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Customers discover Explorer
McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems have reported brisk business with a trio of orders for the MD Explorer worth around $20million. Communications manager Kenneth Jensen reported two aircraft were sold to Tomen Corporation in Japan and one to Heli-Fly for delivery to Luxembourg Air Rescue. While confirming ...
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Night Hawk HUD selected
Flight Vision has been celebrating at Paris with the news of a new contract for the Night Hawk, its newest product. The head up display (HUD) has been chosen by Lockheed Martin skunk works for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) concept demonstration aircraft programme. The system ...
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All-composite G222 is a tough customer
The world's first all-composite, unlimited class, aerobatic aircraft - the AkroTech G222 - is pulling the crowds at Le Bourget, thanks to its super-smooth finish and impressive lines. AkroTech is a part of French company Aeronautical Services which also owns Avions Robin, producer of the popular range of ...
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Palomer make light of Microdata's jam
Palomer Products rescued Swedish firm Microdata Innovation which was making its Paris air show debut. Microdata Innovation set up its training radar jammer outside Hall 3 only to find that its computer screen was not readable in the bright sunshine. Software manager Bo Hesselstrom says: "Our ...
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Emergencies in space just part of the job
Joe Kerwin knows a thing or two about emergencies in space. The former naval commander physician was the science pilot on the first US space station habitation mission, Skylab 2 launched in May 1973. Another Navy doctor, Jerry Linenger, has just returned from a stay aboard ...
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Koreans seek trainer partners
Korean industrial giant Daewoo Heavy Industries has been at Paris this week looking for international partners to join its KTX-1 high performance turboprop trainer programme. The aircraft has just passed the 1,000hr mark in its test programme and production is due to begin in 1998, with the support ...
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EZ Drape takes the wraps off masking paper
American firm Mask-Off has Paris all wrapped up in Hall 3/B16c - after a year of development, the firm has just launched EZ Drape here at the show. This roll of polyethylene is used instead of brown paper as a mask when painting aircraft. Used with ...
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IT experts issue warning on 'millennium bomb'
A wave of activity to try to defuse the "millennium bomb" is coming, a leading company said at the show. And there are warnings from information technology (IT) experts based in Britain about problems faced by the aerospace industry trying to tackle the date change problem. ...
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$12bn satellite system planned by Motorola
Motorola says it plans to launch a $12billion satellite system to provide high speed multimedia data and video services for business and private users in 2002. This brings to $23billion the company's total investment in satellite systems. The Celestri system will comprise a world-spanning constellation of ...
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Airbus bumps up its Paris sales to $3.5b
Airbus Industrie has ended the show in style with a $2billion memorandum of understanding (MoU) for 50 A319s from Northwest Airlines. The deal brings the total value of contracts announced by Airbus at Paris '97 to $3.5billion. US-based Northwest Airlines also has options on an additional ...
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Russian exodus raises questions of space industry viability
Launchers have dominated the space sector news at this show. The Lockheed Martin deal to buy $1billion-worth of Russian rocket engines is a classic demonstration of the new era of the space business - the exodus of Russian space technology into the US business arena. It ...
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Transatlantic hop foiled by fuel leak
A specially adapted AS 350 B3 helicopter is expected to arrive at Le Bourget tomorrow - more than a week after it set off on a 24-hour transatlantic flight from New York to Paris. The Astar helicopter, manufactured by Eurocopter, was taking part in L'Esprit d'Intertechnique, the first ...
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$2.5billion orders confirm market opportunities for regional jets
If Paris '97 has proved one thing, it is that regional jets are here to stay. This morning, manufacturers can reflect that RJ order announcements this week topped $2.5billion, launch customers have stepped forward for two new programmes, and the jet has spread into both the 30 and ...
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JSF marriage hogs limelight on flat defence scene
The British Aerospace link-up with Lockheed Martin for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) competition stole the headlines at Paris on the defence scene. Many consider the long-predicted transatlantic link a foregone conclusion, but talks had been going between BAe and its two suitors until Monday. It ...
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If this is lundi it must be Le Bourget
The trials and tribulations of a whistle-stop holiday in Europe were humorously portrayed in a film quaintly called If this is Tuesday, it must be Belgium. The same sentiment springs to mind when you scan the international air show calendar, which now boasts a plethora of events, both ...
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Turboprop market rings to the sounds of silence
Don't expect a war of words as the battle for the 50-seater turboprop market heats up - expect a war of whispers instead. Both Saab with its top-of -the-range high-performance Saab 2000 and the Bombardier Regional Aircraft (BRAD) de Havilland Dash 8Q series are claiming technological advances which ...
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ACR is in Top gear
ACR is in top gear after officials at the airshow announced the award of two multi-year contracts from General Electric worth more than $37million. GE has chosen ACR gearboxes for military and commercial aircraft engines. The military contract, worth $13million, is for accessory and power takeoff ...
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Uplifting
It's up, up and away for the new diesel-operated lift truck made by Hydraulics International which can be seen in Hall 3/C13a. The American firm is exhibiting for the first time the ART 1, which loads bombs and missiles on to aircraft. Says Hossein Gharai, Director - International ...
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Remaining air shows in 1997
United States Air and Trade Show - Dayton Ohio. July 16-20 Airshow Canada '97 - Vancouver. August 6-10 Taipei Aerospace & Technology Exhibition - TATE '97 - Taipei. August 14-17 Vietnam Aviation Expo - Hanoi. September 10-12 NBBA '97 - Dallas, Texas ...
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Billion dollar deals fail to disguise 'big deal' feeling
Great tracts of the aerospace landscape seem to be "on hold" at this Paris air show. The French industry, with so much to do to set its house in order, awaits this Saturday's landmark speech by new Prime Minister Lionel Jospin. Boeing, a huge chunk of the rest of the ...