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Yeovil electronic developments
Yeovil Electronic Developments will show its DATAIR-400 battery-powered, hand-held ARINC-429 data monitor, designed for testing data-transmission systems in aircraft. Data are displayed on a four line x 16-character liquid-crystal display, in user-definable formats. "The equipment is aimed at the avionics technician who needs to be able to display ARINC-429 data ...
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Aerotech marketing
AeroTech Marketing is using its "IT Village" concept to show "complementary technologies applied to aerospace customers". Exhibitors in the IT Village include ACE, Autodesk, Cincom, Fulcrum Technologies, Hewlett-Packard, Interleaf, Mantix Systems, Rank Xerox and Workplace Systems. Demonstrations will range from Cincom's Acquire, which provides sales bidding and tendering capabilities, to ...
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Greene Tweed & Co.
Greene, Tweed & Co (GTC) will have its new advanced concept T-Ring (ACT) on display. GTC designers have taken the established features of the AGT ring design and extended the seal life by more than 50%, says the company. "The ACT ring will significantly improve the performance capability of equipment ...
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EMB-145 brake system is Crane's
Sir - While the EMB-145 flight-test "Basic appeal" (Flight International, 3-9 July, P29) was very good, there was an error. The discussion of the brake-control system incorrectly lists the anti-skid unit as a Maxaret system. It is actually a MkV digital brake-by-wire control system manufactured by Hydro-Air/Crane in Burbank, California. ...
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More Aerojet second-stage engines for MDC
McDONNELL DOUGLAS has awarded Aerojet a follow-on contract to supply a further 40 AJ10-118K second-stage engines for the Delta 2. The restartable, nitrogen tetroxide-Aerozine-50, hypergolic engine has a total burn time of 432s and a thrust of 43kN (9,750lb). The two-stage Delta 2 has been booked for 13 missions carrying ...
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Aerotech world trade
Aerotech World Trade will represent several companies, which are showing new products. CEIS TM is displaying its latest tri-frequency, 406MHz Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT), which it claims offers location of a downed aircraft with greater accuracy than was possible with earlier 121.5/243MHz ELTs. Dukane, meanwhile, is showing its latest Underwater ...
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Helmet integrated systems
Helmet Integrated Systems (HISL) will introduce its advanced lightweight helmet system. The Alpha HGU-86/P has been developed to meet performance and safety requirements for the US Air Force's next-generation air-superiority fighter. The helmet is designed to provide comfort and protection for military air-crews and its lighter weight is claimed to ...
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Metal injection mouldings
Metal Injection Mouldings will show a new process for the manufacture of small metal components which it claims "virtually eliminates machining operations". Metal-injection moulding combines the established technologies of powder metallurgy and injection moulding, says the company. The process allows production of high-integrity metal parts in complex shapes, yielding close ...
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Martin-Baker
Martin-Baker is displaying its pilot and passenger crashworthy helicopter seats which were recently selected by Sikorsky for civil and military versions of its S-92 Helibus. Deliveries of the seats, which are designed to meet latest crash impact attenuation standards, will begin in 1997, says the company. Although best known for ...
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Planar advance
Planar Advance, in partnership with dpiX, will unveil full-military specification active-matrix liquid-crystal-displays (AMLCDs) for fast jets and other cockpit applications. The initial product measures 125 x 125mm and has a 480 x 480 pixel colour display. The company says that a 160 x 160mm display is among larger, higher-resolution displays, ...
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DM Aerospace
DM Aerospace will be launching FlightVu, which consists of a range of video-camera equipment designed for use on commercial aircraft. The FV-0100 is a monochrome video camera for mounting externally on an aircraft, and is heated, sealed and easily maintainable. The FV-0300 performs a similar function, but uses a colour ...
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Aero Tec laroratories
Aero Tec Laboratories (ATL) Europe's new Unmanned Vehicle Fuel Cell division is displaying its ultra-lightweight, bladder-type fuel tanks for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). ATL says that it is focusing on development of low-cost, non-exploding fuel cells, and can make complex fuel-cell shapes and sophisticated scavenging devices to optimise available space ...
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Siemens Plessey Systems
Siemens Plessey Systems is showing key components which will make up its future active array radars - a 12-bit receiver and an optical rotating joint. The active-array antenna is typically divided into several sub-arrays, says the company, each of which uses the 12-bit receiver. Signals received, pass through analogue-to-digital converters, ...
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Data sciences
Data Sciences is exhibiting its Sigma-M full-motion flight simulator, the latest development in the company's technology- demonstrator programme for cockpit trainers. The Sigma-M will be integrated with a low-cost, 6¡-of-freedom motion platform designed by Intersim, with high-resolution, out-of-cockpit views provided by Simis. The Sigma-M is available "at a fraction of ...
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Mesa
MESA AIR GROUP has agreed to purchase 16 Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets, and take options on 16 more of the 50-seat twinjets. The firm orders are valued at $320 million, with deliveries to the US regional airline to begin in early 1997. Farmington, New Mexico-based Mesa began evaluating ...
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Impulse acquires
Australian regional Impulse Airlines has acquired two Raytheon Beech 1900D 19-seat turboprops in an A$13 million ($10 million) deal. The aircraft will be used between Newcastle, Brisbane and the Gold Coast. Source: Flight International
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Californian Fokkers
Californian airline Air 21 has added its fifth ex-USAir Fokker F28-4000 since starting operations in December 1995 and says that it will operate eight by year-end and 15 by the end of 1997. The airline, which has a marketing agreement with Reno Air, says that the F28 does not require ...
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Last call for entries
The final closing date for the 1997/8 Flight International Directory of the UK and Ireland has been extended until 31 August. Anyone who has not yet updated their entry or any new organisations wishing to be included should contact Flight International Directories, tel: +44 (1707) 665151; fax: +44 (1707) 660330. ...
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United cargo delays
United Airlines has delayed the start of all-cargo operations between the USA and Asia from the third quarter of 1996 to March 1997, because suitable aircraft were not available. Four United McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30s, including one -30CF, will be converted to full freighters by Aeronavali, a division of Alenia, with ...
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F18E/F catapult launch
The first catapult launches of the McDonnell Douglas F-18E/F have been successfully accomplished at the US Navy's Patuxent River, Maryland, test centre. Source: Flight International