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Exim approves Aeroflot financing
AEROFLOT-RUSSIAN International Airlines (ARIA) is to receive $1 billion financing from the US Export Import Bank (Exim) to help purchase 20 Westernised Ilyushin Il-96M/Ts. The financing covers the US content in the aircraft, including engines and avionics, and will be guaranteed by the Russian Government and by pledges on the ...
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APIC picked
Air Jamaica has selected Auxiliary Power International's (APIC) APS 3200 auxiliary power unit for four Airbus A320s on order. Source: Flight International
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Delta substitutes 767s for its long-haul L-1011s
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA DELTA AIRLINES is to replace Lockheed L-1011s used on transatlantic services with additional Boeing 767-300ERs. The airline has also cancelled all its outstanding orders and options on Boeing 737-300s. The carrier says that its capital expenditures "...do not materially increase, but delivery schedules and aircraft types ...
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Appointments
British Airways has announced a major management reshuffle. Alistair Cummings becomes chief operating officer and director of profit development and is replaced as managing director British Airways Engineering by Clive Mason. Charles Gurassa becomes director of passenger business, David Holmes assumes the post of director corporate resources and Roger Maynard ...
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Suppliers
The Rolls Royce Trent 700 has been granted Etops approval on the Airbus A330 by the Joint Airworthiness Authority. Aeromexico has signed a 10 year contract with EDS to manage the carrier's information technology services Galileo, Sabre and Amadeus are all establishing links with the reservation ...
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Boeing boost
Malaysia Airlines has placed an all-Boeing order for 15 Boeing 777-200s and -300s and 10 747-400s, valued at some $4 billion. Rolls Royce will provide the engines for the 777s, while Pratt & Whitney has won the contract for the 747s. Source: Airline Business
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Thai/US stalemate ends with new bilateral accord
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE A SIX-YEAR stand-off between Thailand and the USA has ended with agreement on a new bilateral air-services treaty which lifts capacity restrictions and increases fifth-freedom flights. The new agreement, which has still to be ratified by the Thai Government, will allow US carriers ...
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Airbus and Boeing fight for key Asiana contract
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE ASIANA AIRLINES of South Korea is near to selecting a new 150- to 180-seat passenger jet-airliner, as the first step in a wider fleet-modernisation programme. The airline has narrowed its choice to the Airbus Industrie A321 and rival Boeing 737-800. The two manufacturers ...
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Engine problems ground Swiss Airbuses
SWISSAIR HAS grounded five Airbus A320/321s after cracks were discovered in the turbine section of their CFM International CFM56-5B turbofans. The grounding affects Swissair aircraft recently fitted with the low- emissions dual-annular combustor (DAC). The airline describes the move as precautionary. The aircraft were withdrawn from ...
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GE90-powered 777 ETOPS tests in sight
EXTENDED-RANGE twin- operations (ETOPS) testing of the General Electric GE90-powered Boeing 777 could start in February after a series of delays. Boeing says that it is "...still waiting for a decision from the US Federal Aviation Administration reliability-assessment board [RAB]" on whether the tests can get under way. ...
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Computers aid GV wing design
APPEARANCES CAN be deceiving, and the GV's outward similarity to the GIV belies the changes wrought to achieve an almost-60% increase in range. The wing is all-new, sized to house the fuel required for a 12,000km (6,500nm) range, but shaped by the desire to maintain the GIV's ...
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Messier-Dowty
Geoff Smith has been appointed managing director of TI/Snecma joint-venture landing-gear manufacturer Messier-Dowty of Abingdon, Oxford, UK. Smith, who joined the Dowty Group in 1968, joined Lucas for 12 years, before returning to Dowty Fuel Systems in 1987, where he became director and general manager and managing director of joint ...
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Global Express assembly begins
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA ASSEMBLY OF THE first Global Express long-range business jet has begun at Bombardier's partner companies. The forward fuselage, produced by Shorts in the UK, has been joined to Canadair's cockpit section at the Canadian company's Montreal plant, while preliminary mating of the wing and centre fuselage has taken ...
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Jetstar STC
Arizona-based Garrett Aviation Services has received supplemental type certification to bring AlliedSignal TFE731-powered Lockheed Martin Jetstars and Jetstar IIs into compliance with US Federal Aviation Regulations Part 36 Stage 3 noise rules. Source: Flight International
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SEP sizes up Messier-Bugatti purchase
FRENCH ROCKET-engine manufacturer SEP is angling to take over the Messier-Bugatti carbon-brakes business, its sister company within the Snecma group. SEP president Roger Vignelles says that he wants to take over the brakes business to reinforce non-space business while his company prepares for a fall in revenues from ...
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Lone Star launches APALS map-based landing system
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA US REGIONAL LONE Star Airlines is the launch customer for Lockheed Martin's autonomous precision-approach and landing system (APALS). The Fort Worth, Texas-based airline has signed a memorandum of understanding to equip its four Dornier 328 regional turboprops with the system, which uses the aircraft's radar to ...
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Garuda finalises MD-11 lease deal
GARUDA INDONESIA has finalised a deal with McDonnell Douglas (MDC) to lease three new MD-11 tri-jets, to replace three similar early-build aircraft owned by General Electric Capital Services (GECAS). MDC is expected to deliver the three General Electric CF6-80C2-powered aircraft at the end of 1996 on a long-term ...
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Dufour casts doubts over Snecma GE90 commitment
SNECMA CHAIRMAN Bernard Dufour has again raised severe doubts over his company's ability to fund its share of development on any future growth variants of the General Electric GE90. Dufour says that, while Snecma is still committed to its 25.5% participation in the current GE90, it would not ...
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Boeing 757 operators are advised of engine problem
Gunter Endres/LONDON BOEING HAS warned operators of 757s about several engine-rundown incidents on aircraft powered by Rolls-Royce RB.211-535E4 s. About half of the 700 aircraft operated by some 60 airlines across the world are involved, but the indications are that only older examples are affected. According ...
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CFMI studies service software
SOFTWARE DESIGNED TO ALLOW JET engines to be more easily serviced is being employed in the development of the CFM International (CFMI) CFM56-7 turbofan engine, which will power the new-generation Boeing 737. The software, known as Product Vision and developed by the GE Research and Development Center in Schenectady, New ...