All aerospace news – Page 1795
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Police power
The UK's Sloane Helicopters has sold the first police-configured Agusta A109E to the Wales Dyfed/Powys Police air support unit. The twin-engined helicopter, which will replace the force's ageing Eurocopter AS355N, will be deployed for air ambulance and police support operations. Sywell, Northamptonshire-based Sloane is scheduled to deliver the £2.5 million ...
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Keeping HOPE alive
Japan's HOPE X could be a technology springboard for future RLV programmesAndrzej Jeziorski/TOKYO Japan's efforts to develop future space transportation systems are three pronged. Alongside work to upgrade the nation's expendable launch vehicles and the development of reuseable launcher concepts, the National Space Development Agency (NASDA)and the National Aerospace Laboratory ...
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Armour coated
Comtas is targeting the aviation industry with its armour parts, designed to protect electronic equipment, pilot seats and other sensitive areas of the aircraft. The composition of the material used by the company is a closely guarded secret but has already proved successful in the automotive field. More ...
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Tiltrotor support
US-based Howmet has delivered its first production pylon support casting for the Bell/Agusta BA609 commercial tiltrotor. The pylon support is a fracture-critical component that is vital to the aircraft's ability to take off as a helicopter and shift to fixed-wing flight once airborne. The one-piece titanium casting can be ...
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Volvo Aero strikes spares deal
Volvo Aero has signed a five-year deal with Boeing allowing it to sell surplus spare parts for the Boeing fleet worldwide. Boeing will continue to sell its own spare parts primarily through the Internet. The deal covers components which are no longer used in aircraft production. Volvo Aero, through ...
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Japanese Piper
Osaka Aviation has been appointed authorised distributor of New Piper Aircraft products in Japan, and will provide customer service to new and existing Piper owners. The company will also handle new aircraft sales, provide technical assistance, perform warranty work and supply spare parts. Founded in 1968 as a ...
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Medical aid
Japan will take delivery of its first helicopter to be dedicated to emergency medical missions when Aero Asahi receives an MD Explorer next month. Tomen Aerospace, the MD Helicopters distributor in Japan, sold the aircraft to Aero Asahi, which will join forces with a Japanese hospital to operate the ...
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Ipeco keeps watch on bottom line
Crew on the new Boeing 717 have the full support of Ipeco - quite literally . Ipeco has designed and manufactured the flight deck and cabin attendant seating on the aircraft, making its European debut at Paris '99. Ipeco's portfolio currently contains more than 50 models, used by ...
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FAA hotline for counterfeit product reports
Tamzin Hindmarch The US Federal Aviation Administration has set up a free hotline for people wishing to report suspected unapproved aircraft parts. Such products may look the same, but if they do not comply with FAA standards they may not be of the same high quality or be ...
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New 777 battery system launched
A new battery system for the Boeing 777 has been developed and launched by Eldec and Saft. The entire system can directly replace original equipment without the need for aircraft rewiring. Eldec is a Crane company. Saft is the battery division of Alcatel Cable. The new system consists ...
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UK Royal flight gets HUMS
Marconi Avionics Portsmouth has installed a new Health and Usage Monitoring System (HUMS) on board the latest Sikorsky S-76C+ helicopter used by the British Royal family. The system was installed by Sikorsky at its West Palm Beach, Florida facility for Air Hanson which operates Royal Household helicopter services. ...
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Twin-engined Eurocopter debuts at show
The Paris air show is home turf for Eurocopter and the European manufacturer is using the show to fly its EC155B twin-engine helicopter for the first time publicly. Launch customer is the German border guard (BGS) which took delivery of an initial batch of EC155Bs in March. BGS has ...
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No smoke problems with CSE Engineering
Steve Nichols Smoke in the cockpit is a pilot's nightmare and one of the biggest causes of air crashes according to official data. Recent incidents involving a Swissair Flight 111 and ValuJet Flight 592 prove just how difficult it is for pilots to see what they are doing ...
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Consortium typifies pan-European cooperation
This year's show marks the 30th anniversary of tri-national consortium Panavia, founded in 1969 as prime industrial contractor for the MRCA - later Tornado - programme. The three partners of today, Alenia, British Aerospace and DaimlerChrysler, and the Tornado industry have in many ways become a model of pan-European ...
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Space Station award for Hamilton Sundstrand
Tim Furniss Hamilton Sundstrand has won a $115 million contract from NASA to design, develop and qualify water and oxygen generator assemblies for the International Space Station. It will be one of the "largest development programmes undertaken by the company", which will shortly be renamed Hamilton Sundstrand Space ...
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Launch for space mirror planned in 2001
A space mirror orbiting the Earth that could be seen in the night sky by six billion people as a bright star-like object, as bright as the planet Venus, may be launched in 2001. Called the Star of Tolerance, the mirror is a "solar sail" which uses the ...
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Invisible threats from space
THE good news is that astronomers have identified an asteroid that could be on a collision course with Earth. The bad news is that they have lost it. The object, called 1998 OX4, was found last year by a team at the University of Arizona, who tracked it for ...
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IAE lets the market do the talking for new variant engine
Geoff Thomas International Aero Engines (IAE) has announced that it has begun to evaluate a new variant of its V2500 engine, which powers Airbus A320 family aircraft. The formal launch of the -A7 version could happen by the end of this year, says IAE president and chief executive ...
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Teamwork key to show success
Ian Verchere As the person elected by his peers at GIFAS, the French national association of aerospace companies, to run the 43rd Paris air show, Edmond Marchegay has all the cool of an aircraft carrier skipper in variable weather. The decks may heave and roll in the swell, ...
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Business jet market sees growth through fractions
Karen Walker Who would have thought that selling aircraft bit by bit could end up being bigger business than selling them whole? Thanks to fractional ownership, that is where the business jet industry seems to be heading. It explains why some of the largest and most talked about ...