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BMW R-R makes a start on MTU test co-operation
BMW Rolls-Royce has started conducting final tests on series-produced BR710 turbofans at MTU Ludwigsfelde, marking the start of new co-operation between Germany's two aero-engine manufacturers. The companies signed the test contract in November 1996, and have now collectively invested DM8.4 million ($5 million) in modernising and upgrading MTU's ...
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FedEx outlines fleet plan uncertainties
Federal Express has revealed that it could be required to take near-term delivery of 26 more McDonnell Douglas DC-10s and Boeing MD-11s than planned, under the terms of its aircraft-purchase agreements with American and United Airlines. These aircraft will be in addition to planned purchases worth $1.33 billion between now ...
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EC promises review after attack on EGNOS
Julian Moxon/PARIS The European Commission (EC)has promised a complete review of the region's plans for global-navigation-satellite systems (GNSS)by the end of the year, following complaints from airlines that the existing programme should be halted. The Association of European Airlines (AEA) raised the issue early in October ...
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Marketplace
marketplace ++ CS Aviation Services has placed an ex-Alitalia Airbus A300B4 freighter with the Dutch general sales agents Jet Link Holland. Delivery is scheduled for February following conversion by BAe Aviation Services. ++ New Argentinian airline AeroVIP has leased three Jetstream 32EPs from British Aerospace Asset Management - ...
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Qantas considers A340/777 competition
Qantas' new order will lift its 747-40 Qantas is evaluating the Airbus and Boeing 300-seat models, and has confirmed orders for three additional Boeing 747-400s, worth some A$650 million ($478 million)including engines and spares. According to chief executive James Strong, Qantas has been studying closely its ...
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Ryanair reveals plans to double fleet by 2002
Ryanair has revealed plans to expand its fleet as part of a wide-ranging strategy to push its low-cost services further into the mainstream European market. Michael O'Leary, chief executive of the Dublin, Ireland-based carrier, says that the airline is "-actively negotiating with Boeing and Airbus" for new aircraft ...
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Varig entry boosts number of Star Alliance destinations
Brazil's Varig Airlines has joined the growing list of Star Alliance members, with Lufthansa's president Jürgen Weber promising further signatures from "at least one" Asian carrier before the end of the year. The entry of Varig, which flies to every major South American destination, is initially restricted to ...
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FAA rethinks fuel-tank approval
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC In an apparent change of heart, the US Federal Aviation Administration is considering the case for changing the way it certificates commercial-aviation fuel tanks, say senior officials close to the year-long investigations into the mid-air explosion of a Trans World Airlines Boeing 747-100. ...
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US Airways selects engines and secures deliveries for A320s
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTONDC US Airways has moved closer to finalising its long-standing commitment for up to 400 Airbus A320 family aircraft, with the selection of CFM International CFM56 engines, and an agreement over the delivery schedule for the first 30 aircraft. Some of the early delivery positions ...
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Kiwi expands fleet
Kiwi International is formalising plans for the acquisition of new aircraft types as it prepares to undertake gradual expansion. The airline will acquire four more aircraft to add to its fleet of eight Boeing 727-200s, with the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 or Fokker F28 being considered. Kiwi says that ...
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New BMW R-R chief cuts board numbers
New BMW Rolls-Royce chairman Klaus Nittinger has started making moves to tighten the firm's management by removing the finance director. Former finance director Günter Frölich left the company early in October. BMW R-R says that this reduces the membership of the company's board of management from five to ...
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Virgin Express plans to join public bandwagon
Virgin Express is to become the latest of Europe's low-cost carriers to seek a public listing ,with plans to launch on the Brussels stock exchange and the USNASDAQ exchange. Start-ups UKDebonair and Belgian's City Bird have sought listings on Europe's EASDAQ, while Ireland's Ryanair has also recently floated. ...
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Balancing Act
Boeing is losing money because it's making too many airliners; Saab is losing money because it's making too few. Both are victims of a market which refuses to conform to the normal laws of economics - but each could benefit from the other's woes. Boeing's ...
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Boeing hopes to clinch Kuwaiti Apache contract
Boeing expects to sell 16 AH-64D Longbow Apache helicopters to Kuwait before 1998, but the foreign-military-sales deal may not cover the Longbow fire-control radar (FCR). In September, the Clinton Administration disclosed that Kuwait is seeking to buy 16 AH-64Ds, 384 Hellfire missiles, spare engines and other related weapons ...
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Airbus supplement: A320 family
The decision to develop the Airbus A320 around a fly-by-wire flight-control system was "-one of the most difficult I ever made", says the consortium's ex-president Roger Béteille. "Perhaps we were too bold - we had no choice. Either we were going to be first with new technologies or we could ...
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Airbus supplement: A330 A340
When Airbus first discussed the A340 seriously with potential customers in the mid-1980s, "...the maximum range requirement was not much more than 6,000nm [11,100km]," recalls Airbus vice president strategic planning Adam Brown. "By launch in 1987 this had grown to 6,600nm [12,200km], and the A340-300 now in production can fly ...
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Airbus supplement: A3XX
When it enters service in 2003, the A3XX will be the world's biggest civil aircraft. Perhaps more significantly, at least from the commercial point of view, the European giant will complete the Airbus range and remove at a stroke Boeing's long-held monopoly in extra-large people carriers. For three ...
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Airbus supplement: Pioneer to pace-setter
Airbus Industrie's ultimate greatest impact will be on the shape of the European industry, but for much of its history so far the biggest headlines have been about its technology. The driver of much of that headline-grabbing technology has been Bernard Ziegler, who recently retired as senior vice president engineering. ...
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Airbus supplement: Restructuring
Wherever aerospace executives gather to discuss consolidation of Europe's aerospace industry, it will not be long before the talk turns to Airbus Industrie and its anxiously awaited restructuring. Whatever other pitfalls may yet befall Europe on the way towards the holy grail of consolidation, it has become an ...
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Airbus supplement: Airbus; 25 years after take-off
Airbus Industrie has come a long way since its first aircraft, the A300, took to the air 25 years ago this week, on 28 October, 1972. What was once regarded as something of a curiosity by its rivals across the Atlantic has emerged as the only world challenger to the ...