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Ariane wins four launch contracts
Arianespace has won four new launch contracts, maintaining its lead in an increasingly competitive commercial market. The company says it has 42 satellites in its orderbook and claims a 50% market share. Arianespace will launch the Swedish communications satellite Sirius 3 in 1998. This Hughes HS376 ...
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Le Bourget filled to capacity - again!
The "Complet" sign is up on the Paris International Air Show - with more than 1,700 exhibitors from 43 countries, the 42nd edition of this venerable exposition is sold out. Organisers are expecting about 300,000 visitors over the eight days of the show at Le Bourget. ...
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Fashion joins aerospace for Flight Awards
Winners of the prestigious Flight International Aerospace Awards will share centre stage with top models from the creme de la creme of French fashion houses tonight, in what promises to be an unforgettable occasion. A specially choreographed show by members of la Federation Francaise de la Couture, who ...
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GPS software gets airlines' nod
If you need state-of-the-art software for airline GPS, make your way to the Jeppesen stand in Hall 4/ D3. The Jeppesen OnSight offers aircraft tracking, flight planning and weather analysis either individually or as a fully integrated package. The first ground-based systems were installed last year ...
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Learjet clears the Atlantic in record time
Anyone needing to get from Pittsburgh to Paris in around eight hours should visit the Bombardier chalet and enquire about buying a Learjet 60. For the 100th production aircraft arrived at the show to take up its place in the static display in record-breaking time, taking just 1minute ...
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ESA catches the Express to Mars
The European Space Agency (ESA) says it has approved studies of a mission, called the Mars Express, to land a craft on the surface of the planet Mars to analyse its soil for signs of life. The international frenzy over "life on Mars" has meant that the Mars ...
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V2500 record
The ubiquitous IAE V2500 range of engines has now passed five million flying hours... equivalent to flying around the world 54,000 times. More than 2,000 V2500s have been ordered since the programme was launched 13 years ago, and the latest generation -A5/-D5 variants have established an engine caused ...
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French lessons
If you fancy a year in France learning to become an aircraft maintenance engineer, then wander down to Hall 4/C9 here at the Paris Airshow. The stand is manned by the students from the new course running at the University of Aix en Provence near Marseille. Investing in ...
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Polyphem fibre-guided missile shows pin-point accuracy
France, Germany and Italy have successfully test-fired the Polyphem, a versatile precision weapons system designed to deliver a 20kg warhead at a range of up to 60km. The Polyphem is touted as the world's best performing fibre-optic-guided missile for ground-to-air, air-to-ground, ship-to-ship and anti-submarine warfare, in all-weather conditions, ...
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Sikorsky scoffs at buy-up prediction
The 'not for sale' signs were up unequivocally at Sikorsky yesterday following the publication of an industry forecast with whose sentiments the venerable helicopter company may well agree, but with whose details it certainly would not. The Teal Group's first world rotorcraft forecast target Sikorsky as the most ...
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Dowty shows benefits of Eurobonding
European Union members currently struggling to achieve closer economic and financial 'harmonisation' might usefully look for lessons from Franco-British landing gear specialist Messier-Dowty. At the last Paris show, the British and French sections of the then-newly formed joint venture were just beginning the same type of process. ...
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Are AVIC and Airbus wrong about AE31X?
Sir - I refer to the article "AVIC/Airbus sign AE31X agreement" (Flight International, 21-27 May, P7). The new regional AE31X family, planned to Ìt in below the niche of the Airbus A319, should not have a smaller, five-abreast, fuselage cross-section. This would mean abandoning the Airbus ...
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BMW R-R
Gert Reitsma has been appointed head of purchasing at engine manufacturer BMW Rolls-Royce, of Oberursel, Germany. He was formerly vice-president for procurement at defunct aircraft-manufacturer Fokker Aircraft of the Netherlands. Before that, he was vice-president and general manager at Interturbine Holland. Michael Corne has been named head of marketing and ...
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Spar signs
Canada's Spar Aerospace has signed two contracts, worth $85 million, one to supply communications and remote-sensing-satellite components, including antennas and digital products, to Lockheed Martin. The other is for four high-power Ku-band repeater panels for Russia. Source: Flight International
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Innotech expands
Innotech Aviation has announced a C$11.5 million ($8.3 million) expansion of its Montreal business-aircraft maintenance and interior-refurbishment centre. Source: Flight International
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Garrett completes F28 upgrade
Garrett Aviation Services' Los Angeles division has recently completed the upgrade of a Colombian air force Fokker F28 Mk1000 executive aircraft, which included the installation of a Rockwell-Collins four-tube electronic flight-instrument system and new flightdeck avionics, upgraded interior and exterior repaint. The avionics upgrade includes the installation of Collins TCAS ...
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Orbital will launch hypersonic vehicles
ORBITALSCIENCES IS to produce four modified Pegasus air-launched boosters for NASA's Hyper-X hypersonic test programme. The Hyper-X is a small, unmanned, research vehicle powered by a supersonic-combustion ramjet (scramjet) and designed to reach speeds of up to Mach 10 and altitudes of up to 100,000ft (30,500m) after launch ...
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Jumbo challenge
If Airbus Industrie sticks to its timetable for the A3XX, the first example of the 560- to 660-seat long-range giant will be undergoing flight demonstrations for the first time in public at the 2003 Paris air show. What visitors to the show will see circling over the famous Le Bourget ...
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Act of faith
A full-scale model of Russia's 20t Functional Cargo Block (FGB) module and its Proton launcher will be among the highlights of the space displays at the Paris air show, demonstrating that the International Space Station (ISS) programme is still alive. The real FGB will be the first ISS ...
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Growth markets
While the prime focus at the last major European air show, Farnborough in September 1996, was on the dog-fight between Boeing and Airbus Industrie to launch a 747 successor, the duel has now regrouped around longer range, and/or increased capacity derivatives of the two rivals' existing products. Airbus ...