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IT alliance
Aviation information services company Jeppesen is to form a strategic alliance with ARINC, a provider of communication services for the aviation industry. Greg Bowlin, Jeppesen's vice-president of airline and corporate services marketing, says the focus will be to enhance services to customers. Source: Flight ...
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Navigator deal
The Interstate Aviation Committee/Aviation Register (IAC/CR) in Moscow has approved Canadian Marconi's M3-GPS Navigator for use on the Antonov AN-38-100 and AN-38-110. The AN-38 is a twin-turboprop light multipurpose regional airliner with a 27-passengers capacity. The aircraft is now in production and the first customer, Vostok ...
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Paint works
Gulfstream is opening a new 6,000 sq m (64,000 sq ft) aircraft paint plant in Long Beach, California this year. The site, at its newly-expanded Service and Completion Center, offers state-of-the-art technology to enhance production capabilities. The company plans to double production levels to around 60 ...
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Top Gun courses
Fancy testing your skills at the controls of a twin-seater military jet aircraft? The International Fighter Pilots Academy (IFPA) will let you make the dream a reality with its Top Gun for a Week course. The IFPA military jet and helicopter operation at the Kirovskye Air Force Base ...
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E-3 upgrade
France is to buy from the US Department of Defense four electronic-support-measures upgrade kits for its Boeing E-3F airborne-warning and control-system aircraft. The equipment supports development of a French electronic-support-measures emitter database system. With support equipment, the deal is worth $85 million to Boeing. Source: Flight ...
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JSTARS upgrade
Northrop Grumman has received $132 million in US Air Force contracts to upgrade computers used on the E-8 Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS). The US company will integrate new, more powerful central computers and workstations in the third developmental aircraft. The upgrade will replace five central processors ...
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Finalist: Fokker Services
Finalist: Fokker Services Location Woensdrecht, The Netherlands Achievement Maintaining service levels for Fokker aircraft despite the manufacturer's collapse. When Fokker Aircraft went into bankruptcy at the start of 1996, one of the main concerns among aircraft operators and owners was over what levels of support service ...
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Continental goes Boeing
Ramon Lopez/WASINGTON DC CONTINENTAL Airlines has become the third US major to enter into a long-term, sole-supplier pact with Boeing, following the signature of a letter of intent (LoI) for up to 35 widebodied aircraft to satisfy its future fleet requirements. The estimated value of the deal is ...
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Lee Solenoid
A miniature piloting solenoid valve which weighs less than your average tomato can be found in Hall 4/ E5 among plenty of other new products. The brightly-coloured solenoid is made by Lee Products from a unique plunger design, and innovative materials in the magnetic circuit result in a small, low ...
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Joint venture
Taiwan aircraft producer Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC) and Aero Vodochody from the Czech Republic have set up a joint venture to develop, produce and sell the Ae270 utility aircraft. The agreement, announced at Le Bourget, enables both parties to exploit the aircraft's potential in both military and ...
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Boeing's part of the web
Boeing reports more than 200 customers have started using its Web site to order spare parts within six months of launching the service. The Boeing PART Page processes an average 1,700 transactions every day. Pre-registered users can access the company's spares inventory database through a standard ...
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Star Tracker for Aerospatiale
CAL of Canada has beaten off a field of international competitors to supply its new CalTrac Star Tracker to Aerospatiale for the inaugural flight of the new multi-mission Proteus bus. The contract was signed at the Paris show before Cal's president Dr Neil Mackay said: "Through support from ...
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Canadians stress importance of aerospace industry
The Canadian aerospace industry reckons it will leapfrog two places up the world ladder by the turn of the century. The Canadians claim their industry is growing faster than any other major aerospace sector in the world - ask the 31 Canadian aerospace firms which are making the ...
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Secure intranet for aerospace community
AeroNet, a community intranet for the air transport and aerospace industries, is attracting many affiliates for its creator, SITA, a leading provider of global telecommunications and information services to the air transport industry. Potentially the AeroNet affiliates programme can allow 10,000 aerospace companies from within the industry's supply ...
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Tecstar puts tiny wheels into motion
A new tiny Reaction Wheel designed to stabilise small satellites is one of a number of products that can be seen for the first time in Europe in Hall 4/A11. US manufacturer Tecstar is making its Paris debut as it moves into the civil aviation market. ...
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Tourist information:
The main Paris tourist office (127 av. des Champs-Elysées, 8e, tel 49-52-53-54); open 9am - 8pm. Branches at all mainline train stations, except Gare St-Lazare. Dial 49-52-53-56 for recorded information in English. Pharmacie des Champs-Elysées (Galerie des Champs, 84 av. des Champs-Elysées, 8e, tel 45-62-02-41), open 24 hours; ...
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Zero-gravity training aircraft open for business
The doors of the world's largest 'vomit comet' are being thrown open to selected guests at the Paris show. Invitations to inspect the A300 Zero-G parabolic flight training aircraft are being sent out by Novespace, a private company supported by the French Space Agency (CNES). Initially ...
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Ready, steady,-wait!
To battle-hardened veterans of the Eurofighter EF2000 programme, the latest bout of German jitters must illicit a distinct feeling of déja vu, with German politicians once again threatening to put the project into a tailspin. For some of those veterans, however, German defence minister Volker Rühe's posturing ...
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China switches AE31X assembly plans
Aviation INDUSTRIES of China (AVIC) has switched plans for the final assembly of the proposed AE31X family of regional aircraft from Shanghai to Xian, in an move which threatens to complicate development and logistical support of the international programme. China's State Council is understood to have dropped Shanghai ...
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Latvian passenger tax hits Air Baltic's target
Anew airport-departure tax imposed by the Latvian Government may stop Riga-based carrier Air Baltic from meeting its break-even target this year. Former company chief executive Kjell Fredheim says that a $12-per-passenger charge has been levied from 1 June, and a new fuel tax is forcing the airline to ...