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Hydrep on show
French trouble-shooter Hydrep, a joint venture between Messier-Bugatti (Groupe SNECMA) and LAB (Groupe TAT), is showing its worldwide mechanical and hydraulic maintenance services at the show. The company provides repair and overhaul of landing gear, hydraulics, wheels and brakes fitted on commuter aircraft and helicopters. Capability ...
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Businessmen take shine to Hawker 800
It's an aerospace marketer's dream - somebody drops in at a show, and likes your aircraft so much that they buy it there and then. It's a once-in-a-lifetime dream, unless you're Raytheon, which scored a $28million on-the-spot sale yesterday at Paris - two years after exactly the same ...
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GE and Snecma win American Eagle deal
The American Eagle contract for 25 Canadair RJ 70s brought a boost to the joint-venture engine company of GE and Snecma. The GE CF34-8C power plant has been selected. The deal is believed to be worth in excess of $250million. The manufacturer was celebrating another contract - worth ...
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Shuttle win
Canada's Wescam has won a contract from NASA to supply three radio frequency camera systems for the Space Shuttle. The cameras will be used by Shuttle astronauts during the construction of the International Space Station. This is a space first for Wescam. Source: Flight Daily News
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Airbus testing
The final series of ground-based tests on Airbus Industrie's A330-200 has begun in Toulouse, leading to its first flight in mid-August. The A330-200, which will seat 253 passengers in a standard three-class layout, is the newest member of the growing A330/A340 family. A comprehensive 630h flight-test ...
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Thai deliveries
Deliveries of six Sikorsky Sikorsky S-70B Seahawk helicopters for the Royal Thai Navy will be completed on schedule this month. The helicopters, which will operate from Thailand's new aircraft carrier, the Chakkrinruebet, can be modified for anti-submarine warfare and surface warfare missions. Six S-76B helicopters entered service with the Royal ...
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Seoul mates
Korean Air crews on three Airbus A330-200s scheduled for delivery next February will relax in rest area equipment provided by Sogerma. The order from the Seoul-based airline follows other recent contracts from Air France for 13 units and Singapore Airlines for 17 units. Source: ...
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Rockwell Sino link
Rockwell's Avionics and Communications is to assemble and test two major components of the Collins Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System in China. This follows a co-production agreement with China National Aero-Technology International Supply Corporation. The agreement signed at the show calls for Leihua Electronic Technology Research Institute ...
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Canair signs with Pemco
Canadian cargo carrier CanAir has agreed a maintenance deal for its five Boeing 737-200s with Pemco World Air Services. The Mississaugua, Ontario-based airline will have C-level maintenance checks, together with service bulletin and airworthiness directive work carried out on its three combis and two freighters at Pemco's Dothan, ...
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Adobe introduces software for aviation
Computer software specialist Adobe claims that 95% of all photographic images published worldwide are touched at some time by its software packages. These include Photoshop and Illustrator, used in the design of virtually all newspaper and magazine pages. The pictures in Flight Daily News are no exception. ...
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Foam from foam
A new polyurethon foam made from micro cellular vulkollan by French firm Courbis for Bayer, can be seen in Hall 4, stand B11. The firm claims this is the strongest foam in the world and is therefore ideal to stop vibration anywhere on an aircraft. This ...
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Say it with flowers
There really is a toilet smelling of roses - and it is here at the Paris Airshow in Hall 4, stand E8. Werner Groth is displaying an A330/340 toilet, by filling it with a whole bunch of flowers. The German manufacturer is also displaying a new ...
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Wheels in motion
The wheels of industry are certainly turning in the Japanese area of Hall 3. Kayaba Industry, which makes wheels, brakes and hydraulic systems, has been asked to supply landing gear products for the 'Superconducting Magnetically-Levitated Linear Motor Car' - a high speed mass transit system for the 21st ...
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Mapping solutions
Bayo of France and Garmin Europe are sharing a stand in Hall 4/F1 with American firm Garmin which supplies them with GPS equipment. On show at the site are two fixed panel navigators with high definition moving maps - the GPS 150XL and the GPS 250XL. ...
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Strong impression
Menziken Aerospace Group has enjoyed a long association with the Paris air show, and the company, which operates on both sides of the Atlantic, is keen to make a strong impression at Le Bourget this week. With roots in Switzerland stretching back to the turn of the century, ...
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New products
British software manufacturer Russell Adams (Hall 5 G10) makes its first appearance in Paris with new products aimed at small and medium sized airlines as well as maintenance companies. With a sizeable client base that includes Short Brothers and Lockheed Martin Space ASIC the company has been supplying ...
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Long stand
First timers to the Paris airshow Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Linz Gessellschaft - WFL - must win the award for the company which has the most letters in one word of its name. The German company machines tools and can be found in Hall4, stand F4. Source: ...
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Omnipol - the return
Czech firm Omnipol returns to Paris after six years' absence. The firm, which imports and exports aircraft and parts, can be found in Hall 4, C6.Publicity Manager Zdenek Burian says here at Paris: "We are here to meet up with old friends and create new contacts. We return ...
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Satcom standard
Air France is fitting out its growing Airbus/Boeing fleet with Canadian Marconi's CMA-2102 satcom antenna. The top-mounted antenna will become standard equipment for Airbus A340s and Boeing 777s and used in the retrofit of six B747s in the Air France fleet. The carrier's plans call for 26 systems ...