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2002
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?jiggi Cover story CHOICE CUTS Despite flight-test pressures, there will be no shortage of manufacturers displaying their latest products at this year's show GRAHAM WARWICK / WASHINGTON DC With an increasing number of focused and regional shows competing for their patron age, manufacturers have a difficult task deciding at which events to showcase their latest prod ucts. The decision is harder when an air craft must be pulled out of flight testing to make a public appearance, even at an event as prestigious as Farnborough International. The mix of aircraft confirmed and rumoured for display at this year's show reflects the different choices companies have made when faced with that decision. For Aero Vodochody of the Czech Republic and Brazil's Embraer, the global audience offered by Farnborough makes it worth- Antonov's while to interrupt flight testing and bring An-74TK-300 their latest aircraft to the show. Aero's convertible L-159B two-seat lead-in fighter trainer flew passenger/ for the first time on 1 June and will make cargo its first public appearance at Farnborough. transport will The Embraer 170 regional jet will make its be a European debut at the show. Farnborough Confirmed as making their first appear- newcomer ances will be AgustaWestand's improved Super Lynx 300 helicopter, ATR and Aeronavali's converted ATR 72 freighter and BAE Systems' ATP cargo conversion, and Connexion by Boeing's 737-400 demonstrator. Airbus may spring a surprise by bringing its 100-seat A318 and ultra- long-range A340-500, both of which entered flight testing earlier this year, but the large-capacity A340-600 is almost cer tain to make its Farnborough debut in the colours of launch customer and show sponsor Virgin Atlantic Airways. Black Typhoon Eurofighter plans to display the black- painted second development Typhoon, but Farnborough may see the public debut of at least one of the three instrumented production aircraft that have been in flight testing since April. BAE Systems will dis play a mock-up of the aircraft equipped with conformal tanks. Other aircraft new to Farnborough audiences will include the Su-25KM Scorpion upgrade of the Sukhoi attack aircraft by Israel's Elbit Systems and Georgia's Tbilisi Aircraft Manufacturing. Another newcomer to the show will be Antonov An-74TK-300 convertible passen ger/cargo transport, which will be dis played by the Ukraine's Kharkov State Manufacturing. In addition to its 70-seat 170, Embraer will bring the ERJ-135-based Legacy business jet, which had its 48 18-24 JUNE 2002 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL www.fliqhtinternational.com
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