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War in the air
IT IS A TRUTH THAT the people who start wars are very rarely the people who end up winning them. That should be remembered by the European Union (EU) politicians and officials who seem determined to start a trade war with the USA over the proposed merger of Boeing and ...
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Sempati F27 crashes in Java
An Indonesian Fokker F27-600 turboprop (PK-YPM) on wet-lease to Sempati Air Transport has crashed in Java. A daylight emergency landing was being attempted about 10min after take-off from Bandung Airport, after a reported engine problem. According to Sempati, the 27-year-old aircraft crashed on 17 July 200m (655ft) short ...
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Smiths sells to Lucas
Smiths Industries has sold its engine-controls business to Lucas Varity, saying that there was not room for both UK players in an increasingly concentrated market. Smiths signalled that engine controls were no longer a core business when it decided to step back from the BMW Rolls-Royce BR715 programme, ...
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Pratt & Whitney acquires Dutch engine-repair group
PRATT&WHITNEY has boosted plans to expand its Eagle Services engine-overhaul business to $1 billion annually by 1998, by agreeing to purchase the Flight Repair group of Netherlands company Interturbine. The group repairs engine aerofoils, stators and cases at centres in Dallas, Texas, and Singapore. P&W says that the ...
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Textron
Pat Millard has been appointed original-equipment manufacturer (OEM) sales manager at Textron Lycoming, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He is a former vice-president of marketing at Narco Avionics and Porsche Aviation Products. Steve Logue becomes OEM accounts manager. He is a licensed air-transport pilot, commercial and certified flight instructor. ...
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Window dressing
GKN Westland Aerospace has acquired Aerospace Composite Technologies for £21 million. The Luton, UK-based company primarily designs and manufactures cockpit windows and electrical anti-icing systems for engine nacelles. In the year to July 1996 the company reported pre-tax profits of £2.5 million ($4 million Source: Flight ...
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Air China selects P&W
Air China has selected the Pratt & Whitney PW4090 to power its five Boeing 777s, which are due for delivery from October 1998. The deal is worth $170 million to the US engine manufacturer. The airline, which is already a P&W customer, will purchase ten installed engines and three spares. ...
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A330s for Sabena
Sabena has begun operations with its first of three ex-Air Inter Europe General Electric CF6-80E1-powered Airbus A330-300s. The other two aircraft will join the fleet later this year. The 268-seat A330s will be used to serve destinations in West Africa, and will be joined in August 1998 by the first ...
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Marketplace
++ TWA has concluded an agreement with International Lease Finance, to take a new Pratt & Whitney PW4000-powered Boeing 767-300ER, on lease. The 233-seat aircraft will be used on routes to the Middle East. ++ Japan Air System has placed orders for two Airbus A300-600Rs powered by Pratt & Whitney ...
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First JPATS PT6
Pratt & Whitney Canada has delivered the first of more than 700 PT6A-68s turboprops for the Raytheon T-6A Texan II Joint Primary Aircraft Training System programme. Assembly of the 820kW (1,100shp) engines at Bridgeport, West Virginia, will peak at 60 a year in 2005. Source: Flight International
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CAG plans turboprop power for Windeagle
CANADIAN AEROSPACE Group (CAG) is working with Pratt &Whitney Canada on a turboprop-powered version of its Windeagle all-composite light aircraft. Ontario-based CAG is hoping to put the Windeagle into production by the end of 1997, with a launch order from a military customer for seven aircraft. CAG acquired ...
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Augustine's vision
Northrop Grumman has traded its independence to follow one man's vision of Lockheed Martin playing on the world stage Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC NEARLY A CENTURY ago, a handful of men created what became the US aviation industry; names such as Glenn Martin, William Boeing, the Loughead ...
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Sino-German research
BMW Rolls-Royce has signed an agreement with the Chinese Gas Turbine Establishment and the German Aerospace Research Institute for research into high-pressure turbines. It will focus on the influence of blade design on the aerodynamic performance of high-pressure turbines in advanced jet engines. The results will be used for further ...
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Workshop
++ Virgin Atlantic Airways has signed a five-year contract with British Midland Engineering for maintenance checks on the airline's Airbus A340s and Boeing 747s at Heathrow Airport. ++ Saudia Arabian Airlines has agreed a deal with GAMCO for Ìve of the airline's Lockheed L-1011 TriStars to undergo US Federal Aviation ...
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Ageing aircraft
Supersonic Aerospatiale/BAe (BAC) Concorde Thirteen of the 14 Concordes delivered to British Airways and Air France between 1975 and 1980 remain in service. Twenty Concordes were built, including two prototypes, two pre-production aircraft and two production aircraft which were not delivered. One of the seven Concordes ...
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Quiet life
Re-engineing and hushkitting activity is intensifying along with noise legislation Andrew Doyle/LONDON Technology WHICH allows ageing airliners to meet the latest noise regulations coming into force in Europe and the USA is big business. It is an industry attracting a growing number of participants ...
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Asain maintenance
The 1997 Maintenance Directory for Asia, Africa and Australasia (Flight International, 28 May-3 June) wrongly combines the entries for Hong Kong Aero Engine Services (HAESL) and Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering (HAECO). The organisations would like to emphasise that HAESL took on the engine-overhaul activities of HAECO as a separate corporate ...
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Europe: US victim or partner in aerospace industry?
Sir - The editorial "Europe 0, USA 1" was correct to spell out the global complexities of the world aerospace industry today. The joint British Aerospace/ Lockheed Martin venture on the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) may well represent the future. This does not mean, however, the end of ...
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An-124 Chapter 3 hushkit wins certification
A hushkit has been certificated for the Antonov An-124 which enables the cargo aircraft to comply with the International Civil Aviation Organisation's (ICAO) Chapter 3 noise legislation . The approval marks the first step towards the modification of all An-124s to Chapter 3 rules as additional hushkits become ...
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Marketplace
++ Air Caledonie has placed an order for one additional new Aero International (Regional) ATR 42, for delivery before the end of 1997. The airline already flies three ATR 42s. ++ United Airlines has taken delivery of its first Airbus A319-100. The International Aero Engines V2500-A5-powered aircraft is one of ...