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Rockwell Collins enters entertainment business
The name has changed, but the faces are familiar: The former Hughes-Avicom inflight entertainment manufacturer is appearing at an airshow for the first time under its new owner, Rockwell Collins. Since completing its acquisition of Hughes-Avicom in December, Rockwell Collins has already scored a major coup. Huge Ken McNamara, vice-president ...
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KLM slates industry's complacency on 'bomb'
Mike Martin KLM has put its conference on the "millennium bomb" off until later this year, but has repeated its call for greater urgency in the airline and aerospace industries in tackling the problem. Meanwhile, with fears that one of the key problems might be at its most acute in ...
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Boeing convinced Asia-Pacific will rebound quickly
Industry observers "will be amazed at how quickly things will turn around in Asia"Larry S Dickenson, Boeing Commercial Airplane Group's senior vice-president, Asia/PacificAndrew Mollet Industry observers "-will be amazed at how quickly things will turn around in Asia." So says Larry S Dickenson, Boeing Commercial Airplane Group's senior vice-president, ...
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Dowty Aerospace wins Boeing component order
Dowty Aerospace, part of the UK-based TI Group, has won a multi-million dollar contract to supply high lift systems equipment for the new Boeing 767-400ER. Dowty Aerospace's Hydraulics and Actuation business will develop these components, which include trailing-edge rotary actuators and the leading edge offset gear boxes. Dowty ...
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Sikorsky's Asian hopes ride on S-92 helibus
Paul Derby Sikorsky is using Asian Aerospace '98 as a launchpad to win customers for its new S-92 Helibus medium-lift helicopter, due to enter service in 2001. The S-92 is scheduled to make its first flight before the end of the year and Sikorsky announced in the run-up ...
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Entertaining Trimble
Trimble Avionics has signed an agreement with Avionics Innovations to distribute its AI-CD low cost in-flight entertainment system which is aimed primarily at general aviation users. The CD/FM/ AM system is modified for California-based Trimble's TrimLine, the standard avionics for the Cirrus SR20. Source: Flight International
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Industry launches safety initiative
Airlines, aerospace manufacturers and pilots have formed a coalition to help the airline industry and government regulators prioritise leading safety issues. The Commercial Aviation Safety Strategy Team (CASST), which includes the Air Transport Association, Aerospace Industries Association, Air Line Pilots Association, Airbus Industrie, Boeing, General Electric, Pratt & Whitney ...
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Multimission craft
Julian Moxon/Marignane, FRANCECUTAWAY DRAWING/Giuseppe Picarella In bringing two new machines to the market in the space of two years, Eurocopter appears to have pulled off something of a coup. By any standards, the eight seat, twin engined EC135 and now the five seat EC120 Colibri single have both been very ...
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Coming on strongly
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW Certification begins this quarter for Kamov's much delayed new Ka-226, which had its first flight on 4 September, 1997. Unusually, it was not really a test flight but a demonstration for Russia's Minister of Emergency Situations, Sergei Shoigu, whose new Ministry has provided the funding to bring the ...
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Brave new world
GLOOM-MONGERS aside, Asia's aerospace sector is strong enough to host Asian Aerospace '98, but this show does represent a watershed. It comes at a time when economic turbulence has spelled the end of many old assumptions about the shape of the aerospace world, and the position of the players in ...
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Manufacturers issue fresh bids as SIA revives long haul plans
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Airbus Industrie and Boeing have submitted fresh proposals to Singapore Airlines (SIA) in response to a renewed impetus within the airline to move ahead with its ultra long haul requirement with either the A340-500 or 777-200X. The two rival manufacturers are understood to have made improved ...
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Asiana steps up partner hunt
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Asiana Airlines is stepping up the search for a partner following South Korea's decision to lift the cap on airline foreign ownership to 49%. The carrier also raises the possibility of acting as a British Airways franchise partner in the Asia Pacific region. The South Korea ...
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European airlines continue to wage war on airport charges
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Europe's airlines are continuing their attack on airport charges, unveiling a study which highlights massive variations in costs within the region and suggests that European charging levels are two or three times higher than for their USor Asian counterparts. The issue re-ignited in 1997 when members ...
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Cathay dumps Airbus FANS
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Plans by Cathay Pacific Airways to equip its fleet of Airbus A340-300s with the Airbus interoperable modular future air navigation system (AIM-FANS) package have been scrapped in protest at the US Federal Aviation Administration's failure to modernise its oceanic air traffic control centres (ATCCs). The carrier ...
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Early launch in store for 428JET
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH THE Fairchild Dornier 428JET could be launched as early as the AsianAerospace show in Singapore which starts on 24 February, providing outstanding technical issues can be resolved in time, says the manufacturer. The aircraft is a 42- to 44-seat stretched version of the 328JET, with a ...
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Extra expects approval for 330 aerobatic aircraft in March
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH German light aircraft manufacturer Extra Flugzeugbau expects to complete certification of work on its new Extra 330 aerobatic aircraft by the end of March. The aircraft, an upgraded version of the Extra 300, has a more powerful engine and "much better manoeuvrability" for competition flying, says ...
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Air Methods equips
Air Methods of Colorado has received contracts from the UK's Police Aviation Services (PAS) and Papillon Grand Canyon Helicopters in the USA for multi-function interiors for installation in Boeing MD Explorers. Source: Flight International
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Regional revolution
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Regional aircraft manufacturers must, by now, be getting used to living in a perpetual state of revolution, and 1997 was no disappointment. The year began with Fokker delivering its last few aircraft and ended with the loss of another famous name, as Saab Aircraft announced its retreat ...
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Light twin, right price
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC When Bell introduced the Model 407 light single-turbine helicopter it was essentially competing with itself, or rather with the longevity of its popular Model 206 JetRanger/LongRanger family. With the new Model 427 light twin, the company is breaking new ground, and competing with helicopters from established manufacturers. ...