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Spinning a Web
KAREN WALKER WASHINGTON DC A smart and easy-to-use web site may become an airline's most powerful tool for retaining control over the customer. But most carriers have a lot of work ahead of them before their sites meet passenger expectations. Airline managers might want to try an experiment: log on ...
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Cause and effect
The aircraft ghosts in to land, the loudest sound being the squeal of tyres on touchdown. Engine noise, so long the bane of aircraft and airport developers alike, has been banished to the history books. What is more, the only significant emission from this generation of powerplants is completely ...
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Germany shapes engine of the future
Germany is easing the way forward for its aero-engine companies to design cleaner, quieter, more efficient powerplants over the next decade Germany's Engine 3E (E3E) programme was launched to ensure that the country's aeroengine companies, BMW Rolls-Royce (now R-R GmbH) and MTU, are prepared for the demands that will ...
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Custom eyes TriStar conversions
Custom Air Transport is confident it can find customers to allow 10 of the 16 Lockheed L-1011 TriStar 200s it acquired from Saudi Arabian Airlines to be converted into either commercial freighters or military tankers. Custom Air believes it could place some aircraft with passenger airlines. The Fort Lauderdale-based ...
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Marketplace
Air Seychelles has signed a 10-year lease deal with ILFC for a General Electric CF6-80C2-powered Boeing 767-300ER, for delivery in April 2001. Swiss charter carrier Edelweiss Air has agreed to lease a new Airbus A330-200 from CIT Group from the fourth quarter of 2000. The Rolls-Royce Trent 772B-powered A330-200 is ...
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Ibis rolls out Ae270
Ibis Aerospace, the joint venture of Czech company Aero Vodochody and Taiwan's Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC), rolled out its Ae270 single-engined turboprop in Prague on 10 December. The Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-42A-powered aircraft, the first of five prototypes, will begin flight testing in February, with US and Czech ...
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Chinese cropsprayer faces re-engining for N American market
Canadian Aerospace Group International (CASG) is looking for a new 300-410kW (400-550shp)-class engine to power the single-engined Hongdu N-5A agricultural aircraft, which it has agreed to market in North America for China's Nanchung Aircraft Manufacturing company. The two-seat cropduster was originally powered by the Textron Lycoming IO-720, but production ...
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Wolfsberg-Evektor sets date for prototype Raven first flight
Andrew Doyle/PRAGUE Czech/Belgian joint venture Wolfsberg-Evektor Aircraft aims to fly its prototype eight-passenger Raven in May, in time for the utility aircraft to be exhibited at the Farnborough air show in July. The Raven, powered by two 223kW (300hp) Teledyne Continental IO-550-Ns, is built at Evektor-Aerotechnik's factory in ...
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Tangara delayed 'indefinitely'
Francois Legros/PARIS Socata, the light aircraft subsidiary of France's Aerospatiale Matra, has delayed indefinitely certification of its TB360 twin-engined Tangara. Chairman and chief executive Philippe Debrun says Socata "preferred to mobilise its energy and skills in aircraft that are ready and can be sold at once, rather than deploying ...
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Boeing adds 163 'unidentified' orders to swell backlog list
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Boeing has added 163 aircraft to its firm order backlog by revoking its policy of not listing sales to unidentified customers. The aircraft, ordered over the past two years, are valued at $9 billion. The US manufacturer says its move to "adopt an industry-wide practice" ...
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Boeing unveils X-32 demonstrators
Guy Norris/PALMDALEBoeing unexpectedly rolled out both its X-32 Joint Strike Fighter concept demonstrators during a 14 December ceremony at its plant in Palmdale, California. The conventional take-off and landing (CTOL) X-32A had been expected to make an appearance, but the short take-off, vertical landing (STOVL) X-32B's presence (above) was a ...
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Boeing's third milestone
Boeing was planning to deliver the last MD-80 series twinjet from Long Beach, California, on 21 December, marking the third major milestone in as many weeks for the company's narrowbodied aircraft. The final MD-83 is the 1,191st in the -80 series, and the last of 26 aircraft delivered to ...
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SAS Commuter's first Dash 8 Q400 prepares to enter service
The first of at least 19 Bombardier Dash 8 Q400s is poised to enter service with SAS Commuter. Certification by Europe's Joint Aviation Authorities has cleared the way for deliveries of the high-speed 70-seater to begin (Flight International, 15-21 December). The Q400s will operate from Copenhagen and Stockholm. Source: Flight ...
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IAE studies options for V2500 applications beyond A320
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES International Aero Engines (IAE) is studying options on longer-term potential developments of the V2500 engine to power a new generation of aircraft to replace the Airbus Industrie A320 and Boeing 737 families. The move comes after the Pratt & Whitney/Rolls-Royce-led consortium dropped its initial "-A7" growth ...
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Merpati considers help from SIA
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE Singapore Airlines (SIA) may be called in to act as management consultant to troubled Indonesian carrier Merpati Nusantara, according to the Indonesian Government. "It is possible that SIA may co-operate with Merpati," says Indonesian communications minister Agum Gumelar, who ruled out a rumoured similar tie-up with ...
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CF34-8C1 approval
General Electric has received US Federal Aviation Administration certification for the CF34-8C1, marking the end of a three-year test effort. The engine is in flight test on 70-seat Bombardier's Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) 700, for which it is rated at 56.4kN (12,679lb) and 61.3kN at maximum take-off auxiliary power reserve ...
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Irish lessor Pembroke confirms its deal to boost 717 orders
Pembroke has placed orders for 15 more Boeing 717-200s and taken a further 15 options, raising its total commitment for the 100-seater to 50 aircraft, of which half are firm orders. The Irish lessor's plans for the follow-on order have been revealed exclusively by Flight International in September (1-7 ...
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Workshop
FLS Aerospace (FLSA) and Rockwell Collins Aviation Services have joined forces to pursue and provide nose-to-tail maintenance and support in Europe. Meanwhile, FLSA has received a €5.1 million ($5.09 million), three-year contract from the UK arm of Maersk Air, covering heavy maintenance of five Boeing 737-500s based at Birmingham, UK. ...
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Russia plans manual Y2K override
Alex Velovich/MOSCOW Russia's Federal Service of Air Transport (FSVT) will have extra staff on 31 December/1January to take over air traffic control and other procedures manually if necessary, says FSVT director Vladimir Andreyev. Although the FSVT is predicting a smooth Y2K transition for Russian commercial aviation, only half of ...
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Where to build
Vital decisions have yet to be made on A3XX assembly Andrew Doyle/HAMBURG Julian Moxon/TOULOUSE The location for final assembly of the A3XX remains the only major technical decision for the consortium following the 8 December decision to go ahead with a limited commercial offer to the airlines. The original ...