All aerospace news – Page 1985
-
News
UK police forces order MD Explorers
THE UK'S POLICE Aviation Services has ordered ten McDonnell Douglas MD900 Explorer helicopters, making it the largest single purchase of the type to date in Europe. The first eight-seat helicopter will be delivered in June 1997 and enter service with the Wiltshire Constabulary Air Support Unit. The aircraft will be ...
-
News
GPS retrofit
Rockwell's Collins Commercial Avionics is to supply its Multi-Mode Global Navigation Landing Unit for retrofit into Airbus A300 B2 and B4 fleets. Deliveries to Airbus will begin later this year, with certification expected early in 1997. Up to 100 aircraft will receive the Collins system, which is a combined global-positioning ...
-
News
FLS launches cargo-conversion project
FLS Aerospace has received its first contract for the conversion of a Boeing 727 to cargo configuration, launching its participation in this market. The Stansted, UK-based aircraft-maintenance company has received a contract from Dublin-based aircraft-management/leasing company European Capital/ Naabi, for the conversion of an ex-Continental Airlines Boeing 727-200 ...
-
News
Rapid launch
NASA's Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer was launched into a 3,150 x 4,180km, 83¡, orbit by an Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL booster on 21 August. It was the third successful flight (out of five attempts) of the air-launched XL booster. The original Pegasus booster had eight flights, with six fully successful ...
-
News
Aerospace top 100 notes
THE RANKING of Top 100 world aerospace companies has been compiled by Booz-Allen & Hamilton, the international consultancy, in conjunction with Flight International. Inevitably, some companies which would have appeared among the Top 100 have been omitted for lack of sufficient data. Some of these have been listed separately under ...
-
News
BT makes sure it's good to talk at show
Keeping the lines of communication open at Farnborough could only be described as a logistical nightmare for the BT team which maintains the show's telephone network. The scale of the task is such that BT begins its preparations for show week in April and will still have an engineering ...
-
News
Service data
Debuting at Farnborough is AV Soft, a software company which is increasing its presence in the lucrative US market. The company produces software and large databases for airline maintenance departments in several countries. Its applications include a database which lists when maintenance is due and gives customers exact ...
-
News
GPS option
Aero International (Regional) has chosen the Honeywell/Trimble HT1000 as standard option Global Navigation Satellite Sensor Navigation Management System on the ATR 42 and 72 regional airliners. Certification is expected in the first quarter of 1997, and the HT1000 will also be available for retrofit through a field service bulletin ...
-
News
Technology experience pays off
ERA Technology comes to Farnborough with experience in tackling engineering projects for more than 30 different industries. The independent contract research and development organisation has its base in Surrey, Southern England. It addresses all areas of avionics, including advanced data transmission systems, software, video and packaging. Radar ...
-
News
Service is the message
British Airways Engineering (BAE) is using its stand at Hall 1/D23 to reinforce its message of enhanced customer service. Using a video display and aircraft display, BAE is keen to show it's taking the maintenance market seriously, says David Anderson, project manager for the Farnborough ‘96 stand. "We ...
-
News
SASCO deal
ST Aviation Services (Sasco), the commercial maintenance arm of Singapore Technologies Aerospace (STAe) has signed a $21 million contract with Northwest Airlines for the modification of nine Boeing 747-200s, with options on another six similar aircraft. The contract calls for Section 41 modification and corrosion prevention control, to be ...
-
News
Starsem deal
The Starsem joint venture to market the Russian Soyuz booster for commercial launches makes its first public outing at the Show. Aerospatiale has joined with Russia's Samara space manufacturing company and the Russian Space Agency to market the booster for launches of payloads weighing up to 5,000kg into low ...
-
News
ADS system on display 'live' at show
Visitors to Farnborough can chart progress towards a global satellite monitoring system for aircraft at the National Air Traffic Services (NATS) stand (H3/F1). NATS is a leading player in the European consortium which is trialling Automatic Dependent Surveillance (ADS). The ADS system harnesses the power of satellite technology, ...
-
News
Face the facts with...Michael Graff
Michael Graff is the newly appointed president of Bombardier Aerospace's business Aircraft division with responsibility for the global marketing of Canadair and Learjet aircraft and the fractional ownership programme. A graduate of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Graff has worked in London and the USA, with ...
-
News
Crew aids
Aircrew effectiveness is set to increase with the newly-available glass cockpits and digital avionics for Black Hawk helicopters, says manufacturer Sikorsky. The digital Automated Flight Computer System (AFCS) is designed to simplify pilot workload. Among the options on offer is an Electronic Flight Information System (EFIS) which will ...
-
News
Atar upgrade
To meet armed forces' requirements over the next 25 years, France's Snecma aero engine builder, in co-operation with Denel Aviation of South Africa and Industria de Turbopropulsores (ITP) of Spain, is developing a new and more powerful Atar Plus version of the proven Atar 09K50 single-shaft turbojet. As well ...
-
News
New Bell chimes in with a mock-up
Bell Canada has unveiled the first mock-up of the Bell 427 light, twin four-blade helicopter on its stand in Hall 4/D1/27. The announcement of the new aircraft development was made with Korean firm Samsung Aerospace at the Helicopter Association International Show earlier this year. This new model will ...
-
News
Chinese sales breakthrough for fledgling gyroplane
Plans to establish an air taxi company in China are taking off here at Farnborough. News at the show is that Shanghai Energy and Chemicals (SECC) and Groen Brothers Aviation (GBA) have signed a Letter of Intent under which SECC will buy 200 H2X commercial gyroplanes from GBA. ...
-
News
IAE looks East for opportunity
International Aero Engines (IAE) is to expand its presence in Asia with a planned V2500 maintenance centre and parts distribution network, developments formally announced following the company's recent China Aviation Symposium. Talks are also being held on a proposed IAE/Rolls-Royce training unit for Chinese students and employees to be ...
-
News
Sikorsky's mass-transit milestone
Sikorsky announced a $17 million order for three of its new S-76C+ aircraft at the Show yesterday, describing the sale as a watershed event in the helicopter mass transit market. Sikorsky commercial programmes director Mike Moran gave details of the contract for three S-76C+ aircraft to HelikopterService, which will ...