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Passenger business up - Sikorsky
Paul Derby The rate at which new helicopters are being delivered indicates an upturn in scheduled passenger business, says Michael Moran, Sikorsky's Director of Commercial Programmes. Moran says almost 300,000 revenue passengers now fly in Sikorsky aircraft every year, a trend reinforced during the last 12 months with ...
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Boeing denies link between 737 crashes and test-flight incident
Andrew Mollet Boeing continues to take issue with suggestions there might be any link between a test-flight incident on a British Airways 737 more than two years ago and two earlier unexplained 737 crashes in the US. The two unexplained 737 crashes occurred in Colorado Springs, Colorado in ...
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Boeing undecided on new family of jets
Karen Walker Boeing says it has no firm plans yet for developing a family of jets to join its 100-seat 717, preferring first to prove to itself that it can sell the existing aircraft. Joseph Ozimek, Boeing's director of product marketing, says a recent tour of Europe has shown that ...
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B/E Aerospace to supply all US Airways' new-buy seating
Sarah Lazenby B/E Aerospace is supplying all seating for US Airways' new Airbus 319/320/321 fleet in a deal worth $27 million for the first 124 aircraft. This could rise to $85 million if the airline exercises its option for a further 276 aircraft to complete its narrowbody fleet ...
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BA opens bids
British Airways said it had invited arch aerospace rivals Boeing and Airbus Industrie to bid to replace BA's European aircraft fleet with up to 100 short-haul jets worth up to $3.3 billion. But the airline has challenged the two manufacturers to come up with new ways of financing the deal, ...
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Raytheon delivers the one-stop shop concept to guided weapons
Tim Ripley The era of 'one stop-shopping' for guided weapons has arrived. That's the message from newly-consolidated Raytheon, flying its flag at Asian Aerospace '98 for the first time. Bringing together the product lines of Raytheon, Hughes and Texas Instruments, the new corporation has a consolidated turnover of $20.5 billion, ...
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Israelis reinforce commitment to Asia
Sarah Lazenby Israel has confirmed its commitment to investing in the Asian aerospace market. Israeli ambassador Daniel Megido says the current economic crisis will not prevent development in the region or Israel's involvement in the market. He was speaking yesterday at the official ribbon-cutting opening of the Israeli Pavilion by ...
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R-R moves to set up Trent overhaul ventures in asia
New joint ventures are an integral part of Rolls-Royce's strategy to double the size of the company's overhaul business over the next five years acording to Sir Ralph Robins Andrew Mollet Rolls-Royce has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Singapore Airlines subsidiary Singapore Airlines Engineering (SIAEC) and Hong Kong ...
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Pragmatism, not hawks, drives UK defence review
Geoff Thomas The current British strategic defence review (SDR), due to be completed before the end of June, is operationally and strategically driven, not led by Treasury hawks. This was the comment of John Spellar, UK undersecretary of state for defence, who was speaking on the Society of British Aerospace ...
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US-Israeli partners target jet fighter training systems
Sarah Lazenby US-based Flight Visions (D243) has joined forces with BVR Technologies of Israel in a partnership to develop jet fighter training systems. Flight Visions, which manufactures and markets commercial and military head-up display (HUD) systems, will merge its expertise with BVR, a company which has developed a line of ...
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Drug giants' merger collapse set to hit shares
The collapse of the $175 billion merger between SmithKline Beecham and Glaxo Wellcome was expected to send shares into freefall today with market strategists predicting that the blue-chip Footsie index will fall at least 150 points by the close of trading and to around the 5400 level, possibly by the ...
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Litton opens office in Beijing
Litton announced yesterday that it has opened Litton Worldwide Services in Beijing to provide customer support in Asia. Based in Tianwei Erjie, Litton Worldwide will assist in the maintenance and repair of the Litton LTN-101 Flagship navigation system on Airbus aircraft. China Southern Airlines and China Sichuan Airlines ...
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Beta Air seeks investors
Beta Air, which was established in Taganrog, Russia in 1991 to implement the amphibious Beriev-200 aircraft project, is present at the show (Stand C246). Its main activities include finding investors, project management, marketing of the Be-200, post-sale servicing and maintenance, as well as flight and technical crew training. Beta Air ...
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Westland inks innovative $32m Lynx upgrade deal
Paul Derby The Royal Danish Air Force has awarded a £20-million ($32-million) contract to GKN Westland to upgrade its fleet of eight Lynx helicopters to Super Lynx standard. The deal marks the first time that a Lynx upgrade and life extension programme will include the supply of new ...
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Lighting technology makes platform landings easier
Paul Derby The UK's Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) is pressing forward with a bright idea which should make the task of landing on offshore platforms much easier for helicopter pilots. DERA (B114) has completed a review of all the visual cues which pilots need to take in during ...
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Eurofighter test pilot heads for first century
Paul Derby Eurofighter EF2000 project pilot John Turner is set to become the first pilot to complete a century of test flights in the aircraft - he expects to reach three figures within a week of returning to Britain from Singapore. As the man with most sorties (98) and a ...
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Airbus delays a small price to get it right
Mike Martin Airbus Industrie is struggling with the economics of the AE31X project, outgoing chief executive Jean Pierson admitted at Asian Aerospace '98 yesterday. At the other end of the range, Airbus's A3XX 555-seat and up superjumbo could be further delayed if technical challenges to delivering the promised ...
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Australian regional success for jetstream
Geoff Thomas British Aerospace Asset Management - Turboprops is enjoying success in the Australian regional market with the Jetstream 41 and the enhanced performance J32. The company has announced first 1998 purchase in the region of a Jetstream 41, to PearlJet of Brisbane. Meanwhile, South Australian operator O'Connor Airlines has ...
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Dispute over
B/E Aerospace has settled its long-running dispute with the US government over export sales to Iran Air during 1992 and 1995. The dispute centred on whether seats were delivered to the airline's French refurbishment contractor before a formal export licence was issued by the US Department of Commerce (DOC). ...
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SMA engine test milestone
France's SMA has just completed the first series of test-bench runs as part of its programme to develop a new generation of Morane Renault piston engines which run on Jet A1 kerosene. The engines range from 180-300hp (130-220kW) and will be used on single or twin-engined aircraft and light ...