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Sino jet reaches century milestone
Sino Swearingen's SJ30-2 business jet has completed 100h of flight testing and is in the process of being fitted with Williams-Rolls FJ44-2 turbofans that will give the aircraft a cruise speed in excess of M0.8. The SJ30-2, which is being marketed as a high-performance six-seat business jet, is ...
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Fins ain't what they used to be
Visitors to Le Bourget will be able to cast a critical eye over some of the controversial ethnic and abstract logos that were launched by British Airways (BA) last week. The airline has already raised many eyebrows with its various wierd and wonderful tailfin designs, which have replaced ...
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Apocrypha Now as fact gazumps fiction
A group of airshow veterans was gathered in a chalet a couple of years ago, swapping aerospace stories of the 'strange but true' variety. As the beers went down, the yarns grew taller. By the end of the evening the 'Apocrypha Club' was born. Reality has ...
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Sikorsky scoffs at buy-up prediction
The 'not for sale' signs were up unequivocally at Sikorsky yesterday following the publication of an industry forecast with whose sentiments the venerable helicopter company may well agree, but with whose details it certainly would not. The Teal Group's first world rotorcraft forecast target Sikorsky as the most ...
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Night shows planned for Thai exhibition
Perhaps mindful of the veritable 'minefield' of obstacles which can be encountered by visitors trying to gain access at the Paris show site, the organisers of the international aerospace exhibition in Thailand 22-26 October have signposted their expo in tantalising terms. The location for the Thailand International Aerospace, ...
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BAe mini-movie looks a five-minute winner
American actress Rachel Lee, star of British Aerospace's film Partners in Flight, looked every bit the part when she flew into Paris for the mini-movie's preview. The five-minute film, shot over three months at locations in Inverness, Scotland and Preston, England, features stunning flight-simulation footage. Rachel ...
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Tourist information
The main Paris tourist office (127 av. des Champs-Elysées, 8e, tel 49-52-53-54; open daily 9am - 8pm. Branches at all mainline train stations, except Gare St-Lazare. Dial 49-52-53-56 for recorded information in English. US (2 av. Gabriel, 8e, tel. 42-96-12-02), Canada (35 av. Montaigne, 8e tel. 44-43-32-00) and ...
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Unison's harmony nets double sales
Unison Industries has doubled its annual sales to $125 million with its takeover of the engine electrical systems division of BFGoodrich. The acquisition, which the US aircraft ignition systems company announces today, sees the addition of Forth Worth in Texas and Norwich, New York, to Unison's two existing ...
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Dowty shows benefits of Eurobonding
European Union members currently struggling to achieve closer economic and financial 'harmonisation' might usefully look for lessons from Franco-British landing gear specialist Messier-Dowty. At the last Paris show, the British and French sections of the then-newly formed joint venture were just beginning the same type of process. ...
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Your chance to turn water into wine
A bottle of wine from the Flight Daily News Editor's cellar to the person* who can identify the aerospace PR, at this year's show, who took an unscheduled dip in Lake Lucerne, Switzerland recently. The hapless hero was invited for a speedboat trip around the lake by a ...
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Embraer in force at Paris
Embraer will showcase a trio of its products in Paris this week, including a flying display by the acclaimed EMB-145 regional jet, which has been ordered by Continental Express, Regional Airlines, PGA-Portugalia Airlines, British Regional Airlines and Rio-Sul Servicos Aereos Regionais S/A. On static display are the EMB-312H ...
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Dowty wins $30m hydraulics contract
Dowty Aerospace, the British propellors-to-engine components specialist, announced yesterday it has won an order to provide a major part of the new Raytheon Aircraft Premier I business jet's hydraulic system. The contract, which Dowty reckons is worth more than $30 million over the aircraft's life, involves building 15 ...
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Raytheon unveils HISAR-equipped Beech King
Making its debut in Europe at Paris '97 is a Ray-theon Beech King Air B200T fitted with a Hughes high integrated synthetic aperture radar (HISAR). Hughes unveiled the HISAR radar imaging system at Paris two years ago and has been flight-testing it since using the King Air as ...
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Bombardier or Embraer to scoop big RJ prize at Paris?
As the regional-jet-versus- turboprop debate rages, all eyes are on Bombardier and Embraer at Paris '97. The expectation is that one of these two rivals could announce a large regional-jet order from American Airlines during the air show. At Farnborough '96 the spotlight fell on Brazilian ...
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Centrepiece of Pratt & Whitney's outdoor display
Centrepiece of Pratt & Whitney's outdoor display is the Lockheed Electra 10E used by American Linda Finch in her recent around-the-world flight in honour of Amelia Earhart's fatal journey 60 years ago. Finch's aircraft is powered by two restored P&W R-1340 Wasp engines. P&W was a sponsor of ...
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French FOG is clear fibre optic winner
France's revolutionary Hussard 2 FOG unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has successfully demonstrated that its fibre optic cable can be used to remotely control air vehicles. The Conference delegates were shown a test video of the system, which is not vulnerable to enemy jamming, according to programme manager Robert ...
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Chance for unmanned flights at Paris in 1999
Unmanned, uninhabited or remotely piloted vehicles are rising high on the agenda of many nations and a conference in the Paris Meridien Hotel last week to review thelatest developments attracted some 500 delegates. Maj Gen Kenneth Israel, the Pentagon's Director of Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office, was the keynote speaker at ...
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Doctored signal makes radar reading suspect
Electronic warfare could be revolutionised when new Drone Radar Electronic Enhancement Mechanism (DREEM) tech-nology is in widespread use on manned aircraft, towed decoys and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Details of DREEM technology to be deployed on the Bristol Aerospace Hokum-X and Vampire test targets to deceive enemy air ...
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Flying the flag at Le Bourget
While the exhibitors are putting the finishing touches to their stands and exhibitions, it is yet another day in the office for the pilots in the flying display. The couple of days leading up to the official opening are for rehearsals...when the pilots from all over the world ...
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Plan to issue one standard
NATO moves to introduce standardisation in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems will benefit both users and industry, according to the chairman of the Alliance's NIAG SG/53 working group, Guisseppe Leveque. He says the group will produce recommendations by next February to standardise the interfaces needed to pass control ...