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CIS buys 757s and 767s
Boeing has taken orders for 757s and 767s worth almost $400 million from CIS carriers. Two 767-300ERs and one 757 have been ordered by Uzbekistan Airways, while the National Civil Aviation Authority of Turkmenistan has ordered two 757s. The Turkmenistan carrier already operates a single 757 and three Boeing 737-300s. ...
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United fined after 747 breaks noise limits
UNITED AIRLINES HAS been fined A$15,000 ($11,000) for violating Sydney's new noise-limiting flight-paths, after a United Boeing 747-400 diverged 2km (1nm) off a designated corridor in April, also crossing the approach path of another runway. AirServices Australia says that it is "...investigating, with a view to prosecution, a ...
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Airbus should not fuss about 737
Up Tempo Sir - I do not understand Airbus Industrie's concern over the fact that, the Boeing 737 is allowed to be certificated to an older standard. Surely passengers will be so appreciative of the new safety standards to which Airbus aircraft are certificated that they will seek ...
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Fokker 70 trials nearing completion
Fokker says that completion of flight trials of the Fokker 70 in Granada, Spain, clearing the aircraft for steep descents to airports such as London City is "imminent". European Joint Airworthiness Authorities approval will allow Air France to introduce Fokker 70s now operated by Air Littoral in time for the ...
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Saudis finally sign for 61 airliners
SAUDI ARABIA has signed a $6 billion deal to buy 61 US-built airliners on 26 October, but details of financing have yet to be revealed. The order, to re-equip state-owned Saudi Arabian Airlines, consists of 23 Boeing 777-200s and five 747-400s, worth around $4 billion, plus 29 McDonnell Douglas (MDC) ...
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SAS ups 737 buy to 41
Scandinavian Airlines System has increased its Boeing 737-600 launch order to 41 firm orders and 35 on option, an increase in six firm orders over the initial announcement. The first 737-600s will be delivered to SAS in August 1998. Source: Flight International
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Chinese A320 boost
Airbus Industrie has ordered an A320 flight simulator from Thomson Training and Simulation for use at its new integrated China support centre, under construction at Beijing Capital Airport. The $15 million A320 simulator is the first of two systems planned for the Beijing site. It is scheduled for installation by ...
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Embraer delivers 300th Brasilia
EMBRAER HAS DELIVERED its 300th EMB-120 Brasilia, the third for one of Brazil's newest airlines, Interbrasil Star. The company is the regional-branch airline of Transbrasil: it started operations on 3 July and now flies three EMB-120s on routes out of the capital Brasilia and Sao Jose do Rio Preto in ...
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SIA warms to 777-100X
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE SINGAPORE AIRLINES is showing increasing interest in the extra-long-range Boeing 777-100X, and was given detailed briefings with 12 other major carriers on the aircraft during a "brain-storming" session in Seattle at the start of October. Other airlines attending the 777-100X briefing included Cathay Pacific, ...
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International tactics
Taiwan's international carriers are engaged in a bitter battle for market share. Paul Lewis/TAIPEI COMPETITION IS heating up between Taiwan's two established international players, flag carrier China Airlines (CAL) and four-year-old Eva Airways. Ambitious fleet-expansion plans, the opening up of profitable trunk routes to Hong Kong and ...
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SIA shifts 'Y-aircraft' goalposts
SINGAPORE AIRLINES (SIA) has changed the requirements for its "Y-aircraft" competition and increased the number of aircraft required, to cover a wider range of weight and size options. Rival airframe and engine manufacturers have all resubmitted their tenders to meet SIA's new requirement for a larger family of ...
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Embraer
Brazilian airframe manufacturer Embraer has appointed Mauricio Botelho president and chief executive. He replaces Juarez Wanderley, who was the interim president during the transition period, which followed the carrier's privatisation. Wanderley becomes vice-president of industry under a new management structure. Botelho has held management positions in engineering, telecommunications, automation systems ...
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IR energy to be used for de-icing
AN AIRCRAFT DE-ICING system in which infra-red (IR) heaters are used instead of environmentally damaging glycol-based fluids is ready to become operational at airports at Rheinlander, Wisconsin, and Rochester, New York. A prototype, developed by Process Technologies of Cheektowaga, New York, has already been tested at Greater Buffalo ...
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Meggitt displays Gulfstream deal
Andrew Doyle/FAREHAM GULFSTREAM HAS selected Meggitt Aerospace's secondary flight-display system as an option for its GIV and GV business jets, following the completion of flight trials earlier this year. The deal follows Cessna's recent decision to include the system in the Citation X business jet. The ...
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Enough is enough for falling economy- class standards
Sir - I congratulate Mr Bamberg on his letter about British Airways' expenditure on first-class improvements (Flight International, 11-17 October, P49). I frequently fly London-Sydney (in economy and business class). BA and Qantas offer poor long-haul economy class and the seats are no better than a London Hyde Park deck ...
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Chinese start recruiting for Hong Kong start-up
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CHINA NATIONAL Aviation (CNAC) is pressing ahead with plans to establish a Hong Kong-based international airline, at the same time as negotiating to purchase a 10% stake in Dragonair The new CNAC carrier, provisionally named China Hong Kong, has already begun to recruit ...
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Island of change
The growth of civil aviation in Taiwan has been phenomenal - and expansion looks like continuing. Brent Hannon/TAIPEI SINCE DEREGULATION in 1987, the growth of aviation inside Taiwan has been rapid. By historical coincidence, the opening of the skies came in the same year that the Taiwanese were ...
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Latest Galileo failure threatens the Cassini
Tim Furniss/WASHINGTON DC A FAULTY TAPE recorder aboard NASA's $1.4 billion Galileo spacecraft could prevent much of its data and images being returned from the planet Jupiter this December, after its protracted six-year journey across the solar system. Should it prove impossible to correct the ...
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A dying breed
VALUJET EFFECTIVELY (and finally) launched the McDonnell Douglas (MDC) MD-95 on 19 October, with an order for 50. The deal will be seen by some as the launch of the last of the old-style regional jets, but its pricing appears to be all too modern. Either way, ValuJet's order will ...
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Indecision rules in Asia
China and South Korea must overcome major stumbling blocks if they are to realise their ambition of building a 100-seat aircraft. Paul Lewis/BEIJING TIME IS RUNNING out for two of Asia's aspiring aviation nations. One year after announcing ambitious plans to share the building of ...