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Alongside its rolling news service, Air Transport Intelligence (ATI) will offer customers an extensive online database. ATI's data modules will cover suppliers, aircraft, airlines, airports, powerplants, other organisations, a who's-who of key industry personnel, events, jobs, safety statistics and data from sister company OAG. The databases ...
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GE unveils new CF6 variant
General Electric is developing a higher-thrust, "bolt-less-turbine" version of the CF6 turbofan on the back of Delta Air Lines' launch in April of the stretched Boeing 767-400. The derivative is based around an improved turbine made from Rene 88, a high-temperature-resistant alloy, which allows the "bolt features" to ...
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Executive Jet gives Cessna biggest business-jet order
Executive Jet has ordered 50 Cessna Citation Excels for its NetJets fractional-ownership fleet. The order, worth $400 million, is the largest ever placed for business jets in terms of unit size, and represents another major boost for Cessna and the fractional-ownership concept which Executive Jet pioneered in 1986. ...
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AVIC deals lift Chinese industry
Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) has agreed separate deals with Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) and CFM International (CFMI) aimed at developing China's aerospace industry. The deal with AI(R) involves the establishment of a joint venture to assess the possibility of assembly of ATR turboprops in China. ...
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Westland upgrades Sea Kings for Belgian air force
GKN Westland Helicopters is to retrofit the Belgian air force's fleet of five Westland Sea Kings with new automatic flight-control systems. The installation of the Smiths Newmark SN500 system follows an upgrade programme completed in 1995 by Westland, enhancing the fleet's operational capability beyond 2015. SN500s ...
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Saudi picks Northrop
Saudi Arabia has selected Northrop Grumman to install a new air-traffic-control system at the Prince Sultan Air Base. The $61 million contract includes design and construction of equipment and installation of an undisclosed radar and related systems. The company says that the win "positions us for additional opportunities in the ...
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Romania shows upgrades
Romania's strong ties with Elbit Systems are in evidence at Paris with three aircraft upgraded by the Israeli company and the local aerospace industry on view. On display for the first time in the West is the Avioane Craiova IAR-99 Soim lead-in trainer upgraded with Elbit avionics. Aerostar of Romania ...
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Converted A300F lands in Paris with FAA approval
British Aerospace Aviation Services (BAeAS) has received US Federal Aviation Administration approval for its Airbus A300B4 freighter conversion, some six months later than originally targeted. Meanwhile, C-S Aviation Services, which is BAe's major customer for the conversion, has announced its first lease-placements, with the confirmation of two aircraft ...
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Lockheed Martin selects JSF HUD
Flight Visions has won a contract from Lockheed Martin Skunk Works to supply its newly developed Night Hawk weapon delivery system/head-up display (HUD) for the company's X-32 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) concept demonstration aircraft. Despite the fact that the HUD is only on order for a demonstrator and ...
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AMT predicts record performance in 1997
British Aerospace Asset Management - Turboprops (AMT) is forecasting a record performance this year, with projections that it will generate $120 million in sublease revenue and $15 million in Jetstream 31 sales. AMT has 437 aircraft in its portfolio, with 80% of the fleet now in service. After ...
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Airbus launches corporate-jet version of A319
Airbus Industrie has launched a corporate-jet version of the A319, the A319CJ, in direct competition with the Boeing Business Jets 737. Meanwhile the consortium has handed over the first of 28 A319s for United Airlines during a ceremony held at the air show. The A319 has been in ...
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Honeywell reveals WorldNav solution
US avionics manufacturer Honeywell has unveiled its "WorldNav" concept which it describes as the "world's first total- system solution to the challenges of free flight". The WorldNav combines the company's expertise in five key areas: communications, precision navigation, surveillance, precision approach and ground-vehicle management. The system is aimed ...
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Robin revs up all-wooden DR400 President
French general-aviation manufacturer Avions Pierre Robin is presenting a more-powerful version of its all-wooden DR400 at the Paris air show. The four-seat aircraft, now called the "President", has been re-engined with a more powerful 150kW (200hp) Textron Lyco-ming engine, replacing the previous 135kW model, and is now fitted ...
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Horizon deal landed
Messier-Dowty has been selected to design and manufacture a complete integrated landing-gear system for Raytheon Aircraft's Hawker Horizon corporate jet. Supply of the landing gear, wheels, tyres, brakes, door mechanisms and linkages for the medium-range 13-passenger aircraft will initially be worth over $70 million to the Anglo-French company. ...
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Certification and Ayres agreement boost Allison twice
Allison has received a double boost with the civil certification of its Model 250-C30R/3 turboshaft for the US Army's Bell OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter and the signing of an agreement with Ayres covering the supply of 100 shipsets of LHTEC CTP800-4T turboprops for the LM200 Loadmaster. The 250-C30R/3, ...
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RMPA award
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract worth over $50 million to supply the electro-optical sensor for the UK's replacement maritime-patrol aircraft (RMPA). As part of the contract from Boeing, Northrop Grumman will deliver 21 electro-optical surveillance and detection systems (EOSDS), with the first due for delivery in October 1998. ...
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First X-38 'Lifeboat' arrives at Edwards
The first X-38 atmospheric test vehicle, which will be used to demonstrate the concept of a crew-return "lifeboat" for the International Space Station, arrived at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards AFB, California on 4 June. The 7.3m-long vehicle resembles the X-24A lifting body, and will be carried ...
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Russia enters new orbit with reconnaissance satellite
A Russian launch this month marked the introduction of a new class of national reconnaissance satellite - but mystery surrounds its purpose. The Cosmos 2344 was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, using a four-stage Proton-K on June 6. The mission for the Cosmos 2344 is ...
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NASA awards two booster fly-back contracts
Lockheed Martin and Boeing have each been awarded $1 million contracts from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama, to conduct an "in-depth concept-definition" of upgraded Space Shuttle rocket boosters. The new liquid-propellant boosters would be able to fly back to land at the Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, rather than ...
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Spacewalkers picked
A cadre of 14 Space Shuttle astronauts has begun intensive training in preparation for the spacewalks required for initial in-orbit construction of the International Space Station (ISS). "It is important for us to begin work now to train the crews who will support Space Station assembly flights," says ...