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Boullioun Aviation Services has announced new lease deals for six Boeing aircraft to four customers at the show. Deutsche BA is leasing three new Boeing 737-300s in Boullioun's first euro-denominated transaction. The aircraft will be delivered to Deutsche BA in the second half of this year. The company is placing ...
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Delta defers Boeing 777 fleet delivery over pilot pay dispute
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Delta Air Lines has been forced to defer delivery of its entire Boeing 777 fleet on order because of its failure to negotiate a pay accord with the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) for the type. Earlier this year, the airline deferred indefinitely deliveries of ...
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Pegasus FMS heads for A340 flight tests with CNS/ATM
Airbus Industrie plans to use an A340 to flight test an advanced Honeywell Pegasus flight management system (FMS) fitted, for the first time, with communications, navigation, surveillance/air traffic management (CNS/ATM) functionality. New functions include dual system communication links via Airbus' air traffic services unit (ATSU). The FMS-ATSU link provides ...
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Gulf Air transfers line maintenance to GAMCO
Gulf Air has signed off the transfer of its entire line maintenance to sister company Gulf Aircraft Maintenance (GAMCO), and is beginning to replace its Boeing 767s with new Airbus A330-200s. The agreement to transfer the airline's worldwide line maintenance operation to GAMCO is part of an effort to ...
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Westland looks for further growth
Aerostructures manufacturer GKN Westland Aerospace is pursuing an acquisition or joint venture in France as part of an expansionist policy that has seen it take over seven US and European companies since 1997. Chief executive Chris Gustar says expansion into France, possibly as part of a joint venture, would ...
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Software monitors performance
Performance engineering software aimed at aircraft and engine manufacturers as well as airlines has been put into full scale operation by launch customers Rolls-Royce and BMW Rolls-Royce. Developed by Pace, a leading aerospace and information technology company, the software is known as Pacelab Mission and is used to assess ...
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Breitling flight team brings together a big slice of history
Mark Hannant Long associated with the aviation world as a supplier of time-pieces, both in cockpits and on the wrists of the pilots who sit in them, Breitling has gone one step further with the formation of the Breitling Fighters flight team. The Swiss watch manufacturer has put ...
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Waterbomber set for passenger role
Alan Peaford A new sector in the regional aircraft market was confirmed yesterday when Beta Air outlined its plans to offer a 72-seat passenger version of its jet-powered waterbomber. The Be-200 has impressed the crowds at Le Bourget with its fire-fighting capabilities, dropping 6,000 tonnes of water in ...
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Very large future
GE Aircraft Engines is throwing its weight behind the growing impetus to launch the world's first-generation very large aircraft. The company's president and CEO Jim McNerney believes there's room in the marketplace for all three proposed airframes - Boeing's B-777X and B-747X and Airbus Industrie's A3XX. Source: Flight ...
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ANA converts 777 orders to long-range -200ERs
Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA) has converted an order for a single Boeing 777-200 and three 777-300s to four longer-range 777-200ERs as part of its newly unveiled restructuring plan. ANA spokeswoman Kate Opekar says from Tokyo that the first of the new aircraft will be delivered in October ...
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ILFC takes A318s in new mega-order
Mike Martin International Lease Finance (ILFC) has ordered 30 of Airbus Industrie's latest aircraft, the A318 - part of a 60-aircraft deal for A320 family aircraft, it was announced at the show yesterday. It was also announced that AirLanka has ordered three more A330-200s. The list price ...
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P&W plans new upper stage engine
A new powerful cryogenic upper stage engine is to be developed by Pratt&Whitney, the company said at the show. The liquid oxygen/liquid hydrogen engine, called the RL-50, could be used as the powerplant on both US and international launch vehicles, the company says. The engine will complement ...
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Snecma searches Europe for partner
Geoff Thomas From what Snecma's chairman and CEO Jean-Paul Bechat says at Le Bourget, it is clear that the French engine builder is on the prowl for potential European marriage partners, rather than a transatlantic tryst. "Sadly we won't be able to join forces with Rolls-Royce, although in ...
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R-R predicts excellent market for engines
Andy Douse An indication of the impact that regional jets are having on the aviation industry came at the show in a market forecast from Rolls-Royce. The engine manufacturer is predicting a total market in the commercial and corporate aircraft sectors over the next 20 years for 83,000 ...
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Joins hands
The old Chinese saying says that a 1,000-mile journey begins with a single step, and China's Shenyang Liming Engine company took that step yesterday with the hope of becoming a long-term supplier of components to BMW Rolls-Royce. Yan Tiannan, vice-president of China National Aero Technology International (CATIC), which oversees ...
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Boeing buy promises Dowty $250 million
Dowty has landed two major orders from Boeing Commercial Airplanes that could be worth over $250 million to the UK aerospace equipment supplier. Hamble Structures, acquired by the TI Group - Dowty's parent - following its recent purchase of the EIS Group, has secured an extension of a deal ...
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Trent 500 exceeds planned thrust
Rolls-Royce has exceeded the planned 60,000lb (300kN) certification thrust of its Trent 500 by 8,000lb. The engine, under development for the Airbus A340/500/600, has been running on a testbed since late May. The first engine is to complete more than 60h of testing this month, when a second test ...
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The black hole
The secretive investigation into the crash of a SilkAir 737-300 in Indonesia shows up major cultural differences in dealing with accidents Andrzej Jeziorski/JAKARTA The thing about black holes, in astronomical terms, is that nothing ever comes out of them. Some people liken the controversial investigation into the crash in ...
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Air Ukraine orders An-140s and signs commitment for more
Air Ukraine has ordered four Antonov An-140 regional airliners and has signed a letter of intent for 40 more. The Ukrainian national airline, which controls more than 10 regional carriers in the country, will use the 46-52/seat An-140s to replace 60 An-24s, An-26s and An-30s. Air Ukraine has specified ...
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Varig brings a halt to 747 passenger operations
Chris Jasper/RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil's Varig is to cease Boeing 747 passenger operations after nearly 20 years of using the type. The carrier is to return three leased 747-300s to International Lease Finance, and also plans to sell its two -300 Combis. Although Varig president and chief executive ...