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UK industry seen to be in a strong position
At a time of unprecedented change within the industry, the Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC) frequently finds itself at the core of the rumour mill. In an interview with Flight Daily News just before the Paris air show, SBAC director general David Marshall outlined some of the major ...
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Top job for Milzcik
Greg Milzcik has been appointed president of Barnes Aerospace, the US-based component and assemblies specialist which has its HQ in Windsor, Connecticut. Prior to this latest move, Milzcik was vice-president and general manager of International Operations for Lockheed Martin Aircraft and Logistics. Barnes Aerospace is a worldwide producer of machined ...
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Attitude of airlines to pilot training 'worrying'
The world shortage of airline pilots has already led to a worrying reduction in recruitment standards, says Geoffrey White, PARC Aviation's general manager aviation consulting. "As specialists in the sector, PARC believes that this trend is unhealthy and that all the industry's major players should work together to ensure that ...
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AlliedSignal selected to power Boeing UCAV
Boeing has chosen the AlliedSignal Aerospace F124 turbofan engine as the powerplant for the Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) Advanced Technology Demonstrator (ATD). Boeing's Phantom Works was recently chosen by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the US Air Force to continue into the second phase of ...
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High-tech service extends JT9D longevity
After more than 30 years and millions of hours of in-service time, the Pratt & Whitney JT9D turbofan's longevity is being extended, thanks to high-tech repairs by Barnes Aerospace's Windsor Airmotive division. In conjunction with P&W and the US Federal Aviation Administration, Connecticut-based Windsor Airmotive has developed two major exhaust ...
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Further orders logged for AlliedSignal APU
General Electric Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) has placed an order for AlliedSignal's 131-9(A) auxiliary power unit (APU) to be fitted to its firm order for 48 Airbus A320s. The order is valued at around $48 million over the next few years and will be worth even more should GECAS ...
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Rolls-Royce happy with Trent 500 tests
As the Rolls-Royce Trent engine celebrates one million hours of service this week, the newest variant, the Trent 500, has begun test runs at the company's Derby, UK, factory. R-R Trent 500 project director Charles Cuddington says testing so far has gone "entirely as predicted", with the engine performing "exactly ...
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Gulfstream flies from strength to strength
Gulfstream Aerospace arrives in Paris in rude financial health with an overflowing order book and projections for a record-breaking year of production. With the Gulfstream V - the ultimate in luxury business travel - entering a third year of customer deliveries and with 141 aircraft sold, president and CEO ...
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Teal forecasts boom times for business jets
Describing business jets as "the hottest segment of the aviation industry", Teal Group market analysts predict in a forecast released at the show that almost 4,900 corporate aircraft worth over $62 billion will be produced from 1999 to 2008. This compares with just over 3,300 business jets worth around $40 ...
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Success in compact satcom system demonstration
Simultaneous telephone and fax messages from the cabin of a Challenger 604 business jet successfully demonstrated the Rockwell Collins Satellite Communications (SATCOM) 5000 Aero-I system. The system completed communication through Satellite Aircom's Inmarsat ground station in Aussaguel, France. The Collins single box SATCOM 5000 is a small, light satellite ...
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Galaxy as good as its word
There is nothing like being able to say "I told you so" - and for Brian Barents, Galaxy Aerospace's president and chief executive, that pleasure should prove especially sweet during Paris '99. Two years ago, Barents and his fledgling company unveiled a cabin mockup of their proposed super-midsize Galaxy business ...
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Recovery a slow process for Asian aerospace industry
For the Asian air transport industry, the world was a very different place at the time of the last Paris air show in June 1997. The region's economies were growing at phenomenal rates and its airlines were riding a seemingly endless wave of growth. But weeks later, it all fell ...
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Helicopter makers battle for major military deals
Rival helicopter manufacturers will be using show week to cement their bids for several lucrative military contracts which are moving toward firm decision time. Top of their wish list would undoubtedly be winning the race to supply Turkey's $3-billion requirement for 145 attack helicopters - a protracted competition that was ...
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Builders line up for navy 'vertrep' contract
Helicopter manufacturers are lining up to bid for a three-year vertical replenishment (vertrep) contract in the Mediterranean Sea and Arabian Gulf, following the release by the US Navy of a fresh request for proposals (RfP). Kaman, which will be offering its K-Max heavy lift helicopter, says it expects a firm ...
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Comanche team optimistic of funding increase
Boeing Sikorsky says it is confident that the US Congress will provide an additional $56 million in funding to enable the RAH-66 Comanche helicopter to step up its flight test programme next year. Tom Sheehy, director of the Sikorsky Comanche project office, says the investment is needed both to ramp ...
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Lockheed Martin X-35 set for a double debut
The two X-35 concept demonstrators taking shape at the Skunk Works in Palmdale, California, are very similar in appearance to the aircraft Lockheed Martin will offer in the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) competition - and that is a trump card in the company's battle against Boeing to win the 3,000-aircraft ...
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Battle of the joint strike fighters
Boeing comes to Paris with a renewed optimism for its work on the X-32 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) following news of the successful joining of the wing to the first of the two concept demonstrators being built at the company's Palmdale, California works. Reports that the competitor, Lockheed Martin's X-35, ...
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Nite Hawk pod upgrade planned for Spanish air force
Sener of Spain has joined forces with Lockheed Martin to offer the Spanish air force an upgraded version of the Nite Hawk targeting pod for its Boeing F-18s. The team has in its sights upgrading some 500 pods in service worldwide. The new Nite Hawk Block III features ...
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Ice cap study set to launch Living Planet space project
The most comprehensive earth observation programme every undertaken has been launched by the European Space Agency (ESA). The £400-million Living Planet research project embraces a series of space missions that will investigate the earth's environment by measuring physical, chemical and biological processes at work in the earth's atmosphere, oceans ...
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Sea Launch set for first commercial mission
The Boeing-led Sea Launch venture is scheduled to make its first commercial launch in August. The satellite selected for the mission is the Hughes Space and Communications DirecTV 1-R spacecraft. The satellite will be placed into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) by the Zenit 3SL booster, launched from the Odyssey ...