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Magazine Issue

Paris ShowNews June 16, 2015

June 16, 2015

Inside Day 2

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Chongqing StarLiner Is A ‘Lady With A Past’

Jun 16, 2015
Sino-U.S. partnership promotes SL100 airliner-cum-large business jet in a double European debut.
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Nexcelle's Next-Gen Nacelle Takes Flight

Jun 16, 2015
The first shipset designated for the initial flight-test aircraft is on its way, via the engine manufacturer, to the customer airframer this summer.
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IAI Aims To Balance Defense And Commercial

Jun 16, 2015
Earlier this year IAI reorganized its commercial aircraft activities under the newly established Civil Aviation Organization that coordinates the activities of the company’s Commercial Aircraft Group and its Engineering Group, operating in both the civilian and defense fields.
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India to Upgrade Hawks for Export

Jun 16, 2015
Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with BAE Systems for upgrading the Indian Air Force’s Hawk Mk.132 advanced jet trainers
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Bell 505 Louisiana Site Nears Completion

Jun 16, 2015
Bell Helicopter expects to finish its 505 Jet Ranger X manufacturing facility in Lafayette this summer.
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The Other Airbus in Alabama

Jun 16, 2015
Airbus Defense and Space celebrates it 10-year anniversary in Mobile, Alabama.
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Avio Aero CEO: GE Brings New Opportunities

Jun 15, 2015
CEO Riccardo Procacci spoke with AW&ST London Bureau chief Tony Osborne about how the company, now renamed Avio Aero, is benefiting from the resources and capabilities of its parent 2.5 years on.
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Alabama Rockets On

Jun 16, 2015
Despite the ongoing threat of U.S. government budget cuts, the missile defense business in Alabama keeps churning along with the Raytheon Company and Lockheed Martin leading the way.
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South Carolina Likely To Benefit From Union Decision

Jun 16, 2015
The mid-April decision by one union to drop plans to organize 2,400 eligible workers at Boeing’s North Charleston plant could be the best advertisement for attracting additional aerospace business to the State of South Carolina.
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Poacher Turned Gamekeeper At GKN?

Jun 16, 2015
GKN's Aerospace Division's new president, David Brantner spoke with ShowNews’ Angus Batey about what he will bring to the role and the challenges the division faces as it seeks to maintain and build on its market position.
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NATO Members Up Defense Spending In Face Of New Threats

Jun 16, 2015
During the last five years, a resurgent Russia has increased its defense spending by 50% and plans to modernize its conventional air, sea and land force.
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North Carolina Poised For Aerospace Growth

Jun 16, 2015
Six as-yet unidentified aerospace companies have expressed strong interest in coming to the Charlotte North Carolina region. Some may announce their plans here at Paris.
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NATO AGS Could Open Door To Global Hawk Sales

Jun 16, 2015
Northrop Grumman has unveiled Block 40-standard RQ-4B Global Hawk unmanned air vehicles for NATO’s Alliance Ground Surveillance program.
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ALIS: JSF Support Through the Looking Glass

Jun 16, 2015
ALIS is reportedly so large that if it were separated from the overall F-35 budget it would still be one of the biggest defense procurement programs of all time.
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Airbus, Thales Streamline Satellite Manufacturing

Jun 16, 2015
European satellite manufacturers are capitalizing on increasing global demand for space-based remote sensing.
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Networked Logistics System Raises Cyber Questions

Jun 16, 2015
Data shared from aircraft used by 13 nations may include information that could provide actionable intelligence to an adversary.
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LORD Says European Growth Plans on Track

Jun 16, 2015
LORD is on track toward meeting its 10-year plan to double sales.
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Droning On: The Commercial UAS market

Jun 16, 2015
Small U.S. civil drone companies find the wait for final regulatory approval is causing them to look outside the country for trade opportunities.
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Airbus D&S's New UK Cyber Chief Sets Out His Stall

Jun 16, 2015
Airbus Defense & Space's new head of cyber security for the UK, Phil Jones spoke with ShowNews’ Angus Batey during the InfoSecurity Europe exhibition in London.
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UAC Focuses on Russia, Then Asia-Pacific

Jun 16, 2015
UAC will expand its share of a global civil aircraft market that is highly competitive.
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News In Brief, Day 2

Jun 16, 2015
A roundup of news from Day 2 at the air show.
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European UAS At The Crossroads

Jun 16, 2015
There is no lack of enthusiasm when it comes to realizing the potential of small UAS. But the promise of larger systems has yet to be fulfilled
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CLAIRE Skies Ahead

