All news – Page 6681
-
News
Farnborough to celebrate with a record
It is an expression which says that Farnborough '98 can top the record-beating event two years ago which saw $12 billion worth of business announced. Society of British Aerospace Companies director general David Marshall is clearly in an upbeat mood as he tries out the seat of Tiger Moth ...
-
News
Marubeni re-enters aerospace arena
Japan's Marubeni will re-enter the commercial aircraft business for the first time since it lost its position as sales agent for Lockheed aircraft in the 1970s. The company has reached a basic agreement with the administrator of failed Okura & Co to buy the agency rights of Okura's aerospace ...
-
News
PM signals thumbs up for British aerospace industry
Mark Hannant and Tim Ripley The vitality of the UK's aerospace industry is reflected in the scale of this the 50th anniversary Farnborough International Airshow, says David Marshall, director general of show organisers the Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC). The visit today of Prime Minister Tony Blair ...
-
News
Specialist metal shortage worries engine builders
Aeroengine manufacturers rely heavily on specialist metals for their tremendous strength and high melting points. But a worldwide shortage of rhenium is threatening to stop them in their tracks. Rhenium is a byproduct of the production of molybdenum. Its claim to fame as the metal with the second ...
-
News
Recorder passes bomb bay tests
How would you like to be strapped into the open bomb bay of an F-117 stealth fighter and subjected to hours of aerobatics and high G manoeuvres? That was the treatment meted out to the latest digital flight recorder from Metrum-Datatape,(Hall 1, stand D17) and it passed the test ...
-
News
Patriot meets FAA demands
Mark Hannant Following the US Federal Aviation Authority's ruling increasing the number of parameters to be monitored by digital flight data recorders (DFDRs), Patriot Sensors and Control has announced the immediate availability and compliance of its MP Series of position transducers for use in DFDRs. The new FAA ...
-
News
Face the facts with... George Robertson
In the afterglow of his July Strategic Defence Review, UK Defence Secretary George Robertson will be visiting Farnborough on Wednesday to talk turkey with the aerospace industry about European consolidation and his bid to revamp Britain's much criticised defence procurement system. Tim Ripley reports. Q What is your view of ...
-
News
Safety shortcomings 'cause for concern'
Steve Nichols The three words on avionics suppliers' lips at Farnborough this year are "safety, safety and safety". As Guy Norris reports in this week's Flight International, the US Federal Aviation Administration expects "a serious accident every few weeks by 2015" unless major changes are made in the ...
-
News
Eurofighter contract delay 'no problem'
Tim Ripley Eurofighter chiefs have played down a last minute hitch in negotiations over the first batch of 148 production EF2000s. "In next few weeks we will sign fixed price contracts for first production batch of 148 aircraft [for Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK]," declares ...
-
News
Europe's future: watch this space
Tim Furniss The European space industry is in limbo. It is awaiting, with extremely sweaty palms, the next Ariane 5 launch and, with puzzlement, the outcome of negotiations to form a major European space company. The next launch of the Ariane 5 is scheduled for 30 ...
-
News
Starstreak missile cleared for export
Alan Dron British Government export clearance has today been granted for Shorts Missile Systems' (SMS) Starstreak laser-guided anti-aircraft system, says chief executive officer Terry Stone. The high-velocity missile will be promoted as Armoured Starstreak, mounted on an Alvis Stormer AFV. A lightweight variant, packaged within the ...
-
News
The only way is up
The Sukhoi Su-27PD takes to the skies over Farnborough, bearing with it the admiration of all and hopes for the economy back home. It was a close-run thing even getting here, says Society of British Aerospace Companies director-general David Marshall. "We were not expecting it to be here," ...
-
News
Divers in search of black boxes from downed Swissair jet
Divers plunged into the frigid northern Atlantic at dawn yesterday, searching for the flight data recorders that could solve the mystery of the final six minutes of Swissair Flight 111. Canadian Navy Capt Phil Webster says the Canadian submarine HMCS Okanogan detected a transponder signal from one of the ...
-
News
B/E Aerospace buys CF Taylor for $25 million
B/E Aerospace has acquired the CF Taylor commercial aircraft cabin interiors business from TI Group for about $25 million cash. CF Taylor will become part of B/E's newly formed Flight Structures and Integration Group. Source: Flight Daily News
-
News
Thiokol to build EELV engine nozzle
Thiokol Propulsion will begin fabrication this month of the first development exit cone for Boeing's new RS-68 low-cost cryogenic engine that will power its Delta IV Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) for the US Air Force. In an announcement at the Show today, Thiokol says the phenolic exit cone ...
-
News
US Navy awards contract for maintenance
Sikorsky has won a $150 million contract with the US Navy for the maintenance of Navy T-2 and TA-4jet trainers. The contract also includes maintenance of HH-1N and UH-3H helicopters and was won by Sikorsky Support Services (SSSI) under a competitive tender by the Naval Air Systems Command. ...
-
News
Birth of Typhoon's world market challenge
Tim Ripley The wraps formally came off one of the worst kept secrets in the aerospace industry last Wednesday, when Eurofighter's EF2000 was christened Typhoon in a media extravaganza at British Aerospace's Farnborough headquarters. Europe's contender for the $70 billion global fighter market will now be known as ...
-
News
BAe puts futuristic spin on village life
Sally Shore Dome that's set to travel the world The largest aviation exhibition staged in Europe is guaranteed to pull in the crowds at this year's Farnborough show. British Aerospace has transformed 11,000m2 of airfield into a futuristic high-tec Partnership Village designed to deliver the ...
-
News
BBJ takes to the air
Alan Peaford The Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) successfully completed its first flight on the eve of the Farnborough show. BBJ president Borge Boeskov was hosting a press dinner in London when a call on his cell phone from pilot Mike Hewett confirmed mission success. And that, Boeskov confidently ...
-
News
Test hitch
The Farnborough flying control committee's concentration on safety was brought into sharp relief last Wednesday when the IAR-99 Soim, from Romania, suffered an engine problem - believed to have been a flame-out - while validating its display for the show over the airfield. Exhibition director Peter Taylor says: "The ...