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AI(R) orders
Aero International (Regional) has won orders for four new aircraft - one ATR 42-500 and three ATR 72-210 As, it was announced at the show yesterday. The order is from Air Dolomiti, which now operates a total of 13 ATR aircraft. Source: Flight Daily ...
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Ateliers up tools
French firm Ateliers Robindus is kitted to go with a new hydraulic maintenance tool kit for helicopters and aircraft. The new kit, which can be seen in Hall 3/C6, has already been snapped up by Dassau and Messier Bugatti. President Roussel Xavier says: "Last year we ...
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Airlift theme could be Berlin show swan-song
The Berlin Airlift's 50th anniversary will be the major theme of ILA '98 from 18-24 May 1998. But this could well turn out to be the swan-song for the series of shows held at Berlin-Brandenburg. Farnborough organiser SBAC has announced that its show will move permanently to a ...
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New niches blur the boundaries in corporate jet market
Boundaries between business jets and airliners have blurred now that both Airbus and Boeing have extended their reach into the corporate world. The super-large executive jet is not the only new niche product to have established itself at Paris '97, however. Manufacturers are also filling the gap between ...
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L-3 communications aims to be the premier merchant supplier
L-3 Communications recently acquired 10 business units from Lockheed Martin in a deal worth $525million. Included in the purchase was Florida-based Aviation Recorders, the exclusive supplier of Fairchild 'black boxes'. L-3 Communications supplies sophisticated secure communication systems and specialised communication products. It's an independent ...
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Nitrogen injection solution for long-term storage
The Capry Group (Hall 3/B4) is drawing in the crowds with its Inerpac packaging process. Inerpac is a patented technique which allows parts to be protected and preserved in a modified atmosphere for up to five years by the injection of nitrogen. The nitrogen is injected ...
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Engine makers have plenty to smile about
If the airframe manufacturers have been announcing successes throughout the week, then the engine makers have been rejoicing too. Rolls-Royce is celebrating its selection as power provider to the Airbus Industrie (AI) A340-600 and -500 with the Trent 500 announced on Monday. Disappointed GE and Pratt & Whitney ...
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Customers discover Explorer
McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems have reported brisk business with a trio of orders for the MD Explorer worth around $20million. Communications manager Kenneth Jensen reported two aircraft were sold to Tomen Corporation in Japan and one to Heli-Fly for delivery to Luxembourg Air Rescue. While confirming ...
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Night Hawk HUD selected
Flight Vision has been celebrating at Paris with the news of a new contract for the Night Hawk, its newest product. The head up display (HUD) has been chosen by Lockheed Martin skunk works for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) concept demonstration aircraft programme. The system ...
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All-composite G222 is a tough customer
The world's first all-composite, unlimited class, aerobatic aircraft - the AkroTech G222 - is pulling the crowds at Le Bourget, thanks to its super-smooth finish and impressive lines. AkroTech is a part of French company Aeronautical Services which also owns Avions Robin, producer of the popular range of ...
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Palomer make light of Microdata's jam
Palomer Products rescued Swedish firm Microdata Innovation which was making its Paris air show debut. Microdata Innovation set up its training radar jammer outside Hall 3 only to find that its computer screen was not readable in the bright sunshine. Software manager Bo Hesselstrom says: "Our ...
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Emergencies in space just part of the job
Joe Kerwin knows a thing or two about emergencies in space. The former naval commander physician was the science pilot on the first US space station habitation mission, Skylab 2 launched in May 1973. Another Navy doctor, Jerry Linenger, has just returned from a stay aboard ...
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Koreans seek trainer partners
Korean industrial giant Daewoo Heavy Industries has been at Paris this week looking for international partners to join its KTX-1 high performance turboprop trainer programme. The aircraft has just passed the 1,000hr mark in its test programme and production is due to begin in 1998, with the support ...
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EZ Drape takes the wraps off masking paper
American firm Mask-Off has Paris all wrapped up in Hall 3/B16c - after a year of development, the firm has just launched EZ Drape here at the show. This roll of polyethylene is used instead of brown paper as a mask when painting aircraft. Used with ...
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IT experts issue warning on 'millennium bomb'
A wave of activity to try to defuse the "millennium bomb" is coming, a leading company said at the show. And there are warnings from information technology (IT) experts based in Britain about problems faced by the aerospace industry trying to tackle the date change problem. ...
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$12bn satellite system planned by Motorola
Motorola says it plans to launch a $12billion satellite system to provide high speed multimedia data and video services for business and private users in 2002. This brings to $23billion the company's total investment in satellite systems. The Celestri system will comprise a world-spanning constellation of ...
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Airbus bumps up its Paris sales to $3.5b
Airbus Industrie has ended the show in style with a $2billion memorandum of understanding (MoU) for 50 A319s from Northwest Airlines. The deal brings the total value of contracts announced by Airbus at Paris '97 to $3.5billion. US-based Northwest Airlines also has options on an additional ...
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Russian exodus raises questions of space industry viability
Launchers have dominated the space sector news at this show. The Lockheed Martin deal to buy $1billion-worth of Russian rocket engines is a classic demonstration of the new era of the space business - the exodus of Russian space technology into the US business arena. It ...
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Transatlantic hop foiled by fuel leak
A specially adapted AS 350 B3 helicopter is expected to arrive at Le Bourget tomorrow - more than a week after it set off on a 24-hour transatlantic flight from New York to Paris. The Astar helicopter, manufactured by Eurocopter, was taking part in L'Esprit d'Intertechnique, the first ...
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$2.5billion orders confirm market opportunities for regional jets
If Paris '97 has proved one thing, it is that regional jets are here to stay. This morning, manufacturers can reflect that RJ order announcements this week topped $2.5billion, launch customers have stepped forward for two new programmes, and the jet has spread into both the 30 and ...