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Partners forecast strong demand for EC120B Colibri
Geoff Thomas Now celebrating its first century of sales, the Eurocopter EC120B Colibri helicopter is making its formal debut at the show. The single-engine EC120B is a new generation 1.5-tonne aircraft with 4/5 seats and it was designed from the outset with performance, safety, comfort and affordability in mind. Partners ...
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Gulfstream adds Collier trophy to its accolades
Karen Walker Gulfstream has arrived at Asian Aerospace '98 boasting a new accolade- its Gulfstream GV ultra -long-range business jet has been named this year's winner of the annual prestigious Robert J Collier trophy. The trophy, established in 1912, is awarded by the US National Aeronautic Association (NAA) for "-the ...
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Parker move
Parker move Parker Aerospace has announced at the show the opening of a regional office in the south of France. The Toulouse business centre will provide local support for French customers including Dassault, Snecma, Airbus Industrie and Eurocopter. Parker Aerospace designs and manufactures hydraulic, fuel and pneumatic ...
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Daewoo confident of trainer sales to Korean air force
Andrew Mollet Daewoo says that it hopes to sell between 100 and 150 of its new KTX-1 basic trainers to the Republic of Korea air force (ROKAF). The company will be delivering an initial batch of 20 KTX-1s later this year, and a further 20 in 2000 as the ...
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Face the Facts with... Edmond Marchegay
Edmond Marchegay wears three hats: President of Intertechnique, president of the French equipment industry and commissaire general of the French industry group here at Asian Aerospace '98. He talked to Mike Martin about the revolution which has swept through the French aerospace equipment sector, the market situation in Asia-Pacific and ...
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F-16's future hinges on this year's sales
Tim Ripley This year is a "watershed year" for Lockheed Martin's F-16 Fighting Falcon programme if the company's best-selling fighter is to stay in production beyond the year 2001 and win up to 600 new orders. Lockheed Martin's Fort Worth, Texas, plant has orders to keep it working to 2001, ...
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Global 'extranet' spreads technological advances
Mark Hannant The space race not only put a man on the moon, it also famously gave the world Teflon and the non-stick frying pan, perhaps the greatest example of everyday benefits from aerospace technology. The industry has always been a leader and possibly no more so than in the ...
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Fractional owners can boost business sales
Alan Peaford Fractional ownership could be the next major development to boost business aircraft sales in the Asia-Pacific region - or not, depending on whom you talk to. Gulfstream's Bryan Moss has said at the show that he believes Asia-Pacific will follow the lead from the Middle East market where ...
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Leasing company sees opportunies in economic downturn
Sarah Lazenby Business is booming in Asia Pacific for flight crew leasing companies IASCO and ARS International. The companies have just placed 17 captains to fly McDonnell Douglas DC-10s and MD-81s for the Harlequin Air, the first new-entry low-cost carrier to serve Japan since the market was liberalised. Other Asian ...
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LEDs brighten Korry's show
The show spotlight has been turned on the LED-illuminated cockpit switches and indicators making their debut on Stand D208. Seattle, Washington-based Korry Electronics, spent almost five years developing the products and has just received a $3 million order from American Airlines to use them in 42 of its Boeing ...
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Canadair racks up six more RJ orders
Alan Dron Bombardier yesterday received orders for six Canadair Regional Jets - five from Montpellier, France-based Air Littoral, and one from Air Adria, of Ljubljana, Slovenia. The French order, for five Series 100 machines, will take the airline's fleet of the 50-seat aircraft to 19. Deliveries of its ...
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New team sharpens CASA business focus
Sarah Lazenby Spanish aircraft manufacturer CASA has restructured its top team for a sharper focus on future business growth and investment. The re-organisation, announced yesterday at Asian Aerospace '98, comes seven months after Alberto Fernandez was appointed chairman and chief executive. Pedro Mendez will now head the space division, with ...
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Litton nav system for regional carriers
Mark Hannant Litton Aero Products has announced at Asian Aerospace '98 that its LTN-101 Flagship navigation system will be flown by four regional commercial airlines. China Southern Airlines is to take ten systems for additional A320s being acquired; Sichuan Airlines is to fit the Flagship to four A320/321s. ...
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Never a dull moment with Pierson at the podium
Mike Martin Jean Pierson's last air show appearance as chief executive of Airbus Industrie was vintage stuff. Some 13 years ago, when he joined the company, he told his team to "-fasten their seat belts: I promise we will cause some turbulence". Staff reaction went unrecorded, but the indomitable ...
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P&W defends engine against rival ridicule
Karen Walker Pratt & Whitney chief Karl Krapek yesterday defended his company's new geared turbofan product against rival accusations that it is based on old technology. Giving details of the newly-launched PW8000, an engine for narrowbody markets in the next century, Krapek says: "I take exception to comments about this ...
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More records en route to Changi
Andrew Mollet The Gulfstream V, the world's first ultra-long-range business aircraft, set two world speed records on the flight from New York to Singapore. It brings to 46 the number of world and national records for speed, altitude, distance and time-to-climb the aircraft has set since entering service in ...
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Airfoil repair centre opens in Singapore
Sarah Lazenby A S$36 million ($22 million) jet-engine airfoil repair centre has opened in Singapore to target the Asian market. The centre, owned by Airfoil Technologies International (ATI), is expected to refurbish more than a million compressor airfoils a year and hopes to gain a large slice of the repair ...
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Tiger hopes to claw back into display
Paul Derby Eurocopter executives hope to have a replacement Tiger combat helicopter flying in today's display after the original craft destined for Asian Aerospace '98 crashed in Australia only days before the start of the show. Executives at Changi say they had to move "incredibly quickly" to cut through red ...
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Civil tilt rotor order book is given boost from Japan
With speculation mounting that Bell Helicopter Textron is about to announce its purchase of Boeing's commercial helicopter business, Bell Boeing received a shot in the arm yesterday with the confirmation of three more 609 civil tilt rotor sales. Bell says Japan-based Mitsui Bussan Aerospace has signed a preliminary purchase agreement ...
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USA still committed to world civil GPS network
Kieran Daly, ATI Top-ranking US officials are telling Asian and European nations that the USA remains committed to developing an augmented Global Positioning System (GPS) as the basis for a worldwide navigation network. In an interview at Asian Aerospace '98 yesterday, they conceded that back-up navigation systems will be essential ...