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Rockwell Sino link
Rockwell's Avionics and Communications is to assemble and test two major components of the Collins Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System in China. This follows a co-production agreement with China National Aero-Technology International Supply Corporation. The agreement signed at the show calls for Leihua Electronic Technology Research Institute ...
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Say it with flowers
There really is a toilet smelling of roses - and it is here at the Paris Airshow in Hall 4, stand E8. Werner Groth is displaying an A330/340 toilet, by filling it with a whole bunch of flowers. The German manufacturer is also displaying a new ...
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Wheels in motion
The wheels of industry are certainly turning in the Japanese area of Hall 3. Kayaba Industry, which makes wheels, brakes and hydraulic systems, has been asked to supply landing gear products for the 'Superconducting Magnetically-Levitated Linear Motor Car' - a high speed mass transit system for the 21st ...
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Finalist: Aeromedic Innovations Group
Finalist: Aeromedic Innovations Group Location London, UK Achievement: Official licensing for providing airline medical kit. In October 1996, Aeromedic Innovations became the first company in the world to be licensed by a regulatory authority - the UK's Medicines Control Agency - to make and maintain a ...
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Training & safety
Winner: The Flight Data Company Location West Drayton, Middlesex Achievement Making flight-data analysis accessible and affordable running on a PCModern airliners generate a wealth of flight data, which if properly interpreted can prove invaluable in enabling carriers to improve safety and reduce costs. The difficulties lie ...
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Meeting the FANS
WORLDWIDE implementation of the future air-navigation system (FANS) is still years away, but civil-aircraft manufacturers and operators are already adopting satellite-based avionics, for several near-term reasons. These include the availability of fuel-saving routes for suitably equipped aircraft, the pending decommissioning of the Omega navigation system, and the approaching ...
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AS350 transatlantic crossing attempt fails
THE ATTEMPT by a Eurocopter AS350B3 civil-helicopter crew to fly non-stop from New York to Paris has failed because of a faulty fuel-tank weld. The two French pilots, trying to follow the path of aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh, had to abandon the effort in mid-journey when a fuel ...
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Corporate shuttle
British Aerospace Asset Management - Turboprops has leased a Jetstream 31 to Nashville, Tennessee-based Corporate Flight Management. The aircraft has a ten-seat corporate-shuttle interior and will be used for on-demand charter work. Corporate Flight Management is a subsidiary of Nashville-based Corporate Express Airlines. Medical Air Services Association, of Roanoke, Texas, ...
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Boeing's next-generation 737 has European debut at Le Bourget
Boeing has brought the fifth Boeing 737-700 to Le Bourget - the European debut for the next-generation 737 family. The 737, which is destined to be delivered to Germania in 1998, is painted in a special colour scheme for the show, and is configured with examples of the new cabin ...
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Matra seeks to broaden European space alliance
Matra-Marconi Space and proposed partner Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) want to widen pan-European space-industry co-operation to encompass alliances with France's Aerospatiale and Alenia of Italy. The planned Matra-Marconi/ Dasa joint venture is keen to expand existing bilateral collaboration with state-run companies Aerospatiale and Alenia to compete more effectively against ...
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Airbus makes Trent 500 deal with Rolls-Royce
Airbus Industrie has struck a non-exclusive deal with Rolls-Royce for the supply of its Trent 500 engines. The agreement ends Airbus's search for a powerplant supplier for the A340-500 and -600 ultra long-range/stretch versions of the A340. It is believed that Airbus continues to keep the ...
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United tests weather display on a DC-10
United Airlines is flight-testing an advanced cockpit weather information (CWIN) system on a McDonnell Douglas (MDC) DC-10 under a contract from the NASA Langley Research Center. The six-month, in-service evaluation will "-determine the cost savings from use of the system", says MDC, which is leading the CWIN consortium. ...
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Reed Aerospace poised to launch 24h information service
Reed Aerospace, publisher of Flight International and Airline Business, is to launch the world's first round-the-clock air transport-dedicated newswire as part of a major new electronic information service. An initial team of eight journalists worldwide is being recruited to provide the first-hand news that will make up the ...
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-including powerful on-line database
Alongside its rolling news service, Air Transport Intelligence (ATI) will offer customers an extensive online database. ATI's data modules will cover suppliers, aircraft, airlines, airports, powerplants, other organisations, a who's-who of key industry personnel, events, jobs, safety statistics and data from sister company OAG. The databases ...
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Robin revs up all-wooden DR400 President
French general-aviation manufacturer Avions Pierre Robin is presenting a more-powerful version of its all-wooden DR400 at the Paris air show. The four-seat aircraft, now called the "President", has been re-engined with a more powerful 150kW (200hp) Textron Lyco-ming engine, replacing the previous 135kW model, and is now fitted ...
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Horizon deal landed
Messier-Dowty has been selected to design and manufacture a complete integrated landing-gear system for Raytheon Aircraft's Hawker Horizon corporate jet. Supply of the landing gear, wheels, tyres, brakes, door mechanisms and linkages for the medium-range 13-passenger aircraft will initially be worth over $70 million to the Anglo-French company. ...
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Honeywell forms Russian alliance
Honeywell and Avia-pribor, a Russian-based equipment supplier, have formed an alliance aimed at supplying avionics and landing systems for use in the CIS. The Honeywell initiative is focused on a broad range of short-, medium- and long-term projects, unlike previous pioneering moves in the CIS by AlliedSignal and Collins. Those ...
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Burnham: service is the key to growth
AlliedSignal Aerospace is not a company that wastes time - its own or anybody else's. So when company president Dan Burnham calls a press conference, reporters should be on red alert that he has something to shout about. So it proved on Monday at Paris, when Burnham coolly ...
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Jetphone to pick up C&W clients
Air/ground telephony provider Jetphone is set to pick up at least two airline customers left without a supplier by the market exit of Cable and Wireless Flightlink (C&W), reports Reed Aerospace news and data service Air Transport Intelligence (ATI). The electronic news service, formally launched yesterday, says Crossair ...
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Computer lends assistance at take-off
Dedicated to his job and not wanting to miss an air show, Morten Raaby, Sales and Project Engineer from Dataflight, is delaying his honeymoon to be here at the Paris show. "I got married last week, but couldn't let that stop me from being here," he laughs. ...