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PBN
UK-based aircraft manufacturer Pilatus Britten-Norman (PBN) has appointed Walter Stark chief executive. He has been with PBN since 1988, and was previously sales and marketing director - a function which he will continue to carry out. Stark's appointment follows the departure of the company's managing director Anthony Stansfield. ...
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Delta
Edward West takes the new position of vice-president - financial planning and analysis at Delta Air Lines of the USA. Hiram Cox takes West's former job of corporate controller for the Atlanta, Georgia- based company. Cox was formerly managing director of the Delta Shuttle service, operating between New York City, ...
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Trilectron
Ground-support equipment company Trilectron Industries, of Palmetto, Florida, has made three new appointments. John Moore joins as regional sales manager for Asia, the Pacific Rim and certain North American accounts. He comes from Air-A-Plane Cor-poration, where he was director of marketing and sales. Acting chief of sales and marketing at ...
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Flying display
Wednesday 18 June 1300: Breitling aerobatic display 1314: Extra 300S 1319: Sukhoi SU-29M 1327: Cayliss 1331: Robinson helicopter 1338: NHIndustries NH90, Eurocopter EC120, EC135, Tigre 1355: Socata TBM-700, Tangara 1402: Airbus A319, A340 1416: Dassault Falcon 900, Falcon 2000, ...
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Lockheed signs huge Russian rocket deal
Lockheed Martin has stunned the space industry with an exclusive deal to buy 101 Russian RD-180 rocket engines worth $1 billion. The unprecedented purchase enforces the company's "…resolve to win the US Air Force's Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV)" contract next June, says Mel Brashears, president and chief executive ...
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C172 autopilot
Texas-based flight control system and avionics specialist S-TEC has received US Federal Aviation Administration supplemental type certfication for its System Twenty, Thirty, Thirty ALT and System 40, 50 and 55 autopilots in the Cessna 172R. Source: Flight International
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Honeywell for LM200
Ayres and FedEx have selected Honeywell's SPZ-5000 integrated avionics system for the Loadmaster LM200 freighter. The suite will include the IC-500 Integrated Avionics Computer, which combines the functions of autopilot, flight director and display processor, and Honeywell's Primus II navigation/communication radios and Primus 440 colour weather radar. The LM200 is ...
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Taiwan in CT7 deal
Taiwan's Aerospace Industrial Development (AIDC) has taken a 7.2% stake in the -6D version of the General Electric CT7 turboshaft, destined for Sikorsky's S-92 transport helicopter. Source: Flight International
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Life saver
Since its introduction in 1982, the Copas-Sarasat international humanitarian satellite search programme has helped save the lives of more than 7,000 people in distress at sea. Source: Flight Daily News
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Florida blooms
Enterprise Florida's attendance at the show is paying dividends with several companies showing a keen interest in taking advantage of the state's aerospace initiative. Domestic and international companies look like prime candidates to set up in Florida, says Ken Cooksey Jr, Director Aviation/Aerospace Industry. "You just never know ...
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Excel contract
Cessna Aircraft has awarded a contract to Litton's Litef division to supply the Fibre Optic Gyro-based (FOG) LCR-93 Altitude and Heading Reference System for the Excel. First prototypes have been delivered and have logged approximately 1,000 flying hours on the Excel. The system incorporates micro-mechanical accelerometers ...
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Honour for CMC
Canadian Marconi (CMC) has been named supplier of the year by GKN Westland Helicopters. CMC has been supplying specialised electronics to GKN Westland for more than two years and was selected for top honours from more than 100 suppliers around the world. Source: Flight ...
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HUD installed
Gulfstream Aerospace has announced the first installation of the Honeywell-GEC-Marconi HUD 2020 Head-Up Display in a Gulfstream IV-SP business jet.The HUD will display guidance to the runway for pilots flying in bad weather - even when conditions such as fog, smoke or haze limit visibility. Source: ...
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Hydrep on show
French trouble-shooter Hydrep, a joint venture between Messier-Bugatti (Groupe SNECMA) and LAB (Groupe TAT), is showing its worldwide mechanical and hydraulic maintenance services at the show. The company provides repair and overhaul of landing gear, hydraulics, wheels and brakes fitted on commuter aircraft and helicopters. Capability ...
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Bomnardier is foiled by Embraer 50-seat scoop
Two regional jet manufacturers; two $1 billion contract announcements; and the same customer. But the atmosphere at each press conference yesterday could not have been more of a contrast. American Airlines' subsidiary AMR Eagle's decision to purchase its 50-seat regional jets from Embraer and its 70-seaters from Bombardier clearly ...
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Businessmen take shine to Hawker 800
It's an aerospace marketer's dream - somebody drops in at a show, and likes your aircraft so much that they buy it there and then. It's a once-in-a-lifetime dream, unless you're Raytheon, which scored a $28million on-the-spot sale yesterday at Paris - two years after exactly the same ...
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GE and Snecma win American Eagle deal
The American Eagle contract for 25 Canadair RJ 70s brought a boost to the joint-venture engine company of GE and Snecma. The GE CF34-8C power plant has been selected. The deal is believed to be worth in excess of $250million. The manufacturer was celebrating another contract - worth ...
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Shuttle win
Canada's Wescam has won a contract from NASA to supply three radio frequency camera systems for the Space Shuttle. The cameras will be used by Shuttle astronauts during the construction of the International Space Station. This is a space first for Wescam. Source: Flight Daily News
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Airbus testing
The final series of ground-based tests on Airbus Industrie's A330-200 has begun in Toulouse, leading to its first flight in mid-August. The A330-200, which will seat 253 passengers in a standard three-class layout, is the newest member of the growing A330/A340 family. A comprehensive 630h flight-test ...