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Eiffel's towering symbol of romance
Paris without the Eiffel Tower? Unthinkable! So slip on your tourist clothes and become one of the three million visitors who scale this famous landmark every year. There are three viewing platforms, 1,652 steps and, for the less intrepid, lifts. There is also a restaurant for more leisurely visits. ...
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Americans move to defuse fears over mega-merger
Tim Ripley Moves by the European Union to oppose the proposed controversial merger of US aerospace giants Boeing and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) are likely to end in compromise, say MDC sources at Paris. "We are confident the differences will be worked out," says Fred Hill, McDonnell Douglas senior vice-president for ...
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Last chance for awards night
If you haven't already booked for what promises to be the night of the week that was, call the ticket hotline now to secure the last few remaining slots for the Flight International Aerospace Industry Awards at Le Meridien Montparnasse Hotel this evening. Seats at £115 each and ...
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Spaceport Florida set for first launch
Nasa's Lunar Prospector moon reconnaissance orbiter should be the first spacecraft to be launched from Spaceport Florida's new $8million pad at Cape Canaveral this September, a spokesman said at the Show yesterday. Spaceport Florida is a state agency created to boost commercial space enterprises in the state. ...
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US special offer to Europe in JSTARS war
America has upped the stakes in the battle to supply Nato with Northrop Grumman E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) aircraft by offering a 74% offset deal to European industry participating in the $3billion project. Northrop Grumman executives said at Paris yesterday that the US Government's ...
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South Africans await missile launch
Kentron should know within the next six months if the South African Air Force (SAAF) will proceed to full-scale development of the A-Darter air-to-air missile, the company says. The SAAF and Kentron have been jointly funding development of the fifth-generation technology demonstrator. "We foresee that if ...
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Propjet offers attractive proposition
The new high-speed propjet Jetcruzer 500 has been unveiled by AASI Aircraft following a six-year development costing $57 million in private and public funds. The single-engine pusher aircraft is designed to provide the cheapest and highest-speed propjet transportation in the world, reports the manufacturer, with a price tag ...
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Ilyushin arrives, but Antonov...who knows
Ukraine's giant Antonov An-70 airlifter may make its first foreign visit at the Show by the end of the week. It was due yesterday, but when it failed to arrive at the expected time representatives at the Antonov stand had no information on a revised schedule. ...
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Flight dominates aerospace awards
Flight International editor-in-chief Allan Winn proudly congratulates three of his reporters for winning prizes in the Aerospace Journalist of the Year Awards at the Paris Meridien Hotel on Saturday night. David Learmount won the best air transport category, Kieran Daly took the best avionics award and Guy Norris ...
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Is it a microlight ...or an aerocane?
Parisian Michel Abadie is a man with a passion... for bamboo. And he has patented a design for a new microlight using little but the natural material. Abadie, who is president of the European Bamboo Society, believes that the substance has an ecological role to play ...
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Solair named Delta supplier
US-based Banner Aerospace subsidiary Solair has signed a memorandum of understanding with Delta Air Lines to become Delta's sole source supplier of airframe materials from the surplus market. Solair president Timothy Daggett says he expects the agreement to generate $150million over the next three years. "We ...
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Pioneer lifts lid on vacuum
The answer to that age-old question of what happens when you flush the toilet on an aircraft can be found at the Evac stand in Hall 2/E25. The company has brought its latest vacuum toilet to Le Bourget and visitors to the stand are invited to 'have a ...
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IlS claims half share in launcher market
The US/Russian International Launch Services (ILS) company yesterday claimed a 50% share in the commercial launcher market with competitor Arianespace. Vance Coffman, president and chief operating officer of Lockheed Martin which, with Russia's Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center, operates ILS, says that the company had "...reached ...
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Customers warm to the Lockheed C-130 variant
Lockheed Martin and electronics and systems partner Northrop Grumman claim they have significant interest from five countries for their C-130J-30 airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) variant. Speaking at the show, Dana Pierce, Lockheed Martin's director AEW&C, says Australia is the potential lead customer, with Turkey, Greece, Italy ...
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Eurocopter Colibri to take on market giants
Gilbert Sedbon Eurocopter and its Chinese and Singaporean partners have high hopes for their EC120B Colibri new-generation high-technology helicopter, on display at Paris in the static park and in the daily flight demonstrations. With a worldwide fleet of about 5,000 civil and public-service helicopters in the 1.6-tonne five-seat category due ...
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Cypher goes through its paces
Sikorsky's Cypher unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has accumulated about 400 flight hours at the company's Development Flight Centre in West Palm Beach, Florida. In a dramatic demonstration at the Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) site at Fort Benning, Georgia, Cypher flew down streets, landed on a building's ...
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Dassault resumes his globe-trotting sales activities
With the lifting by the Belgian judiciary of the international arrest warrant against him, French aerospace chief Serge Dassault (right) plans several inter-national trips in the coming months. "I am now free to travel abroad and am glad to resume my normal international activities," Dassault told reporters at ...
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Denel adds art to its science
Paris's reputation as one of the world's art capitals has influenced South African Denel's presentation (Hall 5/F15). Denel asked Rina Bondesio, a graphic artist at its MediaMakers business unit, to splash its missiles and display helmets with some creative colour using the latest computer software. Explains ...
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Russian module signals call
Khrunichevof Russia is showcasing its star product at Le Bourget - a full-size mock-up of the 20tonne module that will be the first element of the international space station (ISS). Called the Functional Energy Block (FGB), it will be launched aboard a Russian Proton booster in June next ...
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The driving force at Timet
Swinging into action is Timet marketing director Jean Pignier. Timet, one of the world's largest manufacturers of titanium products, has a range of applications on show. Along with the golf clubs there is a lightweight bicycle frame, chain mail and impressive pictures of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. The ...