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Aircraft Supplier News.


Jul 23, 2007

British Airways, VT Airside air·side  
n.
The part of an airport directly involved in the arrival and departure of aircraft.


airside
Noun

the part of an airport nearest the aircraft
 Solutions

VT Airside Solutions is taking delivery of 70 Terberg tow tractors for the British Airways ground fleet services operation at London Heathrow's new Terminal 5. The tractors, an enhanced version of the Terberg YT182 model, will be used to tow airfreight loads from British Airways' World Cargo Centre to T5, which opens next year. Jul 16, 2007

Magellan Group, Mercury Aviation Partners

Magellan Group and Mercury Aviation Partners signed an MOU (Minutes Of Usage) A metric used to compute billing and/or statistics for telephone calls or other network use.  to create M&M Services, a 50/50 joint venture LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol.

LLC - Logical Link Control
 that will build an operating lease portfolio of "mature aircraft subject to lease with part-out being the long-term goal for each aircraft." M&M said it plans to acquire up to $100 million worth of aircraft such as Boeing 737 Classics, 757s, 767s, Airbus A320s, ATR ATR Achilles tendon reflex, see Ankle reflex  42/72s, Dash 8s and Brasilias. Jul 17, 2007

Raytheon

Raytheon is participating in the Empire Challenge 2007, a demonstration evaluating intelligence collection systems for joint and coalition operations. The exercise, which began July 15, is being held at the China Lake Naval Air Warfare Center The Naval Air Warfare Center was a former U.S. Navy military installation located in Warminster, Pennsylvania and Ivyland, Pennsylvania.

The U.S. Navy purchased the grounds to establish this facility from the Brewster Aeronautical Corporation following its bankruptcy in the
, China Lake, Calif. The Empire Challenge exercise is designed to test and demonstrate techniques, standards and procedures for coalition Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance may refer to:
  • the US Joint Command see'' Joint Functional Component Command for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance.
  • the military term, see'' Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, and Reconnaissance.
 assets, using a variety of U.S. and allied Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS DCGS Distributed Common Ground System
DCGS Distributed Common Ground Station
DCGS Distributed Common Ground/Surface System (US DoD)
DCGS Delaware County Genealogical Society (Ohio and Pennsylvania) 
) ground systems. Jul 20, 2007

Raytheon, Boeing

Raytheon's revolutionary Boeing (McDonnell Douglas) F/A-18 Active Electronically Scanned Array An Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA), also known as active phased array radar is a type of radar whose transmitter and receiver functions are composed of numerous small transmit/receive (T/R) modules.  radar is moving into full rate production following U.S. Navy approval. The APG-79 production line is ramping up in anticipation of delivering a total of 437 systems for the Navy in coming years. Jul 20, 2007

Shanghai SR Aircraft Technics tech·nic  
n.
1. technics (used with a sing. or pl. verb) The theory, principles, or study of an art or a process.

2. technics (used with a pl. verb) Technical details, rules, or methods.

3.
 

Shanghai SR Aircraft Technics, the joint venture between SR Technics and Shanghai Foreign Aviation Service Corp., signed a contract to provide line maintenance services for Singapore Airlines Boeing 777s and 747s during their transit stops at Shanghai Pudong. Services commenced on July 1. Jul 16, 2007

Shanghai SR Aircraft Technics

Shanghai SR Aircraft Technics it will provide line maintenance services for Singapore Airlines's 747F cargo operations at the airport. Jul 16, 2007

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