All Airframers news – Page 1607
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Four were killed in Long March crash
THE LONG MARCH 3B booster (LM3B) which exploded and crashed 1.5km downrange from the Xichang launch centre, China, T+25s after launch on 14 February, killed four people and injured 52, China Great Wall Industry (CGWIC) has confirmed (Flight International, 21-27 February). The failure resulted in the loss of the Intelsat ...
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Canadian consortium plans cargo operations
A WINNIPEG, CANADA-based cargo consortium is negotiating to set up an international freight operation, using two wet-leased Boeing 747-200 Combis, which Air Canada is due to retire in 1997. The Winnport consortium plans to convert the aircraft to full freighters. Air Canada would maintain the aircraft and be ...
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Taking shape
Boeing began major assembly of the first 777-200 increased-gross-weight (IGW) version on 20 February. The aircraft will be rolled out in the middle of this year, before delivery to British Airways in early 1997. The 777-200IGW has a take-off weight of 286,900kg and a range of 13,400km (7,230nm), compared with ...
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American warns on pilfered 757 parts
AMERICAN AIRLINES HAS issued a warning to the air-transport industry that "...stolen and damaged Boeing 757 parts are entering the surplus market". The airline says that there has been extensive looting from the wreckage of its 757 which crashed in mountains near Cali, Colombia, on 20 December, 1995. ...
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Lauda and Austrian make peace
AUSTRIA'S TWO largest airlines, Lauda Air and Austrian, have decided to end years of in-fighting with a plan, to co-operate in some areas. The two airlines have been talking for several months, according to Lauda president and chief executive Peter Thoele, and have now agreed to co-operate, ...
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Indian Airlines spawns domestic subsidiary
STATE-OWNED Indian Airlines is setting up a low-cost regional subsidiary to feed traffic into its major hubs and compete against India's clutch of privately owned start-up carriers. Airline Allied Services is expected to begin operations in March, initially flying four 119-seat Boeing 737-200s, linking regional points with Delhi ...
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LOT looks to purchase jets for speedy regional boost
Andrzej Jeziorski/WARSAW LOT POLISH AIRLINES is planning to acquire a fleet of 50- to 70-seat regional jets, and spin off its regional operations into a separate company, according to vice-president Andrzej Slodownik. The regional-jet purchase is part of a company fleet-strategy plan being drawn up to ...
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Italian Government backs fresh Alitalia union talks
ALITALIA HAS opened new talks with its unions, to be overseen by the Italian Government and based on a more conciliatory, four-point, restructuring plan. Chairman Renato Riverso says that the new plan, which has been approved by the airline's parent, state-holding company IRI, will include a renewed ...
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Lufthansa simulator
Lufthansa has ordered an Airbus A321 full-flight simulator from Canada's CAE Electronics, for delivery to Frankfurt in mid-1997. The airline ordered a Boeing 737-800 simulator from Thomson Training & Simulation in late 1995. Source: Flight International
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Romancing the UK, Air Jamaica fashion
RED CARPETS on the tarmac, on board fashion shows by cabin crew and Mumm's Cordon Rouge champagne in economy class, are the ploys, which the new Air Jamaica intends to use to woo the UK traveler, when the carrier re-introduces a London-Montego Bay-Kingston link on 30 March, after an absence ...
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Boeing delivers F-22 power supplies
BOEING HAS DELIVERED the first flight-worthy power supplies for the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 common integrated processors (CIPs), which form the heart of the fighter's avionics, sensors and display system. The power supply modules, convert aircraft-standard electrical power to a wattage of up to 400W, which is used to ...
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Honeywell predicts Pegasus boom
MORE THAN 700 Boeing 757/767s and McDonnell Douglas MD-90/MD-11s could be retrofitted with Honeywell's newly developed Pegasus flight-management system (FMS), according to the company. The Pegasus FMS has 25 times the throughput capacity and up to 16 times more memory than that of the existing systems and will ...
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IPTN speeds up N-2130 regional-jet programme
Paul Lewis/BANDUNG INDUSTRI PESAWAT Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) has advanced the planned entry-into-service date of the proposed N-2130 regional jet by two years, in response to domestic demand and forthcoming foreign competition. With Japan trying to revive its YS-X programme and talks on the Chinese/South Korean ...
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Third EMB-145
Embraer flew the third EMB-145 regional jet for the first time on 14 February. A fourth aircraft is set to join the test programme in March. The flight-test programme has so far logged 150h since 1995. Source: Flight International
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TWA will replaced L-1011 fleet with 757s
TRANS WORLD AIRLINES (TWA) is to acquire 20 Pratt & Whitney-powered 757-200s - ten purchased from Boeing and ten leased from International Lease Finance - to replace its 14 Lockheed L-1011s and some Boeing 727s. The carrier will also hushkit 28 McDonnell Douglas (MDC) DC-9-30s, and is negotiating with MDC ...
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Kelowna to fly for Greyhound
BRITISH COLUMBIA-based Kelowna Flight-craft Air Charter, has agreed to operate a low-cost airline, on behalf of bus company Greyhound Lines of Canada. Greyhound Air is scheduled to begin operations on 15 May, with six ex-Continental Airlines160-seat Boeing 727-200s linking Vancouver, Kelowna, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Toronto and Hamilton. ...
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Mesaba puts 328 and 340 on its shortlist
NORTHWEST AIRLINK carrier Mesaba Airlines has shortlisted the Dornier 328 and Saab 340 for an order worth almost $400 million to replace its fleet of 26 Fairchild Metro IIIs and 25 Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-100s. It plans to replace its fleet between June and the fourth quarter of 1998. ...
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GE plans for turboprop power growth
GENERAL ELECTRIC is developing two new versions of its CT7 turboprop family, a CT7-9+, which will be certificated later this year, and a more ambitious CT7-11 variant which has been timed for 1999. GE says that the growth programmes will meet the requirements of current CT7-powered, aircraft ...