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Smiths Industries lifts Hercules contract
British company Smiths Industries Aerospace has won a contract to supply equipment for the power distribution system on the Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules transport aircraft. The contract is with Smiths' Display and Control Systems division and involves the provision of an enhanced electronic circuit breaker unit (ECBU) system, ...
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Bombardier unveils BRJ-X cabin mockup
Mark Hanant Bombardier Aerospace unveiled a mock-up of the passenger cabin of its proposed BRJ-X yesterday, but it will still be the end of the year before the final decision on launch of the 90-to-100-seat regional twin-jet airliner is announced. Following the official launch of the new Continental ...
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Avro RJX project shifts to powerplant phase
Alan Dron Members of the Avro RJX programme team will be exchanging the current damp UK summer for the heat of Arizona imminently, following successful completion of a preliminary design review of the aircraft's integrated powerplant system, it was announced at the show yesterday. The team, which has ...
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Weclome return for the popular Cessna
Tamzin Hindmarch A French company has this year started selling new single-engined Cessna 172s, 182s and 206s to buyers in Europe. But for many leisure pilots this year's star of the show is the Cessna F150 Rénové. Reims Aviation has for some time played a key role in ...
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Bae paving the way for UK-Italian link
Tim Ripley BAe chief executive John Weston has made a strong pitch for Italy to join a pan-Europe missile company based on Matra BAe Dynamics. Speaking at the Paris Airshow yesterday, Weston said that BAe and the Italian state owned aerospace company Alenia were conducting talks about possible ...
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Roll out of new-look French aerospace industry
Ian Verchere Aerospatiale Matra makes its long-awaited debut today as the reconstituted heavyweight of French aerospace when the chief executives of its merged entities - Yves Michot of Aerospatiale and Philippe Camus of Matra Hautes Technologies - present the new company to the world's press and global industry peers. ...
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X-32 passes big assembly milestone
First pictures of a major assembly milestone for Boeing's X-32 Joint Strike Fighter concept demonstrator were revealed at Paris yesterday. A small team of mechanics positioned and mated all of the attachment points between the single-piece wing and the fuselage. The assembly took less than 6h and ...
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Russia confident of service module launch
Tim Furniss The much-delayed launch of the Russian Zvezda service module, which has been holding up the assembly of the International Space Station (ISS), will take place in November. The Russian Space Agency (RSA) said at the show that the module has been delivered to the Baikonur Cosmodrome ...
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Shenyang deal extends Sino-links
Geoff Thomas BMW Rolls-Royce is to extend its Sino-links by signing a long-term deal with CATIC Supply and Shenyang Engine Manufacturing at Le Bourget today. The deal - to be signed by BMW Rolls-Royce's operations director Neil Ansell and a representative of CATIC - is believed to involve ...
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Merger makes BFGoodrich number two in industry
Debbie Packman BFGoodrich is in confident mood as the completion of its $2.2-billion merger with Coltec Industries draws tantalisingly close. CEOs Dave Burner (BFGoodrich) and John Guppy (Coltec) appeared together at the show yesterday to reveal that the 'friendly' union awaits a final decision from the appeals court ...
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Advances in active stick technology
Marconi Avionics of Rochester, UK, and Stirling Dynamics (SDL) of Bristol, UK, have signed a collaborative alliance. The alliance brings together Marconi Avionics and Stirling Dynamics, a systems and consulting house. The alliance will leverage SDL's innovative research to produce reliable, affordable, active control stick products. New ...
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Flagship chosen
Litton Industries has announced at Le Bourget that its California-based Aero Products division has been awarded a 10-year sole source contract by German airline Lufthansa to provide 260 LTN-101 Flagship global navigation air data inertial reference units. The units are for 88 Lufthansa aircraft, and are in addition to ...
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Cabling specialist proud of key role in aviation
Geoff Thomas Aerospace cabling and wiring is sometimes regarded as a 'Cinderella' part of the aviation industry but John Tinson, who is BICC Brand-Rex's newly- appointed business director, speciality cables, thinks that this is an unfair description. "We will also be heavily involved in the forthcoming Nimrod refits ...
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CityFlyer Express first to sport Union Flag logo
Tamzin Hindmarch The CityFlyer Express has become the first British Airways franchise partner to fly BA's new UK Union Flag logo on its tail. The markings are on the London Gatwick-based carrier's sixth and latest arrival - a British Aerospace Avro RJ100 - which begins flying to Europe ...
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Northrop Grumman lands major radar contracts
Steve Nichols Northrop Grumman has landed at Paris with news of major new contracts for its radar products. The Polish air agency (PATA) needs an update to its airspace management system (AMS) that, when complete, will provide additional flight safety and improved en-route services to Central Europe. ...
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Confrontation at Pristina avoided
UK forces were moments away from being sent to confront Russian troops over a race to Pristina airport in Kosovo on Friday. In what nearly became the biggest confrontation since the end of the Cold War, elite Parachute Regiment troops and Gurkhas were put on standby to fly into ...
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Boeing bullish as record year shapes up
Mike Martin "Boeing is back," declared Alan Mulally, president of Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group yesterday. "We have overcome recent production difficulties and are well on the way to meeting our commitment to deliver a record 620 commercial airplanes by the end of this year. That is more than ...
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Airbus juggles final assembly sites for flexibility
Hamburg has been chosen for the final assembly of the 107-seat Airbus Industrie A318 - but some of its A319 production will move to Toulouse, it was announced at the show yesterday. Airbus chief executive Noel Forgeard says the decision to split the A319 final assembly offers production flexibility. ...
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HGS breakthrough for flight simulators
The landing approach being shown above is to Tokyo Haneda airport and is being demonstrated on the first Boeing 737-700 full flight simulator produced by the Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Simulation Systems division of FlightSafety International. About to be shipped to the UK, it will join the Flight- SafetyBoeing fleet of ...
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Britten-Norman enjoys new Romanian rhapsody
Britten-Norman (BN) has chosen Paris to show off its newly strengthened capability since acquiring Romanian aerospace company Romaero. BN acquired its long-time airframe subcontractor last January, giving it hands-on control of Romaero Islander/Defender construction. Other Romaero activity that now forms part of the BN Group is structure assembly ...