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777X firms up as engine choice hangs in balance
General Electric has offered Boeing substantial financing to assist in the development of the 777-200X and 777-300X in exchange for an exclusive position to power the aircraft with a development of its GE90. The US engine builder, offering the GE90-11XB, is believed to have made the offer as part ...
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Lease deals swell A320 family
Airbus has secured deals for its A320 family from major leasing companies in Europe and the Far East. Together the two orders will see the airframe builder's orderbook swell by around $2.5 billion. Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (SALE) has ordered 23 A320 family aircraft in a deal worth over ...
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Dasa weighs up Aerostar stake
DaimlerChrysler Aerospace (Dasa) is in partnership talks with Romania's Aerostar and is considering taking an equity stake in the aircraft upgrade specialist, which is to be privatised. In a separate move, Aerostar and Thomson-CSF Communications have announced the formation of a Romania-based joint venture to manufacture and supply identification ...
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Embraer pushes stretch plan
Embraer has advanced development of the planned 108-seat stretch version of the ERJ-170/190 regional jet on the back of a massive $4.9 billion order from Crossair and will complete the selection of all remaining subsystem and structural suppliers within the month. Crossair's launch order comprises 30 ERJ-170s and an ...
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$2bn orders take ERJ-135/145 sales to over 900
Seven airlines placed orders for up to 103 Embraer ERJ-135s and 145s worth almost $2 billion during the show . The orders from InterCanadian, KLMexel, Rheintalflug, Proteus Airlines, Skyways, Alitalia and Crossair take the total orders and options for the 37/50-seat regional jet family to over 900. Canadian Airlines' ...
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Dassault discusses Falcon re-engining
Dassault aviation has confirmed that it is talking to engine manufacturers on possible re-engining of the twin-engined Falcon 2000 business jet to give the aircraft more range. A company source says the studies are at a "preliminary level" and would not result in the aircraft being offered with a ...
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JSF supplier teams close to being named
Boeing and Lockheed Martin plan to finalise their competing Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) international supplier teams by the end of the year in readiness for the submission of draft proposals for the follow-on engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase. The JSF programme office is drawing up cost targets for ...
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IAE safe as Pratt & Whitney aims PW8000 at higher thrust
The future of International Aero Engines (IAE) appears to be assured after Pratt & Whitney's move to shift the main focus of its PW8000 study engine from the A320 to the longer-range A340-500/600 family. The move, prompted largely by Airbus, coincides with IAE's announcement to look into a higher-thrust ...
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Sukhoi displays 900-seater concept
Sukhoi has unveiled its design for a double-deck airliner bigger than the Airbus A3XX. Sukhoi is displaying a 1/24th scale model of the 860/1,000-seat KR-860. The four-engined aircraft is equipped with two widebody cabins, the main deck featuring a 12-abreast triple aisle configuration while the upper deck has a nine-abreast ...
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Airbus partners settle A318 squabble over launch costs
The Airbus Industrie partners have resolved their differences over A318 launch costs after agreeing to allow any A319 production overspill to be transferred from Hamburg to Toulouse. "All the issues have been resolved and there is a written industrial agreement which will enable the A318 to enter service in ...
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APG-66(V) to go solo on market
Northrop Grumman plans to market its improved APG-66(V) multi-mode radar as a standalone upgrade as well as part of Lockheed Martin's F-16A/B mid-life update (MLU). The radar-only upgrade will cost less than $600,000 and provide 25% more range and 50% better reliability, says Thomas Lupica, director APG-66/68 programmes. ...
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France unwraps secret Eagle UAV
Matra BAe Dynamics has revealed its Eagle high altitude, long endurance unmanned air vehicle (UAV), a programme for the French Ministry of Defence which was secret until the show. The 20m (65ft)-span demonstrator first flew last October when it underwent trials, operating 4,000km (2,160nm) from its base, from where it ...
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Germany plans RLV flights
DaimlerChrysler Aerospace (Dasa) is to build a demonstrator to develop reuseable launch vehicle (RLV) technology, with test flights to begin in 2002. The 6m (20ft)-long, rocket-powered Phoenix demonstrator is intended as a testbed for RLV technologies that could later be applied to a longer-term, two-stage to orbit RLV programme ...
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Hurel-Dubois finds customer for new thrust reverser
Hurel-Dubois has secured the launch order for its novel Papillion thrust reverser design after being selected to equip the Pratt & Whitney PW6000 on the Airbus A318. Hurel-Dubois has been subcontracted to provide the thrust-reverser to nacelle specialist Aircell, which itself has been selected to supply the entire system ...
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Leasing giant ILFC expands portfolio
US leasing giant ILFC has added as many as 160 aircraft to its portfolio with the announcement of major orders for Airbus and Boeing narrowbodies. The company wants up to 100 Boeing Next Generation 737s, bringing the number of Boeing aircraft ordered by the leasing company over the past ...
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Paris market
Boullioun Aviation Services has announced new lease deals for six Boeing aircraft to four customers at the show. Deutsche BA is leasing three new Boeing 737-300s in Boullioun's first euro-denominated transaction. The aircraft will be delivered to Deutsche BA in the second half of this year. The company is placing ...
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Strength to strength
BWIA gears up for premier position in the Caribbean Max Kingsley-Jones/TRINIDADOver recent years, BWIA International Airways has regularly pledged to turn itself around financially and to update its fleet. Those promises, however, have been empty, and efforts to restructure the airline have come to nothing - until now. Late last ...
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Caribbean competition
Until last year, BWIA had exclusive status as the sole designated national carrier of Trinidad and Tobago. That changed in November, when its local rival, privately owned Air Caribbean, was recognised by the country's government as the second national carrier. "The government has adopted an 'open skies' strategy and ...
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Routes
Belgian long haul airline City Bird will operate a weekly flight linking Brussels and Point-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, from 30 October-29 April next year, under an agreement with tour operator Nouvelles Frontières. The agreement strengthens collaboration with Nouvelles Frontières on City Bird routes to the USA. Crossair will start a midday service ...
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Alitalia commits to $1 billion fleet upgrade
Andy Nativi/GENOA Alitalia has committed to a L2,000 billion ($1.1 billion) fleet upgrade of its Alitalia Express and widebody fleets, despite facing strike action by its workforce and downgraded performance estimates for the year. The airline's board has approved the purchase of five Boeing 747-400s, with deliveries from the ...