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Alcatel president to leave Aerospatiale board
In the latest twist to the French aerospace industry's lengthy reorganisation, Alcatel president Serge Tchuruk has resigned from the board of state-owned Aerospatiale, citing a conflict of interest between his senior positions on the two recently reformed defence electronics and aerospace groupings. Tchuruk had been on the board of ...
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Airbus plans A300/A310 update while replacement is sought
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Airbus Industrie has begun making presentations to airlines operating the A300/A310 on a range of proposed performance improvements and configuration changes in an effort to modernise and extend the family's market life until a replacement can be developed. The European consortium has told airlines that, given ...
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BMW R-R focuses on core as BR715 is approved
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH BMWRolls-Royce will begin testing a complete Engine 3E core, incorporating the company's new experimental staged combustion chamber, early next year. The core could eventually update its BR715 engine, certificated in late August. The Engine 3E ("Environment, Efficiency, Economy") programme involves BMW R-R and rival German engine manufacturer MTU ...
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Boeing finalises agreements on aluminium supplies
Boeing has signed 10-year agreements with five aluminium mills, worth a total of $4.3 billion, to guarantee stability of supply and prices. A similar "lean" raw materials procurement strategy has already been implemented with its titanium suppliers. TMX, a US-based company owned by Thyssen of Germany, was recently selected ...
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B/E Aerospace de-icers are approved
The US Federal Aviation Administration has awarded a supplemental type certificate to B/E Aerospace for a novel pneumatic de-icer for the Piper Navajo and Beech King Air 200. Ice Shield was developed by SMR Technologies of Fenwick, West Virginia, which B/E acquired in early August. It complements SMR's Ice ...
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Kollsman to test vision system
Kollsman is aiming to flight test its new All Weather Window enhanced vision system (EVS) on a Gulfstream V business jet next month. The Merrimack, New Hampshire-based company believes such systems could open up 700 more runways in the USA. The All Weather Window incorporates an infrared camera with ...
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Telstra aids Qantas
Qantas has signed a six-year deal with Telstra, which will construct and manage a pan-Australian asynchronous transfer mode telecommunications network for use by the airline. Source: Flight International
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Aerostar shows off upgraded MiG-21bis
Romanian aerospace company Aerostar is taking the wraps off an upgraded Mikoyan MiG-21bis at the show. The company has been working privately on the aircraft in response to interest from potential customers. The upgrade follows on from a $300 million programme being undertaken by Aerostar with Elbit of Israel ...
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Derco secures upgrade work on Brazilian C-130s
Derco Aerospace of Wisconsin has won a $50 million contract to upgrade Brazilian C-130 Hercules, beating rival bids from Lockheed Martin and Raytheon. The work includes refitting outer wing structures, modification and overhaul of the Allison T56 engine, conversion of bleed ducts with more modern materials, auxiliary power unit ...
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Denel studies maritime CSH-2
Denel Aviation of South Africa has launched a preliminary study into developing a maritime derivative of its CSH-2 Rooivalk attack helicopter, fitted with a search radar and anti-ship missiles in an effort to widen the machine's appeal. The company revealed a model of the new variant at the show. The ...
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Boeing fails in bid to switch Emirates from A340-500
Emirates Airlines has finalised an order with Airbus Industrie for up to 12 A340-500s, after a last-ditch effort by Boeing to overturn the deal when an improved 777-200X offer failed to sway the Middle Eastern carrier. The Emirates contract, which is expected to be announced at the Farnborough air ...
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Envisat launch delayed to 2000
The launch of the European Space Agency's (ESA) environmental flagship, the Envisat polar platform, has been pushed from July 1999 into 2000 as a result of delays in the Ariane 5 programme. The timing is dependent on a successful Ariane 503 development mission due on 30 October. This will be ...
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Engine tie-up
General Electric is to finalise a regional CF6 engine-overhaul joint venture agreement with EVA Airways on 9 September. The US engine manufacturer will invest $20 million and an equivalent amount of technology in return for a 20% shareholding in Evergreen Aviation Technologies, with EVA and parent group Evergreen holding the ...
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Python gets a grip on US missiles
Lockheed Martin has confirmed that its programme to collaborate on further modernisation of the Israeli Rafael Python 4 will mark its entry into the air-to-air missile business as a US competitor to Raytheon, which now has a monopoly on supply to the US services. The current talks will determine ...
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Netjets Europe set to expand with Falcon 2000 purchase
Executive Jet is set to announce a major new order during the show for the Dassault Falcon 2000 business jet for its Netjets Europe fractional ownership programme. The deal will mark the second Falcon 2000 order in 10 months for Executive Jet and its first acquisition since July, when ...
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TT&S reveals clutch of simulator orders
Thomson Training & Simulation (TT&S) has revealed a series of contracts to supply full flight simulators to Alaska Airlines and Air France and manufacturer Airbus Industrie. For Alaska Airlines, the French company will produce its first Boeing 737-700/900 simulator as part of a contract covering a range of integrated ...
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TCAS for Qantas
Qantas and National Jet System have selected the Rockwell Collins Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance system (TCAS 2) for their regional aircraft fleets. Qantas affiliate carriers Sunstate Airlines, Southern Australia Airlines and Eastern Australian Airlines will fit the TDR-94D mode S system to their four Shorts SD3-60s and 15 Bombardier ...
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Ultra Electronics quiet seat prototype makes its debut
Ultra Electronics has produced a prototype "quiet" aircraft seat which reduces the noise heard by its occupant by 10dB without the need to wear active noise headphones. The seat, which works by surrounding the passenger's head with noise in antiphase with cabin noise, is being targeted at major airlines ...
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Delta III guidance 'overcompensated'
Boeing says that a guidance system failure caused the $225 million loss of the first Delta III booster and its PanAmSat Galaxy X communications satellite on 26 August. The system apparently "overcompensated" after the booster experienced an oscillating roll beginning at T+55s and then was "overwhelmed" as the ...
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Arianespace resumes launch programme
Arianespace returned to space on 25 August after a launch hiatus going back to April, when Ariane V109 44P carried the Matra Marconi Space-built ST-1 communications satellite into geostationary orbit from Kourou, French Guinan. The ST-1 is to be operated by a Taiwan-Singapore consortium. It was the 37th consecutive successful ...