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Attack helicopter contests
Bell Helicopter says development work on the H-1 upgrade programme is on track and the manufacturer is now training its sights on winning two lucrative attack helicopter contests which would provide export customers for the AH-1Z Zulu Cobra. The uprated machine, developed from the AH-1W, is competing in Turkey ...
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Dubai takes Bell 407
Dubai Air Wing is joining the family of Bell 407 light helicopter operators, announcing that it is to take delivery of a single-engine machine before year-end. Hawker Pacific, which represents Bell in the Middle East, announced the sale at the show. Aircraft marketing manager Alan Parsons and general manager, ...
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Sicma takes a load off weary feet
Show-goers weary from hours spent tramping around the halls of Dubai 2000 should stop at the Sicma Aero Seat stand (W322)and try out the French company's latest first class seat. Sicma is demonstrating the seat specially developed for the Emirates Airbus Industrie A330-200 fleet. It features a range of electrically-driven ...
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Singapore site for new gear JV
A joint venture between Singapore Aerospace Manufacturing (SAM) and Messier-Dowty International will produce landing gear assemblies and related components in the Far East from 1 January 2000. SAM's chairman Loh Chuk Yam and Messier-Dowty's chairman and CEO Dominique Paris signed the agreement that will see SAM transferring its landing ...
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JV opens Japan market for GE Engine services
GE Engine Services is moving into the Japanese market, having signed a Memorandum of Intent (MoI) to acquire a controlling interest in an aircraft maintenance partnership between All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries (IHI). The resulting joint venture - in which ANA and IHI will maintain a ...
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Seat comfort draws on luck of the Irish
Mark Hannant/DUBAI An enterprising Irish company hopes to make long-haul flights more bearable with the unveiling at the show of its self-moulding seat cushioning technology. Long Haul Technologies, part of the Vita Cortex Group, has its airbag-based seat cushions now tested and approved for a 16-G environment and on ...
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Boeing scorns arguments for super-large aircraft
Geoff Thomas/DUBAI Boeing is back... at least according to executive vice-president sales and marketing Seddick Belyamani. Speaking at the show yesterday he said that the Seattle-based company was back on course toward convincing its shareholders that the ills of the past decade are behind them. "Our goal is ...
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Volvo applauds China deal for GE engines
China Airlines' selection of General Electric engines for its 13 new Boeing 747-400 aircraft is good news for Volvo Aero which supplies components for the engine. The order value to the Swedish manufacturer is expected to be $25 million. The total order for CF60-80C2 GE engines is 52. ...
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Hableel-Nordisk target aerospace
Dubai's Hableel Engineering is expanding its aerospace business following a joint venture agreement with Nordisk Aviation Products, it was announced at the show. The deal covers marketing and maintenance of LD1 and LD3 containers across the Middle East and South East Asia. The maintenance work will be added to ...
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Big advances in new Honeywell display
Honeywell (E712) is promoting its new CD-820 flight management (FMS) Control Display Unit (CDU) which offers size, weight, power and display improvements over its predecessors. It will be available in February 2000. The CD-820 has a large, full-colour, 13.8in Active Matrix LCD and is designed to interface with Honeywell's ...
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Dubai International Airport makes alliance with ENOC
Geoff Thomas/DUBAI Strategic alliances are the name of the game in aerospace -so it comes as no surprise that the Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC) is looking to forge new relationships...on the ground. Here at the airshow, ENOC and Dubai International Airport ground operator Dnata jointly commissioned a new ...
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Replin has the market covered
UK aircraft interior fabric specialist Replin Fabrics (E843) is back in Dubai to present its range of ex-stock and bespoke quality aircraft interior fabrics. The Peebles, Scotland-based company counts top manufacturers Airbus and Boeing among its customers, and includes the Sultan of Brunei and the House of Commons on ...
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Messier-Dowty man's new role
Global landing gear company Messier-Dowty has announced that Andy Stevens has been promoted to become chief operating officer of Messier-Dowty International. Stevens, who has been with the company for more than 20 years, was named MD of the company's European arm in October 1997 and has been on the ...
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Cocooned in comfort
An aircraft 'super' seat, appropriately called the Cocoon, is on display in the Avio Interiors stand (W648). The executive mini-suite is described as "the bed in the sky" by Stefano Pozza, regional director of Avio Interiors. He adds: "The Cocoon seat converts into a flat bed, complete with privacy ...
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Aviall wins R-R contract
US-based Aviall has been awarded exclusive 10-year rights to distribute parts for the Rolls-Royce Model 250 turboshaft and turboprop engines. The company says the contract will add $90 million to its net sales in 2000 and that its network of more than 40 customer service centres around the world will ...
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Messier lands Kuwait contract renewal
Kuwait Airways has renewed its contract with Messier Services for landing gear repair and overhaul on its entire Airbus fleet - A300-600, A310-300, A320 and A340. The $8 million deal will see 200 Messier personnel overhauling landing gear at its Molsheim plant in France. Messier Services Asia has ...
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Boeing condensation woes put focus on Zonal Drying System
The revelation of Boeing's production problems with the cockpit devices designed to combat on-board condensation puts new focus on a Swedish system now entering airline service and designed to kill off the long-standing issue of excess water on airliners. Condensation is a fact of life for jet operators and ...
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Air France cuts days
Mike Martin/DUBAI Air France Industries has unveiled a new service at Dubai 2000 - D-checks on Airbus Industrie's A320s in just 31 days. That is seven to 10 days faster than any competitor, says Pierre Yves Reville, vice-president marketing and sales. "We have reduced the time to create a ...
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Denel's helicopter upgrades
Paul Derby/DUBAI Denel Aviation is aiming to build on its growing success in offering individually tailored upgrades to the world's operators of Eurocopter Puma helicopters. Among the options offered by the South African company is an autopilot replacement which involves replacing the original analogue system with a digital version ...
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Honeywellto lead team
Honeywell (E712) has been selected as the lead team to provide the fly-by-wire flight control system for the Fairchild Aerospace 728JET aircraft family. Honeywell flight controls, coupled with its Primus Epic next-generation integrated avionics systems on the 728JET, will feature less weight, higher reliability and an integrated maintenance system. ...