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Mica on target
Dassault Aviation's Rafale B01, naval version of the fourth generation multirole combat aircraft, has for the first time successfully fired, by ejection release, a Matra BAe Dynamics Mica missile, with inertial guidance, at a supersonic target. The firing, carried out on 26 May at the Centre d'essais des ...
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Lockheed showcase
Lockheed Martin is adopting the same exhibit strategy at Paris as it did at Farnborough last year - the company is showcasing all of its products under one roof in its Partnership Pavilion. The Pavilion is in Hall A/62-71 and features examples of Lockheed Martin's many international programmes ...
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Gyro replacement wins contract
Litton's Aero Products division announces at the show a $35 million contract to retrofit gimballed C-IV Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) for Northwest Airlines. INS is currently installed on 33 Northwest B747 and 21 DC-10-40 aircraft. Existing INS systems will be replaced with strapdown Ring Laser Gyro LTN-92 INS. ...
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Cessna on a roll
Cessna comes to Paris with its single-engine-aircraft production line about to complete its first year of operations. Sales of the 172R Skyhawk and 182S Skylane continue to rise, following the first Skyhawk delivery in January. Source: Flight Daily News
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Caravanserai
TACA Group of El Salvador announces that it will operate eight more Cessna Grand Caravans for use in subsidiary airlines. This order brings TACA's fleet to 12 Caravans. TACA Group comprises five airlines operating throuhgout Central America. Source: Flight Daily News
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World market for casting
Expansion of the export side of its business is high on the agenda for British-based castings specialist Finecast at the show this week. The UK firm, exhibiting in Hall 2/J12, which produces lost wax investment castings for military and civil aviation clients, currently does 40% of its business ...
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Russian optics
Making its debut at the Paris Airshow is Russian firm Pa Uomz which can be found in Hall 4/ F11. The firm produces systems for Russian aircraft and is showing its gyro-stabilised optical electronic system, GOES 320. The two-channel system has a thermal imager and a TV camera. ...
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Lancashire presence
More than 130 aerospace companies from the North West of England are exhibiting together under the banner of the Consortium of Lancashire Aerospace (CLA) at Paris '97. Many of the businesses, which range in size from industry giants such as British Aerospace and Rolls-Royce to firms with less ...
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Danger business
Cargo Transport Company (CTC) of Russia, which specialises in transportation of dangerous cargo, can be found in Hall 5/F2. Part of the state-owned Rosvoorouzhenie group, CTC has more than 40 years' experience in handling armaments, ammunition, military equipment and other special purpose cargo. World wide air transport is ...
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Charge it
American firm Bren-Tronics has a highly charged stand in Hall 1/F14. The company supplies military batteries and charging systems designed to do away with the need to replace disposable primary batteries. Leo Brenna from international sales and new products says: "Using typical alkaline batteries could cost the US ...
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AlliedSignal win
AlliedSignal is announcing an initial $543million in new business at the Paris Air Show, including a $175million production contract for 72 F124 turbofan engines that will be used on attack aircraft for the Czech Air Force. The engines will power Aero Vodochody L-159 single-seat attack versions of the ...
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Pretoria bound
Waterkloof air base, outside Pretoria, is to be the venue for a new, more comprehensive South African air show next year. Aerospace Africa '98 will run trade days from 28-30 April, with the public being allowed in on 1-2 May. The event brings together the Commercial ...
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Now you can make your own judgement
An Embraer EMB-145 regional jet sporting one of the designs new (a Celtic image created by Timothy O'Neill) is gracing the display area of Le Bourget. The EMB-145 is the first of five destined for delivery to Manx Airlines, part of the British Regional Airlines Group. ...
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Embraer in force at Paris
Embraer will showcase a trio of its products in Paris this week, including a flying display by the acclaimed EMB-145 regional jet, which has been ordered by Continental Express, Regional Airlines, PGA-Portugalia Airlines, British Regional Airlines and Rio-Sul Servicos Aereos Regionais S/A. On static display are the EMB-312H ...
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Dowty wins $30m hydraulics contract
Dowty Aerospace, the British propellors-to-engine components specialist, announced yesterday it has won an order to provide a major part of the new Raytheon Aircraft Premier I business jet's hydraulic system. The contract, which Dowty reckons is worth more than $30 million over the aircraft's life, involves building 15 ...
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Raytheon unveils HISAR-equipped Beech King
Making its debut in Europe at Paris '97 is a Ray-theon Beech King Air B200T fitted with a Hughes high integrated synthetic aperture radar (HISAR). Hughes unveiled the HISAR radar imaging system at Paris two years ago and has been flight-testing it since using the King Air as ...
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Bombardier or Embraer to scoop big RJ prize at Paris?
As the regional-jet-versus- turboprop debate rages, all eyes are on Bombardier and Embraer at Paris '97. The expectation is that one of these two rivals could announce a large regional-jet order from American Airlines during the air show. At Farnborough '96 the spotlight fell on Brazilian ...
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Centrepiece of Pratt & Whitney's outdoor display
Centrepiece of Pratt & Whitney's outdoor display is the Lockheed Electra 10E used by American Linda Finch in her recent around-the-world flight in honour of Amelia Earhart's fatal journey 60 years ago. Finch's aircraft is powered by two restored P&W R-1340 Wasp engines. P&W was a sponsor of ...
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French FOG is clear fibre optic winner
France's revolutionary Hussard 2 FOG unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has successfully demonstrated that its fibre optic cable can be used to remotely control air vehicles. The Conference delegates were shown a test video of the system, which is not vulnerable to enemy jamming, according to programme manager Robert ...