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New chapter of growth
A year after emerging from bankruptcy, America West is resuming growth, but this time the carrier plans to do things differently. By David Knibb.America West Airlines has unveiled a business plan designed to leave its checkered past behind and set a smooth course for at least the next two years. ...
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From Brabazon to Viscount
VICKERS TURNED the 1942 Brabazon Committee's requirement for a postwar Brabazon IIB into the winning VC2 design. Originally, it was to have Napier Naiad, Armstrong Siddeley Mamba or Rolls-Royce Dart engines, but it went into service with the Dart. The prototype V630 was flown on 16 July 1948, and was ...
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Boeing regroups as strike ends
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES BOEING IS WORKING flat out to catch up on delayed airliner deliveries and resume production after 32,000 machinist-union workers voted overwhelmingly on 13 December to return to work . The 68-day strike stopped deliveries of more than 30 airliners and suspended production ...
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GE90 power surge hits 777 ETOPS progress
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES PLANS TO BEGIN extended-range twinjet-operations (ETOPS) tests of the General Electric GE90-powered Boeing 777 have been hit by an incident in which a British Airways aircraft suffered an engine surge during pre-delivery flight tests. Although the engine recovered automatically from the surge, ...
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Demand drives Short Brothers to expand composites business
SHORT Brothers HAS unveiled ambitious plans to expand its aerospace-composites business in an effort to keep pace with demand for the engine nacelles and the other aircraft components it manufactures. The Belfast, UK-based company, part of Bombardier, is investing £5.1 million ($7.81 million) in a new autoclave and ...
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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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Honeywell wins American deal
AMERICAN AIRLINES HAS selected the Honeywell/ Trimble HT9100 satellite-based navigation system for a fleetwide retrofit of 340 Boeing 727s and McDonnell Douglas DC-10s and MD-80s. The contract, is the first major fleet satellite-navigation avionics contract awarded, since the introduction of the Boeing/Honeywell FANS 1 system and is the ...
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Vietnam poised to sign up for Regionair A320-200s
VIETNAM AIRLINES is expected this month to sign a lease with Singapore company Regionair for ten Airbus A320-200s, to replace eight similar aircraft now reaching the end of their leases from European airlines. Air Vietnam's requirement will mean an imminent order with Airbus, as Regionair has no other ...
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GE/Allison wins JAST backing
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA A GENERAL ELECTRIC (GE)/Allison team has received a $7 million contract to begin work on an alternative engine for the four-service strike-fighter to be developed under the Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) programme. Initial funding covers feasibility studies into derivatives of GE's current F110 and advanced ...
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Rolls-Royce Inc
Stanley Doepke is named director of airline marketing and Bruce McClelland becomes airline-analysis manager at Rolls-Royce Inc, the US arm of the UK aero-engine manufacturer. Doepke was formerly sales director at Fokker Aircraft USA, while McClelland was director of strategic market planning at Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dornier). Frederick Kocher becomes senior ...
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Kitfox change
SkyStar Aircraft is ready to make Teledyne Continental O-200 and IO-240B and Textron Lycoming O-235 engines available on its Kitfox family of kitplanes, now powered by uncertificated Rotax engines. Source: Flight International
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UTC signs for ICAD design software
UNITED TECHNOLOGIES has signed an agreement, potentially worth almost $1.9 million, to use Concentra's ICAD System design-automation software at Hamilton Standard, Pratt & Whitney and Sikorsky Aircraft. The deal includes an option to buy Burlington, Massachusetts-based Concentra's Selling Point sales-engineering automation software. Concentra says that P&W has used ...
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Growing up
Boeing has begun assembly of its firstnew-generation 737.Guy Norris/SEATTLE IT IS UNPRECEDENTED but, by mid-1997, Boeing's Renton site in Seattle, Washington, will be producing six different models of the same jet airliner. The aircraft is the best-selling 737, and the ramp-up represents the phase in its development when production of ...
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Dow-UT claims first composite exit case
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA DOW-UNITED Technologies Composite Products (Dow-UT) has completed the first turbofan fan exit case to be built from composites. The 2.8m-diameter case has been produced under a $14.8 million contract from the US Advanced Research Projects Agency, using an advanced resin-transfer moulding (RTM) process developed by Dow-UT. ...
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Taiwan 'ready to give support' to Jetcruzer
TAIWAN IS PREPARED to back a joint venture with Advanced Aerodynamics and Structures (AASI) to produce the Jetcruzer six-seat single-turboprop aircraft, according to local reports. Jack Tang, deputy director of the Taiwanese economics ministry's committee for aviation and space industry development, is quoted as saying that the venture ...
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Airbus extends widebody family
Julian Moxon/PARIS AIRBUS INDUSTRIE HAS launched the shortened, longer-range, version of its twin-engined A330 widebody and confirmed its development of the ultra-long range A340-8000. The A330-200 is scheduled to be flown for the first time in the middle of 1997, and to be ready for service ...
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TAM places order for eight more Fokker 100 twinjets
FAST-GROWING BRAZILIAN regional carrier TAM (Transportes Aereos Regionais) has placed another repeat order for the Rolls-Royce Tay 650-powered Fokker 100 twinjet. The latest order, for eight aircraft, will bring its Fokker fleet to 23 aircraft, the third-largest after American Airlines and USAir. Another order, for six ...
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HAECO teams with Rolls-Royce
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE HONG KONG AIRCRAFT Engineering (HAECO) is to hive off its engine-overhaul business to a new 50:50 joint-venture company to be formed in partnership with Rolls-Royce Aero Engine services. Hong Kong Aero Engine Services (HAESL) is expected to begin operations from I January, 1997. HAECO ...
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Strike pressure builds as Boeing deliveries slip
Guy Norris/LOSANGELES PRESSURE IS MOUNTING on Boeing to settle with striking workers, as the production backlog begins to build up and deliveries slow to a trickle. Boeing managed to deliver 11 aircraft in November and 14 in October despite the strike by 32,000 machinists and aerospace ...
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Aircraft news
JAL has ordered five B777-300s to enter service in 1998. The carrier already has 10 B777-200s on order with options on a further 10. Uzbekistan Airways has ordered two B767-300ERs and one B757. The National Civil Aviation Authority of Turkmenistan has ordered two Rolls-Royce powered B757s. ...