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Digital gyro deal
Airbus Industrie has selected Honeywell's GG1320 digital ring-laser gyro as a replacement for analogue ring-laser gyros in its A319, A320, A321, A330 and A340 types. The GG1320 is scheduled to be certificated on the A320 as part of the US avionics manufacturer's air-data/inertial-reference system in December. It will then be ...
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Lufthansa plans to cut fleet as first-half profits fall
Andrzej Jeziorski/HAMBURG LUFTHANSA IS TO STEP up cost-cutting measures and reduce its fleet, in an effort to combat an unforeseen stagnation in traffic growth which has left the German group with a significant drop in profits for the first half of the year. Pre-tax profits amounted to DM119 million ($80 ...
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Safety standards must be consistent
Sir - Like Steve Kirby, in his letter "Engines should be treated separately" (Flight International, 14-20 August, P40), I was reminded of the US National Transportation Safety Board accident report on the 5 May, 1983, Lockheed L-1011 TriStar oil-loss incident. There were lessons to be learned from that near-accident, which ...
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China Eastern to go public
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CHINA EASTERN Airlines has been given the go-ahead to have its shares listed on the New York and Hong Kong stock exchanges by the end of the year, says a senior Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) official. The Shanghai-based carrier, together with ...
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FLS launches cargo-conversion project
FLS Aerospace has received its first contract for the conversion of a Boeing 727 to cargo configuration, launching its participation in this market. The Stansted, UK-based aircraft-maintenance company has received a contract from Dublin-based aircraft-management/leasing company European Capital/ Naabi, for the conversion of an ex-Continental Airlines Boeing 727-200 ...
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Manx takes over BA's 'loss-making' Scottish services
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON BRITISH AIRWAYS is to withdraw from its loss-making network of services in the Scottish "Highlands and Islands", and the operations taken over by its franchise affiliate Manx Airlines. The network, which is now served by BA's fleet of British Aerospace ATPs, includes services ...
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American breaks new ground with warning system
AMERICAN AIRLINES, which suffered a Boeing 757 controlled-flight-into-terrain accident in December 1995 near Cali, Colombia, is the launch customer for AlliedSignal Aerospace's new enhanced ground-proximity warning system (EGPWS). The system is expected to be awarded US Federal Aviation Administration certification in October. The US carrier has placed a $20 million ...
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New Munich Airport is 'too small'
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH LUFTHANSA IS WARNING that it will soon encounter shortages of terminal capacity at Munich Airport, just a year after declaring its intention to turn the new airport into a major hub. "We have one problem in Munich: the airport is too small," says Christoph ...
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BWIA confirms cancelled Airbus orders
GILLES FILIATREAULT, incoming chief executive at BWIA International Airways, has confirmed that the Caribbean carrier does not intend to take two Airbus A340-300s it had ordered. Filiatreault says that, when he took over the job in August, he was reassured by BWIA's shareholders that the Airbus orders were effectively cancelled. ...
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Airbus expects more United orders
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE says that it believes it is "very well placed" to win further orders for narrowbody aircraft from United Airlines following the airline's choice of the 126-seat A319 to replace its Boeing 737-200s. The consortium beat tough competition from Boeing, offering its next-generation 737, to further consolidate ...
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Air Philippines plans
Alec Almazan/MANILA AIR PHILIPPINES is planning to launch new regional services and expand its domestic network, using five Boeing 737-200s which it will introduce through to the end of the year. Further expansion is envisaged, with the acquisition of widebodied types planned. The ten-month-old carrier now ...
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Qantas aims to keep on saving
QANTAS CHAIRMAN Gary Pemberton has warned that, despite improved profits, further fleet expansion will have to be backed by renewed cost savings. Qantas ended its latest financial year to the end of June with net profits up by more than one-third at A$247 million ($190 million), comfortably ahead ...
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Horizon Dash 8 order signals end for Dorniers
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES HORIZON AIR of Seattle, Washington, has placed orders and options, worth potentially more than $750 million, for up to 70 de Havilland Dash 8-200/300 turboprops. The huge deal, which includes firm orders for 25 Dash 8s, spells the end of Horizon's Fairchild Dornier 328 ...
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Boeing will step up 777
Boeing will boost 777 production to seven a month in July 1997. The 777 line is rising to three and a half a month by October, and will rise to five a month for the first half of 1997. The company has also announced plans to employ 5,000 ...
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Boeing faces delay in plans to launch its longer-range 777X
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES BOEING'S PLANS to launch an ultra-long range version of the 777 for service entry by May 1999 are expected to be delayed by airline uncertainty over the derivative choice, and the emergence of new offerings from Airbus and McDonnell Douglas (MDC). Boeing announced ...
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Boeing will step up 777 output
Boeing will boost 777 production to seven a month in July 1997. The 777 line is rising to three and a half a month by October, and will rise to five a month for the first half of 1997. The company has also announced plans to employ 5,000 ...
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GE/P&W work out details of 747-X joint-venture plan
US ENGINE manufacturers General Electric and Pratt & Whitney have agreed many of the details of their 50/50 joint-venture agreement to produce powerplants for the Boeing new-generation 747-500/600X and Airbus Industrie A3XX. The new company, to be known as the GE-P&W Engine Alliance, is to locate final assembly ...
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Rohr relaunches Valsan 727 re-engineing programme
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES ROHR, THE CALIFORNIA-based nacelle manufacturer, has launched the "Super 27" Boeing 727 re-engineing programme which lapsed with the failure of the Valsan 727RE "Quiet 727" effort. The company, supported by Pratt & Whitney, will offer to re-engine predominantly late-production 727-200 Advanced models ...
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First Boeing 737-700 fuselage approaches completion
THE FIRST fuselage for Boeing's New Generation 737 family is nearing completion at the company's Wichita factory. The 737-700 fuselage, pictured above in an integration tool, will be shipped by train to the final assembly line at Renton, Washington, in one piece. The first flight of the new 737 has ...
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New Chinese A320 customers revealed
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE is set to expand its Chinese operator base, following an agreement to allocate units from the previously unplaced batch of 20 A320s to China Northwest Airlines and Zhejiang Airlines. Under a deal reached with state-run China Aviation Supplies (CASC), ten A320s will be delivered to China ...