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Marconi radar mooted for updated MiG-29
Alan Dron MAPO is looking at installing an air-to-air radar from the UK's Marconi Electronic Systems in its updated MiG-29SMT and two-seater UBT multi-role fighter aircraft, the Russian company said yesterday. General designer Mikhail Korzhuyev also revealed that the UBT, derived from the UB two-seat conversion trainer but ...
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Friday's Flying Display
1353 Supermarine Spitfire 1400 BAe Hawk BAe Harrier Panavia Tornado F3 BAe Nimrod Saab Gripen Eurofighter Typhoon 1443 Airbus A330 ...
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Contract renewed
British Airways Avionic Engineering (BAAE) is celebrating after its parent company renewed a major maintenance contract. The contract was awarded after BA undertook a full market test to ensure it was getting value for money. Mike Underwood, BA's general manager aircraft and maintenance purchasing, says: "BA demands world-class support ...
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Airbus wins the battle, but the war goes on
Karen Walker and Mike Martin Farnborough '98 turned into the show that Airbus Industrie was able to relish, but which Boeing might want to forget.. Boeing's problem was mainly one of timing, however. The company came to the show still smarting from highly public production problems and the ...
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UK firms tipped for major global expansion
Alan Dron A new 'British Empire' is on the horizon as two of the nation's largest defence and aerospace companies gear up for major expansions of their worldwide activities, says a report issued yesterday. British Aerospace (BAe) and GEC are tipped by analysts of US publication Defence Mergers ...
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Historic Avian back in the air after cornfield crash
Geoff Thomas One of the aircraft with the highest nostalgia ratings at Farnborough '98 nearly failed to make it at all. A mere two months ago, Avro Avian VH-UFZ lay rolled into a ball in a cornfield in the picturesque eastern English county of Suffolk- but yesterday it ...
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Airlines choose the new FMS
Seven major airlines have chosen the new Flight Management System (FMS), produced jointly by Sextant Avionique and Smiths Industries, for their Airbus fleets. Air France, America West, Asiana, China Northwest, China Southwest, US Airways and one other undisclosed US major, have bought the system for both retrofit use and ...
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Aerobatic teams have long been a feature of Farnborough
Over the years, Farnborough has witnessed teams of Hawker Hunters, Folland Gnats, English Electric Lightnings, Supermarine Scimitars, Pitts Specials, Fiat G91s, Hawker Sea Hawks, de Havilland Sea Vixens, Fouga Magisters- but none have been more appreciated than the Red Arrows whose displays have become synonymous with precision, discipline and sheer ...
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JSF landing gear delivered
Boeing and Messier-Dowty are celebrating a milestone in the Concept Development phase of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme. The first landing gear components for the Concept Demonstrator aircraft have now been delivered as Messier-Dowty prepares to hand over the first complete set of landing gear in March next ...
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Talks set to thrash out IAR-Bell details
Paul Derby Romanian helicopter manufacturer IAR says it will meet with representatives from Bell Helicopter and its own government next week to thrash out a financial solution which would allow licence production of the Bell AH-1RO Dracula - based on the AH-1W Super Cobra. IAR delegates at the ...
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LucasVarity plans hQ move to USA
In deference to its US shareholders, aerospace and automotive supplier LucasVarity plans to move its headquarters from London to Buffalo, New York. The change is the "natural next step in the company's evolution," Lucas says, considering the 1996 merger of Lucas Industries and Varity and increased competition from US-based ...
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Japan's heavyweights go smoke-free
Japan's two leading carriers are to ban smoking on all flights - both international and domestic - early next year. Japan Airlines (JAL) and All Nippon Airways (ANA) say they will introduce their bans on 1 April and 28 March respectively. Both carriers claim that the move to all-out ...
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Lockheed and Woodward in engine controls joint venture
Lockheed Martin Control Systems and Woodward Governor have formed a limited-liability joint venture to provide aero-engine control systems design, integration, manufacturing and product support. The companies say that the new venture, called Aesys, is a further step in the strategic partnership that they first announced at the Farnborough Air ...
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Whittle award aims to encourage young engineering talent
Geoff Thomas The UK's 'red rose' county of Lancashire has always featured strongly in aviation innovation, so it is appropriate that the Consortium of Lancashire Aerospace (CLA) should have obtained major sponsorship from Rolls-Royce for its Sir Frank Whittle Award. This prestigious new award, aimed at attracting some ...
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Over and out
From the mighty to the modest- the armada of the skies at rest on the tarmac at Farnborough '98. Feast on the view, for it's one that will never be seen again in September - but only because the show moves to July in 2000. The last September ...
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Interest high in Heli-Asia show
Despite the obvious impact that Asia's economic woes are having on the region's aerospace sector, it hasn't stopped more than 150 rotary-wing aviation companies signing up for Heli-Asia '98. Organisers of the event, which will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 27-29 October, say that exhibitors are asking ...
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Delta Air orders two more 777s
American operator Delta Air Lines has ordered an additional two Boeing 777s powered by Rolls-Royce's Trent 892 engines, it was announced at Farnborough yesterday. The order is worth more than $50 million to Rolls-Royce and the aircraft will be delivered in 1999. These two incremental aircraft increase Delta's ...
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SBAC marks 50th year with aviation ephemera display
Around a year ago, show organisers SBAC decided to mark the 50th anniversary of Farnborough in a special way- but the question was, how? Initial discussions soon resulted in the idea of a display of aviation ephemera to mark the show's half century and the SBAC's member companies were ...
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Three more customers for Honeywell Pegasus system
Honeywell has added Austrian Airlines, Sabena and Swissair to its growing list of Pegasus Flight Management System (FMS) customers. The systems will be fitted to their Airbus fleets, bringing the number of companies choosing Pegasus to more than 30. The system provides airlines with new capabilities to take ...
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Airbus agreement
French nacelle maker Hurel-Dubois has announced that it has signed a MOU with Airbus for work on the A3XX large aircraft programme. Source: Flight Daily News