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Bohler out in Paris
Bohler Schmiedetechnik GMBH is promoting its nickle base and titanium alloy structural and disk forgings at Paris '97. The company's products are approved for use on all major civil aircraft, helicopters and jet engines. Source: Flight Daily News
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V2500 record
The ubiquitous IAE V2500 range of engines has now passed five million flying hours... equivalent to flying around the world 54,000 times. More than 2,000 V2500s have been ordered since the programme was launched 13 years ago, and the latest generation -A5/-D5 variants have established an engine caused ...
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French lessons
If you fancy a year in France learning to become an aircraft maintenance engineer, then wander down to Hall 4/C9 here at the Paris Airshow. The stand is manned by the students from the new course running at the University of Aix en Provence near Marseille. Investing in ...
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Kohl's clout renews hope for EF2000 takeoff
The Eurofighter EF2000 remains poised at the end of the runway, its builders' hands hovering over the throttle while Germany's politicians try to find the money to enable the brakes on the programme to be released. Following talks between the prime ministers and defence ministers of Germany and ...
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Oxygen system launched by Litton
A low-cost, high-performance on-board oxygen generating system, claimed to be the world's first, has been launched by Litton Industries' Life Support division. LITOCS 1 - Litton Oxygen Concentrating System - is compatible with nearly all new and existing aircraft and incorporates the latest technological advances in materials, design ...
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Single trainers show potential
The world's first independent market intelligence study on single-engined military piston trainer aircraft suggests a potential $2.7 billion market over the next ten years. However, despite the potential it warns Western aircraft manufacturers not to be complacent. The report* was launched yesterday at the show, and ...
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Polyphem fibre-guided missile shows pin-point accuracy
France, Germany and Italy have successfully test-fired the Polyphem, a versatile precision weapons system designed to deliver a 20kg warhead at a range of up to 60km. The Polyphem is touted as the world's best performing fibre-optic-guided missile for ground-to-air, air-to-ground, ship-to-ship and anti-submarine warfare, in all-weather conditions, ...
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SOIM trainer leading way
Romania's newly upgraded IAR-99 SOIM trainer is on show at Paris for the first time after making its maiden flight only three weeks ago. The jet powered SOIM is intended as a lead-in trainer for advanced fast jets such as the F-16 Fighting Falcon and F/A-18 Hornet, according ...
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Russian sales to hit $5billion in 1997
Russia's aircraft industry comes to Paris with new-found vigour after defence exports continued to recover during the past year, with experts predicting sales of $5 billion during 1997. This represents a doubling of sales over the last five years, since they were rocked when the Soviet Union collapsed ...
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Sino jet reaches century milestone
Sino Swearingen's SJ30-2 business jet has completed 100h of flight testing and is in the process of being fitted with Williams-Rolls FJ44-2 turbofans that will give the aircraft a cruise speed in excess of M0.8. The SJ30-2, which is being marketed as a high-performance six-seat business jet, is ...
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Fins ain't what they used to be
Visitors to Le Bourget will be able to cast a critical eye over some of the controversial ethnic and abstract logos that were launched by British Airways (BA) last week. The airline has already raised many eyebrows with its various wierd and wonderful tailfin designs, which have replaced ...
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Apocrypha Now as fact gazumps fiction
A group of airshow veterans was gathered in a chalet a couple of years ago, swapping aerospace stories of the 'strange but true' variety. As the beers went down, the yarns grew taller. By the end of the evening the 'Apocrypha Club' was born. Reality has ...
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Sikorsky scoffs at buy-up prediction
The 'not for sale' signs were up unequivocally at Sikorsky yesterday following the publication of an industry forecast with whose sentiments the venerable helicopter company may well agree, but with whose details it certainly would not. The Teal Group's first world rotorcraft forecast target Sikorsky as the most ...
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Night shows planned for Thai exhibition
Perhaps mindful of the veritable 'minefield' of obstacles which can be encountered by visitors trying to gain access at the Paris show site, the organisers of the international aerospace exhibition in Thailand 22-26 October have signposted their expo in tantalising terms. The location for the Thailand International Aerospace, ...
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BAe mini-movie looks a five-minute winner
American actress Rachel Lee, star of British Aerospace's film Partners in Flight, looked every bit the part when she flew into Paris for the mini-movie's preview. The five-minute film, shot over three months at locations in Inverness, Scotland and Preston, England, features stunning flight-simulation footage. Rachel ...
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Tourist information
The main Paris tourist office (127 av. des Champs-Elysées, 8e, tel 49-52-53-54; open daily 9am - 8pm. Branches at all mainline train stations, except Gare St-Lazare. Dial 49-52-53-56 for recorded information in English. US (2 av. Gabriel, 8e, tel. 42-96-12-02), Canada (35 av. Montaigne, 8e tel. 44-43-32-00) and ...
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Unison's harmony nets double sales
Unison Industries has doubled its annual sales to $125 million with its takeover of the engine electrical systems division of BFGoodrich. The acquisition, which the US aircraft ignition systems company announces today, sees the addition of Forth Worth in Texas and Norwich, New York, to Unison's two existing ...
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Dowty shows benefits of Eurobonding
European Union members currently struggling to achieve closer economic and financial 'harmonisation' might usefully look for lessons from Franco-British landing gear specialist Messier-Dowty. At the last Paris show, the British and French sections of the then-newly formed joint venture were just beginning the same type of process. ...
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Your chance to turn water into wine
A bottle of wine from the Flight Daily News Editor's cellar to the person* who can identify the aerospace PR, at this year's show, who took an unscheduled dip in Lake Lucerne, Switzerland recently. The hapless hero was invited for a speedboat trip around the lake by a ...
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Too many longbows
The US General Accounting Office says that the US Army requires only 8,329 of the 12,722 Lockheed Martin Longbow Hellfire fire-and-forget anti-tank missiles it now plans to purchase. Source: Flight International