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Embraer sales keep rolling in
Embraer expects to announce more orders for its EMB-145 regional jet during the show, confirms Mauricio Botelho, the Brazilian manufacturer's chief executive officer. Botelho's apparent confidence raises speculation that Embraer might be the winner of a long-awaited order for regional jets from American Airlines' subsidiary AMR Eagle. ...
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Sogerma signs two conversion contracts
Groupe Aerospatiale company Sogerma announced at the show the award of two new contracts, one in Europe, the other in Asia. The Sogerma Maintenance Group has signed a contract with Airbus Industrie to convert three Airbus A330-300s for Belgian carrier Sabena. Each of the aircraft, which ...
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Change of engine may delay Ariane 5
Ariane engine builder Société Européenne de Propulsion (SEP) has decided to change the Vulcain cryogenic motor which should have boosted the Ariane 5 heavy duty rocket on its next flight in mid-September. This follows a problem detected during a bench trial test of a similar engine destined for ...
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AvSoft on aircraft
Airlines and component manufacturers alike can tap into a powerful software system which holds detailed information on virtually every commercial aircraft on the planet. AvSoft from Rugby, England, is at the show this week to promote the ACAS Product Tracker system, a highly flexible market information package, which ...
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AIS targets rapid response customers
Aero and Industrial Services (AIS) is using its appearance at Le Bourget this week to tell potential customers about a new rapid response capability. AIS, housed in Hall 2/H14, is operating a repair or replace system of maintenance from its base in Burnley, UK, and completed a same-day ...
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Linda succeeds where Amelia Earhart failed
Sixty years after trail-blazing aviatrix Amelia Earhart's round-the-world flight ended in disaster, Linda Finch completed a commemorative circumnavigation in an identical 1935 Lockheed Electra 10E. The aircraft, powered by Pratt & Whitney Wasp engines, is the centrepiece of a special Pratt & Whitney display pavilion in the static park ...
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Airport delegates to chart new directions
More than 150 airline and airport delegates are expected to attend the world's only route planning forum, which the organisers say is set to be the biggest airport marketing event ever. Routes Oslo 97, to be held from 14-16 September, follows the success of previous 'Routes' in Cannes ...
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Recaro sitting pretty with AA
Recaro Aircraft Seating of Germany has just received an order from American Airlines (AA) to equip the carrier's entire narrow-body fleet with economy class seats. It's the first order American Airlines has placed with an aircraft seat supplier from outside the USA. Recaro will replace coach ...
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Air Malta leaning toward Airbus
Politics are certain to play a key role in a probable fleet rationalisation programme at Air Malta, reports Reed Aerospace's online news and data service Air Transport Intelligence (ATI). Flight Daily News' sister product, which will be formally launched tomorrow, says Malta's hopes of securing membership of the ...
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Eurowings expands ATR fleet
Geoff Thomas German airline Eurowings announced at Le Bourget yesterday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to buy five ATR 42-500s - plus options for a further five aircraft. Eurowings operates the largest ATR fleet in Europe which comprises 17 ATR 42-300s; six ATR 72-200s; and ...
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BMW-RR to power new Tupolev
BMW Rolls-Royce is set to sign a collaboration agreement today with Tupolev, to power the Russian aircraft manufacturer's Tu-334-120 regional aircraft with BR710-48 engines. The Berlin-based German-British joint venture company has been anticipating the growth of a market in the CIS for several years. It first ...
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Avrotec double
Avrotec, the maintenance and refurbishment arm of British Aerospace Regional Aircraft, comes to Paris '97 on the back of two new contract wins. The first deal involves undertaking four-year structural checks, repainting work and the retrofit of engine life computer systems on seven China Northwest BAe 146-300 aircraft. ...
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Finnair opts for new Airbus fleet
Finnair has chosen Airbus Industrie A319, A320 and A321 aircraft to replace its McDonnell Douglas (MDC) fleet, it has beenannounced at the Show. The $388-million deal is significant in the new commercial aviation world where Boeing is acquiring MDC, leaving it to battle it out with Airbus. ...
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Missions of mercy for the $25million airborne hospital
First it was the flying doctor coming to the aid of needy folk in remote countries. Now there's an entire medical team, complete with a flying hospital, running regular mercy missions all over the globe. The Flying Hospital - a converted Lockheed L1011-50 - is the ...
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Bombardier or Embraer to scoop big RJ prize at Paris?
As the regional-jet-versus- turboprop debate rages, all eyes are on Bombardier and Embraer at Paris '97. The expectation is that one of these two rivals could announce a large regional-jet order from American Airlines during the air show. At Farnborough '96 the spotlight fell on Brazilian ...
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Great Lakes cuts
Great Lakes Aviation, which resumed limited services in late May after a voluntarily grounding of its aircraft, is to scale back operations. The Minneapolis, Minnesota-based regional will not resume service as United Express to eight cities, citing "economic factors", while its agreement with Midway Airlines, as Midway Connection, has been ...
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Philippine Airlines takes first A340-300
Philippine Airlines has taken delivery of its first Airbus A340-300, as part of its fleet-renewal programme. This will see 24 Airbus aircraft delivered to the carrier over the next 20 months, including four A340-300s, eightA330-300s and 12 A320s. The A340-300s, which join a fleet of four smaller -200s which have ...
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Dragonair/Cathay gear up as A330 services return
Cathay Pacific Airways and Dragonair planned to have all 15 of their Airbus A330-300s back in service by 7 June, after completing gearbox modifications to the twinjet's Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engines. R-R and Cathay had completed 25h of ground and flight testing of the Hispano-Suiza modification package on ...
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Mesaba expands under new Airlink contract
USREGIONAL MESABA Airlines has signed a new agreement with Northwest Airlines extending its operations to include all Northwest Airlink codeshare flights from Minneapolis/St Paul, Minnesota. Mesaba will take over from Express Airlines I on 1 August. Express will continue to operate as Northwest Airlink from Memphis, Tennessee. The ...
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Swissair closes on MD-10 conversion work
Swissair's SR Technics maintenance subsidiary has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with McDonnell Douglas (MDC) to fit up to 25 DC-10-10s with an advanced, Honeywell-designed, two-crew flightdeck under Phase II of the FedEx MD-10 programme. MDC confirms that the MoU has been agreed, but adds that "-it ...