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GE and Airbus hold intense A340 engine negotiations
Julian Moxon/Paris General Electric and Airbus Industrie are in "intense" negotiations on a new, exclusive, very-high-bypass-ratio, power plant for the stretched, re-engined, A340-500/600. Airbus vice-president for strategic planning, Adam Brown, says that the US manufacturer is offering an "extremely exciting" power plant solution for the A340 involving ...
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Airbus achieves two firsts with delivery of A319 to Air Canada
Kevin O'Toole/Toulouse Airbus INDUSTRIE handed over the first A319 to Air Canada on 12 December, the first of the type to go into operation in North America and also the first Airbus aircraft to be delivered on a nine-month production lead time. Airbus and Boeing have ...
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Constellation prefers A320s to 737-300s
Constellation International Airlines has switched from its selection of the Boeing 737-300 to the Airbus Industrie A320 to replace its fleet of Boeing 727-200s. The Belgian charter airline will take delivery in April 1997 of two A320s on lease from International Lease Finance, in time for its 1997 ...
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Airbus studies A3XX production
Julian Moxon/Toulouse Airbus Industrie's Large Aircraft division is considering up to six potential sites in Europe for production of the 500- to 800-seat A3XX transport. "We're looking at either inland or coastal locations," says the division's senior vice-president, Jurgen Thomas. A major study launched in ...
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Kato launches Sirocco to lead R-R-powered Tu-204 effort
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW Sirocco Aerospace International has been launched in Moscow by Egypt's Kato Aromatic and its partners, to spearhead marketing for the re-engined Tupolev Tu-204-120. A list price for the aircraft, which is powered by Rolls-Royce RB.211-535s, has been set at around $36 million. The ...
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Indian Airlines selects Saab 2000s for regional services
The Saab 2000 has emerged as the winner in the competition to supply the Indian Airlines low-cost division, Alliance Air, with a 50-seat regional airliner. Alliance is planning an initial acquisition of six aircraft. Alliance, launched in April with Boeing 737-200s transferred from its parent, had been evaluating ...
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Avro delivers 300th RJ/146
Avro has delivered the 300th RJ/BAe 146 airframe, with the handing over of the second of three RJ85s for Azzurra Air of Italy. Meanwhile, Avro is understood to be in negotiations with Uzbekistan Airways on an order for three RJ85s, with deliveries scheduled for 1997. Total orders for the RJ ...
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CTA approves Emb-145
Embraer has received a type certificate from the CTA, Brazil's civil- aviation authority, covering the standard and extended-range versions of its EMB-145 aircraft. US Federal Aviation Administration certification is expected this month followed by European Joint Airworthiness Authorities approval, in January. Continental Express was due to take delivery of the ...
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Malaysia profits remain steady
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) just managed to hold profits steady over the first half of its 1996/7 financial year, but the group promises to emerge "stronger and leaner" in 1997 as restructuring continues. The group's net profit over the six months to the end of September dipped slightly ...
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Reforming Liberte
TAT president Marc Rochet prepares to lead British Airways' challenge in France. Julian Moxon/PARIS By the beginning of 1997, Marc Rochet, president since August of British Airways French subsidiary TAT, is likely to find himself president of the largest privately owned airline grouping in France. He is ...
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Russian high-speed research takes off
The joint Russian-US high-speed-research study programme moved into the flight-test stage on 29 November, when the re-activated Tupolev Tu-144LL (RA-77114) supersonic transport departed from Zhukovsky flight-test centre. The aircraft, one of 17 Tu-144s built, was completed in 1981. It was also one of five "D" models which had ...
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Northrop Grumman sues the Pentagon
Northrop Grumman has filed a $750 million lawsuit against the US Department of Defense, seeking to recover losses it incurred on the AGM-137 Tri-Service Standoff Attack Missile (TSSAM) programme which the US Air Force cancelled in 1995. The company says that the US Government violated its own procurement ...
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VPK MAPO offers Flogger upgrade
VPK MAPO is offering the Indian air force an upgrade for its fleet of Mikoyan MiG-27 Flogger strike aircraft, with an aircraft in attendence at the Bagalore air show, as well as proposing to upgrade its MiG-29 Fulcrum As to MiG-29SM standard. The Flogger would receive new cockpit avionics while ...
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Hughes exports trainer devices
Hughes Training (HTI) has secured the first international customers for its unit training device (UTD), developed to provide squadron-level training for USAir Force Lockheed Martin F-16 pilots. Jordan has ordered an F-16A UTD, South Korea has committed to six F-16 devices, and Bahrain is to buy an F-16C UTD. ...
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New Meyers develops four-seater
M300 flight-testing is scheduled to begin in early 1997 New Meyers Aircraft has begun development of a four-seat light aircraft, with certification flight-testing scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 1997. The new M300 is planned to enter production alongside the company's two-seat SP20, an updated version of ...
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Flight engineers call for world drive to improve flight safety
Andrezj Jeziorski/MUNICH The International Flight Engineers Organisation (IFEO) has highlighted six areas in which it considers that action must be taken to counter spiralling air-accident fatalities. At its 1996 general assembly in Munich, the organisation expressed "regret and dismay" at the increasing number of fatalities ...
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Finnair vacates hotel business
Finnair is flying away from its hotels and restaurants Finnair is selling control of its hotel and restaurant business as part of a broader restructuring of the group which has seen its airline profits virtually halved over the past six months. The bulk of the ...
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A Whimper, Not a Bang
There is no doubt, even among French commentators, that the privatisation of Thomson SA has been bungled, leaving the restructuring of the European aerospace industry little further than the launch pad. The latest failure to agree will undoubtedly prove to be a temporary setback, but it still means that, as ...
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Growing ambitions
Emirates has achieved a phenomenal rate of growth during its first ten years, achieving profit in all but its second year. Paul Phelan/Dubai Since its inception in 1985, Dubai-based Emirates Airlines has, on average, doubled in size every three and half years and made a profit in all ...
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Airbus and Boeing vie to modernise Indian Airlines
State-owned Indian Airlines has take the first step towards a massive overhaul of its fleet by informing manufacturers in late November that it is to replace its ageing fleet of Boeing 737-200 and A300B2/B4s. The 15 737s are operated by the recently created Indian Airlines subsidiary, Alliance ...