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    Easy does it

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    The complex world of aircraft maintenance made easier - that's the boast of Intentia. Intentia is promoting its Movex Aviation business application system at the show this week. The system is designed to make sure that a company's processes are fully integrated and operating with optimum efficiency. ...

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    GE Taiwan JV

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    A Memorandum of Intent (MOI) has been signed at Le Bourget by GE Engine Services and EVA Airways to explore the formation of an engine overhaul and maintenance joint venture company at EVA's site in Taiwan. The partnership being pursued will provide engine overhaul services for EVA and ...

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    Tecstar puts tiny wheels into motion

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    A new tiny Reaction Wheel designed to stabilise small satellites is one of a number of products that can be seen for the first time in Europe in Hall 4/A11. US manufacturer Tecstar is making its Paris debut as it moves into the civil aviation market. ...

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    Atlas Air confirms plans for 747-400 purchase

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Atlas Air has confirmed plans to buy new Boeing 747-400 freighters, and has signed a Ìrm purchase contract worth about $1.7 billion for ten aircraft, and options on a further ten. The transaction, which represents the US cargo carrier's first purchase of new aircraft, was forecast earlier this ...

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    Personality of the year

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Winner: Shen Yuankang Title Vice Minister of General Administration of Civil Aviation of China Achievement Helping to strengthen air safety oversight in China's fast-growing civil aviation sector. The improvement in China's levels of air safety has been dramatic over the past three years. The country's civil-aviation ...

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    Infrastructure

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Joint Winner: Luftfartsverket Location Norrkoping, Sweden Joint Winner: SAS Location Stockholm, Sweden   Achievement Pioneering work within the NEAN project to demonstrate the potential of ADS-B to modernise Europe's overburdened air traffic control (ATC)infrastructure is already constraining air-transport growth in the region ...

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    MIS Embraer hit

    1997-06-17T16:27:00Z

    Embraer is providing airline operators with an electronic maintenance information service (MIS). The user-friendly, up-to-date MIS, developed by US-based aviation services company Jeppesen, replaces existing paper manuals. It gives maintenance workers simultaneous access to information via computer screens and provides electronic links between manual sections for ...

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    Reflectone's $25m trainer deal

    1997-06-17T13:33:00Z

    Tampa, Florida based Reflectone has confirmed the award of a $25 million contract from Bell-Boeing to provide five, three dimensional maintenance trainers for the MV-22B Osprey tilt rotor. Reflectone was selected last December, but the contract was not signed until February and the impending merger with British Aerospace then ...

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    Avic interest

    1997-06-17T11:13:00Z

    Pratt & Whitney has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) for the Chinese company to take a stake in the new PW6000 engine. Talks are underway between P&W and AVIC over which components could be built in the People's ...

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    Sogerma signs two conversion contracts

    1997-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Groupe Aerospatiale company Sogerma announced at the show the award of two new contracts, one in Europe, the other in Asia. The Sogerma Maintenance Group has signed a contract with Airbus Industrie to convert three Airbus A330-300s for Belgian carrier Sabena. Each of the aircraft, which ...

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    CFMI joins Chinese in new working alliance

    1997-06-17T00:00:00Z

    CFM International (CFMI) and Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) have joined forces in a Joint Leadership Council to coordinate activities and promote a closer working relationship between the two organisations. Talks are being pursued at the Paris air show between Gerard Laviec, CFMI chairman and chief executive officer, ...

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    AvSoft on aircraft

    1997-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Airlines and component manufacturers alike can tap into a powerful software system which holds detailed information on virtually every commercial aircraft on the planet. AvSoft from Rugby, England, is at the show this week to promote the ACAS Product Tracker system, a highly flexible market information package, which ...

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    AIS targets rapid response customers

    1997-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Aero and Industrial Services (AIS) is using its appearance at Le Bourget this week to tell potential customers about a new rapid response capability. AIS, housed in Hall 2/H14, is operating a repair or replace system of maintenance from its base in Burnley, UK, and completed a same-day ...

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    Miami expansion programme continues

    1997-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Miami International Airport officials were more than happy to welcome a cavalcade of public visitors at their stand yesterday, having the dual role of promoting both Miami's tourism and airport infrastructure. An ongoing US$4 billion expansion programme, started in 1992, continues at the airport - which will be ...

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    Solair named Delta supplier

    1997-06-16T00:00:00Z

    US-based Banner Aerospace subsidiary Solair has signed a memorandum of understanding with Delta Air Lines to become Delta's sole source supplier of airframe materials from the surplus market. Solair president Timothy Daggett says he expects the agreement to generate $150million over the next three years. "We ...

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    Virgin contract

    1997-06-15T16:54:00Z

    The Johannesburg-based Transport Aircraft Maintenance section of Denel Aviation has won a contract to handle line maintenance for Virgin Atlantic's Airbus A340s operating into South Africa. It already assists with line maintenance of Cathay Pacific's A340s. Source: Flight Daily News

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    Avrotec double

    1997-06-15T13:25:00Z

    Avrotec, the maintenance and refurbishment arm of British Aerospace Regional Aircraft, comes to Paris '97 on the back of two new contract wins. The first deal involves undertaking four-year structural checks, repainting work and the retrofit of engine life computer systems on seven China Northwest BAe 146-300 aircraft. ...

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    Centrepiece of Pratt & Whitney's outdoor display

    1997-06-15T00:00:00Z

    Centrepiece of Pratt & Whitney's outdoor display is the Lockheed Electra 10E used by American Linda Finch in her recent around-the-world flight in honour of Amelia Earhart's fatal journey 60 years ago. Finch's aircraft is powered by two restored P&W R-1340 Wasp engines. P&W was a sponsor of ...

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    Quiet signs hush deal

    1997-06-15T00:00:00Z

    European Aviation Air Charter has confirmed a contract with Quiet Nacelle Corporation of Miami for the American company to develop a stage 3 hush kit suitable for its fleet, currently powered by Rolls Royce Spey engines complying with the stage two criteria. The kit will comprise an engine ...

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    GPS software gets airlines' nod

    1997-06-15T00:00:00Z

    If you need state-of-the-art software for airline GPS, make your way to the Jeppesen stand in Hall 4/ D3. The Jeppesen OnSight offers aircraft tracking, flight planning and weather analysis either individually or as a fully integrated package. The first ground-based systems were installed last year ...