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Turbine backlogs build up
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA US MANUFACTURERS are reporting significant order backlogs for business aircraft. Cessna says that orders for its Citation business jets are at their highest level since the end of the 1970s. Raytheon has reported record sales for its Beechjet and Hawker ranges. Cessna's deliveries reached ...
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...while piston sales increase
OPTIMISM IS GROWING within the US general-aviation (GA) industry that the promised steady long-term growth in piston-engined-aircraft sales is beginning to materialise. Presenting a strong set of figures for 1995, Ed Stimpson, president of the US General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA), commented that reform of US GA product-liability ...
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Forward-looking windshear radar
SINCE CERTIFICATION of the first forward-looking windshear radar in late 1994, airline installations have gathered pace. Three systems are now certificated: the AlliedSignal RDR-4B, the Collins WXR-700X and the Westinghouse MR-3000. Using Doppler-processing technology, the sensitivity of weather radars has been increased to the point where it is ...
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Hungary plans to sell further Malev stake
HUNGARY'S privatisation agency plans to sell a further stake in flag carrier Malev this year, although the move could be delayed by uncertainties over the financial future of Alitalia, which already holds a one-third stake in the airline. Alitalia acquired a 30% stake in Malev in 1992 in ...
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OAA aims to set up volcanic action
THE ORIENT AIRLINES Association (OAA) wants to establish a co-ordinated reporting system to reduce the time taken to warn airlines of volcanic activity in the Asia-Pacific region. "What you have now is a variety of different authorities monitoring volcanic activity, and the last thing they do is pick ...
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Civil avionics: rising to the challenge
The biggest change in the commercial-avionics industry since the move to digital technology isnow under way. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA FANS, CNS/ATM, Free Flight: the names change, but the story remains the same. Aviation is moving away from the reliance on ground-based systems which has marked its first century ...
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Virgin closes on low-cost European airline start-up deal
VIRGIN IS NEGOTIATING to buy a controlling stake in Brussels-based Euro Belgian Airlines (EBA), which could form the backbone of long-standing ambitions by Virgin's owner, Richard Branson, to set up a low-cost European operation. Virgin has completed a detailed study into launching a start-up carrier at Brussels, probably ...
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Ansett fleet plans defined
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS ANSETT AUSTRALIA has detailed interim plans to increase its widebody fleet to provide a 10% capacity increase on key business routes. The carrier also wants to reduce its fleet from eight to five types, and to retire its Stage 3 Boeing 727s and Fokker ...
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Training
Winner: Singapore Aviation Academy Achievement: Providing a level and breadth of training unique in Asia-Pacific. The Singapore Aviation Academy, the training arm of the Singapore Civil Aviation Authority has created a training centre with a broad range of services unique in South-East Asia. The capabilities of the ...
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Alliant to build pivot shafts for F-22
ALLIANT TECHSYSTEMS has been awarded a $13 million contract to produce composite horizontal-stabiliser pivot shafts for the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 fighter aircraft. The order follows a development effort under which Alliant (formerly Hercules Aerospace) demonstrated that it could produce the complex shaft using automated fibre-placement technology, for a ...
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Aerospace personality of the year
Joint winners: Dan Tellep and Norm Augustine Positions: Chairman and President Organisation: Lockheed Martin THE US DEFENCE industry has seen some spectacular consolidation over the past five years, but none more dramatic than the merger of Lockheed and Martin Marietta to form the giant Lockheed ...
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Space and missiles
Winner: Matra Marconi Space Location: Stevenage, UK. Achievement: Success, both commercial and technical, of the versatile Eurostar communications satellite platform. In 1995, Matra Marconi Space began to reap the rewards of its long-term investment in the Eurostar communications-satellite platform. New orders have continued to roll in during ...
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A question of judgement
From the start, the Aerospace Industry Awards aimed to be different. Unlike other awards, they offer truly universal competition open to any aviation organisation. Above all, they are judged by an independent panel of industry experts. This year's panel, chaired by Flight International editor Allan Winn, again brought ...
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Welcome
Success Since its launch at the Singapore air show in 1994, the Aerospace Industry Awards programme has gone from the strength to strength. The Awards return to Singapore in 1996, as one of the most prestigious events in the aviation calendar.Much of the credit for that success goes to the ...
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Airbus might sue Boeing over A340
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE IS threatening to sue Boeing unless the US manufacturer ceases stating that the Airbus A340 cruises at Mach 0.78, which is slower than either the Boeing 747 or 777. According to Airbus senior vice-president John Leahy, consortium chief executive Jean Pierson is writing to Boeing chairman ...
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Russians sign avionics deal
AVIACOR, THE SAMARA-based manufacturer of the Tupolev Tu-154M, has formed a strategic alliance with Honeywell, covering the use of the US avionics-maker's equipment on the Russian manufacturer's aircraft. The agreement, which was signed at Asian Aerospace '96, specifies potential programmes for the installation of Honeywell's integrated avionics, flight-management ...
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IAE steps up V2500 campaign
INTERNATIONAL AERO Engines (IAE) is engaged in around 30 active sales campaigns and, in 1996, it hopes to equal or exceed 1995's record sales effort when V2500 orders worth more than $1.6 billion were taken. "We are active right around the Pacific rim in 1996 and we see ...
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India chooses Litening
INDIA HAS PROVISIONALLY selected Rafael's Litening laser-designator pod to equip its fleet of Dassault Mirage 2000 and Sepecat Jaguar combat aircraft. The pod was chosen in preference to the Thomson-CSF Common Laser Designator Pod (CLDP) and the GEC-Marconi Thermal Imaging Airborne Laser Designator (TIALD) pods. The ...
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Embraer confident about its future
EMBRAER EXPECTS to have launched a finance and leasing operation to support sales of the EMB-120 Brasilia turboprop and EMB-145 regional jet by the time of the first delivery of the latter aircraft late this year. The Brazilian manufacturer is already starting to establish the structure of the ...
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GEC-Marconi aims to quieten the Hercules
WHATEVER THE virtues of the Lockheed C-130 Hercules, cabin quietness is not one of them. Now GEC-Marconi Avionics plans to do something about it. The UK company began trials of an active noise-control system on a US Air National Guard C-130H late in 1995. Active noise ...