Jun 16, 2015
CiviL Airspace Integration for RPAS in Europe will see a Watchkeeper UAS flown in controlled but unsegregated airspace.
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A Mini UAV Becomes a Suicide Drone

Jun 16, 2015
Israel’s UAV company Aeronautics is introducing several new versions of unmanned systems at the Paris Air Show, among them a new version of the Orbiter – the Orbiter 1K.
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Hybrid-Electric Propulsion For Rotax

Jun 16, 2015
An innovative hybrid propulsion system for light aircraft – manned or unmanned – is being unveiled here at the Paris Air Show.
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B737s Ride TaxiBot at Frankfurt

Jun 16, 2015
In Frankfurt Airport, Lufthansa Boeing 737s are taxiing to the runways with their engines shut-down.
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Decision Lens Markets Decision-Making Prowess To Aerospace Firms

Jun 16, 2015
When it comes to the kind of decisions that governments and aerospace companies routinely face, the tangle of trade-offs can be so complicated that those with influence can sway the outcome. But a Virginia-based company pledges to bring more science and remove emotion from strategic decisions.
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Tactair is Teaching a Boat to Fly

Jun 16, 2015
The aviation specialist launched a collaborative effort with Team Artemis Racing of Sweden to take its new AC48 catamaran to the new level.
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MBDA Presents Flexible Future Vision

Jun 16, 2015
European missile manufacturer MBDA has revealed a concept for a family of highly modular missiles.
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Collins: A Link to Silicon Valley That Already Exists

Jun 16, 2015
Rockwell Collins’s President and CEO Kelly Ortberg spoke recently with Aviation Week editors in their Washington offices.
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Boeing Bullish On F/A-18 Sales, F-15 Upgrades

Jun 16, 2015
With a little help from the U.S. Congress and the potential for international orders, Boeing is bullish about prospects for its international fighters.
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Aero Sekur Qualifies Floatation System

Jun 16, 2015
The company recently completed full qualification of the floatation system for the AW169.
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Pakistan Shows Off Thunders In Paris

Jun 16, 2015
Pakistan air force top guns, Wing Cdr. Usman Ali and Sqn. Ldr. Yasar Mudasser-Aslam are showing off Sino-Pakistani fighter aircraft in the skies over Le Bourget.
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BEDEK To Expand Aircraft Conversions

Jun 16, 2015
Following an aggressive sales campaign in recent months, IAI Bedek has added new customers as it adapted its portfolio to new market needs, Joseph Melamed, general manager of IAI Bedek Aviation Group, told ShowNews.
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IAI Says Interest in 767-300ER Tanker Growing

Jun 16, 2015
Israeli Aircraft Industries says that there is growing interest in the conversion of Boeing 767-300ER airliners into aerial refueling tankers.
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GE Advances Future Fighter Engine

Jun 16, 2015
Development of revolutionary engines at GE Aviation is setting the stage for the next 50 years in military aircraft propulsion, engineers there believe.
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Airbus Pursues its Pseudo-Satellite

Jun 16, 2015
It's already a record-breaking aircraft, but Airbus Defense and Space believes the latest iteration of its Zephyr UAV may be about to rewrite the future of air and space surveillance.
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Bright Future For GE’s F414 Fighter Engine

Jun 16, 2015
Production of GE Aviation’s F414 fighter engine could run for another decade. Although orders for the main aircraft it powers, the twin-engine F-18 Super Hornet and Growler, are winding down, it is finding success elsewhere in the world.
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CFM To Hold LEAP MRO Costs

Jun 16, 2015
CFM International will keep its maintenance costs for the new LEAP narrowbody engine to levels at or similar to those of the current CFM56 engine, company senior executives said.
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Winglets Big Jet Fuel Saver, Aviation Partners Says

Jun 16, 2015
Seattle-based Aviation Partners estimates that its blended winglets have saved commercial and business jet operators about 5 billion gal. of jet fuel and expects that amount to double by the end of 2019.
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Airbus Secures Saudi Arabian as A330-300 Regional Launch Customer

Jun 16, 2015
Airbus has announced Saudi Arabian Airlines as its launch customer for the A330-300 Regional.
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Honeywell’s Variable-Speed APU Debuts on A350

Jun 16, 2015
Similar to other members of the 331 APU family, the HGT1700 is a single-shaft design with a single load compressor, dual engine compressors and three turbine stages
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Pratt To Fire Up First GTF E190-E2

