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Second aircraft joins Premier testing programme
Raytheon now has two aircraft in its flight test programme for the Premier I business jet. A second aircraft has made its maiden flight from the company's headquarters in Wichita, Kansas. The second jet's first flight lasted 90min. The aircraft, which will be joined by third and fourth jets soon, ...
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Boeing bullish about 717's market prospects
Boeing's newest aircraft, the Boeing 717 - dubbed the best solution for the growing 100-seat market by chairman and CEO Phil Condit - makes its European debut at Le Bourget. Boeing inherited the 717 as the MD 95 following the takeover of McDonnell Douglas. It is the direct successor to ...
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Honeywell avionics at heart of B717
Honeywell's Versatile Integrated Avionics (VIA 2000) system is the avionics architecture for the new Boeing 717 twin-jet being shown at Le Bourget this week. The VIA system that forms the basis of the 717's Advanced Flight Deck features six flat panel liquid crystal displays. Dual VIA computers integrate the following ...
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Zvezda ejection seat proves its worth - again
For the third time in 10 years Russian display pilots owe their lives to the spectacular capability of an ejection seat - the Zvezda K-36DM. Yesterday's dramatic incident, in which the two airmen were catapulted from the cockpit of their Su-30MK just 150ft (45m) from the ground, mirrored a MiG-29 ...
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'The Sukhoi dropped like a stone'
As people stared from chalet balconies at the smoke-enveloped crash site, Sukhoi's staff made frantic telephone calls and officials at the bureau's static park pavilion could be seen openly weeping as they waited to hear about the crew's fate. "We can't see the runway from ...
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Crashes happen despite stringent safety standards
Nobody works harder than the organisers of air shows to keep them safe, but the proximity of people and hardware being put through its paces means there is inherent danger in such events. It's exactly 10 years since Russian pilot Anatoly Kvotchur ejected horizontally moments before his vertically-diving MiG-29 plunged ...
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Will the crash damage russian fighter sales?
Yesterday's dramatic and highly public crash of a $34 million Sukhoi Su-30MK during its flying display once again saw two Russian pilots make a seemingly miraculous escape, but their country's aerospace industry may not be so lucky. The question on everyone's mind today - having established the pilots are unharmed ...
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Americans urged to build bridges within industry
Bill Clinton's personal representative, NASA administrator Dan Goldin, officially opened the USA National Pavilion yesterday with an up-beat keynote speech. He drew on a sporting analogy to describe the way in which the US aerospace industry has coped over the past few years in a landscape characterised by down-sizing and ...
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Le Bourget goes for biggest and best title
An enlarged static area, a sixth exhibition hall and new-look chalets are just some of the elements which make the 43rd Paris air show the biggest, and - the organisers hope - the best air show ever. With more than 1,760 exhibitors registered by mid-May, organiser SIAE had to ...
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President launches Paris '99
French President Jacques Chirac with senior members of the French industry during his visit to inaugurate the 1999 show yesterday. The President watched the flying display, including the magnificent flypast by eight Airbus aircraft and leading French aircraft. He also toured exhibits found in the halls of major ...
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Consolidation in Europe 'not protectionism': Bechat
The USA should not interpret recent efforts to consolidate the French and European aerospace industries as protectionism, Jean-Paul Bechat, chairman of the French Aerospace Industries Association (GIFAS) said yesterday. "Our message to our American partners is that we are fully ready to have continuing transatlantic links and cooperation but they ...
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Airbus makes it a family affair
Airbus Industrie got the show off to an unforgettable start yesterday with a stunning fly-past of its entire family of aircraft. Showgoers will speak for years of the sight of all eight products flying in formation to mark the inauguration of the show. The unique display - there won't be ...
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Technology promises breakthrough in air traffic monitoring
Air traffic control could soon be moving from the ground to the air if trials of an Automatic Dependent Surveillance -Broadcast (ADS-B) solution on display at UPS Aviation Technologies' stand (Hall 3/A8) go well. ADS-B is just one new technology on the road to true "free flight". It allows pilots ...
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Finalists face Paris industry awards showdown
A panel of independent aerospace industry experts has selected the finalists for this year's Flight International Aerospace Industry Awards. The judges considered a record number of entries in the 11 categories. The winners will be announced at a gala dinner on 14 June during the Paris air show. Finalists ...
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Paris 99 preview
The Paris show will focus on providing the industry with business opportunities Julian Moxon/PARIS Perestroika ruled 10 years ago - the new openness, which dictated the commercial relationship between the West and the Soviet Union. The Berlin wall was about to come tumbling down. The changing climate of communication was ...
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ATN team aims for Paris flight demonstrations
A team including Aerospatiale, Thomson-CSF, Eurocontrol, the Dutch National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) and Sofreavia hopes to conduct flight demonstrations using the aeronautical telecommunication network (ATN) at this month's Paris air show. The ATN is being designed to integrate existing aeronautical networks in a seamless and interoperable internet, providing a ...
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Embraer studies ERJ options
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Embraer will announce at the Paris air show later this month the selection of an engine and cockpit avionics for its proposed new ERJ-170 and ERJ-190 family of regional aircraft. This will clear the way for a final decision on development planned for 1 July, although there ...
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Fairchild poised for US 428JET order
Paul Lewis/SAN ANTONIOFairchild Aerospace plans to announce a $1.5 billion launch order for the 428JET regional jet, along with additional 328JET sales, at the Paris air show. The company has refused to identify the customer, but it is widely believed to be US carrier Atlantic Coast Airlines (ACA). San Antonio-based ...
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JAL set for video on demand
Emma Kelly/LONDON Sextant In-Flight Systems aims to have audio- and video-on-demand (A/VOD) equipment in revenue service with Japan Airlines (JAL) next month. JAL is equipping seven Boeing 747-400s with Sextant's mSeries interactive in-flight entertainment (IFE) system. The mSeries, previously called the Multi-media Digital Distribution System, was installed on the ...
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Aerospatiale boss links Airbus with European restructure
Julian Moxon/PARIS On the eve of the official merger of Aerospatiale and Matra Hautes Technologies on 11 June, Aerospatiale president Yves Michot has added his voice to the debate over transforming Airbus Industrie into a single corporate entity (SCE) by continuing to link the transformation to the creation of ...