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Lockheed Martin's watching brief
Geoff Thomas A Lockheed Martin symposium entitled 'How to Watch an Air Show' proved an interesting diversion at Le Bourget yesterday. Somewhat surprisingly, it didn't advise attendees to stand with feet slightly apart, head tilted back and eyes wide open. What it did do was to provide a ...
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This Hercules gets around
If the RAF-liveried C-130J-30 on static display outside the Lockheed Martin chalet looks familiar to show-goers, it should. ZH873 is the same aircraft which was on view at Farnborough last September. It's scheduled to be delivered to the RAF in a few months' time. For the time ...
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Vancouver to host Aerospace NA
North America's aerospace trade show, Aerospace North America, is to open its doors in August to suppliers and visitors from more than 80 countries at a new location in Vancouver, British Columbia. The all-sector aerospace and aviation trade show is from 10-12 August at Vancouver's premier exhibition facility, the ...
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Personality of the Year
Personality of the Year was Don Bateman, chief engineer of AlliedSignal's avionics team for his efforts to improve flight safety through the ground proximity warning system and the enhanced ground proximity warning system. Source: Flight Daily News
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Space
Boeing's Delta II team's launch record in 1998 of 14 vehicles and delivering 41 spacecraft to orbit, led to the company to win the Space category award. Judges said the team's work "demonstrated outstanding performance in support of US Government and commercial space programmes". The Delta II ...
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Military Aviation
Winner of the Military Aviation award was Bell Helicopter Textron and Boeing. Together, they completed the engineering and manufacturing development of the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor in the face of considerable technical and funding difficulties. The awards' panel felt that Bell and Boeing had displayed an outstanding achievement in ...
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Meet the judges
Frank Jensen moved into the commercial aerospace industry following a distinguished career in the US military. His expertise in helicopters came to the fore when he served as executive director and then president of the Helicopter Association International from 1982 to 1998. Stuart Matthews has spearheaded Flight Safety Foundation's ...
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Boeing hits the heights at Aerospace Industry Awards
The aviation industry's achievements of the past year were recognised at the sixth Flight International Aerospace Industry Awards last night in Paris. In what was a stunning and eventful evening at Le Musée des Arts Forains, Bercy, the winners and finalists in the 11 categories - including the 1999 ...
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Air transport
Smiths Industries Aerospace and Alaska Airlines won the Air Transport award for using Smiths' flight management system (FMS) and GPS to eliminate non-precision approaches. The team pioneered required navigation performance 0.15 approach and departures at Juneau Airport in Alaska. Terrain at the airport rises from sea level to ...
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Avionics
AlliedSignal Aerospace's continued improvements of the Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS) - including the addition of new obstacle alerting, peaks display and geometric altitude capabilities - were recognised by judges at the awards. They named it the winner of the Avionics category. The EGPWS system is not new, ...
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Corporate and General Aviation
Winner of the Corporate and General Aviation category was UK-based kit aircraft specialist Europa Aircraft. The company has sold 550 kits to 29 countries, including 100 kits to customers in the USA. Judges said Europa had secured major sales success in the face of strong international competition and had ...
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Training and Safety
The UK Royal Air Force won the Training and Safety award for its Inspectorate of Flight Safety's human factor reporting system. The system allows air and ground crew to report instances of human error without fear of comeback. The 'no blame' culture system was introduced in 1997, but it ...
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Infrastructure
A world-first led to Hamburg Airport winning the Infrastructure category for being the first airport to be certificated to EU environmental management regulations and international ISO standards. The airport's environmental management system was certified in April 1998 and at the beginning of this year it added to its environmental ...
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Engineering, Systems and Components
Winner of the Engineering, Systems and Components award was Data Systems and Solutions for its JetSCAN engine condition monitoring tool. The company is a joint venture between Rolls-Royce and Science Applications International and its system, says the judges, represents a significant step forward in engine health monitoring capability. ...
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Propulsion
Rolls-Royce picked up the top award in the Propulsion category for its first full-scale engine test of the swept fan - a major improvement in fan blade technology. The fan was tested at 110,000lb thrust that marks a radical improvement in fan blade technology and promises major cost savings ...
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Maintenance and Modification
Boeing was given the top award for Maintenance and Modification for establishing the Boeing Aerospace Support Center as a world class large aircraft maintenance and modification centre. The centre, at San Antonio, Texas, has been opened with the intention of providing affordable, high-quality, short cycle time maintenance and modification ...
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Face the facts with Dean Borgman
Dean Borgman is the man charged with leading Sikorsky into the 21st century. He comes to the post of president and chief operating officer as the former head of Boeing's helicopter plant in Mesa, Arizona and as president of the American Helicopter Society. Nine months into the role, he shares ...
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Kaman sees potential in energy sector
Kaman Aerospace is looking to the energy production sector to boost business for its K-Max heavy lift helicopter. Kaman says K-Max lifted well-testing equipment and pipelines weighing up to 2,700kg (6,000lb) during a demonstration to the oil industry at OTC in Texas. "K-Max has been used in ...
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Kamov team puts hat in ring for Turkish contract
Kamov and Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI), teamed in a bid to win Turkey's $3 billion contest for 145 attack helicopters, say they will demonstrate the Ka-50-2 in Turkey within two months. The aircraft has completed an extensive flight test programme in Russia and the companies say they are competing ...
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Safe Flight's shake-up of warning systems
Debbie Packman Your life could literally be in your hands thanks to another innovation from Safe Flight, inventors of the vibrating fixed wing Stall Warning system. Head towards stand B21 in Hall 5 for a hands-on demo of its latest product, the Collective Shaker, designed to simultaneously monitor ...