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Magazine Issue

Paris ShowNews June 18, 2015

June 18, 2015

On The Cover

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Silently, Stealthily Snapping Show Scenery

Jun 18, 2015
High above the Paris Air Show from angles you have never seen it before. And for free.
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Oklahoma UAV Woos Paris

Jun 18, 2015
Designed by an Oklahoma State University graduate student, the Unmanned Cowboys Atlas UAV cages its propeller inside a sphere for safe flight indoors and outdoors.
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CFM Orders Here ‘Took Us by Surprise’

Jun 18, 2015
"What a great show," says Jean-Paul Ebanga, president and CEO of CFM International.

INSIDE DAY 4

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Engine Alliance Ponders A380neo GP Upgrade Business Case

Jun 17, 2015
The General Electric Pratt & Whitney Engine Alliance says it remains in contention to power the potential re-engined A380neo with a comprehensive…
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Production Rates: Are Airbus And Boeing Aiming Too High?

Jun 17, 2015
Airbus and Boeing need to increase output of narrowbody jets to burn off massive backlogs, but lofty production rates the two airframers are talking about probably cannot be sustained over the long run, says the CEO of U.K.-based aerostructures suppliers GKN Aerospace.
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Le Bourget: This Week in 1945

Jun 18, 2015
Seventy years ago this Saturday, a wing of 38 Russian-built Yak-3 fighters touched down at Le Bourget.
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Pick a Number – Any Number

Jun 18, 2015
Does everyone have the right number?
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Airbus’ E-Fan Readied For Cross-Channel Flight

Jun 18, 2015
Airbus is preparing its E-Fan electric aircraft demonstrator for a groundbreaking flight across the English Channel next month.
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Elbit Avionics Takes Men and Machines to New Heights

Jun 18, 2015
Elbit Systems is back at the Paris Air Show with an expanded portfolio of high tech systems. This time the company is introducing a number of advanced avionic innovations, taking cockpit man-machine interfaces to new heights.
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Gardner Aerospace Plugging Its Pylon Plug

Jun 18, 2015
The bit that will join the engine to the wing of an Airbus A350 – impressively illustrates the turnaround achieved in the fortunes of Gardner Aerospace.
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IAI, Airbus Offer Turbine Heron UAV to Germany

Jun 18, 2015
IAI and Airbus want to follow successful Heron lease to Germany with the top-of-the-line Heron TP.
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News In Brief, Day 4

Jun 18, 2015
A roundup of news from the Paris Air Show.
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The Shape of Things To Come

Jun 18, 2015
Aviation needs equivalents of the “concept car” to spur it forward, says new exhibitor NewFace.
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Ex-Embraer Executive Leads Superjet Commercial Revamp

Jun 18, 2015
Eduardo Munhos de Campos, who was vice president for sales at Embraer until last October, is heading efforts to establish a single, unified worldwide com- mercial structure for the Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100).
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Bonne Retraite, Patrick Guerin, Says Semaine d’Aviation

Jun 18, 2015
Aviation Week marked the retirement of a long-standing ally with presentation of a montage of historic front covers marking his tenure to Patrick Guerin, Director of the Paris Air Show.
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A Good Show For Pratt & Whitney

Jun 18, 2015
Pratt & Whitney is enjoying a profitable Paris with contract signings for engine supply and manufacturing support.
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TRJet To Build Turkish Regional Jets

Jun 18, 2015
Sierra Nevada and its Turkish partner STM have established a new company to build updated versions of the Dornier 328 and 328Jet in Turkey.
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Welding Machine Makes Epic Journey To Pratt & Whitney

Jun 18, 2015
Pratt & Whitney has taken delivery of a giant welding machine set to play a critical role in the company’s military and commercial engine production.
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AFI KLM Seeks 8% Of Component MRO Market

Jun 18, 2015
AFI KLM E&M will be able to further expand its international footprint with new facilities and joint ventures despite the Perform 2020 restructuring program, its executives said.

Engines

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Honeywell To Provide Engines for HAL-Made Indian Training Aircraft

Jun 17, 2015
Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. has chosen Honeywell’s TPE331-12B turboprop engine for its HTT-40 military training aircraft for the Indian air force.

