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Fairchild Dornier gives the go-ahead to 428JET project
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Fairchild Dornier is to launch the 42-seat 428JET programme at the Berlin International Air Show (ILA) as the centrepiece of a series of announcements on its regional jet programmes. The company is also expected to reveal a stretch of the 90-seat 928JET and new potential customers for ...
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Qantas confirms plans for three more 747-400s
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS Qantas has finalised its short term fleet plans, confirming it will acquire three Boeing 747-400s from Asian carriers "in the very near future", and ruling out acquiring any new type in the next three years. Chief executive James Strong says the purchase will be additional to ...
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A320 demand triggers production increase
Max Kingsley-Jones/TOULOUSE Airbus Industrie is to boost production rates of its single-aisle family further over the next 18 months in the face of continuing high demand for the aircraft. A decision to produce a further four A320 family aircraft a month, plus any future widebody increases, will take the consortium's ...
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AlliedSignal APU cleared for use on A320 family
AlliedSignal has received US Federal Aviation Administration approval to produce its 131-9(A) auxiliary power unit (APU) for the Airbus Industrie A320 family. Programme manager Lee Jacobs says that deliveries of the 131-9(A) are scheduled to begin in September. "We have firm orders for close to 50 aircraft and ...
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Taxiing A320 collides with inflight 767
An Egyptair Airbus Industrie A320 taxiing at Cairo airport had more than 1m sliced off its tail fin by an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767-300ER which had just taken off in an incident which saw both aircraft come close to a major accident. The 767 (ET-AKW) was able to return for ...
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PW4098 snags may delay 777-300
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Certification of the Pratt & Whitney PW4098-powered Boeing 777-300 is expected to be delayed following the last-minute discovery of problems with the engine during testbed runs at the powerplant maker's East Hartford site in Connecticut. The engine "-was performing very well on the flying testbed", ...
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Dash 8 lasts longer
Bombardier Aerospace has increased the de Havilland Dash 8 maintenance A check interval from 400h to 500h and from 4,000h to 5,000h for a C check. The Toronto, Canada-based company claims these are the longest intervals for a regional aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Routes
-Alaska Airlines is to offer a twice-weekly roundtrip service from Los Angeles to La Paz in Mexico from 25 October, using a Boeing MD-80 originating in Seattle. -Aero Lloyd will operate a weekly service from Alicante, Spain to Linz, Austria, from June. -Braathens has started a three times daily service ...
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Marketplace
-World Airways has signed a three-year wet-lease agreement with Buenos Aires, Argentina-based STAF Airlines to operate a Boeing MD-11 convertible freighter on cargo services between the USA and South America, with an option for a second aircraft. -Canada 3000 has become the first operator to take delivery of the ...
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Japan supports supersonic transport research
Andrew Mollet/TOKYO The Japanese Government is again devoting a sizeable amount of its annual aerospace development funding to supersonic transport airframe and powerplant research, while slashing the budget for the stalled YS-X regional aircraft study. The supersonic transport accounts for the largest single item contained in the Ministry ...
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Fool's gold ?
Is it right to assume, in the wake of Continental Express' order for 37-seat Embraer RJ-135s to operate alongside its 50-seat ERJ-145s, that the regional turboprop is dead and that, to survive, particularly in North America, all regional airlines must move to jet-power even for their smallest needs? Or ...
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Survival of the fastest ?
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Airline industry analysts are "unabashedly bullish" over the future of regional jet aircraft, which are expected to produce fundamental changes in the airline business over the next five years. Merrill Lynch's Byron Callan says that 32- to 70-seat regional jets comprise "the most rapidly growing market segment" ...
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Continental vindication
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Continental Express' order for 25 firm plus 50 option 37-seat ERJ-135s validates Embraer's decision to derive a family of regional jets following the successful introduction of the 50-seat ERJ-145. The Brazilian manufacturer hopes that other airlines will be attracted by the "substantial" savings in training, maintenance and ...
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China plans new cargo carrier
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE China Eastern Airlines (CEA) and partner China Ocean Shipping (Cosco) are planning to launch the country's first international air cargo carrier, equipped with a fleet of converted Boeing MD-11 freighters. Local industry sources say the carrier is to be named China Air Cargo and will be a ...
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Brazilian work-out
Max Kingsley-Jones/ISLE OF MAN Julian Moxon/NANTES Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Embraer spent a long time bringing its 50-seat RJ-145 to the marketplace. It was almost a full eight years from the original EMB-145 programme launch in June 1989 to service entry with launch customer Continental Express in April 1997, with the ...
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CargoLifter plans airship freighter
CargoLifter, based at Brand airfield near Berlin in Germany, plans to begin construction next year of a huge airship freighter dubbed the CL160. The airship, which will be 242m long and have a diameter of 61m, will be able to carry its payload of 160t over distances of 10,000km, and ...
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FAA takes emergency action on Boeing wiring
The US Federal Aviation Administration has issued emergency airworthiness directives (ADs) ordering inspections of fuel tank wiring in over 1,000 older Boeing 737s, 747s and 767s. The action follows the chance discovery of a damaged wire conduit during investigations to find the source of a fuel leak on a ...
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Airborne 767 freighter set for certification
Flight Structures (FSI) and Timco expect the Boeing 767-200 cargo modification developed for Airborne Express to receive its supplemental type certificate (STC) from the US Federal Aviation Administration within the next two months. According to Michael Hugill, president of Seattle-based FSI, the modification of the first 767, one of ...
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Greenlandair expands into jets with 757 purchase
Greenlandair has taken delivery of a Boeing 757, its first jet airliner, which was scheduled to begin operations in competition with SAS on scheduled services between Greenland and Copenhagen from 12 May. The Nuuk-based airline already operates only two de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otters and four Bombardier de ...
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FlightSafety Boeing boosts Next Generation 737 fleet
FlightSafety Boeing Training International has confirmed orders for four Boeing Next Generation 737 full-flight simulators, all to be built by Flight-Safety International. The joint venture already operates two 737-700 simulators supplied by CAE Electronics. "We will be ordering additional devices from additional suppliers in the near future to support our ...