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Sales boost
Sales of V2500 engines this year are set to overtake the record $1.5 billion achieved by International Aero Engines (IAE) in 1995. Including five unannounced orders, the total at the beginning of September stood at $1.2 billion in firm and option business. New deals have been won at a ...
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R-R puts its confidence in the new Trent design
Rolls-Royce yesterday revealed new details of its Trent 900 as it reiterated its determination to win engine orders for 50% of the Boeing 747-500/600 and Airbus A3XX market. R-R is confident that the Trent 900 will be lighter than its General Electric/Pratt & Whitney competitor because of the Trent's ...
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Boeing breakthrough with its new one-piece 737 fuselage
When Boeing Commercial Airplane declares that one plus one equals one, it is better not to argue mathematics. Boeing, which has just married two aircraft sections to create the first complete one-piece fuselage for the 737-700, knows what it is talking about. A roll-out ceremony for the fuselage ...
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New P&W engine powers show 777
Good fortune has shone early on Pratt & Whitney at Farnborough - its newly-certificated PW4090 engines are powering the Boeing 777 in the static display. Flight tests of the 400kN (90,000lb) thrust engine on the 777 began at Boeing's Seattle, Washington factory less than a month ago on 3 ...
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Record orders for Bombardier
Bombardier Regional Aircraft Division (BRAD) is celebrating a bonanza week of sales. At a press conference today, it will be confirming a record-breaking Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8 order for 25 firm and 15 conditional aircraft plus 30 options. The buyer is Horizon Air of Seattle, Washington and ...
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P&W orders
Pratt & Whitney has announced a trio of orders for PW4000 engines to power expanded Boeing 747-400 fleets in the Asia Pacific region. Deliveries to Air China of three aircraft powered by PW4056 engines, rated at 250kN (50,000lb) of thrust, will begin in June 1997. In Taiwan, China ...
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Aircraft news
General Electric Capital Aviation Services has placed 40 firm orders for Airbus A319s, A320s and A321s, with options for a further 40, plus five firm orders and five options for A340-300s. GATX Capital has placed orders for 10 B737-800s, with options for a further 10, as well as ...
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PAL phased by cargo bias
Struggling Philippine Airlines is fighting to retain its share of the cargo market as it starts to suffer under the impact of the government's liberal air services regime. Reportedly heading for a US$65 million loss in its current financial year, the carrier has appealed to the Civil Aeronautics ...
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Fans support spreads
The benefits of the Future Air Navigation System have been slow in coming, but now they are tantalisingly close to being realised and more countries are rallying to the cause.
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TWA resists Pan Am rerun
After years of proving detractors wrong and just as the carrier was showing signs of recovery, TWA is once again fighting to prove that it can survive, following the crash of Flight 800 off New York's Long Island on 17 July. In the three weeks that followed the ...
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Qantas faces union threat
Qantas's management is facing confrontation with unions over a new wage agreement as it launches a drive to try to control costs and improve on disappointing productivity gains. Flight attendants and ground workers have already hinted at industrial action if they fail to win agreement on across the ...
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Seven-year countdown
Airbus makes progress towards a launch of its vitally important new large aircraft. Julian Moxon/TOULOUSE THIS AIRCRAFT "-will be the biggest challenge in civil-aviation history", says Jurgen Thomas, head of the new large-aircraft division of Airbus Industrie charged with developing the A3XX. While such words ...
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Family favourites
Boeing's new-generation 737is the same, only different Guy Norris/SEATTLE EXACTLY 30 YEARS ago, the first Boeing 737 was taking shape at the company's plant in Renton, Washington. At the time, not everyone was convinced that the "Baby Boeing" gamble would be a winner. The concern ...
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Slow progress
Progress towards achieving a US/Russian bilateral airworthiness agreement remains slow. Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE USA AND RUSSIA will break no speed records in their marathon efforts to complete a bilateral airworthiness agreement, say US aviation officials involved in the negotiations. While some progress is reported ...
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Regional rivalry
The Embraer EMB-145's Farnborough debut will help to focus attention on regional airliners. Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON WHILE THE 1996 show is the first occasion on which the three major airliner manufacturers - Airbus Industrie, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) - will be exhibiting their latest commercial wares at ...
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A sticky problem
THE WORLD'S LARGEST and most profitable airlines are facing an all-time-great dilemma as the Farnborough Air Show approaches. Should they bow to Boeing's pressure and sign now for its new stretched 747-500/ 600, or should they await the Airbus A3XX? If they buy the Boeing now, they ...
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Alaska spurns MDC for Boeing
ALASKA AIRLINES is negotiating for a fleet of new-generation Boeing 737s, following an apparent decision to sell off its large McDonnell Douglas (MDC) fleet and become all-Boeing by 2000. If confirmed, the move will mean the end of MDC's long-running battle with Boeing to supply Alaska with new ...
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Lufthansa to sell 737-400 fleet in cost-cutting move
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH LUFTHANSA IS TO SELL its fleet of six Boeing 737-400s as part of a major cost-cutting programme under way at the German national airline. According to Lufthansa, cost-cutting probes have exposed unnecessary capacities and unprofitable routes. "We have pinpointed the 737-400 as an ...
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Chinese airline is 'pressured' to buy local MD-90s
SHENZHEN AIRLINES is complaining that it is facing growing pressure from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) to purchase five locally manufactured McDonnell Douglas (MDC) MD-90-30s, instead of additional Boeing aircraft. According to the carrier, it is being told by the Chinese authority to take the ...