UK: EUROPE'S AIRBUS CONSORTIUM ANNOUNCES BIG NEW ORDER BUT OUTLOOK FOR CIVILIAN AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURERS REMAINS GLOOMY AT FARNBOROUGH AIR SHOW.

Record ID: 646355

  • Title: UK: EUROPE'S AIRBUS CONSORTIUM ANNOUNCES BIG NEW ORDER BUT OUTLOOK FOR CIVILIAN AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURERS REMAINS GLOOMY AT FARNBOROUGH AIR SHOW.
  • Date: 6th September 1994
  • Summary: FARNBOROUGH, HAMPSHIRE, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (SEPTEMBER 6, 1994) (REUTERS TELEVISION - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV AIRCRAFTS ON DISPLAY , PEOPLE WALK PAST 0.05 2. GV HAWK AIRCARFT ON TARMAC WITH WEAPONS 0.09 3. GV HAWK AIRCRAFT LANDING 0.15 4. GV PEOPLE WATCHING 0.18 5. GV AIRBUS A340 AIRCRAFT ON RUNWAY 0.22 6. CU SNECMA JET ENGINE 0.25 7. GV A340 TAKING OFF 0.40 8. GV HELICOPTER ON GROUND, PEOPLE INSIDE (2 SHOTS) 0.47 9. GV PEOPLE LOOKING OVER A TORNADO AIRCRAFT 0.56 10. GV COBRA HELICOPTER WITH UNITED STATES AIRFORCE PERSONNEL TALKING TO MAN 1.00 11. CU WEAPONS 1.03 12. GV EUROCOPTER "TIGER" HELICOPTER 1.09 13. GV TIGER HELICOPTER TURNING UPSIDE DOWN/ GENERAL VIEW OF HELICOPTER OVER SHOW (2 SHOTS) 1.25 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 21st September 1994 13:00
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  • Location: FARNBOROUGH, HAMPSHIRE, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
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  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Reuters ID: LVAAFK6V8DHIF3XP17YXVBUE0D2G
  • Story Text: Europe's Airbus consortium announced a big new order on Tuesday (September 6), but the outlook for civilian aircraft manufacturers remained gloomy despite glimmers of hope at the industry's showcase Farnborough air show.

    Over 600 exhibitors and over 134 aircraft are expected at the show, which is opened to the public on Saturday and Sunday (September 10 and 11) after five days which began on Monday (September 5) solely for industry visitors.

    But despite the scream of latest-technology low-flying fighter aircraft in the quiet English countryside and a huge display of military hardware, traditional new order announcements were minimal due partly to government cutbacks in defence budgets in the wake of the cold war.

    Instead of orders, attention at the biennial show centred on the battle between United States (U.S.) and European manufacturers over who will supply Britain's airforce with replacements for its ageing Hercules transport planes at a cost of billions of U.S.

    dollars.

    On Tuesday, the airshow included displays by the McDonnell Douglas Longbow Apache, the U.S. Textron Bell Cobra and the Franco-German Eurocopter Tiger helicopters. The three aircraft are competing along with the new South African Rooivalk (Red Falcon) attack helicopter, for the British two billion pound (3 billion U.S. dollars) attack helicopter contract.


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