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Over to you, Airbus
Surprise and, in some cases, relief, have greeted Boeing's sudden decision to drop its 747-500X and -600X programme. Despite signs of back-pedalling by Boeing, the airlines and engine makers appear to have been caught off-guard, although it was the carriers' indifference which put paid to the project. Rival ...
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-Steps up tempo of long-range 777 work
Boeing has revealed new details of its plans for heavier versions of the 777, which will be led by the -200X effort, which the company hopes to launch, along with the -300X, at the time of the Paris air show in June. The projected entry-into-service date for the ...
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Cathay will launch FANS 747 flights by year's end
Cathay Pacific Airways plans to finish equipping its entire fleet of Boeing 747-400s with future-air-navigation system (FANS-1) equipment by March and hopes to be operating on the first communications, navigation and surveillance/air-traffic-management (CNS/ATM) route across the northern Pacific Ocean by the end of the year. The Hong Kong ...
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Boeing calls halt to 747-X programme
Boeing has shelved its 747-500X/600X plans, opting instead to focus on development of the 767-400ERX and 777-200X and 777-300X long-range high-capacity twins. An update of the 747-400 is now a possibility. Boeing Commercial Airplane group "senior officers" decided on the sudden move at a meeting in mid-January, but the announcement ...
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R-R and airlines wrangle over cost of -524G/H problems
Rolls-Royce is facing demands that it bear the brunt of the massive costs airlines are incurring because of reliability and performance shortfalls of their RB.211-524G/H engines. The problems, which affect more than 100 RB.211-powered Boeing 747-400s and 767-300s, are estimated already to have cost the airlines more than $200 million ...
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Fairchild Dornier selects P&WC for new turbofan-powered 328
Fairchild Dornier has selected Pratt &Whitney Canada to supply a powerplant for the proposed turbofan-powered derivative of its 328 regional turboprop aircraft. According to North American sources, the companies were poised to sign a contract at the time of going to press, once a final offset question had ...
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P&W proposes Asian F-16 engine upgrade
Pratt & Whitney is pushing its further improved F100-229 Increased Performance Engine (IPE) (Plus) to Asian air forces as an upgrade option for the Lockheed Martin F-16C/D, with Singapore and South Korea likely candidates for the upgrade. The engine, which has also been designated as the -229A, is ...
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Tanks for business 737
Boeing has placed a long-term order of more than $100 million with Colombia, Maryland-based PATS for long-range fuel tanks to be installed as standard on its corporate derivative of the 737-700, the Boeing Business Jet. Source: Flight International
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Calibration shortlist
Japan's Civil Aviation Bureau (JCAB)has narrowed its choice of new flight-inspection aircraft down to the de Havilland Dash 8-300 and Saab 2000, and expects to make its final selection on 13 February. The Japanese require five aircraft to replace six elderly Nihon YS-11 turboprops. Plans call for first two flight-calibration ...
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Atlas buys PAL 747-200
US all-cargo carrier Atlas Air has purchased a General Electric CF6-powered Boeing 747-200B, now operated by Philippine Airlines on lease. The aircraft will be converted into freighter configuration. Source: Flight International
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Embraer's ExpressJet
Continental Express' new 50-seat Embraer EMB-145s will initiate "ExpressJet" services from Cleveland on 1 March to Greensboro, Hartford, Milwaukee, St Louis and Minneapolis. Source: Flight International
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Southwest hushes
AvAero has been selected by Southwest Airlines to supply Stage 3 hushkits for 20 Boeing 737-200s. The airline's all-737 fleet includes 50 737-200s, and options have been placed for 14 more shipsets. Source: Flight International
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Sundstrand
APS500 The APS500 is used on the Embraer EMB-145 regional jet, Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-100/200/300 and EMB-120 turboprops, and the Hawker 800 business jet. APS1000 The APS1000 is fitted to the British Aerospace 146/Avro RJ, Fokker 50 and Saab 2000. ...
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Who pays, wins
RAYTHEON HAS PAID a high price to perform the last major act in US aerospace-industry consolidation - or perhaps the second-to-last, because the failure of Northrop Grumman's bid to dominate the US defence-electronics industry places a question mark over the company's future direction. Bids for Hughes started at ...
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Reaching for free flight
Forecasts of extraordinary growth in civil air traffic have become commonplace. The details vary, but a projected doubling of traffic by 2010 and a tripling by 2020 are widely accepted. There is just one problem - those numbers are not feasible, given the existing operational infrastructure. The problem is worst ...
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Engine loan
The Canadian Government is to provide Pratt & Whitney Canada with a $109 million repayable loan, two-thirds of which will be used to help finance development of the PW150 turboprop engine to power Bombardier's Dash 8-400 high-speed, 70-seat, regional airliner. The loan will be repaid from royalties on engine sales. ...
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HAESL poised to open its doors
Rolls-Royce and Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering (HAECO) are planning to open their new joint-venture engine-test and overhaul site at Tseung Kwan O at the end of February. Phase one of the new $120 million Hong Kong Aero Engine Services (HAESL) centre is now virtually complete. Its 580kN (130,000lb)-thrust ...
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China Eastern prepares to list in New York and Hong Kong
China Eastern Airlines has taken the initial steps towards a share listings on the New York and Hong Kong stock exchange, which will make it the first mainland Chinese carrier to undergo a public flotation. The Shanghai-based airline has filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission and ...
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Building a new India
Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) boss R N Sharma's announcement at the Aero India '96 show in December that he intended to start negotiations to license-build a 50-seat turboprop, and to buy a stake in a regional-jet programme, raised a few smiles among the Indian press corps. They had heard it all ...
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Building for the future
In the race to WIN what promises to be one of the world's largest air-transport markets in the 21st century, aircraft manufacturers in recent years have been busy beating a path to Beijing bearing all manner of industrial and infrastructural inducements. Airbus Industrie is about to take the wraps of ...