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Boeing warns of further delays to 717
Boeing has confirmed that first flight of the 717-200, to be rolled out at Long Beach on 10 June, will now take place in early September, some three months later than originally scheduled. The flight test delays are also expected to have knock-on effects to the planned delivery of ...
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Cathay rethinks 777-200 fleet
Paul Lewis/SEATTLE Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways plans to review the future use of its four Boeing 777-200s, following the introduction of the stretch -300 into service. The carrier is also disposing of an initial two surplus Boeing 747-200s to Virgin Atlantic Airways in an effort to rationalise types and ...
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Unwanted Garuda MD-11s and A330s head for new homes
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Garuda Indonesia has reached agreement with Boeing to return six leased MD-11s, which in turn are being placed with Brazilian carriers Varig and VASP. Airbus Industrie is also assisting the Indonesian airline to find homes for six leased A330-300s. The Boeing tri-jets will be withdrawn from service within ...
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Marketplace
-TWA has contracted to lease three Pratt & Whitney PW2000-powered Boeing 757-200s from International Lease Finance (ILFC) for delivery in 1999 and 2000. -Air New Zealand has contracted to lease a new Boeing 747-400, powered by General Electric CF6-80C2 engines, from ILFC. The aircraft will be delivered on ten year ...
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Rolls-Royce completes Trent 8104 design and waits for 777-X
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Rolls-Royce is expected to complete design work on the 454kN (102,000lb)-thrust Trent 8104 by the start of June and is still "on track" to run the first engine in December, despite the slowdown of the Boeing 777-200X/300X derivative programme for which the powerplant is being developed. ...
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Fairchild Dornier outlines financing plans for 728JET
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Fairchild Dornier says "up to $350 million" of the $850 million required to develop its 728Jet 70-seat regional jet "-is already on the table" from potential risk sharing partners and equipment suppliers. President Jim Robinson says risk-sharing suppliers of the wing, fuselage and empennage would ...
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Eurojet targets 1999 EJ200 approval
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Eurojet is planning to certificate its EJ200 turbofan engine for the Eurofighter EF2000 by the end of November 1999, and is preparing for ground and flight testing of the engine's production version from March next year. The company says it will introduce the 03B version of ...
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Raytheon reveals UCAV concept
Raytheon Systems has teamed with its sister company, Raytheon Aircraft, and unmanned air vehicle specialists Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical and Aurora Flight Sciences to compete for the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) advanced technology demonstration programme. The team also includes GDE Systems, Honeywell and Primex. ...
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Top of the props
Guy Norris/MONTREAL Later this month Pratt & Whitney Canada will receive Transport Canada certification for its PW150A turboprop. Flat-rated at 3,780kW (5,070shp) for take-off on Bombardier's de Havilland Dash 8Q Series 400, the engine has virtually double the power of any other member of the PW100 family from which it ...
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Airbus firms up second engine option for high-capacity A3XX
A second engine option is now officially available from Airbus Industrie on its planned A3XX high capacity airliner, with the firming up of plans to offer the General Electric/Pratt & Whitney Engine Alliance joint venture GP7000 on the aircraft. Airbus signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Engine ...
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Dragonair forced to rethink expansion
Hong Kong's Dragonair is deferring delivery of its last of nine new Airbus A320 family aircraft and has shelved the planned launch of new services to Japan and South Korea because of the Asian economic downturn. The airline is undertaking a fleet roll-over with International Lease Finance (ILFC), with ...
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NASA develops new engine enhancer
NASA Dryden Flight Research Centre and Physical Sciences have teamed to develop an optical sensor which can detect the density and velocity of air passing through an aircraft engine, opening the possibility of real time performance optimisation. The air mass flux sensor provides data without interrupting airflow through the ...
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Will sun rise in Japan?
David Knibb After a bad year for all three major Japanese airlines, the debate is now whether their woes are temporary or due to deeper, more fundamental problems. Japan Airlines claims to have resolved its problems and cleaned up its balance sheet by taking a US$1.2 billion write down. ...
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Boeing breaks 4,000 sales mark for 737s
Sales of the Boeing 737 have passed through the 4,000 mark as a result of top-up deals from various Next Generation 737 customers. American Airlines has concluded a deal for 25 more 737-800s, bringing its total 737 orders to 100. The newly ordered aircraft will arrive between January 2000 ...
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British Midland V2500 fails after only 150h
Ian Sheppard/LONDON An International Aero Engines (IAE) V2500-powered Airbus A321-200 operated by British Midland (BM) suffered an in-flight engine failure on 15 May shortly after departure from Heathrow Airport. The 147kN (33,000lb)-thrust V2533-A5 powered aircraft had been in service only 20 days and had flown around 150h with the UK ...
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Marketplace
-Augsburg Airways has placed orders for six additional Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8s, including two series 200s and four larger series 300s, and taken options on a further seven aircraft. The order represents the ratification and expansion of a deal originally reached in November 1997 for three aircraft. The options ...
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P&W corrects PW4098 cracks and confirms 777-300 delay
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Paul Lewis/SEATTLE Pratt & Whitney estimates that corrections to cure cracked compressor stators in the PW4098 discovered in April will push deliveries of the first heavyweight Boeing 777-300 to Korean Air (KAL) back by almost three months, to December. "It's a cast part, and we've ...
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Honeywell will lead real time weather display project
Real time global weather patterns displayed on the flightdeck are on the cards after NASA approval of a development plan by a Honeywell-led team. The work, which promises improved safety and fuel savings, is a part of the space agency's Aviation Safety Programme, which was created in 1997 with ...
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Single-aisle bonanza
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES CFM International (CFMI) and arch rival International Aero Engines (IAE) are again heading for the record books. After an astonishingly successful year for both in 1997, the orders have continued and, by mid-1998, look as if they might already surpass significantly those of the previous year. ...
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Orenda Recip receives FAA certification for Vee-8 OE-600
Orenda Recip has been awarded US Federal Aviation Administration certification for its OE-600 piston engine, four years after the Ontario, Canada-based manufacturer acquired the Dick McCoon "Thunder" engine programme. The company has orders for 150 engines and options on a further 30 to date, which includes re-engineing de Havilland ...