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800 XP APU
Raytheon Aircraft is to install AlliedSignal's 36-150 auxiliary power-unit (APU) as standard on the Hawker 800XP mid-sized business jet, beginning in 1997. The 35-150Wis certificated for in-flight operation. Source: Flight International
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New 737 launch stresses technology and low cost
Max Kingsley-Jones/SEATTLE Boeing CLAIMs that it has put itself "ten years ahead" of Airbus Industrie in the short-haul, jet-powered-airliner technology/low-cost stakes with the official unveiling of its first next-generation 737 (a -700) at its Renton plant, near Seattle, Washington, on 8 December. Sales of next-generation 737s ...
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Boeing delays 747X go-ahead
Guy Norris and Paul Lewis/SEATTLE Boeing has been forced to delay the 747-500X/600X programme by at least four months because of continuing market uncertainty and the late definition of the General Electric/Pratt & Whitney joint-venture engine. The stretched, rewinged 747 was expected to be given the ...
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Kato launches Sirocco to lead R-R-powered Tu-204 effort
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW Sirocco Aerospace International has been launched in Moscow by Egypt's Kato Aromatic and its partners, to spearhead marketing for the re-engined Tupolev Tu-204-120. A list price for the aircraft, which is powered by Rolls-Royce RB.211-535s, has been set at around $36 million. The ...
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MTU and Volvo strengthen ties
AndrzejJeziorski/ MUNICH Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) aero-engine subsidiary MTU Munich and Swedish power plant manufacturer Volvo Aero are on course to achieve closer co-operation in civil-engine programmes. In a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed on 10 December, the two companies have agreed to intensify their links ...
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Supersonic resurrection
It seemed as if the Tupolev Tu-144was bound for the scrapheap, but things have now changed. Paul Duffy/MOSCOW When Marshal Boris Bugaev, the Soviet minister of civil aviation, ordered the termination of Aeroflot's Moscow-to-Alma Ata supersonic service in May 1978, it looked like the end of the line ...
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GE and Airbus hold intense A340 engine negotiations
Julian Moxon/Paris General Electric and Airbus Industrie are in "intense" negotiations on a new, exclusive, very-high-bypass-ratio, power plant for the stretched, re-engined, A340-500/600. Airbus vice-president for strategic planning, Adam Brown, says that the US manufacturer is offering an "extremely exciting" power plant solution for the A340 involving ...
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International Space Station faces service-module crisis
Tim Furniss/LONDON The International Space Station (ISS) Service Module being built by Russia is eight months behind schedule, meaning a delay in the launch of the first ISS crew until early 1999, NASA has confirmed (Flight International, 27 November-3 December). Russian Government funding for the project has ...
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Japan Air System takes its first Boeing 777
Japan Air System (JAS) took delivery of its first Pratt & Whitney PW4084-powered Boeing 777-200 on 4 December, from an order for seven aircraft. The JAS 777s, which are the first to be painted in the airline's new scheme, will also be the first operated on the Japanese domestic network ...
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Sabena overhauls
Sabena Technics has signed a maintenance contract with FedEx covering overhaul of all of the US freight carrier's Pratt & Whitney JT8D engines for its Boeing 727 fleet during the next six years. The contract follows two years of negotiations. Source: Flight International
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Russian high-speed research takes off
The joint Russian-US high-speed-research study programme moved into the flight-test stage on 29 November, when the re-activated Tupolev Tu-144LL (RA-77114) supersonic transport departed from Zhukovsky flight-test centre. The aircraft, one of 17 Tu-144s built, was completed in 1981. It was also one of five "D" models which had ...
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First A330-200 enters production
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Components for the first Airbus A330-200 are being fabricated at plants around Europe, with final assembly scheduled to begin at Toulouse in March 1997. The 256-seat, 11,800km (6,400nm)-range derivative was launched in November 1995. Thirty-one orders have been announced to date. The first wingset ...
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American and FedEx finalise DC-10/727 hushkit exchange
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES American Airlines has concluded a long-awaited deal with FedEx, which will see the US package carrier take over at least 14 of American's McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10s in exchange for supplying hushkits for up to 81 Boeing 727-200s. Some 30 of American's 727s ...
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CFM56-7B passes final blade-out examination
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES A full blade-out test was successfully completed on CFM International's CFM56-7B turbofan at Villaroche, France, on 2 December, just six days before the unveiling of the first of the next-generation Boeing 737 series for which the engine is designed. The engine was ...
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Aeroflot and Ilyushin agree Il-96T production deal
Aeroflot and Ilyushin have signed the final contract paving the way for the production of 20 Il-96Ms and Il-96Ts. The $1.5 billion deal, signed on 3 December, will see the Russian-manufactured aircraft fitted with Pratt & Whitney PW2337 turbofans and Western avionics to be integrated by Rockwell-Collins. ...
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Enigma variations
American Regional Aircraft Industries (AMRAI) is urging IPTN to focus all of its efforts on certificating the N250 turboprop, warning that any re-engining of the aircraft with a turbofan will serve only to delay the programme further. The Indonesian firm launched a study into re-engineing the planned stretched ...
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AMRAI opposes IPTN plans for jet-powered N250
American Regional Aircraft Industries (AMRAI) is urging IPTN to focus all of its efforts on certificating the N250 turboprop, warning that any re-engining of the aircraft with a turbofan will serve only to delay the programme further. The Indonesian firm launched a study into re-engineing the planned stretched N270 soon ...
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Snecma declines Trent 900 partnership offer
Snecma president Jean-Paul Bechat has rejected a Rolls-Royce offer to join in development of its Trent 900 engine for the forthcoming ultra-large capacity aircraft. "Our natural loyalties rest with General Electric," he says, adding that R-R is already a competitor on small, medium and large power plants ."It ...
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P&W low-observable nozzle tested on F-16
Lockheed Martin has ground-tested a Pratt & Whitney low-observable axisymmetric nozzle (LOAN) on an F-16 and is planning flight tests. The LOAN, developed for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme office, features shaping, cooling and coatings to reduce radar and infra-red signature. Improved cooling also promises to more than double ...
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Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems
L-100 Hercules The L-100-30 is the civil version of the C-130 Hercules military transport. It is certificated under US Federal Aviation Rules Part 25 to carry 97 passengers when appropriately modified or manufactured. The passenger version has structural re-inforcement, windows, additional doors and cabin amenities, plus ...