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AIS targets rapid response customers
Aero and Industrial Services (AIS) is using its appearance at Le Bourget this week to tell potential customers about a new rapid response capability. AIS, housed in Hall 2/H14, is operating a repair or replace system of maintenance from its base in Burnley, UK, and completed a same-day ...
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Astronauts tasked with selling Texas
Astronauts are landing in Le Bourget with a special mission brief - to lure aerospace, aviation and hi-tech businesses into the 'future-oriented, rapid growth environment' of Texas. NASA astronauts from the Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle programmes are greeting visitors to the USA National Pavilion (Hall 1/C18) and demonstrating why ...
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AI(R) launch delay fuels talk of market tie-up
Launch of the AI(R)Jet 70-seat regional jet will not now happen for at least several months, despite expectations of a Le Bourget announcement. Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) says more research is needed on the programme's risk and projected return on investment before such a launch can be contemplated. ...
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New flight displays improve safety
The company turns the common expression around to promote the role of its large-format flight displays for high-performance aircraft manoeuvring through heavily-congested airspace. Collins Pro Line 21 avionics systems, created for the new Bell-Boeing 609 civil tiltrotor and Raytheon's new Premier I business jet, offer displays nearly 30% ...
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Help at hand for aircrews
Imagine heaving a 100kg service trolley up a 25 degree incline along an aircraft aisle. Cabin attendants do it all the time, pulling or pushing laden meal, drink, waste and sales carts. The result is often acute back problems and even sick leave, as the metal plates that ...
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Launch pad for stinger air defence
LFK GmbH is the prime contractor for the European licensed production of the low-level air defence system Stinger and partner to the industries of the four participating nations: Germany, Greece, the Nether-lands and Turkey. The configuration on show at Le Bourget is that proposed for the German Air ...
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Mobile drying units meet stringent specs
The AF RXG was specifically designed for the French Air Force which was looking for a product to dry paint quickly and safely in explosive atmospheres. The steel frame holds two compartments which house two thermoreactors; a control panel is located on the front. Today, Sunkiss ...
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Tourist information
The main Paris tourist office (127 av. des Champs-Elysées, 8e, tel 49-52-53-54); open daily 9am - 8pm. Branches at all mainline train stations, except Gare St-Lazare. Dial 49-52-53-56 for recorded information in English. US (2 av. Gabriel, 8e, tel. 42-96-12-02); Canada (35 av. Montaigne, 8e tel. ...
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Miami expansion programme continues
Miami International Airport officials were more than happy to welcome a cavalcade of public visitors at their stand yesterday, having the dual role of promoting both Miami's tourism and airport infrastructure. An ongoing US$4 billion expansion programme, started in 1992, continues at the airport - which will be ...
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Team doubt
British Aerospace officials have dismissed as "speculation" press reports that the company is to team with US giant Lockheed Martin to develop a contender for the Joint Strike Fighter project. "We have yet to make a decision," a company spokesman said at Paris yesterday. As we ...
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ACL authorised
ACL Technologies has become an authorised test equipment supplier for Allison Engine Company. ACL, part of the AAI Corporation, develops and produces systems to test fuel and hydraulic flight kit for commercial and military aircraft. Source: Flight Daily News
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Flying display
Monday 16 June 1300: Breitling aerobatic display 1318: Mil Mi-8 1323: Titan Tornado Il 912 1329: Yakovlev/Aermacchi Yak/AEM-130 1335: NHIndustries NH90, EC120, EC135, Tigre 1353: SOCATA TBM-700 & TB-360 Tangara 1400: Airbus A319 and A340 1411: Dassault Falcon 900, Falcon ...
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Revolutionary paint from DuPont
A revolutionary new line of custom finish paints from DuPont could radically alter the future look of aircraft. The company's Chromobase basecoat/clearcoat paint is colourless but, by reflecting light through a five layer flake of metal oxides, gives vehicles a multicoloured prism effect. The resulting colours change with the ...
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Tyre tracks
Goodyear has introduced an industry first which makes it possible to track the life of an aircraft's tyres. And showing a touch of corporate humour it's called the system-Bumpy. Tyres on show at Hall 5 (F17) have a vulcanised black on black bar-coded serial number added in addition to ...
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Competitors claim distance records
The two "specialist" players in the ultra-long-range corporate aircraft market flew in to Le Bourget claiming successes. The Gulfstream V achieved a record crossing of the Atlantic clocking 6h 43min on the flight from Washington Dulles International Airport to Le Bourget, a distance of 6,327km (3,420nm). Tye Global ...
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French role in scalp beyond doubt
France's participation in the $2 billion Scalp EG precision guided cruise missile programme is "not in doubt", say Matra BAe Dynamics executives. They dismiss rumours that the recent change of government in Paris has endangered the French element of the joint project with Britain. "It will happen," says Charles ...
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Linda succeeds where Amelia Earhart failed
Sixty years after trail-blazing aviatrix Amelia Earhart's round-the-world flight ended in disaster, Linda Finch completed a commemorative circumnavigation in an identical 1935 Lockheed Electra 10E. The aircraft, powered by Pratt & Whitney Wasp engines, is the centrepiece of a special Pratt & Whitney display pavilion in the static park ...
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Airport delegates to chart new directions
More than 150 airline and airport delegates are expected to attend the world's only route planning forum, which the organisers say is set to be the biggest airport marketing event ever. Routes Oslo 97, to be held from 14-16 September, follows the success of previous 'Routes' in Cannes ...
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Collaboration breaks the mould
Vacu-Blast International and French surface stress analysis specialists, Sonats, have announced a strategic alliance to collaborate on major developments of the shot peening process. Developments in surface treatments will be of interest to companies operating in both the aerospace and automotive industries according to Vacu-Blast International group managing ...
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Boeing award
DuPont has announced at the show that its Korex aramind paper honeycomb core has been selected for use on the Boeing new generation 737-700. The company goes as far as to say the contract extends the string of new developments for its aramind/phenolic composite core, first introduced in ...