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Infrastructure
Joint Winner: Luftfartsverket Location Norrkoping, Sweden Joint Winner: SAS Location Stockholm, Sweden Achievement Pioneering work within the NEAN project to demonstrate the potential of ADS-B to modernise Europe's overburdened air traffic control (ATC)infrastructure is already constraining air-transport growth in the region ...
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Continental goes Boeing
Ramon Lopez/WASINGTON DC CONTINENTAL Airlines has become the third US major to enter into a long-term, sole-supplier pact with Boeing, following the signature of a letter of intent (LoI) for up to 35 widebodied aircraft to satisfy its future fleet requirements. The estimated value of the deal is ...
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MIS Embraer hit
Embraer is providing airline operators with an electronic maintenance information service (MIS). The user-friendly, up-to-date MIS, developed by US-based aviation services company Jeppesen, replaces existing paper manuals. It gives maintenance workers simultaneous access to information via computer screens and provides electronic links between manual sections for ...
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Israel and US booster link targets commercial market
Israel Aircraft Industries has linked up with the USA to develop and launch a version of Israel's Shavit satellite booster for the commercial market. It has joined with Coleman Research, a rocket company in Orlando, Florida, to provide launches from the USA for a range of potential commercial customers, ...
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Bombardier looks to change perception of regionals
North American airline passengers are disenchanted with turboprop aircraft because they see them as noisy, cramped and subject to greater turbulence. But the development of new wide-body turboprops is changing this perception, says Pierre Lortie, president of Bombardier regional aircraft division. Speaking at Le Bourget yesterday, Lortie says ...
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Pentagon OK for JSF
Lockheed Martin has been given the go-ahead by the pentagon to begin the crucial next stage of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme after experts approved the progress to date on the company's concept demonstrator aircraft. "We can now cut metal and begin the detailed design phase," says Dain ...
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System installed
The Smart Topflight nav-attack system developed by Sextant Avionique has made its maiden flight on the Iryda M-96 trainer. This aircraft is anew version of the Iryda 1.22 advanced trainer developed by PZL Mielec of Poland and features advanced aerodynamics. With the Topflight-equipped Iryda M-96, the Polish air ...
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Engine certified
The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a Type Certificate for the Allison 250-C30R/3. The -C30R/3, which powers the US Army's OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter and uses a full authority digital electronic control (FADEC), is a derivative of the -C47 engines certified for Bell Helicopter's Model 407 and the McDonnell ...
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Tug delivers goods
One of the new space products being introduced by Russia at the Show is a Space Tug from Khrunichev. The automatic Space Tug could deliver 4,940kg of equipment to a space station after launch on a Proton. It is being promoted for work supporting the International Space Station, delivering fuel, ...
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Future Investment
Vickers Propulsion Technology Division arrives at Le Bourget fresh from a major investment in a new production facility in South Carolina, US. Although that plant will service the needs of the automotive sector, the gas turbine and marine engineering specialist is also committed to boosting its aerospace business. ...
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Are you listening? Then I'll begin...
Pilots could soon be talking their aircraft through manoeuvres, thanks to the latest in voice activated technology from British Aerospace. BAe has chosen Paris to unveil its Direct Voice Input (DVI) system which allows pilots to give oral instructions to their aircraft. Visitors to the BAe stand in Hall ...
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DASA links with Georgia for study on antenna
Daimler Benz Aerospace's Dornier division and the Georgian Institute for Space Constructions are to investigate the possible use of large unfurlable antennas for communications satellites. The organisations will conduct a joint study of antennas 12m to 19m in diameter designed to provide the high transmitting power for future communications ...
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Jetstream family gets extra payload boost
Improvements to the hot and high performance of British Aerospace's Jetstream 19-seat turboprop family that could be worth up to 350kg of extra payload will be on the market from July. British Aerospace produced around 400 of its Jetstream 31s, Super 31s and 32s, putting most of them into ...
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Reflectone's $25m trainer deal
Tampa, Florida based Reflectone has confirmed the award of a $25 million contract from Bell-Boeing to provide five, three dimensional maintenance trainers for the MV-22B Osprey tilt rotor. Reflectone was selected last December, but the contract was not signed until February and the impending merger with British Aerospace then ...
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Design goes well with showgoers
It's unanimous - British Airways has pulled off an artistic masterstroke with its inspirational new logo and tailfin designs, if the views of Paris showgoers are an accurate barometer. The airline unveiled its new corporate image - one of the biggest rebranding exercises in corporate history - on 10 ...
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In the eye of the flying storm
Parachutes provide a short period of respite during the eardrum shattering racket of an air display. And this is usually more than welcome - especially as many watchers are still suffering from that well-known complaint 'airshow-it is'. As any old hand will tell you, this is usually brought ...
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Free flight solution launch by Honeywell
Honeywell has launched what officials claim to be the world's first "total system solution" to the challenges of free flight. WorldNav is here at the show. "We are excited to offer our customers a total system solution to the technology breakthrough we call free flight," says Don Schwanz, president ...
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Cobham extends reach in the antenna sector
Cobham has acquired the well-established French antenna designer STAREC, in a move which enhances the UK company's already dominant position in this sector. Cobham is featuring two of its prime companies in Paris - FR Aviation and Chelton (Electrostatics). FR Aviation, with its French subsidiary, Air Precision, ...
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Quick draw
French Durual Group can be found in Hall4, stand E3. The stand represents all four companies that make up the Group. The group makes components for customers from their drawings as well as producing its own products, one of which is a novel range of Universal ...
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Giraffe high life
Ericsson has chosen the show to unveil a model of the new Giraffe AMB 3-D air defence search radar. The Swedish company is claiming the Giraffe AMB to be the most modern air defence system on the market today. Capable of handling several missile systems simultaneously, the Giraffe ...