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Honeywell predicts market of Epic proportions
Honeywell is predicting that "at least" 200 business aircraft will be retrofitted with its Primus Epic control display system (CDS) within the next five years. Many more aircraft, such as Cessna's Citation Sovereign and the Sino-Swearingen SJ30-2, will be fitted from new with the system, the company forecasts. Honeywell hopes ...
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Envoy 7 expands Fairchild's corporate family plans
Fairchild Aerospace's commitment to produce a family of corporate aircraft is steadily being realised with the Envoy 7 launch. The widebody aircraft, a variant of the Fairchild Dornier 70-seat 728Jet regional airliner, which was launched earlier in the year, will join its smaller Envoy 3 stablemate which is now ...
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New players open up jet ownership to untapped market
The US fractional ownership industry has added three new players to the line-up, each with the aim of filling a niche within this highly lucrative market. HeliFlight Shares of Fort Worth, Dallas, is the first US-based helicopter programme. The company has ordered two Bell 430 twin turbine helicopters which ...
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Galaxy keeps performance but puts on weight
The Galaxy will meet, and even exceed, its performance specification, despite growing in weight and encountering several handling problems, says Galaxy Aerospace. The aircraft, which had its US premiere at the show, has gained more than 320kg (700lb) as a result of greater allowance for the interior and "more ...
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Certification work will delay Jetcruzer 500 by 12 months
Advanced Aerodynamics & Structures (AASI) says certification work on the Jetcruzer 500 turboprop pusher will not be completed until the "second half of next year", meaning a delay of more than 12 months over the company's original predictions. AASI says the delay is part of a conscious effort to ...
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NetJets maintains order surge
Executive Jet continues to surge ahead of its rivals with three major orders for its Netjets fractional ownership programme. The contracts involve up to 161 aircraft with a combined value of nearly $3 billion. The first deal, with Boeing Business Jets (BBJ), is for nine BBJs, with an option ...
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Rolls-Royce predicts retirement and fractional effects
More than 9,880 business jets worth more than $130 billion will be delivered over the next 20 years, according to Rolls-Royce. The engine maker predicts that around 19,800 turbofans worth more than $30 million will be needed to meet the demand. For the first time in any Rolls-Royce (formerly ...
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FSI agreement
FlightSafety International and Executive Jet have agreed to build a new maintenance and crew training centre at the latter's operational headquarters at Port Columbus International in New Jersey. The $25 million centre will house up to three simulators, including a Cessna Citation V Ultra training system. The centre is scheduled ...
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Dassault jet options
Dassault Aviation continues to study engine options for its supersonic business jet (SSBJ), but revealed at the NBAA show that it doubts if derivatives of military powerplants can fulfil longevity requirements for long-range supersonic flight. President Serge Dassault said: "Aside from the engine issue, all of the SSBJ technologies are ...
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CAeE MaxVue orders come flooding in
Norwegian airline Braathens ASA has ordered a Boeing 737-800 full-flight simulator from CAE Electronics. The simulator, which is equipped with the CAE MaxVue Plus visual system, is to enter service in August 2000, in the Braathens training centre at Oslo's new Gardemoen Airport. US Airways, meanwhile, has ordered ...
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Elan wins avionics research contracts
Elan Training Equipment (ETE) has announced a series of contracts for simulated cockpit controls and displays, for use in training and research flight simulators. Toulouse, France-based ETE has supplied sidesticks and control panels for an Airbus A320-based avionics technology demonstration cockpit operated by the German Aerospace Center's Institute of ...
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Raytheon to supply F-16 training units to Egypt
Raytheon Systems is to supply F-16 unit training devices (UTDs) to the Egyptian air force, under a US Air Force contract worth $26 million. The UTDs have been ordered under an indefinite delivery/indefinite quality contract originally awarded by the USAF in 1996. Under this contract, the air force has ...
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Simcom grows factory training portfolio with Attitudes buy
Graham Warwick WASHINGTON DC Simcom International is expanding its factory-authorised training business with the acquisition of Attitudes International, the exclusive provider of customer training on New Piper Aircraft's Seneca, Saratoga and Malibu light aircraft. Orlando, Florida-based Simcom already provides factory-authorised training for the Pilatus PC-12 single-turboprop utility aircraft ...
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United's $200m expansion continues with 777 installation
United Airlines has installed its fourth Boeing 777 full-flight simulator, as part of a $200 million expansion of its Denver, Colorado, training centre. All four simulators have been produced by Thomson Training &Simulation (TTS). The latest machine, and a fourth TTS-built Airbus A320 simulator to be installed in March next ...
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USAF awards launch contracts
Tim Furniss/LONDON US Air Force Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) contracts, worth $3.03 billion, have been awarded to Boeing and Lockheed Martin. The Boeing award is worth $1.38 billion and covers a contract for 19 Delta IV EELV launches. Rival Lockheed has won a $650 million contract for nine ...
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Endeavour Space Station Shuttle flight faces delay
The Space Shuttle Endeavour STS88 mission to attach the Unity 1 node to the Russian Zarya control module of the International Space Station has been threatened with being delayed from 3 December to later in the month because of potential computer problems. Zarya is due to be launched on a ...
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Mitsubishi becomes Optus C-1 prime
Mitsubishi has become the first Japanese company to win a prime contract to build a communications satellite for an international customer, beating Hughes and France's Alcatel in the final bid. An official announcement is expected soon, confirming the Japanese firm has secured the $312 million contract from Australia's Cable ...
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Russian parliament makes plea for Mir reprieve
The Russian parliament has appealed to President Boris Yeltsin to prevent the premature de-orbiting of the Mir space station next June, until construction of the International Space Station (ISS) has been completed. The termination of the Mir may result in the loss of 100,000 jobs, parliament says. Yuri Baturin, ...
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Astrophysics delay
The Space Shuttle Columbia mission to deploy the Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility has been delayed two months from January 1999, to allow more time for payload testing. The delay, and International Space Station snags have jolted the NASA 1999 Shuttle schedule. Source: Flight International
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Bell fits NeoAV
Bell is to fit Rogerson Kratos' NeoAV flat-turbine integrated instrument display system as standard in its Model 427 light twin-turbine helicopter, deliveries of which are scheduled to begin in January. A NeoAV flat-panel electronic flight instrument system is available optionally. Source: Flight International