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Airbus fights back with $2.5 billion sales
Airbus Industrie has announced two new orders for a total of 14 aircraft worth nearly $1.5 billion. The company also has a long-awaited $950 million order from Asiana Airlines for 18 A321s. But, despite the celebrations, Airbus did not miss the chance to attack Boeing's previous day's announcement ...
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Face the facts with...Mauricio Botelho
After sitting on a secret MoU since May, Embraer was able to tell the world this week of what could well end up as one of the largest contracts ever seen in the regional aircraft industry. It was thus a decidedly happy Maurício Botelho, Embraer's president ...
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US cruise missiles slam Iraqi targets
US air and naval forces launched 27 cruise missiles at air defence sites in Iraq hours before US President Bill Clinton announced a major extension of the No Fly Zone to the outskirts of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. The attack was a much anticipated response to Iraq's incursion into ...
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EMB-145 is worth the wait for Continental
It may have taken Continental Express a year to decide on its new regional aircraft, but Embraer has no complaints now. The carrier has become the North American launch customer for the Brazilian-built 50-seat EMB-145 regional jet. It has announced firm orders for 25 of the type, plus ...
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Flying display
14.15 A330/A340; 14.26 Kamov Ka-50; 14.31 Embraer 145; 14.38 Firefly; 14.45 Super Tucano, Hawk 100; 14.56 Eurofighter 2000; 15.02 Tornado GR1; 15.09 Gripen; 15.16 Harrier GR7; 15.24 Aero L159; 15.31 Grob 115TA; 15.37 F-16; 15.43 Yak-52; 15.49 MD-90; 15.56 Zlin 242; 16.01 Royal flight; 16.12 Dassault Rafale; Dassault Falcon 2000; ...
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Double win for Flight Daily News reporter
Flight Daily News reporter Karen Walker has picked up two awards at the 1996 Aerospace Journalist of the Year Awards for her work in Flight International. Walker won both the Best General Aviation story award, sponsored by the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS), and the Bombardier award for Best Business ...
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Airbus head dismisses superjumbo derivative
Boeing's planned 747-500X/600X superjumbos are nothing but "warmed-over derivatives", a rival Airbus Industrie spokesman said at the Show yesterday. Its own proposed Airbus A3XXX "...will begin life where the Boeing 747 ends, even with its planned 650-seat 747-700X," says Airbus chief operating officer Volker von Tein. Speaking on ...
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Boeing bullish on future of 500X/600X
Boeing's proposed 747-500X ultra-long-range aircraft will be able to fly London-Perth non-stop, programme manager Jon Hayhurst said at the Show yesterday. "That's probably the most commercially significant route to potential customers," says Hayhurst who adds that the aircraft will also be capable of flying non-stop between Dakar and Chicago ...
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V for Vickers
Pratt & Whitney Canada has selected Vickers Aerospace Components for precision machined fabrications on the new PW 150 engine. Mark Thompson, marketing co-ordinator for Vickers' Propulsion Technology Division, says: "The company has invested heavily in new technologies over recent years, and being chosen by Pratt & Whitney Canada as ...
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Pooled expertise helps to put V2500 on the map
Pubs are traditional haunts for journalists in search of a story, and the scribes who dropped into the Flying Partners at Farnborough yesterday were not disappointed. At the tavern mock-up which forms the heart of the International Aero Engines stand, the company announced four deals worth almost $300 million. ...
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Extended CRJ launch delayed to end of year
Page 8 Bombardier Regional Aircraft Division (BRAD) announced at Farnborough yesterday that the formal launch of the extended Regional Jet project, the 70-seater CRJ-X has been delayed until later in the year. However, BRAD can begin offering the aircraft for sale and can confirm performance specifications. The ...
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Early warning for market as heavyweights join forces
In a teaming of US giants, Lockheed Martin and Northrup Grumman have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to capture business in the international airborne early warning/command & control (AEW&C) market. The two companies plan to market an AEW&C variant of Lockheed Martin's C-130J Hercules. Northrop Grumman's vice-president ...
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Boeing will step up 777 output
Boeing will boost 777 production to seven a month in July 1997. The 777 line is rising to three and a half a month by October, and will rise to five a month for the first half of 1997. The company has also announced plans to employ 5,000 ...
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Digital gyro deal
Airbus Industrie has selected Honeywell's GG1320 digital ring-laser gyro as a replacement for analogue ring-laser gyros in its A319, A320, A321, A330 and A340 types. The GG1320 is scheduled to be certificated on the A320 as part of the US avionics manufacturer's air-data/inertial-reference system in December. It will then be ...
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Appleton amphibious
Tom Appleton has moved from his post of vice-president of Bombardier Regional Aircraft division (BRAD) to president of the company's Amphibious Aircraft division. A former test and development pilot at de Havilland Canada, Appleton joined Bombardier as executive vice-president of the Canadair Regional Jet programme in 1991, and took up ...
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Airbus sales
Airbus has received an order for one A340 from unannounced customer, taking its 1996 order tally for this type to 25. Korean Air has cancelled its two remaining A300-600R orders (with Pratt & Whitney PW4158 engines), however, reducing its order tally for the type to 32. Source: ...
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First Boeing 737-700 fuselage approaches completion
THE FIRST fuselage for Boeing's New Generation 737 family is nearing completion at the company's Wichita factory. The 737-700 fuselage, pictured above in an integration tool, will be shipped by train to the final assembly line at Renton, Washington, in one piece. The first flight of the new 737 has ...
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Boeing will step up 777
Boeing will boost 777 production to seven a month in July 1997. The 777 line is rising to three and a half a month by October, and will rise to five a month for the first half of 1997. The company has also announced plans to employ 5,000 ...
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British Airways
BRITISH AIRWAYS John Wood has been named director for Asia-Pacific at UK national carrier British Airways. Wood, most recently general manager/ vice-president for Canada, based in Toronto, replaces Val Gooding, who is to leave the airline. LITTON Steven Lambert has been appointed president ...
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Safety standards must be consistent
Sir - Like Steve Kirby, in his letter "Engines should be treated separately" (Flight International, 14-20 August, P40), I was reminded of the US National Transportation Safety Board accident report on the 5 May, 1983, Lockheed L-1011 TriStar oil-loss incident. There were lessons to be learned from that near-accident, which ...