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Airlines join forces in spare parts venture
Andrew Mollet United Airlines' UAL Services, Air Canada and Lufthansa Technik are to form a joint venture company to buy and sell aircraft materials in the secondary spare parts market. "There is a big need among airlines for high quality spare parts at low prices which can be produced quickly ...
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US team develops DGPS approaches
Flight testing is under way at Honeywell in Phoenix, Arizona, to develop precision approach procedures for helicopters, using differential global positioning system (DGPS) guidance. Honeywell has teamed with Sikorsky and Universal Avionics to help the US Federal Aviation Administration develop terminal procedures (TERPS), providing helicopter operators with greater flexibility ...
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UPS closes on widebody freighter selection
UPS is expecting to finalise its choice of widebody aircraft to replace its fleet of Douglas DC-8-70 freighters by the end of March, to enable the first to enter service in 1999. The Louisville, Kentucky-based freight carrier revealed in October 1997 that it was examining various aircraft to replace a ...
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SMA engine test milestone
France's SMA has just completed the first series of test-bench runs as part of its programme to develop a new generation of Morane Renault piston engines which run on Jet A1 kerosene. The engines range from 180-300hp (130-220kW) and will be used on single or twin-engined aircraft and light ...
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Marketplace
-Airbus Industrie is to take up its option on a fifth A300-600ST Super Transporter, for delivery in 2001, to meet higher demand for transporting aircraft components around Europe as the production rate increases. -Gulf Air has completed the sale and leaseback of six of its 13 Airbus A320s to recently ...
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Bombardier blazes trail for business aircraft in China
Alan Peaford Bombardier Aerospace has claimed 90% of the fast-growing market for business aircraft in the People's Republic of China. At the show today, the Canadian company will announce the delivery of the third of five Canadair Corporate JetLiner aircraft ordered by China United Airways. The JetLiner - a corporate ...
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Boeing fronts new US/Malaysian joint venture
Karen Walker Boeing is at the centre of a new collaborative joint venture that brings together two US and two Malaysian companies to produce composite parts for commercial aircraft. The venture, to be known as Asian Composite Manufacturing, is made up of Boeing, Hexcel of the US, and Malaysian companies ...
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Face the Facts with... Colin Green
The recent turmoil in Asia's economies and the fight to eradicate the so-called Millennium Bug were among the topics covered by Colin Green, managing director, Rolls-Royce Aerospace Group, when he talked with Alan Dron. Q:Do you see Asia's current economic problems as a six-month blip, or are its effects likely ...
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Learjet 45 late
Bombardier failed to begin deliveries of the Learjet 45 light business jet as hoped before the end of its financial year on 31 January. The company now says that the first delivery is "imminent". Source: Flight International
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GV sales help Gulfstream to chalk up record results in 1997
Gulfstream Aerospace soared to record financial results in 1997 and expects the trend to continue as production ramps up for the ultra long range GV business jet. The corporation's sales virtually doubled over the year, reaching $1.9 billion, with deliveries of the GV climbing to 29 aircraft, alongside 22 GIV-SPS. ...
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Extra expects approval for 330 aerobatic aircraft in March
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH German light aircraft manufacturer Extra Flugzeugbau expects to complete certification of work on its new Extra 330 aerobatic aircraft by the end of March. The aircraft, an upgraded version of the Extra 300, has a more powerful engine and "much better manoeuvrability" for competition flying, says ...
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Early launch in store for 428JET
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH THE Fairchild Dornier 428JET could be launched as early as the AsianAerospace show in Singapore which starts on 24 February, providing outstanding technical issues can be resolved in time, says the manufacturer. The aircraft is a 42- to 44-seat stretched version of the 328JET, with a ...
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CFMI tests solution to CFM56 cracking problem
CFM International (CFMI) has completed endurance tests of an improved dual annular combustor (DAC), which it hopes will address "durability issues" experienced on the CFM56-5B/P engine, in service on the Airbus narrowbody fleets of Austrian Airlines and Swissair. The DAC has suffered problems with cracking of the outer liner near ...
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FAA calls public meetings on 727 freighter payload limits
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The US Federal Aviation Administration is giving affected cargo carriers a final chance to express their views on four proposed airworthiness directives (ADs) that would severely limit the payloads of Boeing 727 freighters converted by third party maintenance organisations. The FAA has scheduled public meetings ...
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EuroLOT prepares to build up turboprop fleet
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH LOT Polish Airlines' regional subsidiary EuroLOT will begin building up its own turboprop fleet with the acquisition of "at least" two aircraft this year. The Warsaw-based company, which has been using its parent's eight 64-seat Aero International (Regional) ATR 72s, says that it wants to begin ...
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Sogerma lines up maintenance ventures in China and Lebanon
Julian Moxon/BORDEUX Middle East Airlines (MEA) is set to sign a deal with French maintenance company Sogerma to create a new venture at Beirut Airport in Lebanon. Sogerma president Henri-Paul Puel says that he will sign a deal "within weeks" to create a company 34% owned by Sogerma, with ...
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Marketplace
-Bombardier has received an order from Austrian regional Tyrolean for two de Havilland Dash 8-300s, one Dash 8-400 and two Canadair Regional Jet 200s, while Austria's Rheintalflug has ordered one Dash 8-300 and has a conditional order for one more. -Denver, Colorado-based Frontier Airlines has taken delivery of a Boeing ...
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Workshop
-Air Jamaica has hired Pemco World Air Services to maintain its fleet of six Airbus A310-300s until the end of the year. The work will be carried out at Pemco's Dothan, Alabama, centre and will include D check heavy maintenance. -Field Aviation has received a contract from Air Ontario for ...
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Pelorus flies
Honeywell has received supplementary type approval for the airborne segment of the Honeywell/Pelorus SLS-2000 satellite landing system on its Cessna Citation, while approval is imminent on a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 of Continental Airlines, which expects operational approval to be granted by mid-1998. Source: Flight International
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NBAA asks members to ground Stage 1 aircraft
Members of the US National Business Aircraft Association (NBAA) are being asked to stop operating business jets meeting Stage 1 noise limits by 2005. The NBAA board has passed a resolution calling for members "to refrain from adding Stage 1 aircraft to their fleets, beginning in January 2000, and furthermore ...