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Crossair starts ERJ-170/190 family rolling
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Embraer has launched its new family of 70/108-seat regional jets with a commitment from Crossair for up to 160 aircraft. The deal, involving about 60 firm orders, covers 70-seat ERJ-170s and 108-seat ERJ-190-200s for delivery from late 2002. The Swiss regional carrier has orders and options ...
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Face the facts with Gerard Laviec
Paris '99 will be something of a show anniversary edition for engine manufacturer CFM International. The company - a joint venture between General Electric and Snecma - is celebrating its 25th birthday, the 20th anniversary of its first orders, and during the show it will deliver the 10,000th CFM56 engine. ...
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NG737 clocks up largest-ever order
Alan Dron International Lease Finance (ILFC) yesterday announced plans for the largest order yet for the Boeing Next Generation 737 family and says it is looking carefully at the sub-100-seat market. Steven Udvar-Hazy, ILFC president and chief executive officer, says his company has agreed a firm order for ...
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Dasa repeats tough line on Airbus change
Ian Verchere The president of DaimlerChrysler Aerospace (Dasa) says his takeover of the Spanish aerospace group Construcciones Aeronauticas (Casa) will strengthen Germany's hand in forcing a transformation of Airbus Industrie into a single corporate entity. Gustav Humbert, commenting on threats by German aviation minister Siegmar Mosdorf to withhold ...
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$1 billion A320 sale underlines recovery in Asia Pacific market
Mike Martin Airbus Industrie announced a $1-billion A320 family order from Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (SALE), providing more evidence that the Asia-Pacific region is pulling out of its economic crisis. The order is for 23 aircraft, 20 A320s and three A321s, with deliveries from 2001 and 2008. Engine ...
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Gulf Air celebrates with new and old
Gulf Air had plenty to celebrate yesterday as it took delivery of its first Airbus Industrie A330-200 at the show. It was Airbus's 30th birthday, an anniversary topped by Gulf Air which is celebrating 50 years of operations. Against a backdrop of the A330-200 and an Avro Anson, the ...
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Meggitt starts show with multi-million bid
Meggitt laid out its stall on the eve of the show with a $380million bid for the Whittaker Group. UK-based Meggitt has followed a strategic acquisition policy to exploit niche markets in the aerospace industry. Whittaker's aircraft fire and smoke detection systems will make a good fit with its ...
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Merger partners eager to walk down the aisle
Karen Walker "Less of a merger and more of a marriage," is how AlliedSignal Aerospace president Bob Johnson views the proposed deal with Honeywell. And, in his opinion the sooner the wedding ceremony, the better. Speaking in Paris on the eve of the required "quiet time", during ...
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Armour coated
Comtas is targeting the aviation industry with its armour parts, designed to protect electronic equipment, pilot seats and other sensitive areas of the aircraft. The composition of the material used by the company is a closely guarded secret but has already proved successful in the automotive field. More ...
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Volvo Aero strikes spares deal
Volvo Aero has signed a five-year deal with Boeing allowing it to sell surplus spare parts for the Boeing fleet worldwide. Boeing will continue to sell its own spare parts primarily through the Internet. The deal covers components which are no longer used in aircraft production. Volvo Aero, through ...
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Wheeler dealer focuses on retread work
French company Michelin has a strong presence at the show this year with an emphasis on the expanding tyre retreading capabilities. With a new retreading site in Zurich, Switzerland, now complementing the existing ones in Bourges and Cuneo in Italy, the company feels it can now offer a more ...
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Hamilton SunDstrand parts play big role in new PW6000 engine
Geoff Thomas The Pratt & Whitney PW6000 engine which is now in development will have more Hamilton Sundstrand content than any other engine to date, the newly merged company announced at Le Bourget yesterday. This major step-forward for Hamilton Sundstrand means that it has moved closer to its ...
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Space Station award for Hamilton Sundstrand
Tim Furniss Hamilton Sundstrand has won a $115 million contract from NASA to design, develop and qualify water and oxygen generator assemblies for the International Space Station. It will be one of the "largest development programmes undertaken by the company", which will shortly be renamed Hamilton Sundstrand Space ...
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Tough questions face Aerospatiale Matra boss
Ian Verchere In a studied exercise in political stone-walling, the new supremo of France's recently-privatised Aerospatiale Matra entity, Jean-Luc Lagardere, yesterday fended off hostile media questioning over how the current deadlock over the transformation of Airbus Industrie into a single corporate entity would be broken. While accepting the ...
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Airbus predicts global demand for 15,500 aircraft
Mike Martin Airbus Industrie and Boeing unveiled their latest market forecasts at the show yesterday. There's broad agreement on the basic value of the business over the next 20 years, but interesting differences of view. Lift-off for a new standard in style, being set by Gulf Air ...
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Boeing hits the heights at Aerospace Industry Awards
The aviation industry's achievements of the past year were recognised at the sixth Flight International Aerospace Industry Awards last night in Paris. In what was a stunning and eventful evening at Le Musée des Arts Forains, Bercy, the winners and finalists in the 11 categories - including the 1999 ...
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Air transport
Smiths Industries Aerospace and Alaska Airlines won the Air Transport award for using Smiths' flight management system (FMS) and GPS to eliminate non-precision approaches. The team pioneered required navigation performance 0.15 approach and departures at Juneau Airport in Alaska. Terrain at the airport rises from sea level to ...
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Corporate and General Aviation
Winner of the Corporate and General Aviation category was UK-based kit aircraft specialist Europa Aircraft. The company has sold 550 kits to 29 countries, including 100 kits to customers in the USA. Judges said Europa had secured major sales success in the face of strong international competition and had ...
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Engineering, Systems and Components
Winner of the Engineering, Systems and Components award was Data Systems and Solutions for its JetSCAN engine condition monitoring tool. The company is a joint venture between Rolls-Royce and Science Applications International and its system, says the judges, represents a significant step forward in engine health monitoring capability. ...
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Propulsion
Rolls-Royce picked up the top award in the Propulsion category for its first full-scale engine test of the swept fan - a major improvement in fan blade technology. The fan was tested at 110,000lb thrust that marks a radical improvement in fan blade technology and promises major cost savings ...