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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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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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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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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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Training & safety
Winner: The Flight Data Company Location West Drayton, Middlesex Achievement Making flight-data analysis accessible and affordable running on a PCModern airliners generate a wealth of flight data, which if properly interpreted can prove invaluable in enabling carriers to improve safety and reduce costs. The difficulties lie ...
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Are you listening? Then I'll begin...
Pilots could soon be talking their aircraft through manoeuvres, thanks to the latest in voice activated technology from British Aerospace. BAe has chosen Paris to unveil its Direct Voice Input (DVI) system which allows pilots to give oral instructions to their aircraft. Visitors to the BAe stand in Hall ...
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Free flight solution launch by Honeywell
Honeywell has launched what officials claim to be the world's first "total system solution" to the challenges of free flight. WorldNav is here at the show. "We are excited to offer our customers a total system solution to the technology breakthrough we call free flight," says Don Schwanz, president ...
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Sighting success
The German optronics company Zeiss-Eltro Optronic (ZEO) is setting its sights on success in Hall 2C E/23. Among other things, the firm is showing its new Airborne Targeting and Navigation Pod called Litening. The low-cost, high-performance multisensor Laser Designator Pod is designed for day and night air-to-ground attack ...
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Dry season
Since the invention of the pressurised cabin, water and the condensation it produces have been problems for airlines. Swedish manufacturer CTT Systems, a first-time visitor to Paris, has solutions on show (Hall 5/G10). Visitors to the stand can see the problems and the potential solutions on ...
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Help at hand for aircrews
Imagine heaving a 100kg service trolley up a 25 degree incline along an aircraft aisle. Cabin attendants do it all the time, pulling or pushing laden meal, drink, waste and sales carts. The result is often acute back problems and even sick leave, as the metal plates that ...
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Simulators make inroads in airline market
More than 30 airlines worldwide are using the FMGS Trainer simulator programme made by Faros. The French firm which develops training programmes has come to the Paris Show for the first time "-to get our products known in the industry", says manager Claude Kieffer. Designed for ...
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New models evolve from within the CASA range
Spanish company CASA has launched two new projects at Le Bourget, both of them evolutions of aircraft in the existing range. Speaking at the show on Monday, CASA's chairman Raul Herranz announced that a stretched version of the CN235 will be produced - for delivery by the beginning ...
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Sogerma signs two conversion contracts
Groupe Aerospatiale company Sogerma announced at the show the award of two new contracts, one in Europe, the other in Asia. The Sogerma Maintenance Group has signed a contract with Airbus Industrie to convert three Airbus A330-300s for Belgian carrier Sabena. Each of the aircraft, which ...
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Messier-Dowty lands two contracts
Franco-British joint venture Messier-Dowty has been chosen to supply undercarriage systems for two new aircraft types, the Airbus A340-500 and -600 and the Fairchild Dornier 328JET. A spokesman said at the show that the main and nose landing gears for the developed Airbus design will be a "significant ...
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New flight displays improve safety
The company turns the common expression around to promote the role of its large-format flight displays for high-performance aircraft manoeuvring through heavily-congested airspace. Collins Pro Line 21 avionics systems, created for the new Bell-Boeing 609 civil tiltrotor and Raytheon's new Premier I business jet, offer displays nearly 30% ...
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Embraer sales keep rolling in
Embraer expects to announce more orders for its EMB-145 regional jet during the show, confirms Mauricio Botelho, the Brazilian manufacturer's chief executive officer. Botelho's apparent confidence raises speculation that Embraer might be the winner of a long-awaited order for regional jets from American Airlines' subsidiary AMR Eagle. ...
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Wizard export prospects for Merlin
Export prospects worth more than $1billion are "looking good" for the GKN Westland/Agusta's EH101 Merlin search and rescue helicopter which makes its debut at Paris. Canada and Portugal are due to decide later this year on whether to buy up to 30 of the helicopters, says Westland's public ...
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Kit gives tools to restrain louts in flights
A disturbing rise in the number of unruly passengers on commercial aircraft has opened a window of opportunity for British firm Percival Aviation (Hall 2/J14). The company is coming to the aid of airlines with a specially-designed passenger restraint pack. As well as 'quickcuffs', to gain ...
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TriStars targeted
UK supplemental carrier British World Airlines has contracted with Classic Airways and the Independent Aviation Group (IAG) to operate L-1011 Tristars from August this year. British World operates its own fleet of BAC 1-ll, ATP, ATR and Viscount aircraft and also provides an AOC and operations service for ...
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Linda succeeds where Amelia Earhart failed
Sixty years after trail-blazing aviatrix Amelia Earhart's round-the-world flight ended in disaster, Linda Finch completed a commemorative circumnavigation in an identical 1935 Lockheed Electra 10E. The aircraft, powered by Pratt & Whitney Wasp engines, is the centrepiece of a special Pratt & Whitney display pavilion in the static park ...