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Douglas sales point to brighter future
McDonnell Douglas commercial aircraft division comes to Farnborough with news in triplicate - a new boss, a fresh direction and $170 million worth of aircraft orders. Mike Sears, who is attending his first Farnborough as president of MDC's Douglas Aircraft Company, has announced orders for six new airliners with ...
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ValuJet on target with MD-95
US low-cost airline ValuJet, which has just re-gained its Federal Aviation Administration certification after an intensive scrutiny of its operating procedures, is expected to remain the launch customer for the McDonnell Douglas MD-95. McDonnell Douglas president and chief executive officer Harry Stonecipher says he expects deliveries to begin to ...
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R-R puts its confidence in the new Trent design
Rolls-Royce yesterday revealed new details of its Trent 900 as it reiterated its determination to win engine orders for 50% of the Boeing 747-500/600 and Airbus A3XX market. R-R is confident that the Trent 900 will be lighter than its General Electric/Pratt & Whitney competitor because of the Trent's ...
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McDonnell works out a phantom identity for AS&T
McDonnell Douglas has coined the term "Phantom Works" to give a popular identity to its Advanced System & Technology group (AS&T). The slogan represents the formation of a single corporate-wide entity to identify future market needs and provide design and prototyping services for the different parts of the group. ...
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Longer jacket life equals savings
A lifejacket is one piece of onboard equipment that every airline hopes will never have to be used. However, every lifejacket has to be serviced periodically, which costs money. Typically, this servicing occurs every three, four or five years. British manufacturer Beaufort Air-Sea Equipment is showing its ...
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The flight fantastic
Arguably the most exciting part of Monday's aerial display happened long after most visitors had left Farnborough. Yevgeny Frolov conducted his thrust-vectored Sukhoi Su-37 around the Hampshire sky in an astonishing series of manoeuvres never seen before in public. Ironically, his display was a ‘validation' flight as he ...
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Third Ariane 5 teast flight planned
Jean-Marie Luton, the director-general of the European Space Agency (ESA), said at Farnborough yesterday that a third Ariane 5 test flight will be necessary before the vehicle can be declared operational for commercial use by Arianespace. The first Ariane 5 failed due to computer software errors on 4 June. ...
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Eurofighter future now in partners' court
Britain has laid down the gauntlet to its partners in the Eurofighter project, with Deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine providing top-level backing at the Show for moves to put the controversial fighter into production. He was speaking during the opening ceremony of Farnborough ‘96 just after UK Defence Secretary ...
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No 'Lone Ranger' tactics in combat
American war hero Scott O'Grady has made a fleeting visit to Farnborough ‘96 in his new career as professional celebrity. Scott became an international media star in June 1995 when he was shot down by a Bosnian Serb SA-6 surface-to-air missile and spent five days on the run from ...
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Titans clash over low level passes
The great Airbus-Boeing battle burst into life at Farnborough ‘96 only hours before the show was due to open, with the American giant laying into its rival's flying display. Speaking minutes after Airbus Industrie chief test pilot Bill Wainwright had described the company's flying programme, Bill Cashman, Boeing's chief ...
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Europilot promises dramatic show debut
Page 6 Eurofighter makes its long-awaited debut at Farnborough today with a thundering flying display to show off the fighter's impressive performance. After years of having to make do with plastic mock-ups, it will be a treat for Farnborough crowds to see the British prototype DA2 in the ...
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Yves sings the praises of Rafale
French military aviation's sole presence in the flying display is the naval version of the Dassault Rafale, flown by chief test pilot Yves Kerherve. He made the first flight of the carrier-capable Rafale in December 1991 and is still in love with the aircraft. "It is a wonderful ...
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AlliedSignal gears up the X-33 programme
Page 7 AlliedSignal, one of the four major sub-contractors to Lockheed Martin on the X-33 programme, has already started work on the airframe and space subsystems of the sub-scale vehicle demonstrator. The company, which is celebrating its part in every US manned space programme from the ...
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Future is looking bright for French
The French are at Farnborough in force, riding the momentum of a general upturn in the aerospace industry's fortunes. The mood among the 28 major companies occupying more than 1,300m2 in Hall 1 under the Gifas banner, and in a number of chalets, is one of optimism as they ...
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New ERA logo spreads the business message
Page 7 Farnborough visitors should get the first sight this week of a new livery that Europe's regional carriers hope will become increasingly familiar over coming months. As part of a continuing public awareness campaign, the board of the European Regional Airlines Association (ERA) has agreed a new ...
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Avionics meet
The increasing level of digitisation on aircraft and the shape of future cockpits will be among the themes at the 10th annual avionics conference staged by UK company ERA Technology. The company announced at the show that details of the conference, to be held on the 20-21 November at ...
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Boost for show
Airshow Canada has been renamed Aerospace North America for its next showing from 6-10 August 1997 in recognition of its developing role. John Burley, vice-president marketing, says the show will also include special focuses on business aviation and forestry aviation, the latter to be held under the auspices of ...
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Min for max
Kaman Aerospace's K-MAX ‘aerial-truck' helicopter has achieved highly competitive Director Operating Costs (DOCs) of $475 per flight hour after 15,000 total fleet operating hours, reports the manufacturers. The cost contrasts dramatically with the DOCs of larger aircraft with similar payloads at high density altitudes. With 13 aircraft serving ...
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Cool deal
Hamilton Standard and Sumitomo Precision Products, whose business relationship goes back more than half a century, have teamed up to develop an advanced air conditioning system for the emerging 100-seat aircraft market. The system will use Hamilton Standard's patented condensing cycle system, first introduced in the environmental control system ...
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Cockpit spaerheads aerostar MiG-21 MF lancer upgrade
The veteran MiG-21 has been given a new lease of life thanks to a major cockpit upgrade by a Romanian and Israeli partnership. Crowds at Farnborough will be able to see the familiar shape of the Aerostar MiG-21 MF Lancer being put through its paces in the flying display, ...