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Twin plans to resurrect Fokker designs
Mark Hannant and Tim Ripley Just a couple of years after its demise, the name of the venerable Fokker company is back in the limelight at a major airshow with the announcement of two proposals to resurrect its production lines. Forward Aircraft has been at Farnborough '98 in ...
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Matsushita links with Honeywell in key IFE move
In-flight entertainment (IFE) market-leader Matsushita Avionics Systems (MASC) is to team with Honeywell in a move which promises to alter the evolution of the industry significantly. The agreement marries MASC's leading-edge expertise in creating interactive IFE software operating platforms with Honeywell's communications and data-management skills. It is set ...
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Face the facts with Ruth Harkin
Ruth Harkin's appointment last year as United Technologies vice-president international affairs and government relations, and chair of United Technologies International, makes her UTC's highest ranking female executive. During her visit to Farnborough - her first time at the air show - she spoke to Karen Walker. Q What is your ...
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Flight Visions selected for HUD supply
Graham Warwick GEC-Marconi virtually invented the fighter head-up display, but here on its home turf a US upstart is celebrating two of the most significant recent wins in the HUD market. Flight Visions is displaying the lightweight Night Hawk HUD selected by Lockheed Martin for its X-35 Joint ...
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send images by phone and radio
ImageBase Technology (Hall 2, Stand B2) is demonstrating its Photophone 98 system for sending video or still images across telephone lines, networks or radio links. The system is fully interactive and allows either party to add text or zoom into any part of the image. An on-screen pointer lets ...
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Iridium on target for global phone launch
Steve Nichols and Tim Furniss Aeronautical equipment for the new Iridium satellite telephone service is making its debut on the AlliedSignal stand (Hall 4, Stand F8). Promising to deliver telephone calls from every part of the planet, on the ground or in the sky, the Iridium service is ...
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New contracts total over $1bn for Lucas
Mark Hannant New contracts worth well over $1 billion have been announced by Lucas Aerospace. The UK electronics giant will supply for Fairchild Aerospace's new 728JET the complete fly-by-wire flight control system - a contract worth £600 million ($960 million) - and a major proportion of the primary ...
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US government to file suit against Northwest, Mesaba
The US government is to file suit against Northwest Airlines and its affiliate Mesaba Airlines in a bid to force the resumption of air services to 13 cities affected by the continuing Northwest pilots' strike. The suit is to be filed by the Department of Transportation (DOT) and the ...
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European team makes most of Meteor bid
Tim Furniss A European industry team led by Matra BAe Dynamics, is promoting the virtues of its Meteor missile to meet the needs for the next generation European medium range air-to-air missile (MRAAM). The first step toward this objective is to meet the requirement to provide the UK ...
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Private finance mooted for RAF tanker replacement
UK Defence Secretary George Robertson visited Farnborough yesterday as it emerged that the Royal Air Force is looking to replace its 35 ageing air refuelling tanker aircraft under a private finance initiative (PFI), possibly worth more than $1.5 billion. Robertson announced that this could be the biggest PFI ever ...
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Nordic demand for helicopters anticipated
Paul Derby An emerging helicopter requirement in the Nordic region of Europe which might call for as many as 80 aircraft is set to spark the next scramble for orders among the world's manufacturers. Finland is looking to buy an unspecified number of tactical troop transport helicopters and ...
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Green light forecast for European missile programme
Tim Ripley Europe's long delayed programme, worth $1.6 billion, to build the next generation of surface-to-air missiles could get the go ahead this year, says Matra BAe Dynamics chief executive Frabrice Bregier. The Principle Anti-Air Missile System (PAAMS) is intended to be the main weapon of the European ...
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Pascall harnesses meteors for backup link
What do you do if your communications satellite malfunctions and HF links fail you too? According to Pascall (Hall 4/G5) you use meteors! Using reflections from trails of gas, caused by meteorites entering the earth's atmosphere, it's possible to establish two-way VHF communications over quite long path lengths. ...
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Swissair pioneers data-handling with Honeywell
Swissair and Honeywell will later this year begin trials of new avionics designed to ease the flow of cockpit and cabin data on and off aircraft. Honeywell will fit its Total Aircraft Information System (TAIS) in a single Airbus A321 as part of a collaborative project called SkyLink to ...
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Racal scores Royal Navy avionics upgrade
Steve Nichols Racal Avionics feels it has plenty to shout about at Farnborough, thanks to winning important orders for both military and civilian equipment. UK MoD orders include avionics upgrades on Royal Navy Sea King, Lynx, and Nimrod aircraft, and the company is currently bidding on others. ...
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Search intensifies for Swissair cockpit voice recorder
Bad weather off the Canadian east coast forced the suspension of search efforts for the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of the Swissair Boeing MD-11 that crashed into the Atlantic on 2 September. Search teams plan to resume the search for the CVR when weather conditions improve. US Navy teams ...
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FAA wants to lead
TEXT: Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Despite intense domestic criticism of its lateness in getting to grips with the year 2000 computer problem, the US Federal Aviation Administration sees itself leading the world's aviation industry safely into the new century. Exactly what the USA will do to safeguard American travellers ...
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Boeing does not believe that Y2K problems will be as bad as first thought
Guy Norris/Seattle The year 2000 software nightmare scenario is like something from the 1951 science fiction classic The Day The Earth Stood Still in which an omnipotent alien paralyses the world by shutting down every electrically operated device for an hour. If Boeing is right, nothing like ...
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Eurocontrol
Julian Moxon/PARIS Bringing European air trafÞc control (ATC) computers up to year 2000 standard is taxing both the national service providers and the Brussels-based Eurocontrol organisation, which has responsibility for the Maastricht upper airspace region and for the central ßow management units (CFMUs) at Paris, France, and Brussels, Belgium. ...
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Airbus to cross finishing line
Max Kingsley-Jones/TOULOUSE Airbus Industrie set up a task force several years ago to examine the potential impact of the Y2K software problem on its aircraft. The consortium has concluded that there are only a few minor issues that will affect its products. It does, however, warn that it cannot ...