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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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Personality of the year
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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Maintenance
Winner: Richard Wolf Location Knittlingen, Germany Achievement Combining grinding and borescope tools to allow compressor-blade repairs without engine removal. Like many of the best innovations, this year's winning entry in the Maintenance category is a relatively simple concept, but one which could save the aviation industry ...
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MIAT loss
A Mongolian Airlines Harbin Y-12 turboprop crashed on 10 June, killing seven of the 12 passengers and crew aboard. The twin-engined aircraft crashed while trying to land at Mandelgobi Airport, 280km (150nm) south of Mongolia's capital Ulan Bator. Witnesses report the aircraft crashing and exploding several hundred metres short of ...
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Infrastructure
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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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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Environment
Winner: Manchester Airport Location Manchester, UK Achievement Winning approval for construction of a second runway through work with local communities. In January 1997, the UK Government granted approval for the construction of a full-length second runway at Manchester Airport - the first such project to get ...
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Homing device tracks illegal mobile use
Airlines are ringing the changes to prevent mobile phones from being used on their aircraft, thanks to Innovint. The German firm has just launched a product called Mobifinder which can be seen here at the Paris show in Hall 4/E8. This device enables a stewardess to ...
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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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-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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Corporate strategy
Winner: Embraer Location Sao Paulo, Brazil Achievement Successfully launching the EMB-145 onto the world market, while battling with privatisation and overcoming heavy losses. The new management which took over Embraer following its privatisation at the end of 1994 faced a seemingly desperate situation. Hit by Brazil's ...
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India's jet challenger
Even its most ardent supporters would have to concede that India's airline deregulation has been less than successful. Of the wave of airlines which emerged in the early 1990s to challenge the Indian Airlines domestic monopoly, only a handful are still flying. Their cause has not been helped by a ...
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Boeing's part of the web
Boeing reports more than 200 customers have started using its Web site to order spare parts within six months of launching the service. The Boeing PART Page processes an average 1,700 transactions every day. Pre-registered users can access the company's spares inventory database through a standard ...
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Avionics suite
A complete suite of avionics from AlliedSignal Aerospace is on display at the show in the new Boeing 737-700. The company's latest flight safety and other avionics to be found on the aircraft, includes the Quantum Line of communications and navigation systems with its voice/data radio, instrument landing ...
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Finalist Rockwell Avionics & Communications
Finalist: Rockwell Avionics & Communications, Collins Air Transport division Location Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA Achievement A multi-mode receiver combining both existing and future landing-aid technology One of the most enduring technical issues for the world airline industry over the past decade has been over ...
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ATC restructuring
The German Air Navigation Services (DFS) has been given the go-ahead to a plan which will concentrate German air trafÌc control (ATC) in three centres. The DFScentre in Berlin will be integrated into the Bremen centre, and the roles of the Düsseldorf and Frankfurt centres will be taken over by ...
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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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BAeFT and Manx Airlines sponsor pilot-training scheme
British Aerospace Flight Training (BAeFT) has signed a deal with UK regional carrier Manx Airlines for a three-way-sponsored ab initio pilot-training scheme operated by British Aerospace Flight Training (BAeFT). The partnership airline selection scheme (PASS) is also interesting several other airlines, says BAeFT's marketing director Capt Chris Long. ...
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Finalist: Japan Airlines
Finalist: Japan Airlines Location Tokyo, Japan Achievement Support for a scientific project to monitor greenhouse gases in the upper Earth's atmosphere. For the past five years, Japan Airlines (JAL) has been actively supporting a scientific study to measure the extent of greenhouse gases in the Earth's ...
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Zero-gravity training aircraft open for business
The doors of the world's largest 'vomit comet' are being thrown open to selected guests at the Paris show. Invitations to inspect the A300 Zero-G parabolic flight training aircraft are being sent out by Novespace, a private company supported by the French Space Agency (CNES). Initially ...