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BlueEye Clears The CAMO Data Logjam
May 21, 2013, 7:15 AM
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BlueEye CAMO

Luxembourg’s MRX Systems is offering business aircraft operators its tablet-based BlueEye application for managing data associated with continuing airworthiness responsibilities. Its launch customer in the market is Dutch maintenance provider Jet Support, which is exhibiting here at EBACE with its FBO partner KLM Jet Centre (Booth 1937).

Rockwell Collins Wins Gold Edison Award For HUD Synthetic Vision
May 21, 2013, 7:00 AM
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Synthetic vision Rockwell Collins

Rockwell Collins received the top honor–a gold award in the safety category–from the Edison Awards in recognition of the company’s development of synthetic vision on a head-up display (HUD). The awards program is conducted by Edison Universe, which fosters future innovators. The awards were named after prolific inventor Thomas Edison.

Jetex Provides Flight-Planning Support At Oxford
May 21, 2013, 6:35 AM
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Dubai-based service provider Jetex Flight Support is expanding its reach in Europe and looking for new opportunities. Among its most recent developments is the opening in January of a new flight-planning lounge at London Oxford Airport, in so doing becoming the airport’s first external partner. The lounge is in the Oxfordjet FBO and comprises a newly furnished planning room with aeronautical charts and three computers for visiting aircrew.

Demand Spurs AgustaWestland To Open U.S. Line For AW169
May 21, 2013, 6:25 AM
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AW169

AgustaWestland (Booth 7070) announced plans last month to open a second final assembly line for its new AW169 medium twin at its U.S. plant in Philadelphia to complement the main line for the helicopter in Vergiate, Italy. Major components for the AW169 will continue to be made to AW’s plant at Yeovil in the UK and this site will continue to provide engineering support, said company spokesman Geoff Russell.

Alison Price On Air Cabin-Crew Symposium Creates Common Standards
May 21, 2013, 6:15 AM
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The European Corporate Flight Attendant’s Committee chair Paul Milverton of Gama Aviation, Stafford, Connecticut, and vice chair David Hulme managed and moderated this year’s NBAA Cabin-Crew Symposium held here in Geneva on Monday. The symposium, sponsored by the NBAA Flight Attendants Committee, the International Subcommittee and EBAA staff, featured a program on issues relevant to business aviation cabin-crew operations and addressed topics ranging from safety and security to service and training.

Alison Price On Air Adds A Brasserie In The Sky
May 21, 2013, 6:00 AM
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Alison Price

Daniel Hulme is vice chairman of the European Corporate Flight Attendant’s Committee (ECFAC) and helping to moderate the Cabin Crew Symposium here at EBACE (see box), but he is also here this year as managing director of London-based caterer Alison Price On Air where some big changes are being made.

Lyon Bron’s Efforts To Attract Bizav Paying Off
May 21, 2013, 5:15 AM
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Cessna Citation Mustang

Lyon Bron Airport in southeast France (Booth 664), some 70 miles southwest of Geneva, enjoyed 7.5-percent growth in business aviation traffic during the first three months of this year. This came on the heels of 7.5-percent growth for the whole of last year–to 6,359 aircraft movements–ranking Lyon Bron the third busiest French airport for business aviation. The growing roster of new operators at the field and planned construction are giving the local officials cause for continued optimism.

Inmarsat Premiers GX Aviation Broadband
May 21, 2013, 5:00 AM
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Inmarsat and partner Honeywell are poised to launch what Inmarsat describes as the “game-changing Global Xpress aviation service,” that will ultimately provide high-capacity broadband coverage and worldwide data transfer rates of up to 50 mbps.

Inmarsat (Booth 921), a major player in mobile satellite communication services, offered a preview of GX Aviation at the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg, Germany, last month.

Embraer: Nearly One Third Of New Bizjets Over Next Decade Headed To Europe
May 21, 2013, 5:00 AM
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Embraer's Lineage 1000

Europe will remain the second-largest market for new business jets over the next decade, accounting for approximately 29 percent of delivery volume and 34 percent of billings, according to the latest 10-year forecast from Embraer. Since it will continue to be the largest market for business jets–predicted to take delivery of nearly half of the aircraft during the forecast period–the U.S. will dictate the speed of the recovery, noted Embraer Executive Jets president Ernest Edwards.

Engine Maker PWC Laments Tight Financing, Pricing Pressures In Bizjet Market
May 21, 2013, 4:45 AM
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John Saabas Pratt & Whitney

Among the few economic forces behind the rather tepid recovery of the market segment covering small and medium-sized business jets, perhaps the most influential rests with the world’s financiers. While the large business jet segment remains buoyant due to its comparative immunity from the vagaries of liquidity availability, for the rest of the market a lack of attractive financing terms remains a serious problem, according Pratt & Whitney Canada (PWC) president John Saabas.

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