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Technically speaking
Max Kingsley-Jones/LUTON The original Boeing 757-200 was a "sleeper" in sales terms. Boeing will hope that the new model is the same. After launch orders in 1978 for the 757-200, new contracts ran at a trickle until the mid-1980s. It has been a similar story for the -300, which has ...
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Show that put .com on the map
Mike Martin It's customary in this, the last issue of this show's Flight Daily News, to bid you farewell and look forward to seeing you at the next aerospace gathering. But this was the show where e-commerce set up shop at the very heart of the aerospace industry. ...
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Round up
EgyptAir has confirmed that its only remaining Boeing 767-300ER has been damaged during a night-landing accident at Zimbabwe's Harare International Airport late on Tuesday. The jet was en-route from Johannesburg. A spokeswoman for EgyptAir in Cairo says 94 passengers were on board. None was injured. Reports suggest that the port ...
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Face the Facts with...Ken Maciver
A hot topic is "More Electric Aircraft" and the end of hydraulic actuation as we know it. Ken Maciver, TRW Aeronautical Systems' (Lucas Aerospace) executive vice-president and general manager, discusses the implications of TRW's acquisition of Lucas Aerospace, its Asian business and the company's contribution to future electric technologies. Interview ...
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Qantas leases 767-300s
Qantas Airways is to go ahead with the lease of seven Boeing 767-300s from oneworld partner and minority investor British Airways (BA) and has unveiled a series of route changes to accompany the deliveries. Qantas deputy chief executive Geoff Dixon says the carrier's investment in the lease is "significant," but ...
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Aero Systems joins Porter seats network
American company P L Porter Controls, which describes itself as the world's leading maker of position control systems for aircraft passenger seating, has appointed Singapore company Aero Systems to its worldwide network of product support centres, dealing specifically with the market in Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Australasia. P ...
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Boullioun selects Honeywell avionics for B737 fleet
Steve Nichols Honeywell has signed a $55-million agreement with leasing company Boullioun Aviation Services to supply a suite of avionics products for 30 firm and 30 optional new Boeing 737 Next Generation aircraft. Under the agreement Honeywell will supply its Quantum Line communication and navigation systems, weather radar ...
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Near stall investigated
US low-fare carrier Spirit Airlines and the FAA are investigating an incident in which the crew of one of its MD-80s may have nearly stalled the aircraft twice by flying too high for the MD-80's weight, reports the Washington Post. The newspaper also reports that the pilots of the ...
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Airbus keen to proceed with A330-100 by 2003
Airbus Industrie expects to put the proposed 250-seater A330-100 into service in 2003, the company's senior executives revealed yesterday. Noel Forgeard, Airbus president and chief executive, says the company needs to think about launching a new aircraft in this sector that would offer better cost effectiveness, especially in fuel ...
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Airframe icing blamed for Bettenhausen air crash
Airframe icing is emerging as the likely cause of last week's fatal air crash that killed American car racing team owner Tony Bettenhausen, his wife and two business colleagues. Bettenhausen, 48, was piloting his own twin-engined Beech Baron 58 from Florida to his home near Indianapolis when he reported ...
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Air France strike over JV exit
Air France says that up to 5% of its services were expected to be cancelled yesterday following a two-day lightning strike by pilots over a decision by the flag-carrier to pull out of Aeropostale, its joint venture airline with French mail service La Poste. French financial daily Les Echos ...
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Asian fleets make urgent checks on 747 engines
Mike Martin and Geoff Thomas Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Japan Airlines (JAL) are among regional carriers carrying out urgent checks on some Boeing 747-400 engines after the discovery of a problem on a Lufthansa aircraft led the German carrier to ground its entire fleet. Boeing is working with ...
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Flight awards acknowledge industry's high fliers
Flight International's prestigious Aerospace Industry Awards ceremony, launched at Asian Aerospace six years ago, provided a highlight of the week for a cavalcade of senior industry representatives who gathered at the gala event at the Ritz-Carlton hotel last night. The evening culminated with the announcement of the Aerospace Industry ...
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Hermes handles critical Asia aviation data links
Steve Nichols Data link communication in Asia-Pacific is becoming increasingly popular. And as Communication Navigation Surveillance/Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM) becomes more developed in the region airlines will rely heavily on data links to provide critical information about flight plans, graphical weather and eventually air traffic clearances. Rockwell Collins ...
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Ibis JV makes debut with multi-role single
Mark Hannant It's the aviation equivalent of the imagined offspring of Vaclav Havel and 'Ah Mei': half Czech poet, half Taiwanese songstress. The Ae270 is the first fruit of the union of Czech airframe manufacturer Aero Vodochody and Aerospace Industrial Development (AIDC) of Taiwan. The Ae270 - the ...
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AAR joins SITA for online venture
The stampede towards e-commerce continues apace, symbolised yesterday at the show when two companies announced details of their respective cyber-marketplaces at exactly the same time, in adjoining press conference rooms. The all-pervasive internet is rapidly encroaching on the aerospace business, with the on-line purchase of airline tickets booming. How many ...
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Eddington to stay with news after NZ's ansett deal
Ansett Australia executive chairman Rod Eddington will stay with News Ltd after Air New Zealand's upcoming purchase from the media giant of the 50% of the carrier it does not already own. Alistair Carthew, Air New Zealand deputy manager public affairs, says from Auckland that Eddington, who is employed ...
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Manila forces cal to suspend kaohsiung flights
China Airlines (CAL) has temporarily suspended its Kaohsiung-Manila flights after Philippine officials failed to ratify elements of an interim extension to a disputed 1996 air services agreement. CAL spokesman Charles Chen says from Taipei that the carrier's daily Boeing 737-800 service to Manila from Kaohsiung has been "temporarily suspended" ...
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New seats offer J-class comfort in Y-class
Andrew Douse The gap in the market between economy class and business class has now been filled... with Recaro seats, and you can try them out for yourself here at the airshow (Stand A327). The seats are similar to those being used by British Airways on its new ...
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Sale of the Century
Karen Walker Embraer seals $1.8 billion deal for 100 ERJ Regional Jets Embraer kicked off the first trade day yesterday with an order from Continental Express for 100 new ERJ 145 and ERJ 135 regional jets. Although a figure was not announced, it is believed that ...