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Embraer announces record $4.9bn order
Karen Walker Embraer has announced a stunning $4.9 billion order from Crossair for 75 firm aircraft with 125 options. The contract marks the Brazilian manufacturer's formal launch of its new ERJ-170 and ERJ-190 family of regional jets. The deal is described by Crossair president and chief executive ...
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Philippines team awaits fate
The future at Philippines Airlines (PAL) of five-member consulting team Regent Star Services is in doubt as talks between the carrier and Lufthansa Consulting gain ground. Reports from Manila indicate that the contracts of the five ex-Cathay Pacific Airways executives, led by Peter Foster, are likely to be terminated on ...
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Crew collapse traced to cargo door crack
New details of a depressurisation incident on the world's highest time Boeing 737-200 now revealed by investigators tell how the captain and senior flight attendant spent several minutes unconscious when a crack that had gone undetected for 17 years let cabin air escape. The aircraft, of UK charter ...
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Smoke success
An industry study has provided a conclusive demonstration that head up displays (HUDs) offer a significant improvement in viewing conditions over conventional electronic flight instrument system (EFIS) displays in a cockpit smoke environment. Marconi Avionics' study programme for civil air transport aircraft investigated the operation of its commercial Visual ...
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Comfort on the ground
Passenger comfort even before they leave the ground is the name of the game for Kusch of Germany. Kusch's distinctive stainless steel bench seating can be found in airports from Johannesburg to Dublin. As well as being durable and vandalism-resistant, the seating offers good comfort - and great looks. ...
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Cosmonauts in bid to save Mir
Russian cosmonauts are battling to keep their country's space programme up in the air by launching a fundraising campaign to raise $100 million to save the Mir space station. Vitaly Sevastyanov and Georgy Titov, veterans of the Soviet space programme, have now asked all Russians to contribute to a ...
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VGS certification
Certification is expected to be completed this summer for Cat3 operation of Marconi Avionics' Visual Guidance System (VGS) on board a Boeing 737-800. This programme is directly linked to the award of a contract for up to 500 Visual Guidance Systems planned for American Airlines new-build Boeing 737-800 fleet ...
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TV support
Rockwell's Collins Aviation Services has been selected to provide product support of seat-back TV In-Flight Entertainment equipment on board British Airways' Boeing 747 and 777 aircraft. Source: Flight Daily News
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Kendell support
Rockwell Collins Aviation Services (CAS) has been selected to provide its Dispatch 100SM service to Australian operator Kendell Airlines. Under a five-year agreement, CAS will provide logistic support through leased spares and maintenance support for the new Collins avionics suite aboard 12 new Canadair CRJs that Kendell will operate ...
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Johnson: eBusiness the future for AlliedSignal
Just 24 hours before news of AlliedSignal's planned merger with Honeywell stunned the aviation community, AlliedSignal Aerospace's president and CEO Bob Johnson talked to Flight Daily News on his company's aims and prospects. AlliedSignal Aerospace had, itself, recently completed a major internal reorganisation. Commercial confidentiality obviously meant he could give ...
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Wave of US takeovers 'set to continue' claims L-3
Alan Dron At last September's Farnborough air show, Frank Lanza, chairman and chief executive officer of New York-based L-3 Communications, predicted that US second- and third-tier companies in L-3's market sector would go through the same consolidation process that has swept through the top rank of that nation's aerospace ...
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S-92 go-ahead within year
Sikorsky says it will make a decision on a production go-ahead for the S-92 medium helicopter "within a year" as a utility version of the machine goes on static display here this week. The S-92 was primarily designed to be a 19-seat civil helicopter, with a military transport ...
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Expert warns of aircraft seat deterioration
Tamzin Hindmarch Safety experts have warned of the dangers of failing to replace ageing aircraft seats. Rond Moore works for American aircraft interiors firm Skandia, which specialises in testing passenger seats. Speaking on behalf of his team, who are exhibiting at the air show this week, he ...
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Spain joins Argentina for space project
A high resolution remote sensing satellite is being developed by Spain and Argentina. Called Cesar, the satellite will be launched in 2003 and will be able to transmit 5m resolution images of the Earth, the Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial (INTA) says at Le Bourget. INTA, which is ...
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Boeing delivers vital space station truss
Tim Furniss Boeing delivered a vital component of the International Space Station (ISS) to NASA's Kennedy Space Centre (KSC), Florida on Friday. Called the S-Zero Truss, it will form part of what will eventually be the ISS's girder-like framed crossbeam. The S-Zero will be the first starboard truss ...
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717 rolls on
There'll be some very proud Israelis watching the Boeing 717-200 in the flying display - the entire undercarriage is made by the SHL division of Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI). SHL has so far delivered 15 landing gear systems for the 100-seat airliner, having been awarded the contract in 1998. The ...
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Condor project evaluates integrated data system
Condor Flugdienst, the charter affiliate of Lufthansa German Airlines, has installed the Rockwell Collins Integrated Information System (I2S) on two A320 aircraft as part of Condor's Aircraft Integrated Network (CAIN) project. This project, which Rockwell Collins and Condor have conducted in Europe, tests the technologies required to link an ...
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Bombardier unveils BRJ-X cabin mockup
Mark Hanant Bombardier Aerospace unveiled a mock-up of the passenger cabin of its proposed BRJ-X yesterday, but it will still be the end of the year before the final decision on launch of the 90-to-100-seat regional twin-jet airliner is announced. Following the official launch of the new Continental ...
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Russia confident of service module launch
Tim Furniss The much-delayed launch of the Russian Zvezda service module, which has been holding up the assembly of the International Space Station (ISS), will take place in November. The Russian Space Agency (RSA) said at the show that the module has been delivered to the Baikonur Cosmodrome ...
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Shenyang deal extends Sino-links
Geoff Thomas BMW Rolls-Royce is to extend its Sino-links by signing a long-term deal with CATIC Supply and Shenyang Engine Manufacturing at Le Bourget today. The deal - to be signed by BMW Rolls-Royce's operations director Neil Ansell and a representative of CATIC - is believed to involve ...