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Valcom signals arrival
Page 4 The development of a 10.5m (35ft) HF broadband antenna, the world's first without the use of a resistor, has been revealed at Farnborough. Canadian firm Valcom has taken five years to develop this equipment, which creates no heat and cannot, therefore, be located by a heat ...
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Purification unit
Meggitt Aerospace Components has designed what it says will be the lightest ozone converter for cabin air purification in Boeing 747 aircraft. The 4.5kg unit incorporates design modifications to improve air flow and is fully interchangeable with all current 747 converters. Source: Flight Daily ...
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Orders for Embraer
Embraer, fresh from its massive order from Continental Express, has received orders for a further two EMB-145s and five options for the type from Regional Airlines of France. Embraer president Maurício Botelho reveals that seven EMB-120 Brasilias had been sold to an unnamed customer. Source: Flight ...
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Textron new contract
Textron Systems announced at Farnborough that the French Ministry of Defence will contract for a follow-on experiment of the Mobile Microwave Landing System aboard a French carrier. The first experiment was a successful feasibility test conducted aboard the French carrier. The second experiment will consist of both technical ...
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US-Canada JV helo bid
A new Canada-US team will enter competition for the Canadian Search and Rescue Helicopter programme by offering a derivative of Sikorsky's S-70A Blackhawk to meet the Canadian Forces requirements. ‘Team Maplehawk', a partnership between Sikorsky and seven Canadian firms, was announced here at Farnborough. ...
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Radar footprint
The mystery of the radar-evading capabilities of the super-secret Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit bomber intensified yesterday when Farnborough air traffic controllers reported they had tracked the aircraft during its brief appearance at Farnborough on Monday. A National ATC spokesman says the Siemens Plessy Watchman radar on the show site ...
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Hawkeye in bid for radar paltform role
Northrop Grumman's E-2C Hawkeye is to continue with its sales offensive in southern Europe in spite of the company's link-up with Lockheed Martin, announced this week at Farnborough, to market alternative airborne early warning (AEW) platforms. "The Hawkeye is going to Madrid, Ankara and Athens after Farnborough," says Robert ...
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Study proves turbofan 30-seater feasability
A technical study by Fairchild Dornier has confirmed the feasibility of a turbofan version of the Dornier 328 - the first turbofan in the 30-seat market. Next week, the company will launch a major exercise to get a market view on future developments of the 328. As well ...
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Defender proves reliability on Asian sales tour
Reliability of 99.5% was achieved by the Pilatus Britten-Norman (PBN) Defender 4000 - displayed in Farnborough's static park - on its recent 27,000km (17,000 miles) sales demonstration tour of nine countries in the Middle and Far East. A separate demonstration to the UK police forces involved special trials to ...
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US fighter hopefuls see role for BAe
British Aerospace looks likely to take part in the new US Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme whoever wins this plum contract, says Boeing's defence and space chief Jerry King. Speaking at Farnborough, King was full of praise for the role BAe could play in the next generation of US ...
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BR710 engine gets final approach
The last piece in the jigsaw for the BMW Rolls-Royce BR710 engine is now in place, having received approval from the JAA at a thrust rating of 65.6Kn (14,750lb). The BR710 powers both the Gulfstream V and the Global Express. Receiving the type certificate from the CAA's Peter ...
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Tracor's $20m deal to deliver customised jets
Tracor has won a $20.8 million contract from the Aeronautical Systems Centre at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio for two fully-equipped Astra SPX aircraft to replace C-21s currently in operation. Tracor will modify two executive business jet aircraft Astra SPXs to integrate specific mission equipment for ...
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Sailplane showcases advanced materials
Aircraft designer John Edgley, of Optica fame, has brought his new EA9 sailplane to Farnborough - the show's slowest and lowest-powered aircraft. On display in the historic and light aircraft park, the EA9 is unique in that it is made from Fibrelam, a strong, lightweight pre-cured composite sandwich with ...
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CJ-130J on Show - by satellite
Original plans by Lockheed Martin to bring the C-130J Hercules 2 to Farnborough had to be scrapped because the programme is behind schedule - but the company has shown the aircraft at the flight-test base in Marietta, Georgia, via a live satellite hook-up. Lockheed Martin is saying only that ...
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RAF order
The RAF has ordered 15 Capris 50 UV laser wire markers specially designed for low volume manufacture by Spectrum Technologies. The systems, worth around $1.5 million, will be installed on several RAF bases and will replace existing but outdated hop stamp technology. Mike Dash, Spectrum Technologies sales and ...
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Boeing high on prospects for its new 737-700 variant
The first customers for the new variant Boeing Business Jet - based on the 737-700 - will be signed up as early as next month, Boeing says at the Show. Deposits have been taken and actual signings only await finalisation of the aircraft configuration, due at the end of ...
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Weekend fling
Pemco World Air Services has started to offer weekend airliner servicing at its Dothan, Alabama, USA site, and hopes to introduce the capability to its Copenhagen centre in around six weeks. Operators who deliver aircraft by 1pm on Friday can have it re-delivered by Pemco on the following Monday ...
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Malaysian show
The Shepherd Group will launch Heli-Asia, the region's inaugural showcase on rotary wing aircraft, with a three-day exhibition and conference to be held from 5-7 November at the Shangri-la Hotel in Kuala Lumpur. The event will be officially opened by Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Bin Mohamad. ...
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Orders accelerate toward executive sector
The Show's spate of orders spread to the executive jet sector yesterday with the news that Cessna has sold 25 Citation Xs, the type's largest sale to date, plus 20 Citation VIIs. All 45 are going to Executive Jet Aviation, the world's largest operator of business jets. Ironically, ...
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TEAC records entertainment switch
For the latest in airborne video technology, fast forward yourself to the TEAC stand (Hall 4/H8/5) where the US company is showing off its latest Hi-8mm in-flight video entertainment players. TEAC's airborne video recorders were initially designed, developed and manufactured for military training, reconnaissance and battlefield assessment. "Now," ...