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PW100 checks urged
Following an engine fire on 21 May in a Skywest Airlines Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia, the US National Transportation Safety Board has urged the Federal Aviation Administration to order an immediate one-time inspection of all Pratt & Whitney Canada PW100 turboprop engines. The checks would ensure that the gas-generator case drain ...
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SIAand Ansett study options for wide-ranging alliance
Singapore Airlines (SIA) is reported to be close to reaching a tentative agreement with Ansett on a potentially wide-ranging alliance, encompassing commercial co-operation and the possible purchase of equity in the Australian carrier. The two are expected to sign a memorandum of understanding as a first step towards ...
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Atlantic Coast Airlines raises cash for jets
ATLANTIC COAST Airlines (ACA) has announced a $50 million bond issue designed to help support the introduction of regional jets into the fleet and the repurchase of shares owned by aircraft manufacturer British Aerospace, which had been obliged to bail out the airline. Washington DC-based ACA, which operates ...
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BMW R-R signs up to power Tu-334s
BMW Rolls-Royce (BMW R-R) has signed with Russian manufacturer Tupolev to power its Tu-334-120 twin-engine regional jet with BR710-48 turbofans. At the same time, Honeywell has signed an agreement with Russian counterpart Aviapribor to fit the US company's avionics into Russian-made aircraft, with the Tupolev Tu-334 as one ...
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Boeing boss casts doubt on MD-95
Boeing Commercial Aircraft president Ron Woodard has heightened the uncertainty surrounding the future of the McDonnell Douglas MD-95, saying: "I don't know what the contracts are like with the customer-we build a good 106-seat aircraft in the 737-600 that's doing well in the marketplace". Woodard has also expressed ...
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Lockheed Martin first to finish JSF design review
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC LOCKHEEDMARTIN has completed the initial design review (IDR) for its Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) concept-demonstrator programme, clearing the way to begin detailed design. Boeing says that the IDR for its JSF programme is due later this year. Flight testing of the competing concept demonstrators is ...
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Pakistan again threatens to sue over blocked F-16s
Pakistan has made fresh warnings that it may resort to legal action against the US Government in an effort to recover its investment in 28 Lockheed Martin F-16A/B fighters, the delivery of which has been blocked by Washington. The threat from Islamabad to sue follows Indonesia's decision to ...
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Continental Express is eager for small regional jet
Continental Express has converted the first 25 of 175 options it holds on Embraer EMB-145s. It has also expressed a serious interest in the smaller regional jets now being planned, as it ponders the move to an all-regional-jet fleet. The airline has ordered the longer-range LR version. The ...
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Northern exposure
Max Kingsley-Jones/TORONTO Fortunes of Canadian charter airlines have been mixed in recent years. Established names have disappeared, to be replaced by new carriers seeking to Ìll the void, as the market itself has begun to undergo a metamorphosis. The country's inclusive-tour "holiday" market has traditionally broken ...
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USA corrects Czech F-16 versus F-18 gaffe
US DEFENCE secretary William Cohen has moved to defuse a row over a letter, apparently favouring the Lockheed Martin F-16, sent by a US embassy official in Prague to the Czech defence ministry. The F-16 is being offered in competition with the McDonnell Douglas F-18 for a Czech air force ...
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F-22 first flight delayed by engine FOD
LOCKHEEDMARTIN has replaced one of the Pratt &Whitney F119s in the first F-22 after the engine suffered minor foreign-object damage (FOD) during ground runs. The incident is likely to delay the maiden flight of the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 until early July. Minor impact damage to the three fan ...
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GE and P&W hold talks over new 777 engine
General Electric and Pratt & Whitney are negotiating a radical widening of their existing GE-PW Engine Alliance to develop a joint powerplant for the Boeing 777. The move, which follows Boeing's decision to raise the maximum take-off weight (MTOW) of the proposed ultra-long range 777-200X to as much ...
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Northwest signs MoU for another 50 Airbuses
Northwest Airlines has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a further 50 Airbus Industrie narrowbody aircraft, bringing the total number of firm orders for the consortium's main US customer to 136. The MoU outlines a requirement for 50 125-seat A319s, with options for 50 more aircraft. If ...
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American Airlines in massive seat-upgrade deal
AMERICANAIRLINES has placed orders exceeding $268 million for more than 70,000 new and upgraded passenger seats for its entire fleet. The deal has been split between three seat suppliers: US manufacturers B/E Aerospace (BEA) and Weber Aircraft, and Germany's Recaro. Installation is to be completed by the year ...
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France and UK fail to sgree guided-bomb framework
Attempts by the French and UK defence ministries to pull together a joint next-generation guided-bomb programme have faltered with the failure of the countries to agree a basic framework for the requirement. France and the UK were exploring the joint release of a request for information (RFI) covering ...
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EJ200 thrust-vector nozzle nears test
Rolls-Royce's Spanish partner on the EJ200 engine for the Eurofighter EF2000 says that it will test a thrust-vectoring nozzle in January 1998. While no decision has been made on fitting the nozzle to the EJ200, R-R says that the device has "excellent potential" to improve the EF2000's manoeuvrability ...
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Trial separation over London
Sir - Media attention has focused on the UK Civil Aviation Authority's plans to reduce separation on final approach at Gatwick, Heathrow and Stansted airports in the UK. This attention followed publication in Transmit, the Journal of the Guild of Air Traffic Control Officers (GATCO), of a report ...
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Marketplace
++ Monarch Airlines has firmed up its letters of intent for two Rolls-Royce Trent 700-powered Airbus A330-200s, and two International Aero Engines V2500-powered A321-200s. Monarch, which already operates a fleet of 12 Airbuses, will take delivery of the new aircraft from March 1999. ++ Rheintalflug has placed an order with ...
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Sabena selects Avros and Airbuses to replace 737s
Sabena is to order a mix of Aero International (Regional) Avro RJ100s and Airbus A319s and A320s by the end of 1997 to replace its 14 Boeing 737-200s, according to Air Transport Intelligence (ATI), the new Reed Aerospace news and data service . The electronic news service, formally ...
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Bombardier studies corporate gap
Bombardier chairman Laurent Beaudoin has revealed that the group's next priority is to plug the gap in its business-jet range between the Learjet 60 and Canadair Challenger 604. Beaudoin says that a new-aircraft programme is "under study", and that the group will make an announcement in "the near ...