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rt\fijKWL>7iOU£i J ZJ-JOW JlBPUJif Sextant/Astrium join for in-flight internet THOMSON-CSF Sextantand Astrium have become the lat est partnership to enter the crowd ed in-flight internet, e-mail and multimedia services market. The partners plan to launch e-mail and internet services next year in com petition with a whole host of other companies and consortia, includ ing the Boeing-led Connexion, Rockwell Collins/Xews Corp oration's In-Flight Network, AirTV, Honeywell and BT. Sextant will bring its avionics, satellite communication, in-flight entertainment system and pro gramme management experience to the partnership. Astrium will be responsible for system architecture. The partnership believes it is ahead of its competitors as Sex tant's joint venture with Harris, LiveTV, already offers in-flight satellite broadcast services to pas sengers in continental USA, with JetBlue and Legend Airlines air craft already outfitted. The partners aim to introduce regional television, intranet and e-mail services next year, followed by uplink news. Between 2003 and 2005, a global television service, secure e-mail and internet connec tivity will be added. Sextant and Astrium also plan to offer cockpit, maintenance and cabin crew func tions, similar to those being devel oped and tested by Rockwell and German carrier Condor in the Integrated Information System programme. Crew services such as performance monitoring and operational information will be available in 2002. Remote mainte nance aids, IFE content upload, take-off data and graphical weather information will be added between 2003 and 2005. • Farnborough sales bonanza shows industry confidence THE FARXBOROUGH sales bonanza saw over S42 billion worth of orders placed for airliners and regional jets, making the show the most successful on record. Leasing companies dominated the order announcements, accounting for almost 80%, or S2 5.8 billion, of riie orders taken by Airbus Industrie and Boeing. The big two took over $33.3 bil lion's worth of orders, equating to 3 67 units (see table). The magnitude of these orders can be gauged by considering that Airbus and Boeing's airliner revenue for all of 1999 was $54.8 billion. Airbus won the show sales battle with rival Boeing, taking 64% of die orders worth over Si8 billion. Things were fairly even at the lower end, with regional jet manu facturers Bombardier and Embr- aer notching up $4.5 billion and $4.25 billion, respectively. The Airbus order tally includes its first A3XX commitments, which although only accounting for 22 of its 238 orders, represent a quarter of the consortium's total revenue (at list prices). Boeing's proportion of the orders is closer to Airbus in value terms as the US manufacturer took a higher pro portion of widebody orders. Top leasing company buyer was International Lease Finance, which has placed 137 orders worth an estimated $13.7 billion - amounting for half of the total placed by lessors at the show. The Farnborough deals take total Airbus/Boeing orders for the Customer Air France ALAFCO America West British Midland CIT Aerospace Emirates Finnair GECAS ILFC Monarch SALE Order total/share Value/share Aircraft type A3XX A320 A319 A320 A320 family A330-200 A330-500 A3XX A3XXF A319 A320 A318 A320 A320 A330-200 A330-500 A3XX A321 A319 A320 Orders* 10 4 4 2 35 10 5 5 2 2 4 30 12 62 20 10 5 5 3 8 Engine N/A CFMI IAE IAE N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A CFMI CFMI CFMI CFMI N/A N/A N/A N/A IAE N/A N/A Delivery schedule Oct 2006-2009 2003-2005 2001 2001-2002 N/A N/A N/A 2006 2008 From 2002 From 2002 Q12004 From mid-2003 Q3 2001-2008 N/A 2004 Late 2005 to end 2006 From 2002 End 2002 End 2002 238/64% $18.6 billion/56% Notes: A33O-5O0 and A3XX orders are subject to programme being launched. Nine options also announced • •'Jj3|.,ri?:'.ul-'.ii,tt Customer All Nippon Airways Emirates GECAS ILFC Korean Air Singapore Airlines Aircraft type 777-300ER 777-300 737 777-200ER Orders* 6 6 59 5 777-200LR/300ER 10 737 777-200ER 777-300ER 77-400F 777-200/200ER Turkmenistan Airlines 717-200 Order total/share Value/share Notes: 66 options also announced. Grand total/value 7 25 8 1 3 3 Engine GE R-R CFMI N/A GE CFMI N/A GE PW R-R R-R Delivery schedule 2004-2007 N/A From 2001 N/A N/A 2003-2005 2002-2009 From 2003 Nov 2001 N/A Juiy-Oct 2001 133/36% $14.8 billion/44% 371/S33.4 billion Values based on published list prices. "Some orders not yet subject to firm contract. year to more than 900 units, split the whole of last year, suggesting almost equally between the two. that industry confidence is now on This compares to 870 orders for the rebound. 3 Aermacchi assembles M-346 trainer team to replace Russians AERMACCHI HAS assem bled a new team of partners to pursue development of a western ised version of the Yakovlev Yak- 130 lead-in fighter trainer after the programme's Russian participants failed to come up with funding. The aircraft is being relaunched by the Italian manufacturer as the M-346 and will be re-engined with the Honeywell F124 turbofan (Flight International, 25-31 July). Russian design bureau Yakovlev and the Sokol factor)' held 25% each in the earlier Slovakian-built PSLM DV-2S powered Yak/ AEM-130 programme, with Aer macchi owning the balance. "Different funding timescales, in Russia and in Italy, have led us to give priority to the development of a fully western derivative of the air craft," says Aermacchi. "The development of a Russian version is also being pursued by Yakovlev and Sokol under a different timescale." The M-346's digital flight con trol system will be provided by Teleavio and Marconi Italiana in collaboration with BAE Systems. The avionics are the responsibility of Alenia DSAE. The firstM-346 prototype is set to fly in mid-2002, followed by a second a year later. 3 12 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 1 - 7 August 2000
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