Jun 15, 2015
Pratt & Whitney plans to fire up the first PW1900G geared turbofan for the Embraer E190-E2 at its West Palm Beach, Florida test site on June 15.
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Textron Seeks UAV Gold Abroad

Jun 15, 2015
After developing and flying the systems for the U.S. military for years during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Textron is seeing export opportunities for its tactical UAVs take off.
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It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again

Jun 16, 2015
Aerospace: where some things change more than you can imagine and others don’t change at all.
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ATR To Announce Launch Customer for High-Density ATR 72

Jun 16, 2015
ATR will announce the launch customer for a high-density, 78-seat ATR 72-600 here Tuesday.
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Europe’s Tanker Forces Are Expanding

Jun 16, 2015
During the NATO operation over Libya in 2011, European nations were criticized for a lack of aerial refueling assets and their need to depend on the U.S. for assistance. But plans for multinational tanker purchases may soon reverse that trend.
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U.S. Pavilion Opens To VIP Crowd

Jun 16, 2015
The opening ceremony of the U.S. International Pavilion took place on Monday.
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Boeing, Aviation Week Network Team on History

Jun 16, 2015
With both Boeing and Aviation Week commemorating their 100th birthdays next year, the two have agreed to create a digital, searchable, living archive of Aviation Week & Space Technology dating back to the very beginnings of human flight.
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OneWeb Taps Airbus Defense and Space as Partner

Jun 16, 2015
Satellite Internet startup OneWeb Ltd. has selected Airbus Defense and Space to serve as an industrial partner in the design and production of a fleet of 900 small Internet satellites.
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Aviation Week Network Wins Journalism Awards

Jun 16, 2015
The Aviation Week Network captured four awards at Sunday’s Aerospace Media Dinner at the Aero Club in Paris.
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Orders Announced On Day 1 Of The Paris Air Show

Jun 16, 2015
“Acquiring technologically advanced airplanes, such as the 777X, is integral to our expansion strategy,” said Qatar CEO Akbar Al Baker.
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Piaggio Adjusts Focus Towards Defense

Jun 16, 2015
Piaggio, the Italian producer of Avanti business turboprop, is nudging its focus toward the defense business, company CEO Carlo Logli has stated.
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Thunder Remains Silent on Export Order

Jun 16, 2015
Pakistan’s JF-17 Thunder attack fighter is at the Paris Air Show to woo further export customers. Improved, Block II aircraft are now being delivered to the home air force.
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Airbus Says Adjusted A330 Rate Is Sustainable Even Without China Order

Jun 15, 2015
Airbus is confident it no longer needs a large Airbus A330 order from China to be able to sustain the new rate of six per month, according to Executive Vice President Procurement Klaus Richter.
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PeruSat-1 Heralds New Era In Earth Observation

Jun 16, 2015
The launch next year of PeruSat-1 – Peru's first Earth-observation satellite – is the first of a proposed family of spacecraft built on Airbus's AstroBus-S platform.
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Keeping Up The Spirit

Jun 16, 2015
Spirit AeroSystems has come a long way in its 10-year history, continuing a pattern of steady growth while meeting production rate increases of major customers, Boeing and Airbus.
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Rafael Unveiling Litening 5, RecceLite XR

Jun 15, 2015
Coupling Rafael’s latest reconnaissance and targeting pods with scene-matching electro-optical-guided weapons enables air forces to tighten targeting cycles from days and hours to a few seconds.
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UVision Touts Family Of HEROs

Jun 16, 2015
Yair Dubester, president and CEO of Uvision, told ShowNews that his company has dedicated its entire portfolio to loitering weapons. “We have developed a complete family of solutions, suited to a wide range of applications and scenarios.
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Raytheon Focuses On Creating Cyberweapons, But Specifics Remain Elusive

Jun 15, 2015
The Pentagon’s cyberstrategy has Raytheon officials thinking more and more about how to create cyberweapons.
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Avio Expects Cinven to Sell Majority Stake this Year

Jun 15, 2015
After years of trying to sell the space division of Avio SpA, private-equity investor Cinven Ltd. is preparing to unload a majority of its 81% stake in the company.
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Airbus Talking To Airlines About “Slight Stretch” Of A380

Jun 15, 2015
Airbus is considering stretching the A380 as it slowly prepares a decision about the launch of the A380neo.
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Qatar CEO Sends Message To Delta Chief

Jun 15, 2015
Qatar Airways Group CEO Akbar al Baker used a press conference at the Paris Air Show to send a message to the CEO of Delta Air Lines after he signed firm contracts for 14 Boeing 777s.

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