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AIA 98 WINNER:AMECO-Beijing (Maintenance & Modification)
AMECO-Beijing took its first important steps into the international market for heavy aircraft maintenance in 1997, showing how far the Chinese joint venture has come over the past eight years. AMECO was set up at Beijing's Capital Airport in 1989 as a joint venture between Air China and Lufthansa, ...
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AIA 98 WINNER:CFM International (Propulsion)
Increasing life cycles and lowering costs with the new CFM56-7 When Boeing delivered the first of its new generation 737 family towards the end of 1997, the event also marked the entry into service of CFM International's latest CFM56-7 engine, bringing with it significant advances in operating and maintenance costs. ...
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AIA 98 FINALIST:Rolls-Royce Commercial Aero Engines (Propulsion)
Building the new Trent family of engines From the outset of its Trent programme, Rolls-Royce's vision was to build on its three-shaft design to create a full engine family. With new launches during 1997, the family has taken shape and the programme has passed the 1,000 order mark. Since ...
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ESDU offers wideband noise prediction
Noise prediction software produced by ESDU International of London in the UK has been updated. The software predicts noise generated by turbofan engines across a 50Hz-50kHz frequency spectrum and is being validated using a Rolls-Royce RB.211 in a test cell at the UK Defence Evaluation and Research Agency's Pyestock research ...
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Range, range...range
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Confused over Boeing's plans for future 747 derivatives? Take heart. For two years since the cancellation of the ambitious 747-500X/600X development, Boeing appears to have been as perplexed as anybody. Devising a strategy for product development is, at best, an inexact science. Boeing knows this ...
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Allison identifies maker of bad AE3007 bearings
Allison Engine says that a badly manufactured bearing was to blame for the in-flight shutdowns of AE3007 turbofans powering the Embraer RJ-145. The plan is to have completed a retrofit across the in-service fleet by April. "The bearings for this engine are made by several manufacturers and one particular ...
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Asians sign up for Trent work
A memorandum of understanding for a proposed joint venture to undertake Trent engine overhaul and maintenance in Asia- Pacific has been signed by Rolls-Royce, Singapore Airlines Engineering (SIAEC) and Hong Kong Aero Engines Services (HAESL). HAESL, a joint venture between R-R and Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering, is the only ...
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Honeywell and Racal reveal new satcom
Honeywell and Racal have revealed details of an advanced satellite communications (satcom) system offering up to seven channels of voice/data. The MCS-7000 is being developed for use with Inmarsat spacecraft and will be available in April 1999, says the company. The MCS-7000 will offer Aero-H, Aero-H plus, or Aero-I ...
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Workshop
-SR Technics has concluded a three year deal to support two ex-Air France A320s to be operated by new Italian carrier Volare Airlines. -FLS has agreed a deal with Irish charter operator TransAer to provide maintenance support for two new Airbus A320s entering its fleet. -Pratt & Whitney Canada has ...
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IAE lands massive Latin Airbus deal
Karen Walker/SINGAPORE International Aero Engines is believed to have secured a $1 billion deal from Latin America with the selection by LanChile, TACA and TAM of V2500-A5 engines to power the long awaited order for up to 200 Airbus A320 family aircraft. Rival CFM International responded by announcing it ...
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Suppliers
China Airlines has started an IBM-based online booking system for internet reservations. IBM Global Services Australia is taking over the management and control of Cathay Pacific's data centrein Sydney. Unisys has supplied Cathay Pacific with the electronic ticketing system Unisys Aircare. Servisair has won a contract to provide ...
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P&W starts geared turbofan revolution
Karen Walker Pratt & Whitney will unveil details tomorrow of its new PW8000 geared turbofan, the engine which it says will "-change the rules of the game." P&W has made the unusual decision to launch the PW8000 without a customer. But company president Karl Krapek says it is time to ...
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Multi-billion deal for Airbus?
Airbus and International Aero Engines are believed to have sealed a major multi-billion-dollar deal with three Latin American airlines for 100 A319/A320/A321s equipped with the V2500 turbofan. LanChile of Chile, Taca of El Salvador and TAM of Brazil have joined forces for this particular purchase in an effort to ...
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CFM focuses on loyalty to beat the opposition
"When the customers are happy with you, then they come back to you." That's an observation by Gerard Laviec, CFM International's president and chief executive officer. CFM's overwhelmingly strong position in the narrowbody market seems to bear that out, but what Laviec now has to concentrate on is maintaining that ...
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No brakes on Messier-Bugatti in global market
Asian Aerospace exhibitor Messier-Bugatti (Stand A411), which is owned by Snecma, is now the world's leading supplier of carbon brakes, with around 30% of its possible global market. Airbus has certified Messier-Bugatti carbon brakes for each of its aircraft types and Dassault also specifies them for the Mirage 2000 ...
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Asia-Pacific projects shine in awards
Hong Kong's new Chek Lap Kok airport was one of several Asia-Pacific winners at the Flight International Aerospace Industry Awards. The airport won the Infrastructure award in recognition of the first landing at the airport which will formally open later this year. The Air China-Lufthansa joint venture, Ameco-Beijing, was ...
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ANA to set up own APU servicing centre
All Nippon Airways (ANA) has struck a deal with Sundstrand to set up its own aircraft auxiliary power unit (APU) maintenance and repair unit at its main plant at Haneda, Tokyo. This is the first time an airline company has set up its own APU servicing centre. ANA ...
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Unveiling
Pity there have been no big civil aircraft at the show but regional aircraft and business jets have been represented. The engine manufacturers have made their presence felt, with Pratt & Whitney unveiling its PW8000 geared turbofan. On the military front, there has been powerful interest centring on attack ...
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Leasing company sees opportunies in economic downturn
Sarah Lazenby Business is booming in Asia Pacific for flight crew leasing companies IASCO and ARS International. The companies have just placed 17 captains to fly McDonnell Douglas DC-10s and MD-81s for the Harlequin Air, the first new-entry low-cost carrier to serve Japan since the market was liberalised. Other Asian ...
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P&W defends engine against rival ridicule
Karen Walker Pratt & Whitney chief Karl Krapek yesterday defended his company's new geared turbofan product against rival accusations that it is based on old technology. Giving details of the newly-launched PW8000, an engine for narrowbody markets in the next century, Krapek says: "I take exception to comments about this ...