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KAL chooses PW4000 engine family to power 777s and A330s
KOREAN AIRLINES (KAL) has selected the Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engine family for its Boeing 777s and Airbus A330s, in a deal worth about $850 million. KAL's first four 777-200Bs will be powered by the 400kN (90,000lb)-thrust PW4090 and its remaining eight stretch -300s by the PW4098, derated ...
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GE confident of fan blade answer
Graham Warwick/PARIS GENERAL ELECTRIC Aircraft Engines has developed a solution to the fan-blade failure which has grounded GE90-powered Boeing 777 flight-test aircraft (Flight International, 14-20 June, P4). GE has until mid-July to restage the 3.6kg birdstrike test successfully, if Boeing is to deliver the first GE90-powered 777 ...
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Four engines on offer for A340 stretch
AIRBUS WILL begin evaluating four engine options for the stretched version of the A340 in the fourth quarter of the year, says vice-president, engineering, Bernard Ziegler. The consortium says that it would "...prefer to offer a choice of engines, but that depends on the manufacturers". "We're working with ...
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BMW Rolls-Royce defines family to rival GE CF34
BMW Rolls-Royce has defined the configuration for a new 35-62kN (8,000-14,000lb)- thrust engine family to rival the General Electric CF34-8C. A military-trainer engine is one of the potential applications. A final launch decision on the new BR500 engine family, which comes in below the thrust range of ...
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Honeywell co-operates with Trimble for GPS retrofit market
HONEYWELL HAS teamed with Trimble Navigation to develop and market global-positioning-system (GPS) products for the air-transport retrofit market. The agreement, signed on the eve of the Paris air show, does not affect Honeywell's alliance with Canadian Marconi, which supplies the sensor for the US manufacturer's new-airliner GPS products. ...
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A340 ruled out of JSTARS
NORTHROP GRUMMAN and the main Airbus Industrie partners have ruled out the Airbus A340-200 as the basis for a NATO Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) in favour of the Boeing 707. The US company says, that a study team including British Aerospace, Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) ...
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Bombardier costs Dash 8-400 development
DEVELOPMENT OF THE de Havilland Dash 8-400 high-speed regional turboprop will cost C$450 million ($327 million), Bombardier says, with the Canadian company performing half of the work and risk-sharing partners the rest. Bombardier launched the stretched, 70-seat, Dash 8 at Paris with 18 firm orders, including 12 from ...
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CFMI to ground-test improved A320 engine
CFM INTERNATIONAL (CFMI) will begin ground-testing the first improved CFM56-5B/P turbofan for the Airbus A320 family in July. The engine is based on the core of the CFM56-7 under development for the next-generation Boeing 737. The new engines will have wide-chord fans, three-dimensional aerodynamic design, new materials and ...
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Frakes Aviation
FRAKES AVIATION DISPLAYED a Turbo-Mallard amphibian at Paris to gauge demand to place the 17-passenger aircraft back in production. Texas-based Frakes owns the design rights to the Grumman-developed Mallard and has re-engine 12 of 59 aircraft already built with Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A turboprops. The company sees a market ...
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ARIA Il-96 order in the balance
AEROFLOT RUSSIAN International Airlines (ARIA) has signed a contract for the delivery of 20 Ilyushin Il-96 wide-body transports, subject to the approval of a financing package from the US Exim Bank. The $1.5 billion contract is for ten Il-96T freighters and ten Il-96M passenger aircraft, to be delivered ...
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Agusta introduces the Koala
ITALIAN HELICOPTER MANUFACTURER Agusta has introduced a new single-engine machine based on its existing A-109 range, the A-119 Koala, as well as a new version of the A-109, known as the Power, with twin 545kW (730shp) Pratt & Whitney PW206C turbo-shafts. The Koala, which will have 600kW engine (yet to ...
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'Shrunk' 777 to be launched in 1996
BOEING PLANS to launch the next 777 derivative, the 250-seat -100X "shrink" aircraft, within the next 15 months, according to the company's commercial airplane group president Ron Woodard. The company hopes to have the first aircraft in service by May 1999. Preparatory work is already under way, ...
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Indian Maintenance
Aviall Caledonian Engine Services has signed a three-year agreement with Jet Airways of Bombay, India, to maintain the CFM International CFM56-3 engines which power the airline's fleet of Boeing 737-400s. Jet Airways, which began operating scheduled services in May 1993, operates four 737-300s and two -400s, and is due to ...
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P&W
Pratt & Whitney has appointed Robert Rosati to senior vice president, international. Rosati will be responsible for all the company's programmes in Russia, the CIS and Eastern Europe as well as continuing to serve as P&W's main liaison with Airbus Industrie. Rosati was previously president of International Aero Engines, the ...
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IAE Gain
International Aero Engines (IAE) has won a launch customer for the V2500-A5 on the Airbus A319, with ILFC's selection of the power plant for its latest Airbus narrow-body orders. The selection covers up to six A319s, seven high-gross-weight A321-200s and five unspecified narrow-body options signed by ILFC at the end ...
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Achievement: Carbon-fibre brake technology
Messier Bugatti has developed new-generation carbon brakes, which halve the cost per landing penalty compared with traditional steel and carbon products. The aim is to bring the advantages of using carbon brakes to high-rotation short-haul airliners such as the Airbus A320/321 family. The new-generation Sepcarb III brakes have ...
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IAE works on variable-area nozzle
INTERNATIONAL AERO Engines (IAE) and Calcor Aero Systems are to develop the world's first variable-area exhaust nozzle for a civil aero-engine. IAE, a joint venture between Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce, MTU, FiatAvio and Japanese Aero Engines, will work with California-based Calcor to produce a technology demonstrator for IAE's ...
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Honeywell clinches TracLink GPS deal at Minneapolis
HONEYWELL HAS BEEN selected by the Minneapolis/St Paul Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC), Minnesota, to install a Honeywell/Pelorus SLS-2000 satellite-landing system and the company's recently developed vehicle-tracking system, the TracLink. Both systems are based on the global-positioning system (GPS) and will use correctional positioning information from a local-area GPS ...
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Moller plans four-seat VTOL experiment
MOLLER International, manufacturer of the M200X experimental two-seat vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, aims to fly a four-seater, the M400 Skycar, before the end of 1995. Moller is expected to give more details of plans for the Skycar at the Paris air show, which opened on 10 ...
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Building Starts
CFM International and the Civil Aviation Administration of China have begun construction of a new joint venture, engine maintenance training centre, in Chengdu. The school, due to open in 1997, is modeled on General Electric and CFMI training sites in the USA and France. A temporary centre, in ...