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Sino jet reaches century milestone
Sino Swearingen's SJ30-2 business jet has completed 100h of flight testing and is in the process of being fitted with Williams-Rolls FJ44-2 turbofans that will give the aircraft a cruise speed in excess of M0.8. The SJ30-2, which is being marketed as a high-performance six-seat business jet, is ...
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Fins ain't what they used to be
Visitors to Le Bourget will be able to cast a critical eye over some of the controversial ethnic and abstract logos that were launched by British Airways (BA) last week. The airline has already raised many eyebrows with its various wierd and wonderful tailfin designs, which have replaced ...
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Apocrypha Now as fact gazumps fiction
A group of airshow veterans was gathered in a chalet a couple of years ago, swapping aerospace stories of the 'strange but true' variety. As the beers went down, the yarns grew taller. By the end of the evening the 'Apocrypha Club' was born. Reality has ...
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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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Night shows planned for Thai exhibition
Perhaps mindful of the veritable 'minefield' of obstacles which can be encountered by visitors trying to gain access at the Paris show site, the organisers of the international aerospace exhibition in Thailand 22-26 October have signposted their expo in tantalising terms. The location for the Thailand International Aerospace, ...
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BAe mini-movie looks a five-minute winner
American actress Rachel Lee, star of British Aerospace's film Partners in Flight, looked every bit the part when she flew into Paris for the mini-movie's preview. The five-minute film, shot over three months at locations in Inverness, Scotland and Preston, England, features stunning flight-simulation footage. Rachel ...
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Tourist information
The main Paris tourist office (127 av. des Champs-Elysées, 8e, tel 49-52-53-54; open daily 9am - 8pm. Branches at all mainline train stations, except Gare St-Lazare. Dial 49-52-53-56 for recorded information in English. US (2 av. Gabriel, 8e, tel. 42-96-12-02), Canada (35 av. Montaigne, 8e tel. 44-43-32-00) and ...
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Unison's harmony nets double sales
Unison Industries has doubled its annual sales to $125 million with its takeover of the engine electrical systems division of BFGoodrich. The acquisition, which the US aircraft ignition systems company announces today, sees the addition of Forth Worth in Texas and Norwich, New York, to Unison's two existing ...
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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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Your chance to turn water into wine
A bottle of wine from the Flight Daily News Editor's cellar to the person* who can identify the aerospace PR, at this year's show, who took an unscheduled dip in Lake Lucerne, Switzerland recently. The hapless hero was invited for a speedboat trip around the lake by a ...
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Too many longbows
The US General Accounting Office says that the US Army requires only 8,329 of the 12,722 Lockheed Martin Longbow Hellfire fire-and-forget anti-tank missiles it now plans to purchase. Source: Flight International
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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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The X files
Cessna Citation X business jet is the fastest commercial transport in production, yet is designed to be flown from small airfields. Cessna aircraft is responsible for an unusually wide range of types. Its current Citation family consists of six business twinjets - designed to meet the differing ...
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British Airways
Adrian Tighe has been named area manager for central and eastern Europe, and Brian Tickle area manager for Scandinavia, Finland and the Baltics, at British Airways. Tighe, who was head of finance for the UK regions and BA regional until 1996, is general manager for the UK, Africa and the ...
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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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AOPA
Thomas Chapman, senior vice-president for government and technical affairs at the US Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), has been appointed to the US National Park Overflights Working Group, to develop a plan for air-tour operations over the country's national parks. Source: Flight International
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Cathay Pacific
Swire Group Finance director Peter Johansen has been appointed a director of Cathay Pacific Airways of Hong Kong. Source: Flight International
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Trimble
Satellite-navigation and communications company Trimble's vice-president and chief technology officer, Ralph Eschenbach, has been appointed chairman of the US Federal Aviation Administration's research, engineering and development advisory committee. Eschenbach, who has been a member of the advisory committee since 1995, was formerly Trimble's vice-president of business development and vice-president of ...
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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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P&W space
Donald Reed has become vice-president and general manager of USBI, prime contractor for the Space Shuttle solid-rocket-booster (SRB) assembly and a subsidiary of United Technologies, reporting through the Pratt & Whitney Space Propulsion unit. Reed, with USBI for 20 years, was formerly vice-president of the company's SRB programmes. ...