Defense

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MBDA to Lead Meads Development for Germany

Jun 18, 2015
MBDA will be the lead contractor developing the Medium Extended Air Defense System for Germany, which recently selected Meads over the Raytheon Patriot missile defense system.
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MBDA Could Deliver Weapon To Destroy Small UAVs By End Of Decade

Jun 17, 2015
MBDA says that it could deliver a working laser weapon to destroy small UAVs or rockets by the end of the decade.
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Back To Basics for F-35

Jun 18, 2015
Weapons and upgrades could define the next era for the worldwide fighter market.
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Serial Production of Mi-26T2 Well Underway

Jun 18, 2015
Russian Helicopters affiliate Rosvertol has begun serial production of the upgraded version of its Mi-26 heavy lift helicopter.
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Pratt Recovery on F135 Paves Way for Future

Jun 18, 2015
Pratt & Whitney says retrofits of the F135 engine to enable unlimited operations in the F-35 are happening faster than originally planned and are on track for completion by early 2016.
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Harris CEO Continues To Prioritize R&D Spending

Jun 17, 2015
Fresh off completing a merger with military electronics provider Exelis, Harris CEO Bill Brown is rolling up his sleeves to integrate what he calls two complementary companies.
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Airbus Relaunches A320/321 PTF Conversion

Jun 18, 2015
Airbus is teaming up with Singapore-based MRO provider ST Aerospace and Elbe Flugzeugwerke to give the passenger-to-freighter conversion of its A320/A321 aircraft a second try.
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Interest In Scorpion Picks Up

Jun 18, 2015
Textron AirLand’s $20 million Scorpion Light Attack Armed Reconnaissance gains momentum with possible landing of a launch customer.
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TAI Pushes Ahead With Anka B Flight Tests

Jun 18, 2015
Turkish Aerospace Industries is displaying its Anka B unmanned aerial system (UAS) as it looks for an export customer.

Avionics

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Aviage Working To Earn Trust

Jun 18, 2015
Alan Jones, CEO and president of Aviage Systems, believes that joint ventures, such as that of the three-year-old collaboration between GE and Aviation Industry Corporation of China, are key to earning credibility in the international market.
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3-D And In W-i-d-e Angle, Too

Jun 18, 2015
Stratasys is showing large components destined to fly in an Atlas 5 launcher next year as part of its avionics cooling system.

MRO

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IBM, Airbus Partner On Life Cycle Management Platform

Jun 18, 2015
IBM rolls out solution designed for the configuration of an aircraft.

Commercial Aviation

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Bombardier CS100 Flies Montreal To Paris Nonstop

Jun 18, 2015
Captains Mark Elliott and Estaban Arias flew the new 108-pax Bombardier CS100 regional jet in Swiss Airlines livery from Montreal-Mirabel to Paris last Friday so that it could be displayed at this week’s Paris Air Show.
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Falcon 2000LX for Beijing Red Cross

Jun 18, 2015
Dassault Aviation’s versatile large cabin twin will be Beijing Red Cross Emergency Medical Center’s first fixed wing aircraft dedicated to medevac services.
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Superjet Is Positive On SSJ100 Sales

Jun 18, 2015
Speculation that Finmeccanica might pull out of the joint venture with Superjet Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company have not dented the enthusiasm of Superjet International's CEO.
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China Airlines 777-300ER Provides Taste of Taiwan

Jun 18, 2015
A China Airlines Boeing 777-300ER parked in the Paris Air Show static display is generating a buzz for its cabin, which was designed by a top Taiwanese architect.
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Mitsubishi Evaluates Further MRJ Stretch

Jun 17, 2015
Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation is conducting market research to evaluate the feasibility of a longer stretch of the Mitsubishi Regional Jet.
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Chongqing Airliner Lands Great Haul Of China

Jun 18, 2015
Having only last month been formed to build the U.S.-designed Alliance StarLiner 100 50-seat regional jet airliner in China, Chongqing Commercial Aircraft Corp. has come to its first Paris Air Show with two major sales – together worth $3 billion – under its belt. A third contract is in the works.
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Boeing Ditches Drag Reduction System For 777X

Jun 17, 2015
Boeing has decided to drop the hybrid laminar flow control drag reduction system from the 777X and may even review its future use on the stretched 787 derivatives.

Rotorcraft

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CTS800 Selected To Power Turkish Helicopter

Jun 18, 2015
Turkish Aerospace Industries has chosen the Light Helicopter Turbine Engine Company’s (LHTEC) CTS800 turboshaft as the powerplant for Turkey’s twin-engine indigenous utility helicopter program.

Business Aviation

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VistaJet’s Flohr Bullish On Global 7000

Jun 18, 2015
Thomas Flohr, founder and chairman of VistaJet says he’s confident of receiving his first Global 7000 in 2018.