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Southwest signs up
Southwest Airlines has awarded GE Engine Services a ten-year, $380 million contract to maintain the CFM56-7 engines which will power the US carrier's fleet of Boeing 737-700s. The work will be performed under GE's Maintenance Cost Per Hour (MCPH) service programme. Southwest will begin taking delivery of 737-700s in 1997. ...
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Kiwi Travel wins approval for tran-Tasman services
KIWI TRAVEL International Airlines has emerged successfully from its dispute with the New Zealand Civil Aviation Authority (NZCAA), finally gaining approval for starting scheduled services across the Tasman Sea to Australia. NZCAA chief Kevin Ward had opposed the granting of a licence, principally until the US Federal Aviation ...
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Loral recorder gains double approval
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LORAL DATA Systems has received US and European certification for its Fairchild A200S solid-state cockpit-voice recorder (CVR). The Sarasota, Florida-based company believes the A200S to be the first 2h-capacity CVR to meet the latest Eurocae ED-56A certification standard. The ED-56A sets new requirements for ...
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Meeting demands
Airbus Industrie rolls out the A319 to complete its present range of airliners. Julian Moxon/TOULOUSE IN JUST 25 years since its creation in December 1970, Airbus Industrie has fielded a range of airliners spanning 124-350 seats, knocked McDonnell Douglas (MDC) into third place in ...
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Laser gyro at the core of Honeywell ADIRS
HONEYWELL'S GG1320 LASER GYRO, developed for the Boeing 777, forms the core of the company's new air-data/inertial-reference system (ADIRS) (Flight International, 23-29 August) selected by Boeing for the 737-600/-700/-800 family. The new gyro is also included in Honeywell's VIA 2000 integrated avionics system. Source: Flight International
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DASA plans to fly Dornier 328 with hydrogen power in 1998
Andrzej Jeziorski/Munich DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) is planning to turn a Dornier 328 turboprop into a hydrogen-powered testbed, with a view to possible serial production. The test aircraft is scheduled to be flown in late 1998, and the flight could lead to production of an operational, hydrogen-powered ...
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EW deal for Canadians
CAE Aviation has received a C$13.5 million ($10 million) contract to manufacture and install 28 electronic-warfare self-protection suites (EPWS) and 24 forward-dispenser kits (FDK) in Canadian Forces' Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules. CAE has already installed the EPWS in two C-130s and the FDK in six aircraft. The programme will take ...
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KLM/Garuda intensify co-operation
KLM ROYAL Dutch Airlines and Garuda Indonesia have strengthened their long-established commercial co-operation with a new agreement signed in Jakarta on 23 August, following the conclusion of talks between Garuda's president Soepandi and Pieter Bouw, president of the Dutch carrier. Bouw was in Indonesia as part of a Dutch trade ...
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Is RED the colour of a revolutionary hushkit?
HUSHKITTING NOISY old jet-powered aircraft powered by low- bypass engines, such as the Pratt & Whitney JT8D designed to meet Stage 3 noise regulations has tested the ingenuity of engineers. The few commercial hushkits available are relatively expensive, heavy and degrade engine performance . Former Grumman test pilot ...
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Xiamen plans fleet for overseas travel
Paul Lewis/Xiamen CHINA'S XIAMEN Airlines expects official approval by the end of the year to launch international flights and is planning to acquire a further ten passenger aircraft, including widebody jet-powered airliners. The airline wants to start its first overseas service in 1996, providing it receives ...
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Regional winner?
Embraer's first public flight of its EMB-145 was acclaimed by observers. Graham Warwick/SAO PAULO JUDGING BY the reactions of regional-airline executives attending the 18 August roll-out and first public flight of the EMB-145 regional-jet, Embraer has produced a potential winner - if the newly privatised Brazilian ...
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Varig loses out after disastrous yen financing
BRAZILIAN AIRLINE Varig is to dispose of five Boeing 747s because of the cost of its Japanese yen financing, which has left the airline showing losses for the first half of the year. Financial director Carlos Ebner claims that Varig lost almost $71 million on the financing deal ...
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Trunkliner progress
Metal for the first Chinese-built McDonnell Douglas (MDC) MD-90-30 TrunkLiner has been cut by Shanghai Aviation Industrial (SAIC) and sub-assembly manufacturers Xian and Chengdu Aircraft. SAIC will deliver the first of 20 MD-90 twinjets in the first quarter of 1998. MDC is, meanwhile, understood to be close to concluding a ...
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MiG-MAPO offers to upgrade Polish Fulcrums
MiG-MAPO is offering to upgrade Polish air force Mikoyan MiG-29SE Fulcrums as an alternative to Poland procuring Western combat aircraft, according to a senior company official. The Polish air force is interested in improving its fighter-combat capability with the Lockheed Martin F-16, thought to be the favoured political ...
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Mikoyan is confident of interceptor service entry
THE MIKOYAN MiG-31M "Foxhound B" heavy interceptor was openly displayed for the first time at the show, with MiG-MAPO and its radar developer NIIP claiming that the Vympel R-77 (AA-12 Adder) active medium-range missile has been fully integrated with the aircraft. Despite the MiG-31M debut, its primary armament ...
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Tupolev reveals Tu-304 details
TUPOLEV HAS revealed new details of its planned Tu-304 long-range, widebodied twin, adding that it has signed a protocol with Rolls-Royce to power the aircraft. The agreement with the UK engine manufacturer covers the use of the 400kN (90,000lb)-thrust Trent 884 turbofan. Tupolev is coming to the end ...
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R-R-powered Tu-204 heads for sales break
THE AVIASTAR production plant is in advanced negotiations for the sale of 60 Rolls-Royce-powered Tupolev Tu-204s to a Russian leasing company. In a separate move, Tupolev says that it is close to clinching an agreement on a potential sale of a further ten aircraft. Negotiations between Aviastar, R-R, ...
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Orders grow for 777s but 1995 deliveries show decline
Egyptair has ordered three high gross-weight Boeing 777-200s, expanding the US airframe builder's firm orderbook to 167. At the same time, however, Boeing predicts that its 1996 deliveries will fall for the fourth consecutive year. The predicted 1996 delivery tally of 210, compared with 235 for 1995, was ...
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Virgin closes in on Europe
Virgin Atlantic Airways is poised for a major expansion into Europe. Plans for the establishment of a low-cost pan-European airline, possibly based at Brussels or Amsterdam, have advanced to the extent where a decision is expected to be made before the end of the year for a start in the ...
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Airbus hits out against Russia's import taxes
NEVER ONE to miss an opportunity for an air-show criticism, Airbus Industrie president Jean Pierson took the opportunity of MosAero '95 to take a swipe at high Russian taxes on buying and leasing imported aircraft. Russia imposes 50% taxes on imported aircraft, and 50% on any leases after ...