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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 ...
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Airbus chalks up A320 orders
Airbus Industrie has won a $1.5-billion order for 30 aircraft from its single-aisle A320 family, it was announced at the show yesterday. The order, from leasing company Debis AirFinance, is for 15 A320s, 10 A319s and five A321s, with some flexibility in model selection. Deliveries will begin in ...
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Fairchild sales coup catapults Envoy order book
Fairchild Aerospace has signed a $760-million order from US fractional ownership company Flight Options for 25 Envoy 7 business jets. The deal massively increases Fairchild's order book for the new Envoy 7, which stood at just three individual sales until the Flight Options coup. Flight Options chairman Kenn ...
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Horizon Air launches QUIET Q400 in North America
Alan Peaford Horizon Air has become the North American launch customer of Bombardier's Q400 in a $321-million deal announced at the show yesterday. The Seattle-based airline placed a firm order for 15 of the super quiet 70-passenger aircraft with options on an additional 15. Bombardier announced a ...
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Italian/Russian fighter trainer prototype on display
Paul Derby A demonstrator prototype of the Italian/Russian joint venture fighter trainer, the Yak/AEM-130, is being displayed at Paris by partner companies Aermacchi, Yakovlev and Sokol. Development of the aircraft is continuing, says Aermacchi, with flight testing of four pre-production prototypes due to begin in 2001 and delivery ...
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Dutch bid for US Army ACSP contract
Alan Dron A new contender for the US Army's $2-billion Aerial Common Sensor Programme (ACSP) appeared yesterday when Dutch company Forward Aviation threw its hat into the ring. Forward's managing director Wichard de Waard says he is close to signing a link-up with a US company that would ...
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Record-breaking ACJ heads for Paris
Mike Martin The Airbus Industrie Corporate Jetliner (ACJ) has set a new record for a flight by a large, single-aisle aircraft, flying non-stop from Toulouse to Buenos Aires in a 14hr 50min flight, it was announced at the show yesterday. The flight, completed the day before, covered an ...
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Catering deal
Aviation services firm Alpha Airports has bought a British Airways in-flight catering operation at Gatwick for $22.4 million. It has also struck a new 10-year deal with BA to supply in-flight catering at Gatwick and other regional airports. It expects turnover to be around $96 million in the first ...
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MiG display pilot enjoys rich irony of his role
Geoff Thomas While waiting to take-off and display the Aerostar MiG-21bis Lancer III, Israeli pilot Yehuda Shafir sometimes finds time for a few moments quiet contemplation. His thoughts invariably turn to the irony of his current position. Shafir is a US-trained fighter pilot who spent his active ...
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Rolls-Royce clocks $88m orders for jets
Geoff Thomas Rolls-Royce announced at Le Bourget yesterday that it has won new business worth up to $88 million for its AE 3007 engines to power Embraer ERJ-145 regional jets. Italian regional operator Alitalia Express has ordered six aircraft with options for an additional 10, with deliveries due ...
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Falcon owners offered retrofit option
Owners and operators of Dassault Falcon 50 business jets are being offered an engine retrofit option that is claimed to substantially reduce time-to-climb and cruise speeds. AlliedSignal Aerospace is offering to retrofit TFE731-40 engines on an exchange basis for the existing TFE731-3 powerplants currently found on around 250 ...
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'Dramatic progress' since last Paris show: Robins
Ian Verchere With an order backlog worth $20 billion and the broadest range of engines in the aerospace industry, Rolls-Royce chairman Sir Ralph Robins says the UK manufacturer has made "dramatic progress since the previous Paris air show in 1997". In civil aerospace alone, he adds, there is ...
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IAE confirms $600m in orders from leasing firms
Geoff Thomas International Aero Engines (IAE) announced yesterday at Le Bourget that it had new, firm orders worth $600 million for its V2500 family of engines. The orders are from three international leasing companies which will use the engines to power aircraft from Airbus Industrie's A320 family. ...
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Missile range due for upgrade
New York-based L-3 Communications is to upgrade facilities at UK's Hebrides missile firing range, the company announces today. The $3.6-million contract for its San Diego, California-based Telemetry and Instrumentation division, involves replacing and integrating telemetry ground systems, and then managing the complete site installation. Enhancements will include three ...
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Antonov touts flexibility of An-70 airlifter
Tim Ripley Antonov's distinctive An-70 airlifter is making a big impression at Le Bourget as the Ukrainian company bids to win a slice of the growing European airlift market. Its distinctive blue Progress D-27 propfan engines are certainly a talking point among visitors, but Antonov executives are keen ...
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Hercules lifts 50 records in two categories
Andrew Douse A Lockheed Martin flight crew, flying a production-standard, unmodified C-130J Hercules transport, has claimed 50 world aeronautical records in two distinct aircraft categories. The records were set in four flights on two days and broke 16 existing world marks. A further 34 standards were established ...
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Sukhoi will survive Saturday's show crash
Kate Jones The terms and dates of the contract to supply the SU30MK to India will not be affected by Saturday's crash, says the director general of Sukoi's design bureau. At the Rosvoorouzhenie press conference on Monday, Mikhail Pogosyan stressed that the crash did not diminish the value ...
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Dasa eyes finance stake in Aerostar
Acquisition moves by Germany's Daimler-Chrysler Aerospace (Dasa) continue to gather momentum at the Paris air show, with reports that the company is having discussions about buying a stake in Romanian aircraft maker Aerostar. A Dasa spokesman confirms talks are under way, but says it is too early to say ...
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Helmet debuts on RAF Jaguar
The production standard Marconi/Honeywell Helmet Mounted Sighting System (HMSS) has been flown, for the first time, on a Royal Air Force Jaguar GR3A aircraft at the UK Defence Evaluation Research Agency (DERA) site at Boscombe Down. The HMSS is being added to the aircraft as part of the Jaguar ...
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Arianespace frustrated by satellite delays
Tim Furniss Arianespace is raring to let its launchers loose, but the satellites are not ready. A frustrated commercial launcher company is grounded because a series of anomalies or potential faults have occurred on satellites that Arianespace is scheduled to launch. "We are trying to adjust, to ...