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Aviastar Asia ties up deal for 20 Tu-204s
Paul Duffy/SHANNON Aviastar Asia (AAC), the new joint venture set up in Taipei to market the Tupolev Tu-204 outside Russia, has now signed a contract for 20 aircraft, which is expected to be announced officially at Airshow China '96 at Zhuhai in November. Singapore-registered AAC brings ...
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GE modifies GE90 combustion with manifold redesign
GE Aircraft Engines is planning to introduce a modified GE90 combustion system from mid-1997, designed to reduce manufacturing costs, emissions and weight. The only physical change is a redesigned manifold, while alterations to the fuel-nozzle system have been achieved through software modifications. "We have simplified the [double annular] ...
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AlliedSignal invests to boost LF507 despatch reliability
AlliedSignal says that it is aiming for 99.95% LF507 dispatch reliability on the Avro RJ100 by the end of 1997 as the main target of an aggressive support campaign. The engine's reliability was criticised recently by Crossair president Moritz Suter (Flight Inter- national, 16-22 October). Allied- Signal Engines ...
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MDC board approves MD-XX for airlines
McDonnell Douglas (MDC) is understood to have given board-level approval to its civil-aircraft arm to start offering the MD-XX tri-jet family to airlines. A final board decision was due to be made at a meeting held at St Louis, Missouri, on 25 October attended by MDC president and ...
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Asiana engine bidders await decision
Competing power plant manufacturers are hoping for a decision from Asiana Airlines in November on the selection of engines for its planned fleet of 20 Boeing 777-200/300 and 28 Airbus A330-200/300 wide-body aircraft. According to local sources, General Electric, Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce are now into the ...
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Chromalloy sues UTC
United Technologies (UTC) is being sued by Chromalloy Gas Turbine for alleged infringement by UTC's Pratt & Whitney division of patents covering production of cooling holes in aero-engine turbine blades. San Antonio, Texas-base4d Chromalloy's action seeks an order blocking further alleged infringement, as well as unspecified damages. Source: ...
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Aero Industry Development Centre (AIDC)
AIDC has developed a single-seat attack variant of its AT-3 two-seat trainer. Some AT-3A trainers are being upgraded to AT-3B close-support aircraft, with Westinghouse APG-66 radar, head-up display and 1553B databus. Ching-Kuo Indigenous Defence Fighter (IDF) Production of the IDF was halted in October 1995 over ...
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T-35 DT Pillan Turbo Studies for the design of this turbine-powered derivative of the original T-35 Pillan began in 1985. The following year, the Allison 250-B17D 315kW turboprop was fitted for the first time. The canopy was subsequently modified to a sideways-opening one-piece component. Soloy of Olympia, Washington, ...
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Lockheed Martin Skunk works
F-117A NIGHTHAWK The USAF has scaled-back or dropped some upgrade packages intended to improve the Lockheed Martin F-117 low-observable characteristics for budgetary reasons, preferring to retain avionics and systems upgrades for its 54-strong fleet. The company continues to offer the USN a carrier-based variant of the F-117, the ...
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Lockheed Martin/Boeing
F-22 Re-phasing of the USAF's F-22 Advanced Tactical Fighter programme to cope with budget cuts has delayed the first flight of a development aircraft from the mid-1996 to the first quarter of 1997. The number of development aircraft has been cut from 11 to nine (seven single-seat F-22As ...
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Computervision improves CADDS 5 design software
COMPUTERVISION has introduced a new version of its CADDS 5 computer-aided-design software, specifically targeted at helping collaborative design of aerospace products. Bedford, Massachusetts-based Computervision says that the CADDS 5 Revision 6 will enable a team of design and manufacturing engineers to work concurrently on an entire assembly, allowing ...
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Marubeni to take a stake in R-R Trent
ROLLS-ROYCE hopes to boost the sales prospects for its Trent turbofan family in the Asia-Pacific region, with the signing up of Japanese trading company Marubeni as the programme's latest risk-sharing partner. The UK manufacturer says that Marubeni will "-co-operate on a range of activities to enhance the sales ...
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Aviastar seeks state guarantees for Tu-204 sales
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW STRUGGLING RUSSIAN aircraft manufacturer Aviastar is pushing for $30 million in Government guarantees in an attempt to keep alive the deal with Egyptian company Kato Group for the delivery of five Tupolev Tu-204 airliners. The Ulyanovsk-based manufacturing plant, which is responsible for production ...
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From Many to Few
IT IS, AS WINSTON Churchill might have put it, not so much the beginning of the end, as the end of the beginning. Aerospatiale is to merge with Dassault, and now Thomson is to be sold to Lagardere. The French Government has made the two biggest decisions in privatising its ...
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America West A320 order is revamped
AMERICA WEST Airlines has concluded an agreement with Airbus Industrie to revise its A320 order, which will see it taking ten additional aircraft, as A319s or A321s under "better financial terms and conditions". According to the agreement, the carrier's existing order backlog for 24 A320s has been reconfirmed, ...
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Fairchild promises to launch a 30-seat turbofan 328 by 1997
FAIRCHILD DORNIER chairman and chief executive Carl Albert says that there is "no question" about a go-ahead for a 30-seat turbofan version of the Dornier 328 turboprop. "We'll launch it before the end of the year," he says, promising also that a 50-seat stretched version will be launched "about 12 ...
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Lockheed Martin pushes C-130J flight envelope
Testing of the Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules II is catching up on its delayed start, with rapid expansion of the flight envelope to all-new limits. The first four test aircraft have amassed more than 220 flight hours on 60 sorties. Eventually, nine aircraft will be involved in the ...
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NASA looks at ways to save PCA during crises
NASA is studying a potential application of its recently completed Propulsion Controlled Aircraft (PCA) system, which would allow a twin-engined aircraft to survive a catastrophic engine and flight-control failure. The PCA was developed following the 1989 crash of a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 with disabled flight controls. The crew ...
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R-R develops a low-emissions combustor for RB.211-535E4B
ROLLS-ROYCE is developing a new combustor for its RB.211-535E4B turbofan, which it claims will reduce the engine's nitrogen-oxide (NOx) emissions by up to 40%. The new variant is due to enter service, powering Condor's first Boeing 757-300, in the first quarter of 1999. According to David Snape, chief ...
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MAS sale
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) is understood to be looking to sell its two GE CF6-powered Boeing 747-400 Combis and its single Pratt & Whitney JT9D-powered 747-300 Combi. The airline wants to rationalise its mix of airframes and engines and to implement an all-passenger and all-freighter fleet. The airline's two Rolls-Royce RB.211-powered ...