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UPS is first to have all-Stage 3 fleet
UPS AIRLINES HAS become the first major North American carrier to operate an entire fleet complying with Stage 3 noise limits, with the re-engineing of the last of its 51 Boeing 727-100QF freighters. The package carrier says that it has complied with Stage 3 regulations three years ahead ...
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The reason flat turns won't work
Sir - In reply to the letter "Will we see turns without banking?" from D F Newland (Flight International, 20-26 November, P74), the reasons against flat turns are: the biological control unit (the pilot) would pass out because of the high lateral loading; to maintain equilibrium ...
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Aircraft news
Boeing has signed a deal with American Airlines, granting the US manufacturer sole supplier status for jet aircraft until 2018. As part of the deal American has placed firm orders for 12 B777s, four B767-300ERs, 12 B757-200s, and 75 B737-600/700/800s. The US carrier has also taken so-called purchase rights on ...
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Appointments
Philip Chen will succeed Simon Heale as deputy managing director at Cathay Pacific Airways from mid-March. Heale takes up the position of finance director at Swire Pacific. Stanley Hui will replace Chen as Dragonair's chief executive from 1 February 1997, while Hui's role as chief operating officer of Air Hong ...
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Polls leave Thai with Bill
A change of government has rubbed salt into Thai Airways International's wounds. Lack of political clearance forced the carrier to postpone its US$4.7 billion fleet revamp and accept penalties of some $40 million. The latest setback for the mostly state-owned carrier comes on top of disastrous fourth quarter results which ...
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Malaysia Airlines gears up for overhaul on 777 service-entry
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) plans to begin implementing an overhaul of its operations, to coincide with the entry into service of the Boeing 777-200IGW this year. The sweeping changes will include a rationalisation of MAS aircraft and engine types, with the phasing out of some of its Boeing 747-400/300s, ...
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Airbus wins A330 orders from Swissair, Austrian and Sabena
In a flurry of pre-year-end activity, Airbus Industrie announced orders from eight airlines, covering virtually its entire aircraft range, the most significant of which is the joint selection by Swissair, Sabena and Austrian Airlines of the A330-200 for their long-haul-fleet needs. The deal, which is not yet covered ...
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South Koreans are ready to sign up for A3XX risk-share
Airbus Industrie hopes to conclude its first risk-sharing agreement on the 500- to 800-seat A3XX later this month, with all four South Korean aerospace manufacturers taking a share of development and manufacture of the aircraft. The consortium's large-aircraft division senior vice-president, Jurgen Thomas, says that a deal including ...
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GE wins Asiana 747/767 order
General Electric has secured a consolation prize from Asiana Airlines in the shape of additional Boeing 747 and 767 engines, following its recent loss to Pratt & Whitney of a much larger powerplant deal for the Boeing 777 and Airbus Industrie A330. The deal covers new CF6-80C2 engines ...
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Egyptair introduces the A340-200
Egyptair has begun operating the first of three Airbus A340-200s, alongside an existing A340-300 leased from Gulf Air. The 260-seat Airbuses were ordered in 1995, along with three General Electric GE90-powered Boeing 777s, to supplement its long-haul fleet and replace the airline's fleet of Airbus A300B4s and Boeing 767-200s. ...
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Spanish charter airline launches services with A320s
BCM Airlines has begun operations with an International Aero Engines V2500-powered Airbus A320 leased from Airworld of the UK. BCM, based in Palma de Majorca, is using the aircraft on services to European holiday destinations, and plans to add a further two A320s early in 1997. Source: Flight ...
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Sweden approves order for third Gripen batch
The Swedish parliament has approved an order for a third batch of Saab JAS39 Gripen fighter-bombers. The four-squadron order was cleared on 13 December as part of Sweden's new five-year defence strategy, but the exact number of aircraft has not yet been fixed. According to Saab, Batch 3 ...
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In a long tradition
Every Boeing commercial airliner since the 707 has been extended at some stage, with two exceptions: the 747 and 757. It now seems that, after many years of study and debate, the 747 is about to be elongated into the -500 and -600 series and the 757is finally set to ...
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800 XP APU
Raytheon Aircraft is to install AlliedSignal's 36-150 auxiliary power-unit (APU) as standard on the Hawker 800XP mid-sized business jet, beginning in 1997. The 35-150Wis certificated for in-flight operation. Source: Flight International
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New 737 launch stresses technology and low cost
Max Kingsley-Jones/SEATTLE Boeing CLAIMs that it has put itself "ten years ahead" of Airbus Industrie in the short-haul, jet-powered-airliner technology/low-cost stakes with the official unveiling of its first next-generation 737 (a -700) at its Renton plant, near Seattle, Washington, on 8 December. Sales of next-generation 737s ...
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Boeing delays 747X go-ahead
Guy Norris and Paul Lewis/SEATTLE Boeing has been forced to delay the 747-500X/600X programme by at least four months because of continuing market uncertainty and the late definition of the General Electric/Pratt & Whitney joint-venture engine. The stretched, rewinged 747 was expected to be given the ...
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Kato launches Sirocco to lead R-R-powered Tu-204 effort
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW Sirocco Aerospace International has been launched in Moscow by Egypt's Kato Aromatic and its partners, to spearhead marketing for the re-engined Tupolev Tu-204-120. A list price for the aircraft, which is powered by Rolls-Royce RB.211-535s, has been set at around $36 million. The ...
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MTU and Volvo strengthen ties
AndrzejJeziorski/ MUNICH Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) aero-engine subsidiary MTU Munich and Swedish power plant manufacturer Volvo Aero are on course to achieve closer co-operation in civil-engine programmes. In a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed on 10 December, the two companies have agreed to intensify their links ...
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Supersonic resurrection
It seemed as if the Tupolev Tu-144was bound for the scrapheap, but things have now changed. Paul Duffy/MOSCOW When Marshal Boris Bugaev, the Soviet minister of civil aviation, ordered the termination of Aeroflot's Moscow-to-Alma Ata supersonic service in May 1978, it looked like the end of the line ...
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GE and Airbus hold intense A340 engine negotiations
Julian Moxon/Paris General Electric and Airbus Industrie are in "intense" negotiations on a new, exclusive, very-high-bypass-ratio, power plant for the stretched, re-engined, A340-500/600. Airbus vice-president for strategic planning, Adam Brown, says that the US manufacturer is offering an "extremely exciting" power plant solution for the A340 involving ...