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Shuttle could fly until 2020
NASA's Space Shuttle could still be flying in the year 2020 or even 2030, a Boeing executive said yesterday. Richard Stephens, vice-president and general manager of the company's reusable space systems division, says the Shuttle's four-orbiter fleet, which is approaching its 100th flight, is only 25% through its lifetime. ...
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Former astronaut questions Shuttle flight rate
Tim Furniss Former Shuttle astronaut Brewster Shaw, now heading the Boeing space station programme, has questioned the optimistic flight rate of 10 to 12 missions per year which NASA is suggesting may be required to keep the International Space Station (ISS) on target for completion in 2004. Shaw, ...
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Meggitt's multi-million bid
Meggitt laid out its stall on the eve of the show with a US$380million bid for the Whittaker Group. UK-based Meggitt has followed a strategic acquisition policy to exploit niche markets in the aerospace industry. Whittaker's aircraft fire and smoke detection systems will make a good fit with its ...
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Snecma delivers its 1,000th Viking engine
Snecma's rocket engine division in Vernon has delivered its 1,000th Viking rocket engine to Arianespace, the company announced at the show. Snecma produces three types of Viking engine for the Ariane 4 fleet of launchers. Four Viking 5C engines are used to power the first stage, one ...
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WorldSpace digital receivers now qualified for service
WorldSpace's revolutionary digital satellite radio system has been qualified for service following tests, the company announced at the show yesterday. "It is a truly historic monent in the history of radio and broadcasting," says Noah Samara, chairman and CEO of WorldSpace. The company will inaugurate its service ...
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Stansted growth gets backing
The UK government today recommended that London's Stansted Airport be permitted to almost double its capacity. UK Minister for Transport Glenda Jackson says the government is recommending increasing the permitted level of passenger air transport movements (PATMs) at Stansted to 185,000 annually, replacing the current limit of 120,000 PATMs. ...