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Technically speaking
Max Kingsley-Jones/LUTON The original Boeing 757-200 was a "sleeper" in sales terms. Boeing will hope that the new model is the same. After launch orders in 1978 for the 757-200, new contracts ran at a trickle until the mid-1980s. It has been a similar story for the -300, which has ...
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R-R teams with Denel in strategic partnership
Rolls-Royce has signed its first strategic partnership agreement (SPA) with South African aerospace conglomerate Denel, it was announced at Asian Aerospace yesterday. Under the agreement, Denel Aviation becomes the sole supplier of the gearbox for the Rolls-Royce Tay engine which could generate more than $30 million of aero-engine manufacturing ...
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DC-8 badly damaged
A McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63F freighter operated by US cargo carrier Kitty Hawk was substantially damaged on Sunday when parts of two engine nacelles fell of the aircraft as it was performing its take-off rotation for a flight from Seattle Tacoma International Airport to Anchorage. Kitty Hawk spokeswoman Heather Fedele says ...
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SKF starts diversification
Bearings repair company SKF (Stand D139) has announced the establishment of a new bearing service centre in Charleston, South Carolina. The start-up is part of the company's strategy to diversify from bearing and seal sales into overhaul and repair services. SKF Aero Bearing Service Centre will service Pratt & ...
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Third hangar on course for good use at Changi
ST Aviation Services Company (SASCO), a subsidiary of Singapore Technologies Aerospace (ST Aero), has officially opened its third hangar at its Changi facilities. The hangar will soon be put to good use as the company has just signed an agreement with Boeing Airplane Services to perform passenger-to-freight (PTF) conversions ...
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Megitt displays a new milestone achievement
Meggitt (Stand A436 in the UK Pavilion) is celebrating the production of its 1,000th market-leading Secondary Flight Display System (SFDS). The first production unit was sold in March 1996 and the SFDS has been specified on 22 aircraft programmes worldwide. It is now flying on all types of ...
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Round up
EgyptAir has confirmed that its only remaining Boeing 767-300ER has been damaged during a night-landing accident at Zimbabwe's Harare International Airport late on Tuesday. The jet was en-route from Johannesburg. A spokeswoman for EgyptAir in Cairo says 94 passengers were on board. None was injured. Reports suggest that the port ...
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Life in the fasteners lane with Fairchild
Mark Hannant Eric Steiner, president of Fairchild Fasteners, finds a great deal of satisfaction looking around the show site. "Our products are something which you tend not to be able to see. Fasteners are hidden away. But everywhere I look I see products which wouldn't exist without Fairchild Fasteners." ...
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Franco moves into supply side
Franco Mancassola has been appointed executive vice-president of Italian firm Aviointeriors and he's here at Asian Aerospace showing off the company's new range of first, business and economy class seats. Mancassola was chairman and chief executive of low-cost airline Debonair before it went bust late last year. From the ...
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FAST opens new premises
Fuel Accessory Service Technologies (FAST) will formally open its new 24,000 sq ft maintenance and repair premises today at the Loyang Industrial Park close to Singapore's Changi Airport. FAST is a joint venture between Singapore International Airlines Engineering (SIAEC) and Hamilton Sundstrand and it repairs and overhauls aircraft engine ...
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Changes at the top for Dasa
German aviation giant DaimlerChrysler Aerospace (Dasa) announced yesterday at the show that chief executive designate Rainer Hertrich is to take over his new position from Manfred Bischoff when he retires on 15 March 2000. Dasa spokesman Gregor von Kursell says this shuffle will enable Hertrich to be at the ...
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Fighter engine boasts P&W engineering
The latest version of Pratt & Whitney's engine for the F-15 and F-16 fighter - the F100-PW-232 - benefits from engineering advances made in the F119 development programme for the USAF's F-22 Raptor as well as extensive operational experience with the F100-PW-229 which is statistically the safest engine in USAF ...
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New technology for Singapore
A joint venture between Pratt & Whitney, Singapore Technologies Aerospace and SIA Engineering (SIAEC) will extend P&W's hi-tech engine parts repair capability in the region. The JV will perform PW4000 turbine airfoil repairs, utilising two technologies that are new to Singapore - electron beam physical vapour deposition (EB-PVD) coating ...
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Qantas leases 767-300s
Qantas Airways is to go ahead with the lease of seven Boeing 767-300s from oneworld partner and minority investor British Airways (BA) and has unveiled a series of route changes to accompany the deliveries. Qantas deputy chief executive Geoff Dixon says the carrier's investment in the lease is "significant," but ...
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Engine repair joint venture
Singapore International Airlines Engineering (SIAEC), Pratt & Whitney and Tube Processing (TPC) have announced a three-way joint venture to repair and overhaul aircraft engine components in Singapore. A memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed at Asian Aerospace by SIAEC chief executive Mervyn Sirisena, Robert Weiner, P&W vice-president for Engine ...
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New materials allow uncooled FLIR breakthrough
BAE Systems and the UK's Defence Evaluation and Research Agency are targeting the end of this year for having what they believe is the world's first flight-cleared, uncooled fast jet Forward Looking Infra-Red (FLIR) ready for production. Early versions of the new system have been flying for the past ...
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Alliance launches testing of proposed A3XX powerplant
Karen Walker Core engine testing of the GP7200 engine, a General Electric/Pratt & Whitney joint venture proposal to power the Airbus A3XX, is set to begin next week. The core has been mounted on a test rig at GE's Cincinnati, Ohio, site in readiness for the tests, which ...
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Aero Systems joins Porter seats network
American company P L Porter Controls, which describes itself as the world's leading maker of position control systems for aircraft passenger seating, has appointed Singapore company Aero Systems to its worldwide network of product support centres, dealing specifically with the market in Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Australasia. P ...
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Boeing and SPEEA talks
Boeing has agreed to resume talks with its engineers' union yesterday in an effort to end a 15-day walkout that has severely slowed aircraft February deliveries. The manufacturer confirms it will meet with the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) under the auspices of the Federal Mediation and ...
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Boullioun selects Honeywell avionics for B737 fleet
Steve Nichols Honeywell has signed a $55-million agreement with leasing company Boullioun Aviation Services to supply a suite of avionics products for 30 firm and 30 optional new Boeing 737 Next Generation aircraft. Under the agreement Honeywell will supply its Quantum Line communication and navigation systems, weather radar ...