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R-R orders hit $2billion mark
Rolls-Royce announced another big order yesterday, bringing its total sales revealed during the show to $2billion. The latest order, worth $700million, is from Gulfstream for Tay engines to power GIV-SP aircraft. "With deliveries scheduled to 2003, we look forward to entering the next millennium as a ...
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Demos draw in the crowds at Aeroquip-Vickers
Hands-on activities at Hall 4/B5 are drawing in the crowds to the Aeroquip-Vickers stand. The attractions are live demonstrations of a new aerospace Target-Pro particle counter and interactive software. Aeroquip and Vickers are exhibiting as Aeroquip-Vickers, a new name adopted in April 1997. The ...
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Acquired taste
Acquisitions in the logistics and repair management sector will be the order of the day, says an industry financial report by Smith Barney. The report charts a spate of acquisitions, such as Kellstrom's acquisition of IASI, the Greenwich acquisition of UNC and the subsequent General Electric acquisition of both Greenwich ...
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Electromagnetic hazards
Sir - Much has been documented about the effects of electromagnetic interference on modern aircraft-navigation systems, particularly those elements of the "glass-cockpit" electronic flight-instrument system, and how to deal with those problems. It has been only recently that passengers have become aware of the effects of electromagnetic interference. ...
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Lockheed
Dr Brian Dailey has been named vice-president for strategic development, at US aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin. He succeeds Dr John Egan, who is to retire in 1998, and was previously vice-president, business development for the company's space and strategic-missiles sector. The company has also created the new post of vice-president ...
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Bomnardier is foiled by Embraer 50-seat scoop
Two regional jet manufacturers; two $1 billion contract announcements; and the same customer. But the atmosphere at each press conference yesterday could not have been more of a contrast. American Airlines' subsidiary AMR Eagle's decision to purchase its 50-seat regional jets from Embraer and its 70-seaters from Bombardier clearly ...
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GE and Snecma win American Eagle deal
The American Eagle contract for 25 Canadair RJ 70s brought a boost to the joint-venture engine company of GE and Snecma. The GE CF34-8C power plant has been selected. The deal is believed to be worth in excess of $250million. The manufacturer was celebrating another contract - worth ...
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Say it with flowers
There really is a toilet smelling of roses - and it is here at the Paris Airshow in Hall 4, stand E8. Werner Groth is displaying an A330/340 toilet, by filling it with a whole bunch of flowers. The German manufacturer is also displaying a new ...
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Finalist Antonov Aeronautical Scientific/ Technical Services
Finalist: Antonov Aeronautical Scientific/ Technical Complex Location Kiev, Ukraine Achievement Development of the propfan An-70 transport, including the second prototype. Despite setbacks, the Ukraine's Antonov design bureau is now back on track with its unique propfan An-70 military-transport programme. The original An-70 prototype had ...
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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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Finalist: Messier-Bugatti
Finalist: Messier-Bugatti Location Velizy, France Achievement Development of a miniature pump to allow decentralisation of aircraft hydraulic systems. Messier-Bugatti set itself the goal developing a miniature pump for electro-hydraulic actuator (EHA) units, which are sufficiently small and light to be sited alongside flight-control equipment, so allowing ...
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Finalist: Aeromedic Innovations Group
Finalist: Aeromedic Innovations Group Location London, UK Achievement: Official licensing for providing airline medical kit. In October 1996, Aeromedic Innovations became the first company in the world to be licensed by a regulatory authority - the UK's Medicines Control Agency - to make and maintain a ...
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Hokkaido Airlines expects profits by 1999
Hokkaido International Airlines, which plans to launch low-fare domestic services in Japan in 1998, has revealed bullish profit projections in only its second year of operation. The airline plans to start operations at the end of April 1998 with a single Boeing 767-300, flying three daily services from ...
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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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Fast exit
It is almost 51 years since, on 24 July, 1946, the first live test-ejection took place using a Martin-Baker ejection seat, and 49 years since Jo Lancaster made the first emergency Martin-Baker ejection from the prototype Armstrong Whitworth AW.52 flying wing. Those ejections used pre-production versions of Martin-Baker's ...
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Jet Airways investors take first steps towrds share sale
Domestic Indian carrier Jet Airways has held talks with shareholders Gulf Air and Kuwait Airlines about divesting their stakes in the airline, following the Indian Government's decision to change rules on foreign ownership. Gulf and Kuwait invested around $8 million in the carrier when it started five years ...
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Matra seeks to broaden European space alliance
Matra-Marconi Space and proposed partner Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) want to widen pan-European space-industry co-operation to encompass alliances with France's Aerospatiale and Alenia of Italy. The planned Matra-Marconi/ Dasa joint venture is keen to expand existing bilateral collaboration with state-run companies Aerospatiale and Alenia to compete more effectively against ...
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Airbus makes Trent 500 deal with Rolls-Royce
Airbus Industrie has struck a non-exclusive deal with Rolls-Royce for the supply of its Trent 500 engines. The agreement ends Airbus's search for a powerplant supplier for the A340-500 and -600 ultra long-range/stretch versions of the A340. It is believed that Airbus continues to keep the ...
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Aerospatiale combines with Onera to tackle structural flexing
Aerospatiale and the French research agency Onera have developed an active-control technique to overcome problems of structural flexing in airframes. With the adoption of fly-by-wire technology, there are opportunities to optimise the control laws which translate pilot inputs into aircraft dynamics, which in turn determine aircraft performance, passenger ...
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NASA Ames to lead capacity-expansion effort
NASA Ames Research Center in California is to lead a $450 million programme aimed at tripling the all-weather capacity of the US aviation system within the next decade. NASA's new Aviation System Capacity programme will integrate three existing research programmes (into terminal-area productivity, advanced air-transportation technology and short-haul ...