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Mica on target
Dassault Aviation's Rafale B01, naval version of the fourth generation multirole combat aircraft, has for the first time successfully fired, by ejection release, a Matra BAe Dynamics Mica missile, with inertial guidance, at a supersonic target. The firing, carried out on 26 May at the Centre d'essais des ...
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Lockheed showcase
Lockheed Martin is adopting the same exhibit strategy at Paris as it did at Farnborough last year - the company is showcasing all of its products under one roof in its Partnership Pavilion. The Pavilion is in Hall A/62-71 and features examples of Lockheed Martin's many international programmes ...
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Gyro replacement wins contract
Litton's Aero Products division announces at the show a $35 million contract to retrofit gimballed C-IV Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) for Northwest Airlines. INS is currently installed on 33 Northwest B747 and 21 DC-10-40 aircraft. Existing INS systems will be replaced with strapdown Ring Laser Gyro LTN-92 INS. ...
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Cessna on a roll
Cessna comes to Paris with its single-engine-aircraft production line about to complete its first year of operations. Sales of the 172R Skyhawk and 182S Skylane continue to rise, following the first Skyhawk delivery in January. Source: Flight Daily News
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Caravanserai
TACA Group of El Salvador announces that it will operate eight more Cessna Grand Caravans for use in subsidiary airlines. This order brings TACA's fleet to 12 Caravans. TACA Group comprises five airlines operating throuhgout Central America. Source: Flight Daily News
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World market for casting
Expansion of the export side of its business is high on the agenda for British-based castings specialist Finecast at the show this week. The UK firm, exhibiting in Hall 2/J12, which produces lost wax investment castings for military and civil aviation clients, currently does 40% of its business ...
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Russian optics
Making its debut at the Paris Airshow is Russian firm Pa Uomz which can be found in Hall 4/ F11. The firm produces systems for Russian aircraft and is showing its gyro-stabilised optical electronic system, GOES 320. The two-channel system has a thermal imager and a TV camera. ...
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Lancashire presence
More than 130 aerospace companies from the North West of England are exhibiting together under the banner of the Consortium of Lancashire Aerospace (CLA) at Paris '97. Many of the businesses, which range in size from industry giants such as British Aerospace and Rolls-Royce to firms with less ...
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Danger business
Cargo Transport Company (CTC) of Russia, which specialises in transportation of dangerous cargo, can be found in Hall 5/F2. Part of the state-owned Rosvoorouzhenie group, CTC has more than 40 years' experience in handling armaments, ammunition, military equipment and other special purpose cargo. World wide air transport is ...
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Charge it
American firm Bren-Tronics has a highly charged stand in Hall 1/F14. The company supplies military batteries and charging systems designed to do away with the need to replace disposable primary batteries. Leo Brenna from international sales and new products says: "Using typical alkaline batteries could cost the US ...
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AlliedSignal win
AlliedSignal is announcing an initial $543million in new business at the Paris Air Show, including a $175million production contract for 72 F124 turbofan engines that will be used on attack aircraft for the Czech Air Force. The engines will power Aero Vodochody L-159 single-seat attack versions of the ...
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Pretoria bound
Waterkloof air base, outside Pretoria, is to be the venue for a new, more comprehensive South African air show next year. Aerospace Africa '98 will run trade days from 28-30 April, with the public being allowed in on 1-2 May. The event brings together the Commercial ...
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Now you can make your own judgement
An Embraer EMB-145 regional jet sporting one of the designs new (a Celtic image created by Timothy O'Neill) is gracing the display area of Le Bourget. The EMB-145 is the first of five destined for delivery to Manx Airlines, part of the British Regional Airlines Group. ...
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Fairchild Dornier eyes 50-seater jet market
Fairchild Dornier plans a full-fledged development launch of its 50-seat 528JET regional jet around January 1998, says company president Jim Robinson. The company is seeking two more risk-sharing partners to join the programme along with Aermacchi. Development costs for the 528JET are expected to reach about ...
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Louvre bistro captures the art of French cuisine
They say that Paris is justly famous for two things: Its art and its food. Visitors to Le Bourget '97, faced with the prospect of doing Paris the American way (ie. in about three hours) can get a shot of both of this beautiful city's attributes in one single location. ...
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Ariane wins four launch contracts
Arianespace has won four new launch contracts, maintaining its lead in an increasingly competitive commercial market. The company says it has 42 satellites in its orderbook and claims a 50% market share. Arianespace will launch the Swedish communications satellite Sirius 3 in 1998. This Hughes HS376 ...
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Big Cessna orders on the cards
Cessna is expected to announce a $500million order today from the rapidly-growing Executive Jet fractional ownership company for Excels and additional Citation Xs. Sources say Executive Jet of New Jersey will announce it is buying 50 Cessna Excel small widebody jets as well as six additional Cessna Citation ...
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Boeing joins battle for business jets
At the same time as announcing two new orders in as many days, Boeing Business Jets spokesmen are making no bones about the fact that they are out to steal sales from Bombardier and Gulfstream. The $30.5million price tag on the Boeing Business Jet (BBJ), which is based ...
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Flight Daily News
Chalet A-39 Published daily at Le Bourget on behalf of Flight International, Reed Business Publishing Ltd by Barkers Trident Communications, Trident House, 31-32 Cock Lane, London, EC1A 9BU. Tel: +44, 171-236-2727. Printed by R.E.G. at 70 rue Ampere, Lagny-sur-Marne. Editor-in-Chief: Allan Winn ...