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Lagardere seeks shift in culture
At its first board meeting on June 11, Aerospatiale Matra's new supremo, chairman Jean-Luc Lagardere, said he planned to weld the new French aerospace giant's very different constituents - former state-owned Aerospatiale and private sector Matra Hautes Technologies - into a powerful driving force within a restructured European sector. But ...
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Philippines team awaits fate
The future at Philippines Airlines (PAL) of five-member consulting team Regent Star Services is in doubt as talks between the carrier and Lufthansa Consulting gain ground. Reports from Manila indicate that the contracts of the five ex-Cathay Pacific Airways executives, led by Peter Foster, are likely to be terminated on ...
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Chinese predict return to profit
Taiwan's China Airlines (CAL) is reporting an average load factor for the five months leading up to May of 72% - up five percentage points over the previous year - and continues to forecast a 1999 year-end return to profitability. CAL says its average load factor from January to ...
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Cathay set to return to full service
Cathay Pacific Airways is targeting 18 June for the resumption of normal services as it re-trains returning pilots and closes charters with other carriers established under its pilots' recent 'sick-out'. Spokeswoman, Diana Fung, says from Hong Kong that the carrier will operate at 89% of normal capacity today, ...
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Crew collapse traced to cargo door crack
New details of a depressurisation incident on the world's highest time Boeing 737-200 now revealed by investigators tell how the captain and senior flight attendant spent several minutes unconscious when a crack that had gone undetected for 17 years let cabin air escape. The aircraft, of UK charter ...
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Smoke success
An industry study has provided a conclusive demonstration that head up displays (HUDs) offer a significant improvement in viewing conditions over conventional electronic flight instrument system (EFIS) displays in a cockpit smoke environment. Marconi Avionics' study programme for civil air transport aircraft investigated the operation of its commercial Visual ...
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Virtually Dubai
Visitors to the Dubai 2000 chalet can get a sneak preview of the new purpose-built Dubai Airport Exhibition Centre, thanks to a virtual reality animation commissioned for Le Bourget. Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, president of the Dubai Department of Civil Aviation, says the animation is designed to ...
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Engine component maker weighs in
Paris '99 marks the first international appearance of engine component manufacturer Aero Tech Peissenberg. Despite being a relatively new name in the field, Aero Tech boasts a strong pedigree with almost 30 years' experience in its former incarnation as a branch of Motoren und Tubinen Union (MTU). Still servicing ...
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Engineering answers
So you've walked around the halls and you've been impressed by what you've seen, but how do you learn more about engineering in the aerospace industry? For all the answers, head straight for Supaero. Supaero is one of the most renowned engineering colleges in the world, offering its hand-picked ...
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Night ops suite on helicopter
An advanced night operations suite (NOPS) designed to extend the operational capabilities of helicopters is being developed by Israel Aircraft Industries' Tanam division. The package contains two key elements - night vision goggles and helmet-mounted display for each crew member. A tactical moving map and a helicopter multi-mission stabilised ...
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Lighting the way
Never one to miss a Paris air show, local company NEC SA has set up home in Hall 2/G6 to promote its array of on-board, man-machine interfaces and lighting. The French firm specialises in cost-effective emergency lighting systems, projectors, keyboards, control and display units. Spokesman Sebastien Nicolas says: "We ...
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Bearing up during centennial
Bearing manufacturer Timken Aerospace has chosen its centennial year to make its first appearance at the Paris air show. With 55 faculties worldwide, the company recently took over Split Ball Bearings (SBB) to complete its production line. Timken counts among its customers most of the engine builders exhibiting ...
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Comfort on the ground
Passenger comfort even before they leave the ground is the name of the game for Kusch of Germany. Kusch's distinctive stainless steel bench seating can be found in airports from Johannesburg to Dublin. As well as being durable and vandalism-resistant, the seating offers good comfort - and great looks. ...
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Paris debut for ballscrew maker
The growth of its aerospace business has brought Hiwin Technologies to Paris for the first time. The company is the first ballscrew manufacturer certified to ISO 9001 (in 1992) and 14001 (in 1997). It is the sole supplier of aerospace ballscrews in its native Taiwan, and also supplies linear motion ...
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Connecting at show
Amphenol, one of the world's largest supliers of connectors and interconnect systems to the military and commercial aerospace industries, is exhibiting at the show (Hall 2/E10). Among the products and solutions on display are the interconnect products which played a significant role in building the first elements of the International ...
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Seeking sales
A consortium has been formed by FiatAvio of Italy, ITP of Spain, MTU of Germany and Snecma of France to offer the M138 engine for the Airbus A400M military transport. Airbus Military has already placed the M138, which can be seen in Hall 2/C16, on its short list of ...
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ATC simulator
Communications and Systems (CS) is showing a tower simulator it has developed for Aeroport de Paris "CDG". It features a full 360deg airfield and traffic display, preparation and management of training exercises, realistic modelling of aircraft and ground vehicles, approach radar display and weather information. CS (Hall 2/F6) has ...
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Crash at Cape goes unnoticed
A four-seater Piper aircraft crashed unnoticed this week between two launch pads at Cape Canaveral, the US Air Force said on Saturday. Wreckage and the body of the pilot were found in a wooded area Friday afternoon, nearly two days after the aircraft disappeared from radar screens, a USAF ...
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Cosmonauts in bid to save Mir
Russian cosmonauts are battling to keep their country's space programme up in the air by launching a fundraising campaign to raise $100 million to save the Mir space station. Vitaly Sevastyanov and Georgy Titov, veterans of the Soviet space programme, have now asked all Russians to contribute to a ...
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Canadian oilfields to be sold off
BP Amoco has announced that it plans to sell off its Canadian oilfields to focus more on natural gas production. Industry observers say the sale - in separate lots - could raise almost $1 billion and affect about 250 jobs. The fields to be hived off produce an average ...