Airframers – Page 1563
-
News
A3XX programme gathers momentum as MoU is signed with Rolls-Royce
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Julian Moxon/PARIS Airbus Industrie's plans to compete head-on with Boeing in the large airliner market are gathering momentum, with the consortium concluding the first agreement with an engine manufacturer to provide a power plant for the new aircraft. Airbus and Rolls-Royce signed a memorandum ...
-
News
Ansett A330-200 order decision imminent
Max Kingsley-Jones/London Ansett Australia says that it will decide by the end of the year whether to become the Australasian launch customer for the Airbus Industrie A330-200, which would see it placing orders for up to 14 aircraft for delivery starting in mid-1998. According to the ...
-
News
Alitalia/Alpi Eagles conclude codeshare deal
Marco Messalla/ROME Alitalia and Italian low-cost carrier Alpi Eagles have agreed a code-sharing deal, which includes the transfer of five Fokker 70s from Alitalia's former regional subsidiary Avianova -which has now been absorbed into the national carrier. Code-sharing operations will begin on 11 November, with Alpi ...
-
News
Fairchild Dornier nears engine selection on 328 jet
Guy Norris/Palm Springs Fairchild Dornier expects to select a turbofan for its proposed 30-seat 328-300 "later this month", according to vice-president for sales, Andrew Jampoler, and is targeting an entry- into-service date for the new aircraft of late 1998. Engines being considered include General Electric's CFE738, ...
-
News
Volga passengers
The Russian heavyweight cargo specialist Volga-Dnepr Airlines has begun scheduled passenger services between its base in Ulyanovsk and Moscow. The carrier is flying 30-seater Yakovlev Yak-40s on the route, leased from the Ulyanovsk-based regional airline JSC Simbirsk Aero, which ceased flying in September because of debts of over 14 billion ...
-
News
Reverser suspected in TAM Fokker crash
Pilot exclamations on the cockpit voice recorder of the crashed TAM Brazilian Fokker 100 (Flight International, 6-12 November) have led investigators to suspect that the No 2 engine thrust-reverser may have operated in flight, say sources close to the investigation. This is supposed to be impossible, because the thrust-reverser actuators ...
-
News
Canadian future is threatened if cost cuts are not endorsed
Brian Dunn/MONTREAL Canadian Airlines International could be forced out of business by the turn of the year if employees and shareholders fail to endorse a sweeping programme of cost-cutting being proposed by the management, warns president Kevin Benson. The cost cuts, which are planned to add ...
-
News
Lockheed Martin starts non-core asset disposal
Lockheed Martin has begun the promised disposal of non-core assets, with the sale of two armaments units to General Dynamics (GD)for an agreed price of $450 million. Lockheed Martin's Defense Systems and Armament Systems units, both of which employ around 1,600 workers, were originally part of the GE ...
-
News
New Snecma chief aims
The new president of French engine manufacturer Snecma, Jean-Paul Béchat, says that the company's debt will be halved by the year-end, with "balanced books by the end of 1997". He is also making headway in attempts to avoid a sell-off of group subsidiaries - the prospect being faced by his ...
-
News
Transavia makes 'D-Check' on cost base
Peter Legro, chairman of KLM subsidiary Transavia, says that the spiralling reduction in European air fares and the resultant erosion of yields has forced it to make a bottom-up study of its operations, to cut costs. "We are looking at every aspect of the airline, from the in-flight ...
-
News
AE-100 engine competition accelerates as rivals fight
The competition to power China's planned AE-100 passenger aircraft is intensifying, with rival engine manufacturers extending increasingly more attractive offers of industrial co-operation and co-production. Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) has stipulated that the joint venture will select an engine primarily on the basis of performance, reliability and ...
-
News
Admit it
If anyone in global air-transport still believes that the legal minimum standards for airline pilot training are adequate for today's aircraft and air-traffic enviroment, they would do well to read the official report on the Birgenair Boeing 757 accident (P14). It states that the pilots involved in the accident, although ...
-
News
Hobart and Mak launch ground-power units
Hobart Aircraft Ground Power has introduced a 90kVA ground-power unit (GPU), driven by a Deutz water-cooled engine. The GPU was launched at the InterAirport '96 show, held in Atlanta, Georgia, in October. The GPU combines an electrically governed Deutz engine with a generator designed by Troy, Ohio-based Hobart. ...
-
News
Russian Mars 96 probe is ready for November launch
Mars 96, Russia's contribution to an international three-craft exploration of the Red Planet, is due to be launched by a Proton K booster from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 16 November. It will follow the US Mars Global Surveyor, launched on 7 November, and the Mars Pathfinder, set for a 2 ...
-
News
USAir and Emirates boost Airbus
Ramon Lopez/Washington DC and Max Kingsley-Jones/London Airbus Industrie has won two significant orders, securing agreements with USAir for up to 400 single-aisle aircraft and with Emirates for as many as 23 A330-200s. Both deals were won in the face of fierce competition from Boeing and McDonnell Douglas. ...
-
News
Boeing considers options for fixing 737 rudder units
Guy Norris/SEATTLE Boeing is sifting through the data from worldwide inspections of almost 2,700, 737 rudder power-control units (PCUs) and will make recommendations on possible design changes to the US Federal Aviation Administration by the end of the month. The action follows an alert service-bulletin from ...
-
News
Boeing ups 777-200X weights
Boeing's studies of a heavyweight, very-long-range "-200X" derivative of the standard-body 777 are now focusing on an even heavier maximum take-off-weight design which has a strengthened wing, increased fuel capacity and a new wingtip design. "We're getting feedback from the airlines on these models", says 777 product development ...
-
News
Flightwest forced to halve fleet size after regulations foil expansion plan
FLIGHTWEST AIRLINES of Australia is to slash its fleet capacity by diposing of more than half of its aircraft after expansion plans were thwarted by Government regulations and a lack of support from its partner, Ansett. The Queensland-based regional airline will dispose of its ten Embraer Bandeirantes, six ...
-
News
BA 777 transatlantic
British Airways initiated transatlantic services with its Boeing 777s on 27 October, between London Heathrow and Boston. Until now, the airline has been forced to deploy the 777 on its Gulf routes, because of the delay in extended-range twin-engined operations approval of the General Electric GE90-powered version. BA will launch ...
-
News
Northwest orders RJ85s for Mesaba
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC NORTHWEST AIRLINES has placed a $300 million order with Aero International (Regional) (AI(R) for 12 Avro RJ85 regional airliners, for operation by its feeder partner Mesaba Airlines. The deal, which includes options for 24 more RJ85s, is the first order for the aircraft from ...