The 1997 Flight International Aerospace Industry Awards finalists have been selected. The winners will be announced at the Le Meridien Montparnasse Hotel on 16 June.

 

 

Air Transport

 

Collins Air Transport division

multi-mode-receiver navigation and landing system

 

AlliedSignal Aerospace Commercial Avionics Systems

enhanced ground-proximity warning system

 

Lear Astronics

autonomous-landing guidance system

 

 

Business & General Aviation

 

Rockwell Avionics

AVSAT 5000 series

 

Cessna Aircraft

Citation X

 

BMW Rolls-Royce

BR700 engine family

 

 

Corporate Strategy

 

Cessna Aircraft

rebuilding piston-single business

 

BMW Rolls-Royce

development of BR700 engine family

Embraerbringing EMB-145 to market & certification

 

 

Environment

 

Japan Airlines

greenhouse-gas research project

 

Manchester Airport

environmental planning of second runway

Lufthansa Technikcertification under EU's new ecology-audit

 

 

Helicopters

 

Eurocopter

EC120

 

Masquito Aircraft

Masquito M58 ultralight

 

 

Infrastructure

 

Luftfartsverket

management of NEAN project

 

Scandinavian Airlines System

implementation of ADS-B

 

Wavionix Software

procedures development software

 

 

Maintenance

 

Richard Wolf

aircraft-engine repair procedure on-wing

 

Fokker Services Flight Services

maintenance service

 

 

Military Aviation

 

Sukhoi Design Bureau

development of Su-37 fighter

 

Antonov Aeronautical Scientific/Technical

development of An-70

 

 

Space & Missiles

 

Northrop Grumman

Integration division lightweight-

 

Electronics & Systems

satellite power module

 

Rafael

development of Python-4 Missile

 

Surrey Satellite Technology

microsatellites

 

 

Systems & Components

 

BFGoodrich Avionics Systems

solid-state electronic standby-instrument system

 

Meggitt Avionics

secondary flight-display system

 

Messier-Bugatti

universal miniature pump for control systems

 

Fatigue Technology

blind-nut-plate fastening system

 

 

Training & Safety

 

Britannia Airways

use of Contran system

 

Aeromedic Innovations

group development of on-board medical kits

 

The Flight Data Company

development of data safety-monitoring systems

 

Serco Aviation Services

aviation-training schemes

Source: Flight International