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Infrastructure
Joint Winner: Luftfartsverket Location Norrkoping, Sweden Joint Winner: SAS Location Stockholm, Sweden Achievement Pioneering work within the NEAN project to demonstrate the potential of ADS-B to modernise Europe's overburdened air traffic control (ATC)infrastructure is already constraining air-transport growth in the region ...
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MIS Embraer hit
Embraer is providing airline operators with an electronic maintenance information service (MIS). The user-friendly, up-to-date MIS, developed by US-based aviation services company Jeppesen, replaces existing paper manuals. It gives maintenance workers simultaneous access to information via computer screens and provides electronic links between manual sections for ...
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Israel and US booster link targets commercial market
Israel Aircraft Industries has linked up with the USA to develop and launch a version of Israel's Shavit satellite booster for the commercial market. It has joined with Coleman Research, a rocket company in Orlando, Florida, to provide launches from the USA for a range of potential commercial customers, ...
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Tug delivers goods
One of the new space products being introduced by Russia at the Show is a Space Tug from Khrunichev. The automatic Space Tug could deliver 4,940kg of equipment to a space station after launch on a Proton. It is being promoted for work supporting the International Space Station, delivering fuel, ...
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Are you listening? Then I'll begin...
Pilots could soon be talking their aircraft through manoeuvres, thanks to the latest in voice activated technology from British Aerospace. BAe has chosen Paris to unveil its Direct Voice Input (DVI) system which allows pilots to give oral instructions to their aircraft. Visitors to the BAe stand in Hall ...
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Reflectone's $25m trainer deal
Tampa, Florida based Reflectone has confirmed the award of a $25 million contract from Bell-Boeing to provide five, three dimensional maintenance trainers for the MV-22B Osprey tilt rotor. Reflectone was selected last December, but the contract was not signed until February and the impending merger with British Aerospace then ...
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Free flight solution launch by Honeywell
Honeywell has launched what officials claim to be the world's first "total system solution" to the challenges of free flight. WorldNav is here at the show. "We are excited to offer our customers a total system solution to the technology breakthrough we call free flight," says Don Schwanz, president ...
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Cobham extends reach in the antenna sector
Cobham has acquired the well-established French antenna designer STAREC, in a move which enhances the UK company's already dominant position in this sector. Cobham is featuring two of its prime companies in Paris - FR Aviation and Chelton (Electrostatics). FR Aviation, with its French subsidiary, Air Precision, ...
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Quick conversions
Disaster, rescue or intensive care? Whatever customers' needs, air ambulance technology specialist Air Ambulance Technology Gesmbh says it can provide a solution the design and manufacture of tailormade quick conversion rescue and ambulance equipment for a variety of helicopters and fixed wing aircraft. Find out more in Hall 4/D6, F4. ...
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Sighting success
The German optronics company Zeiss-Eltro Optronic (ZEO) is setting its sights on success in Hall 2C E/23. Among other things, the firm is showing its new Airborne Targeting and Navigation Pod called Litening. The low-cost, high-performance multisensor Laser Designator Pod is designed for day and night air-to-ground attack ...
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Dry season
Since the invention of the pressurised cabin, water and the condensation it produces have been problems for airlines. Swedish manufacturer CTT Systems, a first-time visitor to Paris, has solutions on show (Hall 5/G10). Visitors to the stand can see the problems and the potential solutions on ...
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Ryan leads way
It was 70 years ago when Charles Lindbergh landed at Le Bourget airport after completing the first solo transatlantic flight. The aeroplane that made the historic flight was the 'Spirit of Saint-Louis' built for Lindbergh by Ryan Airlines. Teledyne Ryan, now part of Allegheny Teledyne, is ...
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Avic interest
Pratt & Whitney has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) for the Chinese company to take a stake in the new PW6000 engine. Talks are underway between P&W and AVIC over which components could be built in the People's ...
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Magnesium force
The increasing use of magnesium alloys in the aerospace industry is good news for British based Magnesium Elektron which is expanding its presence in the niche market. Lighter than aluminium alternatives, magnesium alloys are now increasingly common in aerospace structures including helicopter gearboxes and aircraft landing wheels. Magnesium ...
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Embraer sales keep rolling in
Embraer expects to announce more orders for its EMB-145 regional jet during the show, confirms Mauricio Botelho, the Brazilian manufacturer's chief executive officer. Botelho's apparent confidence raises speculation that Embraer might be the winner of a long-awaited order for regional jets from American Airlines' subsidiary AMR Eagle. ...
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New models evolve from within the CASA range
Spanish company CASA has launched two new projects at Le Bourget, both of them evolutions of aircraft in the existing range. Speaking at the show on Monday, CASA's chairman Raul Herranz announced that a stretched version of the CN235 will be produced - for delivery by the beginning ...
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Simulators make inroads in airline market
More than 30 airlines worldwide are using the FMGS Trainer simulator programme made by Faros. The French firm which develops training programmes has come to the Paris Show for the first time "-to get our products known in the industry", says manager Claude Kieffer. Designed for ...
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Sogerma signs two conversion contracts
Groupe Aerospatiale company Sogerma announced at the show the award of two new contracts, one in Europe, the other in Asia. The Sogerma Maintenance Group has signed a contract with Airbus Industrie to convert three Airbus A330-300s for Belgian carrier Sabena. Each of the aircraft, which ...
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Thiokol to power Spain's first satellite launcher
US company Thiokol will supply the Castor 4B solid rocket motor for the first stage of Spain's first satellite launcher, the Capricornio, the company announced at the show yesterday. Spain's Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial (INTA) will be supplied with motors for the first two launches of the ...