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GE overhaul network continues to expand
General Electric is continuing the aggressive expansion of its engine overhaul and maintenance network by forming GE Varig Engine Services, a new joint company to be located at the Brazilian airline's Galeao International Airport overhaul site in Rio de Janeiro. The company is being formed through its recently acquired ...
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Surrey Satellite signs for Dnepr mini lauch
Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) has signed a contract with the Russian ISC Kosmotras company to launch its new Uosat 12 minisatellite aboard a modified SS-18 missile, renamed the Dnepr. The launch will be from Baikonur in 1999. Kosmotras, a Russian/Ukrainian venture, is converting the SS-18 intercontinental ballistic missile into ...
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$85m RJ deal boosts Avro
Mike Martin British Aerospace Regional Aircraft announced the sale of three Avro RJ100 aircraft at Farnborough '98 yesterday. The $80 million deal was with Swissair Group leasing arm Flightlease and the aircraft will be delivered in July, September and October, 1999. The order may have a deeper significance ...
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UK firms tipped for major global expansion
Alan Dron A new 'British Empire' is on the horizon as two of the nation's largest defence and aerospace companies gear up for major expansions of their worldwide activities, says a report issued yesterday. British Aerospace (BAe) and GEC are tipped by analysts of US publication Defence Mergers ...
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Whittle award aims to encourage young engineering talent
Geoff Thomas The UK's 'red rose' county of Lancashire has always featured strongly in aviation innovation, so it is appropriate that the Consortium of Lancashire Aerospace (CLA) should have obtained major sponsorship from Rolls-Royce for its Sir Frank Whittle Award. This prestigious new award, aimed at attracting some ...
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Reliability is key to Meggitt success
Geoff Thomas What's the secret of increasing sales in the aircraft components industry? Mike Stacey, chief executive of British aviation company Meggitt (Hall 3, A15), says it is simple: Ask a major player like Boeing what its worst supplied product is, then enter that marketplace, offering 100% reliability ...
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ASTOR radar rivals use show to trade punches
Tim Ripley Raytheon has lambasted its American rival in the $1.1 billion UK ASTOR contest, describing Northrop Grumman's entry as a "high risk, high cost solution" that will not be in service for some time. The US defence electronics giant directed all its fire at Northrop Grumman's Joint ...
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Certified success
Certified Aircraft Parts of Florida has had a major success at the show having signed a deal with Engineered Fabrics making it worldwide distributor of parts for the F-15, F-16 and F-18. The contract is significant for Certified Aircraft Parts as it broadens its business base built over the ...
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Heat stress found in crashed MD-11 cockpit
Investigators probing the loss of Swissair Flight 111 have found evidence of what they are calling "heat stress" on small pieces of cockpit wreckage recovered from the sea. Lead investigator Vic Gorden revealed the finding at a press conference but declined to go into further detail. The phenomenon is ...
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Lucas licensed to make PDU for B747s
Lucas Aerospace will manufacture and market power drive units (PDUs) for Elektro-Metall Export's (EME's) Boeing 747-100, -200F/C and -400F aircraft under the terms of a licensing agreement signed at the show. The licence permits Lucas Aerospace to manufacture the PDU in the US and to market them in the ...
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Laser wire marking
Spectrum Technologies (Hall 3, Stand A3) has won an order to supply its Capris 100-12 laser wire marking system to Japanese company, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI). The system will be used on a number of projects including the Bombardier Dash 8-Q400 and Global Express. The fully automated Capris 100-12 ...
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Boeing racks up $2bn more in orders
Mike Martin Boeing announced a raft of orders together worth more than $2 billion yesterday. The biggest order, totalling $1.27 billion, was from GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) for nine extended range 767-300ERs and three 767-400ERs. All the aircraft will be powered by General Electric CF6-80C2 engines. ...
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UPS deal heads $8bn Airbus spree
Karen Walker Airbus Industrie chalked up yet another coup yesterday when it announced two multi-billion-dollar deals and secured a new customer, United Parcel Service (UPS), which has selected the A300-600 freighter for its widebody fleet. Wednesday's UPS order, worth $4.8 billion, combined with a $2 billion order from ...
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American Eagle to launch Dallas-Houston Hobby jet service
American Eagle is beginning jet service between Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston's Hobby Airport on 7 December with Embraer ERJ-145s. Although the regional carrier - the world's largest - is initially only replacing two of 11 daily turboprop round-trip services between the two airports, American Eagle says it will add ...
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Millier gets contract lift
C&F Millier, a TI Group business, notched up three notable successes in the run-up to Farnborough '98. The company has received Airbus approval for the use of a new rapid deployment auxiliary jack on the A319, A320 and A321 family of aircraft. The design incorporates folding legs and an ...
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Lufthansa signs 10-year, 400-aircraft EGPWS deal
Lufthansa has signed a 10-year agreement to buy AlliedSignal enhanced ground proximity warning systems (EGPWS) for most of its aircraft as well as those of its subsidiaries. AlliedSignal says the agreement initially covers the purchase of 175 systems for existing aircraft in the Lufthansa fleet but the order is ...
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Joint venture for Eurofighter training systems bid
Four major players in the simulation industry have signed an agreement to form a joint venture company to produce a major part of the Eurofighter ASTA (Aircrew Synthetic Training Aids) training systems. Called Eurofighter Simulation Systems, the company is formed by Thomson Training & Simulation of the UK, Indra ...
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BAe, R-R join universities in research programme
Two of Britain's major aerospace companies have joined with three leading universities in a joint programme of research into engineering processes for the new millennium. British Aerospace and Rolls-Royce are jointly investing £1.5 million ($2.4 million) in setting up a unique five-year University Technology Partnership (UTP) agreement with the ...
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Face the facts with Ruth Harkin
Ruth Harkin's appointment last year as United Technologies vice-president international affairs and government relations, and chair of United Technologies International, makes her UTC's highest ranking female executive. During her visit to Farnborough - her first time at the air show - she spoke to Karen Walker. Q What is your ...
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Set to defend ?
Graham Warwick/FORT WORTH Having produced more digital-era fighters than any other manufacturer, Lockheed Martin should know better than most of its rivals whether the world's combat aircraft will be grounded at the dawn of the new century. "We are not aware of any airborne issue that has to ...