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Finalist: Lear Astronics
Finalist: Lear Astronics Location Santa Monica, California, USA Achievement Demonstration of an enhanced-vision system (EVS) providing precision landing and approach on any runway. In 1996 Lear Astronics successfully demonstrated an enhanced-vision system (EVS) which is capable of giving pilots a landing decision height of around 300-400ft ...
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Finalist Rockwell Avionics & Communications
Finalist: Rockwell Avionics & Communications, Collins Air Transport division Location Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA Achievement A multi-mode receiver combining both existing and future landing-aid technology One of the most enduring technical issues for the world airline industry over the past decade has been over ...
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Personality of the year
Winner: Shen Yuankang Title Vice Minister of General Administration of Civil Aviation of China Achievement Helping to strengthen air safety oversight in China's fast-growing civil aviation sector. The improvement in China's levels of air safety has been dramatic over the past three years. The country's civil-aviation ...
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Air transport
Winner: AlliedSignal Aerospace, Commercial Avionics Systems Location Redmond, Washington, USA Achievement Pioneering work on the enhanced ground-proximity warning system (EGPWS) in the fight to reduce fatal aviation accidents. Aviation safety experts have long targeted controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) as the leading cause of aircraft accidents. ...
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Finalist BMW Rolls-Royce
Finalist: BMW Rolls-Royce Location Oberursel, Germany Achievement Bringing the BR710 engine to the corporate-jet market on scheduleOnly six years after starting out as a new joint venture, BMW Rolls-Royce received European certification for the BR710 engine on board the Gulfstream V. Remarkably, the certification, which took ...
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Business & General aviation
Winner: Rockwell Avionics & Communications, Collins General Aviation division Location Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA Achievement Making advanced avionics and satellite-based navigation available for mid-size corporate jets The advent of satellite-based navigation and communications has clearly had a radical impact on the air-transport industry. As reliance on ...
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Finalist: Cessna Aircraft
Finalist: Cessna Aircraft Location Wichita, Kansas, USA Achievement Spearheading the revitalisation of general aviation in the USA and resuming piston-single production. When the first 172 Skyhawk was rolled out of Cessna's new piston singles plant in Kansas on 6 November, 1996, it marked a milestone in ...
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Finalist :BMW Rolls-Royce
Finalist: BMW Rolls-Royce Location Oberursel, Germany Achievement Creating a brand-new engine company and meeting all targets on schedule. BMW and Rolls-Royce joined forces in 1990 to create a brand-new company which could emerge as the leading European supplier of aero-engines for the regional-aircraft and corporate-jet markets. ...
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Corporate strategy
Winner: Embraer Location Sao Paulo, Brazil Achievement Successfully launching the EMB-145 onto the world market, while battling with privatisation and overcoming heavy losses. The new management which took over Embraer following its privatisation at the end of 1994 faced a seemingly desperate situation. Hit by Brazil's ...
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Finalist: Lufthansa Technik
Finalist: Lufthansa Technik Location Hamburg, Germany Achievement Winning certification under Europe's new ecology audit. By the end of 1996, Lufthansa Technik had won official recognition for its long-running work on environmental improvements by becoming the first operation of its kind to be certified under the European ...
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Finalist: Japan Airlines
Finalist: Japan Airlines Location Tokyo, Japan Achievement Support for a scientific project to monitor greenhouse gases in the upper Earth's atmosphere. For the past five years, Japan Airlines (JAL) has been actively supporting a scientific study to measure the extent of greenhouse gases in the Earth's ...
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Environment
Winner: Manchester Airport Location Manchester, UK Achievement Winning approval for construction of a second runway through work with local communities. In January 1997, the UK Government granted approval for the construction of a full-length second runway at Manchester Airport - the first such project to get ...
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Finalist: Wavionix Software
Finalist: Wavionix Software Location Lausanne, Switzerland Achievement Successful design and testing of a computer software tool for airport air-traffic procedures design. Designers of airport air-navigation procedures have long dreamed of a way to computerise what can be a frustrating and time-consuming task, based on endless manual ...
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Infrastructure
Joint Winner: Luftfartsverket Location Norrkoping, Sweden Joint Winner: SAS Location Stockholm, Sweden Achievement Pioneering work within the NEAN project to demonstrate the potential of ADS-B to modernise Europe's overburdened air traffic control (ATC)infrastructure is already constraining air-transport growth in the region ...
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Continental goes Boeing
Ramon Lopez/WASINGTON DC CONTINENTAL Airlines has become the third US major to enter into a long-term, sole-supplier pact with Boeing, following the signature of a letter of intent (LoI) for up to 35 widebodied aircraft to satisfy its future fleet requirements. The estimated value of the deal is ...
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MIS Embraer hit
Embraer is providing airline operators with an electronic maintenance information service (MIS). The user-friendly, up-to-date MIS, developed by US-based aviation services company Jeppesen, replaces existing paper manuals. It gives maintenance workers simultaneous access to information via computer screens and provides electronic links between manual sections for ...
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Israel and US booster link targets commercial market
Israel Aircraft Industries has linked up with the USA to develop and launch a version of Israel's Shavit satellite booster for the commercial market. It has joined with Coleman Research, a rocket company in Orlando, Florida, to provide launches from the USA for a range of potential commercial customers, ...
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Bombardier looks to change perception of regionals
North American airline passengers are disenchanted with turboprop aircraft because they see them as noisy, cramped and subject to greater turbulence. But the development of new wide-body turboprops is changing this perception, says Pierre Lortie, president of Bombardier regional aircraft division. Speaking at Le Bourget yesterday, Lortie says ...
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Pentagon OK for JSF
Lockheed Martin has been given the go-ahead by the pentagon to begin the crucial next stage of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme after experts approved the progress to date on the company's concept demonstrator aircraft. "We can now cut metal and begin the detailed design phase," says Dain ...
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System installed
The Smart Topflight nav-attack system developed by Sextant Avionique has made its maiden flight on the Iryda M-96 trainer. This aircraft is anew version of the Iryda 1.22 advanced trainer developed by PZL Mielec of Poland and features advanced aerodynamics. With the Topflight-equipped Iryda M-96, the Polish air ...