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Loss of power
The world, it seems, is awash with new airliner projects. The manufacturers may be able to afford to launch some of these aircraft and, in some cases, the airlines will be able to afford to buy and operate them - but will the engine makers be able to afford to ...
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Sundstrand will take Labinal's share of Auxiliary Power
Sundstrand is to buy out Labinal's interest in Auxiliary Power International (APIC), formed by the two companies as a joint venture in 1989 to design, manufacture, market and support commercial-aircraft auxiliary power units (APUs). Many of the details have yet to be released, but it is believed that ...
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Japan Air System takes its first Boeing 777
Japan Air System (JAS) took delivery of its first Pratt & Whitney PW4084-powered Boeing 777-200 on 4 December, from an order for seven aircraft. The JAS 777s, which are the first to be painted in the airline's new scheme, will also be the first operated on the Japanese domestic network ...
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Avro delivers 300th RJ/146
Avro has delivered the 300th RJ/BAe 146 airframe, with the handing over of the second of three RJ85s for Azzurra Air of Italy. Meanwhile, Avro is understood to be in negotiations with Uzbekistan Airways on an order for three RJ85s, with deliveries scheduled for 1997. Total orders for the RJ ...
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Sabena overhauls
Sabena Technics has signed a maintenance contract with FedEx covering overhaul of all of the US freight carrier's Pratt & Whitney JT8D engines for its Boeing 727 fleet during the next six years. The contract follows two years of negotiations. Source: Flight International
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TCAS for Ansett
Ansett Australia has selected Honeywell's TCAS 2000 traffic-alert and collision-avoidance-system for its Airbus A320, Boeing 737 and 767 and British Aerospace 146 fleets. The first of 64 ship sets is due to be installed around mid-1997. Source: Flight International
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Braathens leases back
Braathens SAFE is planning the sale and lease back of six Boeing 737s in a deal valued at $150 million. The cash will be used to cover investments already made in new buildings at Oslo's Gadermoen Airport. The transaction involves two 737-400s and four -500s, which are to be leased ...
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Boeing looks to increase 777IGW take-off weight
Paul Lewis/SEATTLE Boeing is discussing a further increase in the 777-200IGW's maximum take-off weight (MTOW) as an interim step towards a new ultra-long-range derivative of the twinjet. The US manufacturer is considering offering a 777-200IGW+ version for entry into commercial service from 1998 onwards, says ...
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Russian high-speed research takes off
The joint Russian-US high-speed-research study programme moved into the flight-test stage on 29 November, when the re-activated Tupolev Tu-144LL (RA-77114) supersonic transport departed from Zhukovsky flight-test centre. The aircraft, one of 17 Tu-144s built, was completed in 1981. It was also one of five "D" models which had ...
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First A330-200 enters production
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Components for the first Airbus A330-200 are being fabricated at plants around Europe, with final assembly scheduled to begin at Toulouse in March 1997. The 256-seat, 11,800km (6,400nm)-range derivative was launched in November 1995. Thirty-one orders have been announced to date. The first wingset ...
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American and FedEx finalise DC-10/727 hushkit exchange
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES American Airlines has concluded a long-awaited deal with FedEx, which will see the US package carrier take over at least 14 of American's McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10s in exchange for supplying hushkits for up to 81 Boeing 727-200s. Some 30 of American's 727s ...
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CFM56-7B passes final blade-out examination
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES A full blade-out test was successfully completed on CFM International's CFM56-7B turbofan at Villaroche, France, on 2 December, just six days before the unveiling of the first of the next-generation Boeing 737 series for which the engine is designed. The engine was ...
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Flight engineers call for world drive to improve flight safety
Andrezj Jeziorski/MUNICH The International Flight Engineers Organisation (IFEO) has highlighted six areas in which it considers that action must be taken to counter spiralling air-accident fatalities. At its 1996 general assembly in Munich, the organisation expressed "regret and dismay" at the increasing number of fatalities ...
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Aeroflot and Ilyushin agree Il-96T production deal
Aeroflot and Ilyushin have signed the final contract paving the way for the production of 20 Il-96Ms and Il-96Ts. The $1.5 billion deal, signed on 3 December, will see the Russian-manufactured aircraft fitted with Pratt & Whitney PW2337 turbofans and Western avionics to be integrated by Rockwell-Collins. ...
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EC puts pressure on Belgian CAA
The Belgian civil-aviation authority is coming under pressure from the European Commission (EC) to comply with rules which oblige all member states to accept and revalidate pilot licences wherever they are issued within the European Union. The issue is being pressed by a Belgian national who trained as ...
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Qatar Airways decides on strategy for growth
Qatar Airways, fresh from a series of top management appointments, says that it will finalise its new long-term strategy after a board meeting in January, with the aim to "triple the size of the airline" by the end of 1997. The moves follows the appointment of Akbar ...
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Finnair vacates hotel business
Finnair is flying away from its hotels and restaurants Finnair is selling control of its hotel and restaurant business as part of a broader restructuring of the group which has seen its airline profits virtually halved over the past six months. The bulk of the ...
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German Government turns up heat on Airbus restructuring
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH The German Government is linking the provision of further aeronautics-research funding to the restructuring of Airbus Industrie and the launch of the A3XX, putting further pressure on the Airbus partners to reach agreement on the establishment of a new commercial structure for the consortium. ...
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Malaysia profits remain steady
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) just managed to hold profits steady over the first half of its 1996/7 financial year, but the group promises to emerge "stronger and leaner" in 1997 as restructuring continues. The group's net profit over the six months to the end of September dipped slightly ...
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Northrop Grumman sues the Pentagon
Northrop Grumman has filed a $750 million lawsuit against the US Department of Defense, seeking to recover losses it incurred on the AGM-137 Tri-Service Standoff Attack Missile (TSSAM) programme which the US Air Force cancelled in 1995. The company says that the US Government violated its own procurement ...