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Loadmaster flaps
Curtiss-Wright Flight Systems is to team with GEC-Marconi Aerospace to design, develop and manufacture the trailing edge flap drive actuation system for the new Ayres Loadmaster LM200 cargo/utility aircraft, it was announced yesterday. Source: Flight Daily News
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Lucas licensed to make PDU for B747s
Lucas Aerospace will manufacture and market power drive units (PDUs) for Elektro-Metall Export's (EME's) Boeing 747-100, -200F/C and -400F aircraft under the terms of a licensing agreement signed at the show. The licence permits Lucas Aerospace to manufacture the PDU in the US and to market them in the ...
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Interactive space
The UK Industrial Space Committee has launched UKSPACE, an interactive guide of the nation's space industry at the BNSC stand in Hall 1. The guide is a one-stop information service for an industry which employs 6,500 people and generates about $1.3 billion annual turnover. The site promotes the ...
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Missile orders
Britain is considering buying more Shorts Starstreak High Velocity Missiles (HVM), says the Belfast based company. A Shorts Missile Systems spokesman confirms that discussions are under way. "If events proceed according to plan, contracts could be signed by the end of the year," he says. "The prospective order ...
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Air con system ready for flight test
Microtecnica of Italy has delivered its first vapour cycle air conditioning system to Sikorsky for flight testing on the new S-92 Helibus. First flight with the system is scheduled for later this year with system qualification testing to be completed by the end of 1999. The system provides ...
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Thursday's Flying Display
1400 BAe Hawk Harrier Saab Gripen Eurofighter Typhoon 1430 Airbus A330 1437 Boeing C-17 1446 Fokker 50 ...
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Chemical stocks
Many hundreds of chemicals and plastics are used in the manufacture and maintenance of aircraft and a new service - at an air show for the first time - is available to handle and deliver stocks. Chemchain, from B&K (Hall 4, Stand G4) offers total chemical management for aerospace ...
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Lather over leather
There are different ways to get your kicks on Route 66, it appears. Spinneybeck has used the name for its latest collection of leatherware for the aviation industry. Route 66 and the Ice collection have both been added to the Spinneybeck range since Farnborough '96. So if you're in ...
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Laptop link-up
Businessmen planning to work while they travel no longer need to carry a spare laptop battery, thanks to a collaboration between Primex Aerospace and Airline Interiors, both part of the Simula group. The two companies have developed a system called Empower which allows passengers to connect their laptops to ...
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Hazard avoidance
The Swedish Civil Aviation Group (Hall 1, Stand B3) is showing an interesting add-on module for the Aero NAVItracker GPS navigation system. Of interest to helicopter pilots, the SAFEAIR module was developed for pilots flying at low-level, such as air ambulance flights and power-line inspectors. The technology uses GPS ...
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Laser wire marking
Spectrum Technologies (Hall 3, Stand A3) has won an order to supply its Capris 100-12 laser wire marking system to Japanese company, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI). The system will be used on a number of projects including the Bombardier Dash 8-Q400 and Global Express. The fully automated Capris 100-12 ...
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Gearbox overhaul
Michigan aviation manufacturer ACR Industries has received FAA approval for overhauls and repairs at turbine engine gearboxes, helicopter drive systems, tail rotor gearboxes, and gearing. Visit ACR Industries at Hall 2, Stand A34. Source: Flight Daily News
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VHF breakthrough
Adams Aviation and Walter Dittel (Hall 1, Stand A14) are showing one of the first dual-channel VHF airband radios to be ready for the new 8.33kHz channel spacing. The date for the introduction of the new channel spacing, for aircraft flying above 24,500ft (7,400m) within European airspace, has been put ...
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FLS purchase
FLS Aerospace comes to Farnborough following the signing of a recent Heads of Agreement between its parent FLS Industries A/S and Aer Lingus for the purchase of TEAM Aer Lingus. FLS says negotiations are still in the early stages, but that the deal will bring together two of Europe's ...
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Marston achieves new accreditation
The Aerospace Groups of UK based IMI Marston have been accredited with the Joint Aviation Authorities JAR-21 schedule. Peter Harper, head of design and production standards at the CAA, presented Steve Hiscox, director of Aerospace with a certificate on the IMI Marston stand at Hall 1/D40. Manager Richard ...
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More problems detailed at HK airport inquiry
The public inquiry set up to investigate the troubled opening of Hong Kong's new airport at Chek Lap Kok has heard further evidence of apparent mismanagement. Yeung Kwok-keung, Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals (HACTL) deputy managing director, has spoken of bungled fire safety tests that ultimately led to the ...
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Air Canada continues search for Air Alliance buyer
Air Canada is still seeking a buyer for its Air Alliance subsidiary, three months after putting the unprofitable Quebec-based regional on the block. The company continues to drain Air Canada's resources, despite annual sales of around $35 million. A strike last year resulted in the loss of several million ...
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Boeing racks up $2bn more in orders
Mike Martin Boeing announced a raft of orders together worth more than $2 billion yesterday. The biggest order, totalling $1.27 billion, was from GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) for nine extended range 767-300ERs and three 767-400ERs. All the aircraft will be powered by General Electric CF6-80C2 engines. ...
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Thai Airways prepares for revamp
Thai Airways International chief executive Mahidol Chantrangkun is preparing a sweeping proposal designed to revamp the airline's domestic and international operations. Mahidol, who also serves as the Thai government's permanent secretary for transport, is heading the working group tasked with addressing repeatedly delayed privatisation plans, loss-making routes and outstanding ...
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UPS deal heads $8bn Airbus spree
Karen Walker Airbus Industrie chalked up yet another coup yesterday when it announced two multi-billion-dollar deals and secured a new customer, United Parcel Service (UPS), which has selected the A300-600 freighter for its widebody fleet. Wednesday's UPS order, worth $4.8 billion, combined with a $2 billion order from ...