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Disaster, rescue or intensive care? Whatever customers' needs, air ambulance technology specialist Air Ambulance Technology Gesmbh says it can provide a solution the design and manufacture of tailormade quick conversion rescue and ambulance equipment for a variety of helicopters and fixed wing aircraft. Find out more in Hall 4/D6, F4. ...
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Magnesium force
The increasing use of magnesium alloys in the aerospace industry is good news for British based Magnesium Elektron which is expanding its presence in the niche market. Lighter than aluminium alternatives, magnesium alloys are now increasingly common in aerospace structures including helicopter gearboxes and aircraft landing wheels. Magnesium ...
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Packed full of action
The parking spaces at Le Bourget are full this week, both for aircraft in the static park and for cars in the adjacent village, which hopefully enjoys the bounty brought by thousands of visitors who temporarily disturb its tranquillity during air show week. Flight International photographer Mark Wagner ...
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Safety systems
American firm Safe Flight Instrument, which specialises in in-flight safety systems, has many new things on show in Hall 4/B8. The N1 has been certified in the last six weeks for both the Citation 560/Ultra and the Raytheon Beechjet 400A. Developed over the last three years, ...
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OK for Explorer
McDonnell Douglas MD Explorer helicopters are back in the air following Federal Aviation Administration approval and extensive laboratory tests. As a precaution, the company asked the FAA to ground the helicopters at the end of May after a broken adjustable collective link was discovered on a customer-owned aircraft. ...
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Eurocopter Colibri to take on market giants
Gilbert Sedbon Eurocopter and its Chinese and Singaporean partners have high hopes for their EC120B Colibri new-generation high-technology helicopter, on display at Paris in the static park and in the daily flight demonstrations. With a worldwide fleet of about 5,000 civil and public-service helicopters in the 1.6-tonne five-seat category due ...
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Lord wins noise reduction approval
Lord Corporation's NVX Active Noise and Vibration Control System has become the first such product to get FAA approval for use on large jet airliner. The system has been approved by the FAA for installation on McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and MD-80 series aircraft. Supplemental Type Certification was completed ...
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No room for national egos in high-tech air industry
The future of high technology in Europe is at stake if national egoism continues to play a role in the aerospace industry, Manfred Bischoff, chairman of Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa), said at the show yesterday. "A partnership based on equality is the only key to success," he says. ...
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Sikorsky scoffs at buy-up prediction
The 'not for sale' signs were up unequivocally at Sikorsky yesterday following the publication of an industry forecast with whose sentiments the venerable helicopter company may well agree, but with whose details it certainly would not. The Teal Group's first world rotorcraft forecast target Sikorsky as the most ...
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Turkish clearance
US manufacturers have been cleared to bid to provide Turkey with more than 100 advanced attack helicopters. The US Government says that it is in the US national security interest to provide assistance to Turkey. In 1996, political controversy over US concerns that they would be used against Kurdish civilians ...
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Helijet cross-border
Vancouver-based Helijet Airways has launched North America's first scheduled international helicopter service, with three daily flights between Victoria, British Columbia, and Seattle, Washington, using 12-seat Sikorsky S-76s. East Asia Airlines, meanwhile, plans to take delivery of three improved S-76C+ helicopters later this year, also in 12-passenger configuration, for use on ...
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Helikopter Service links with Rotex on long-line projects
Norway's Helikopter Service is in the final stages of setting up a joint venture with newly formed central European helicopter operator Rotex to cover long-line work in the oil and construction industries worldwide. David Price, Helikopter Service project manager, says that the Bergen-based company intends to use the ...
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Broken link grounds Explorers
McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems (MDHS) Explorer helicopters have been grounded "until further notice" following the discovery of a broken adjustable collective drive-link. Subsequent tests have revealed the need for a redesign of the assembly. The company notified operators of the grounding order on the evening of 28 May, ...
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Kawasaki offers improved BK117
Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) has begun marketing avionics and structural enhancements for its locally built version of the Eurocopter BK117, in an effort to boost sales. In May, the Japan civil-aviation bureau completed type certification of KHI's new active vibration-reduction (AVR) system for the 3.5t-class helicopter. The system ...
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Grizzly delivery
Kaman has delivered a K-MAX external-lift helicopter to Grizzly Mountain Aviation, of Prineville, Oregon. The company has now sold 13 of the intermeshing-rotor helicopters, and two are on lease to operators. Grizzly Mountain will use the single-seat, single-engined aircraft for logging operations. An aircraft was also recently handed over to ...
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MDHS promises first MD 600N delivery
McDONNELL Douglas Helicopter Systems (MDHS) will deliver its first MD 600N in early June, to Grand Canyon tour operator AirStar Helicopters, following delayed US certification. The company has seven aircraft ready for hand over, and hopes to deliver up to 30 of the tailrotor-less MD 600Ns this year. ...
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Chirac's Chinese visit reaps a harvest of civil orders
China Aviation Supplies (CASC) has placed a $1.5 billion order for a second batch of 30 Airbus Industrie A320/A321s, further strengthening the European consortium's growing presence in that country. It is the biggest of three deals announced during the visit of French president Jacques Chirac to Beijing in ...
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Canpolar seeks help for ice-test system
Canpolar East, a Canadian machine-vision company based in St Johns, New- foundland, is looking for partners to develop a laser-based system able to measure ice accumulation on aerofoils. The technology, developed by Canada's National Research Centre (NRC), could form the basis of a hand-held sensor for use in wing de-icing, ...
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Ayres wants more turboprop power for Loadmaster
AYRES WANTS more powerful engines for the LM200 Loadmaster freighter and it is talking to LHTEC and Pratt & Whitney Canada about how they can satisfy the new requirement. The agricultural-aircraft maker, based in Albany, Georgia, launched the Loadmaster cargo aircraft in November 1996 with an order for ...