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Satnav test flights are Euro milestone
Steve Nichols As visitors were leaving the show on Monday evening a BAe one-eleven took off from Farnborough - and made European aviation history. In a joint venture between UK National Air Traffic Services (NATS), Racal, British Telecom and Inmarsat, the aircraft flew the first wide-area augmentation satellite-based ...
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White House observer to attend Northwest strike talks
Northwest Airlines and the US Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) were due to be joined by a representative of US President Bill Clinton yesterday as negotiations resumed to resolve the dispute between the carrier and its striking pilots. After a break for the Labour Day holiday, the federally mediated ...
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Rolls-Royce signs up more Trent 500 partners
Rolls-Royce has signed up further risk sharing partners for its Trent 500 engine programme. The new partners are FiatAvio, Hamilton Standard, Spanish aero-engine company ITP and Kawasaki Heavy Industries of Japan. Rolls-Royce has already signed up Japanese trading house Marubeni and Anglo-US aerospace and automotive specialist LucasVarity. ...
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Quadrant exhibition puts 50 years in the frame
Rachel Clark Fifty years of Farnborough are commemorated in the Flight Collection photography exhibition in the Historic Aircraft Park. Photographs dating back to the first Farnborough airshow in 1948 are among the collection. Kim Hearn, head of Quadrant Picture Library Flight Collection, says: "We were chosen to ...
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Gloves off in fight for UK radar contract
Tim Ripley The gloves came off in the $1.1 billion UK ASTOR contest yesterday, with Britain's Racal accusing its American rivals - Raytheon and Northrop Grumman - of trying to maintain a monopoly in the global ground radar surveillance market. "Others wish this radar [on the ASTOR airborne ...
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Expanded Raytheon makes presence felt
Steve Nichols This year's Farnborough show is the first for Raytheon since its acquisition of the defence arm of Texas Instruments and the merger with Hughes. As a major employer in the UK, it is making its presence felt. With a product range that includes missile systems, business ...
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Sextant, Lockheed pact opens new doors
Sextant Avionique and Lockheed Martin have announced an agreement that could give the French company a foothold in the important US military avionics and flight systems market. Sextant is one of only three major international companies capable of delivering complete avionics solutions, and already supplies systems for the C-160, ...
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Astra SPX impresses in debut at Farnborough
Karen Walker Pilots nickname it the Porsche of the business jet world. The Galaxy Aerospace Astra SPX, which is making its debut appearance at Farnborough, has a maximum speed of Mach 0.875 and typical cruise of M0.82, making it the fastest in its category. More than 20 SPX ...
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Face the facts with Tig Krekel
AlliedSignal has completed its acquisition of a controlling interest in UK-based Normalair-Garrett from GKN. Tig Krekel, president and chief executive officer of AlliedSignal's Aerospace Equipment Systems (AES), explains to Karen Walker why he welcomes this even closer relationship with a UK company that has been associated with AlliedSignal for more ...
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Osprey basks in the glow of attention
Paul Derby As Bell Boeing's V-22 Osprey tiltrotor gears up for the battle to meet the UK's Future Amphibious Support Helicopter (FASH) requirement, US military "big guns" were out in force yesterday to give the V-22 their undivided support. A briefing given by Brig Gen Ed Langston of ...
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Nightmare scenario puts crash crews to the test
Mark Hannant A mid-air collision of two aircraft during a flying display was the nightmare scenario that faced the site Emergency Services Control unit two days before the show opened. All relevant emergency services were scrambled as the scale of the disaster became clear. Operational control of the ...
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Courses grapple with worsening image of avionics
Steve Nichols Aviation industry sources say there is a shortage of qualified and licensed avionics engineers and it appears to be getting worse. Appearing at Farnborough are three organisations hoping to change that, but they admit it is an uphill struggle. Allan Keevil of the Association of ...
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Shrinking defence spending is 'new challenge' to industry
Tim Ripley Squeezing that extra pound, dollar or franc of profit from static or declining defence businesses is the new challenge for the aerospace industry, say senior Lockheed Martin executives at Farnborough. With new aircraft projects thin on the ground and the pool of potential merger partners getting ...
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Quiet cabin retrofit for Saab 340s
Sally Shore Ultra Electronics has announced its UltraQuiet cabin will be available as a retrofit to Saab 340A and B regional turboprop. The retrofit would reduce overall cabin noise by 8dB(A) and propeller tone noise by over 20dB(A), bringing cabin noise to a level similar to that experienced ...
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Full speed ahead for Airbus on A3XX project
Mike Martin The economic crises from Asia to Russia will not affect Airbus Industrie's (AI) plans for the A3XX superjumbo aircraft, the company said at the show. "This is a long-term project," says AI chief executive Noel Forgeard. "This will be a product with a lifetime of 30 ...
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Air safety data shared over Internet
Flying should be plain sailing for flight safety officers making use of AVSiS, a new air safety information package being showcased at Farnborough. Created by computer software designers AvSoft, it enables officers to log safety events and share that information to "trusted" colleagues over the Internet. "AVSiS allows ...
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Mongolia takes Raytheon Autotrac system
Steve Nichols Raytheon has announced that its Autotrac 2100 system has passed site acceptance tests for the Civil Aviation Authority of Mongolia. The system provides communications, navigation, surveillance/air traffic management (CNS/ATM) services. The total contract, worth $12 million, is for a satellite-based, en-route, air traffic control system ...
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Brass band hits just the right note at Farnborough
Sally Shore Military sounds have been wafting over the site as visitors enjoy the first appearance of a brass band to the Farnborough show. Plenty of oompahs have kept spectators entertained while they admire the aerial antics during the flying display. "We've had lots of people tell ...
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Bellows takes the heat out of stress
Andrew Douse If you're feeling stressed after a day-long foot slog through the halls, make your weary way to Stand H18 in Hall 4. There you'll find a fascinating new product designed to relieve muscle stress, aches, pains and injuries. The product and the company is called ...