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Banner year ahead
For the first time, Banner Aerospace is exhibiting as a group. Nine of its 13 subsidiaries can be found in Hall 2/A32. The group has just announced that a new warehouse and sales office is due to open in October in Leicester, UK, and will involve five divisions ...
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Growth areas
The overhaul and repair of components has become a major growth area for Electron Beam Process (H3/B17). The company provides an electron beam welding service to the aircraft and defence industries and has expanded its expertise from general prime production to include the overhaul side of the business. ...
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RAeS web site
The Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS), in Hall 3/C12, has launched its World Wide Web site at Farnborough and announced the arrival of its on-line magazine Airspace. The web site features a regularly-updated summary of all the key aerospace news and comprehensive coverage of the society's activities. ...
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New seat for Sikorsky
Things are looking up for local UK firm St Bernard Composites which has just signed a deal with Hispano-Suiza, for three years, to supply bonded acoustic panels for the Airbus A320 thrust reversal system. St Bernard Composites, exhibiting in Hall 4/B5, is also showing off a new seat bucket ...
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In the dark
The guys at Stop-Choc in Hall 3/A11 are real ‘fly-by-nighters'. Developing illuminated control panels for aircraft which are compatible with night vision goggles is one of the key business opportunities the company is exploring. Stop-Choc has already kitted out 44 Royal Air Force Puma helicopters with its technology ...
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Ansett for more orders
A company which has its main trading base ‘down under' is hoping to make a big impression on the European market at Farnborough. Ansett Aircraft Spares and Services (AASS) operates out of Melbourne and was originally formed to provide engineering product support for Ansett Australia Airlines. It has ...
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Howmet casts its net wide
Howmet is making great headway in the castings market, bringing design to reality. The American firm manufactures castings for jet engines, turbine blades and vanes, and a growing amount of aluminium alloy and titanium structural work on aircraft. For the first time titanium castings are being used to ...
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Weather info goes hi-tech
State-of-the-art UK weather information can now be purchased on the Internet, thanks to MetWEB, a new initiative from the Met Office. All is revealed, together with a host of world-class weather innovations, on the Met Office stand (Hall 4/G8). The high-tech stand vividly illustrates the results of years of ...
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Miniature data recorder
Penny & Giles Aerospace has announced the launch of the Miniature Acquisition and Recording System (MARS) in Hall 2/B24. The new product, for monitoring aircraft and engine performance, records flight data performance for use in regional and commuter airlines' Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) programmes. MARS is designed ...
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Zap a few aliens with show virtual reality game
If you want to let off some steam after a busy morning on your stand, why not go and zap a few aliens? Greene, Tweed & Co (GTC) has rigged up a virtual reality ‘zone hunter' game on in Hall 4/G7 to attract visitors. The player who notches ...
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ACR debut is single success
ACR Industries, making its debut appearance at Farnborough, is showing off the main rotor transmission assembly for the new McDonnell Douglas MD 600 single engine helicopter. The American firm can be found in Hall 2/A35A, and claims to be the largest and fastest-growing privately owned gearbox manufacturer. Helicopter ...
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Cool comfort from canopy cover firm
Colebrand canopy covers, originally developed during Operation Desert Storm, can be seen at Farnborough for the first time in Hall 2/B16. The cover, in use with the Royal Air Force and the US Marine Corps, stops the cockpit from getting hot when parked in the open. It is ...
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Expertise in metals and insulation
You'll find two British-based companies under one roof in Hall 3/B18. Advanced Aero Industries (AAI) has a manufacturing base in the East Midlands where it produces aero-structures including sheet metal and machined parts for the aircraft industry. The company's expertise also extends to the overhaul, repair and modification ...
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Milestone order sparks major rivalry between missile giants
An Anglo-American-French-Dutch team has unveiled the details of its bid to win a milestone order for the Royal Air Force's next generation of air-to-air guided missiles at Farnborough. The bid has ignited a fierce battle between American missile giant Hughes and the newly-formed Matra-BAe Dynamics. More is at ...
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Tough time ahead for suppliers
Suppliers to aerospace prime contractors will face a tough time over the next five years as their customers continue to screw down costs. That was one of the major findings of a survey released at the show by Flight International and Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). Though the recovery ...
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Billion dollar deals are unveiled by titanic duo
The titanic struggle between Boeing and Airbus continued yesterday with huge new deals disclosed by each side. Boeing Commercial Airplane announces a deal for seven 747-400s, worth $1.18 billion. The customer is Philippine Airlines, which already operates 12 Boeing 747s. Meanwhile, Airbus Industrie says it has landed ...
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Hornet stung with flying show ban
The SBAC has banned the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet from further participation in the flying display because of a violation in Tuesday's show. The aircraft returned to its US Marine Corps base in Aviano, Italy, yesterday after McDonnell Douglas decided not to protest the SBAC's ruling and to withdraw ...
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Jernas pokes hole in the Stealth's cloak of secrecy
RAF Regiment Jernas missile crews had America's super-secret B-2 Stealth bomber firmly in their sights on Monday during the aircraft's brief appearance over Farnborough, perhaps revealing cracks in it's protective cloak. Using the BAe Jernas thermal optical tracking system, they acquired and targeted the Northrop Grumman Spirit at a ...
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Canada set to welcome Nato flying trainees
Brig Gen Clark Little of the Canadian Forces Air Command reckons that a go-ahead decision on the proposed Nato Flying Training in Canada (NFTC) programme is a mere 60 days away. A joint project between the Canadian Forces, Bombardier, British Aerospace and Embraer, NFTC plans to put the abundant ...
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Koreans on the lookout for sales force to market trainer
Daewoo Heavy Industries has just begun basic design on the fifth prototype of the KTX-1 trainer and is gearing up for the full scale production necessary to meet planned delivery deadlines at the turn of the century. Duck-Joo Ra, managing director at the company's Aerospace R&D Centre, says the ...