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Boeing breakthrough with its new one-piece 737 fuselage
When Boeing Commercial Airplane declares that one plus one equals one, it is better not to argue mathematics. Boeing, which has just married two aircraft sections to create the first complete one-piece fuselage for the 737-700, knows what it is talking about. A roll-out ceremony for the fuselage ...
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Pictorial tribute
A walk through aviation history, from the Kitty Hawk to the Space Shuttle, is a feature of the USA pavilion in Hall 2, which brings together more than 70 US companies in more than 2,500m2 of exhibition space. Kallman Associates, US representative of the Society of British Aerospace Companies ...
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Production up
Boeing is to increase the production rate of the 777 from five aircraft a month to seven from July next year. The company has raised its 1996 employment forecast by an additional 5,000 people. Source: Flight Daily News
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Turbofan orders
Pratt & Whitney comes to Farnborough with a clutch of new orders for its PW2000 turbofan from both commercial and military customers. Most recently, the PW2000 has been selected by the US Air Force to power its new fleet of Boeing C-32A transports. The C-32 is the military ...
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Dowty double
Dowty Aerospace has won two contracts, worth an estimated $25 million, to supply engine rings and rigid tube on three leading aero engine programmes - the CFM56, the GE CF6 and the P&W JT8D. In another contract Dowty Aerospace's Reynolds Rings business has been awarded a four-year contract to ...
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Japanese eye up billion dollar launch deal
Japan's contingent at Farnborough could soon be celebrating a $1.28-billion deal with two US companies for 15 launches of the H2 booster. Mitsubishi-led Rocket Systems, which markets the launcher, is in final negotiations to carry 15 Hughes and Loral communications satellites after 2000. The launcher will be an ...
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US still tops defence market says survey
Reports that the Russians have overtaken the Americans for top position in the world defence market are flawed, a top British Government analyst says at Farnborough ‘96. A US Congressional Research Service survey released just prior to Farnborough ‘96 claims that the Russians had leapt to pole position ...
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Re-engined Sikorsky wins another order
Sikorsky is expected to announce a new order for its S-76C+ today at Farnborough. Details of the customer, believed to be European, should be announced at a press conference this morning. Deliveries of the higher-powered C+ variant, which was introduced earlier this year, began in July, and Sikorsky ...
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Enhanced Jetstreams ready for sales dogfight
British Aerospace plans a "substantial" improvement in the short and/or hot-and-high performance of its 19-seat Jetstream Super 31 turboprop, in a bid to improve its prospects against US competitors. Stephen O'Sullivan, executive vice-president of BAe's Asset Management - Turboprops (AMT), which is responsible for the management and re-marketing of ...
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Fighting talk on JSF project by Lockheed Martin
Describing itself as a "Fighter Enterprise", Lockheed Martin is sporting an aggressive stance at Farnborough and touting a wide array of military aircraft products. A priority at the show, the company says, is the marketing of its concept for the US/UK Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme. The three ...
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Gulfstream V stays at home
To the disappointment of many, Gulfstream is saving the public debut of its new ultra long-range corporate jet, the Gulfstream V, for a specialist business aircraft convention later in the year. Instead, Gulfstream is bringing a GIV-SP to the show by way of emphasising the importance of both these ...
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Lockheed looks to cash in on Mars mania
The life on Mars stories last month has created the most public interest in spaceflight since the Apollo moonshots. NASA's totally speculative Martian discovery resulted in thousands of calls to its Washington DC switchboard, and its Internet Home Page was so busy it was impossible to access. Media ...
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Internet plays its spare part
Is there anything that can't be ordered over the Internet? If calling up pizza via the computer is just too easy, then why not shop for aircraft parts? Aviall of Dallas, Texas, is launching a parts order entry system on its home page. The system ...
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IATA on the "Outlook"
Speakers from Boeing, Airbus Industry, Rolls-Royce and SAAB will be among those at the tenth IATA Air Transport Outlook conference. It's one of two IATA conferences scheduled for later this month. The "Outlook" conference runs from September 16-18 in London: Financing European Air Traffic Management will be held ...
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Merger and magistrate keep aerospace titan away from the show
Notably absent from Farnborough ‘96 is Serge Dassault, chairman and chief executive officer of Dassault Aviation and a score of companies in the Dassault Industrie group. Though his heart is at Farnborough - he can't remember missing a single show since he graduated as an aircraft engineer almost half ...
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US trainer makes transatlantic debut
The Raytheon Aircraft Beech/Pilatus PC-9 MkII is making its debut appearance at Farnborough after a two-hop flight from the USA. The aircraft was fitted with two 230 litre (60 USgal) wing-mounted external fuel tanks for the journey. Confirmed earlier this year as the Joint Primary Aircraft Training System ...
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Missile muscle
Visitors interested in air defence missile systems compare new and old Patriot systems at the Atlantic Research Corporation (ARC) stand. ARC, one of the world's largest suppliers of missile propulsion systems, showcases an impressive array of military hardware at Hall 2/A34, including the Patriot Advanced Capability 3 replacement. ...
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Time capsule
A full-size mock-up at an air show usually means watch this space: the real thing is coming the moment we've built it. Not so on the stand of AlliedSignal Aerospace (4/E3). Here, visitors nostalgic for the 1970s can see a full-size mock-up of the space capsule of Apollo ...