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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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The fight goes on
Airliner markets are on the mend, but the fight for orders remains as fierce as ever. Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE AIRLINER MARKET is finally on the upturn. While 1995 may not have been a vintage year for the big-three jet-aircraft manufacturers, the tally of new orders was respectable ...
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Boeing beats rivals to Malaysian deal
Andrew Chuter/LONDON BOEING HAS made a clean sweep of a $4 billion Malaysian Airlines (MAS) order for long-range, high-capacity, aircraft, beating Airbus and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) to a deal, which could eventually cover 65 aircraft. MAS was expected to announce on 9 January an order ...
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Family ties undone
Certification "grandfather rights" for derivative aircraft are about to be phased out. David Learmount/LONDON T HE ISSUE OF "grandfather rights" as they apply to aircraft certification provokes righteous indignation, anger and transatlantic disharmony. Something had to be done about them, but reaching agreement without destabilising ...
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Boeing to raise output as markets begin to stir
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON BOEING IS TO raise aircraft production rates towards the end of 1996 in a move, which the company says reflects the beginnings of an upswing in aircraft demand, as well as efforts to catch up from the ten-week strike. Production is expected to recover ...
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Boeing optimistic about GE-powered 777s
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA BOEING delivered three General Electric GE90-powered 777s by the end of 1995, after GE's proposed increase of the fan-blade-tip clearances had been approved by the US Federal Aviation Administration (Flight International, 20 December, 1995-2 January, P4). Efforts continued to determine the cause of an engine ...
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Hubs and partners
Since being spun off into the world's first separate airline cargo subsidiary last January, Lufthansa Cargo has been free to pursue its aggressive global network strategy. Jackie Gallacher reports.As the biggest non-integrated cargo carrier in the world and the second largest air freight carrier after Federal Express, Lufthansa Cargo Airlines ...
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Air Macau expected to add Airbuses
Brett Hannan/MACAU START-UP CARRIER Air Macau expects to add two narrow body aircraft a year to its fleet for the next five years. The new aircraft will almost certainly be additional Airbus A320s and A321s, says airline marketing executive Dominic Ching. Air Macau, which now operates ...
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Vietnam Airlines nears 767 leasing deal with GECAS
VIETNAM AIRLINES is close to concluding a leasing deal with General Electric Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) for three additional Boeing 767-300ERs, as replacements for wet-leased aircraft. The Vietnamese national airline wants to take delivery of the three aircraft in early 1996. The ex-Continental Airlines 767s are to be ...
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Air China will take A340s
AIR CHINA IS TO TAKE delivery of three Airbus Industrie A340s, previously ordered by China Aviation Supplies (CASC). Airline sources say that the aircraft will replace four Boeing 747SPs used for long-haul passenger flights and Government VIP missions. The three A340s will be in addition to Air China's ...
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Boeing strike talks resume
BOEING AND ITS striking workers resumed stalled talks on 6 December, as the impact of the two-month-old stoppage mounted on customers and suppliers. Major Boeing subcontractor Northrop Grumman has announced that it will extend its scheduled holiday plant shutdowns by four to nine days, idling more than 6,000 employees, "...to ...
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MDC details test plans for F-18E/F
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) expects to fly the second F-18E Super Hornet by 16 December. Flight testing of the first F-18E is expected to resume shortly after repair of an environmental-control-system bleed door, failure of which caused the 29 November first flight to be cut short. ...
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Taiwan 'ready to give support' to Jetcruzer
TAIWAN IS PREPARED to back a joint venture with Advanced Aerodynamics and Structures (AASI) to produce the Jetcruzer six-seat single-turboprop aircraft, according to local reports. Jack Tang, deputy director of the Taiwanese economics ministry's committee for aviation and space industry development, is quoted as saying that the venture ...
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Osprey tilts the balance
A leaner, cheaper, V-22 tilt-rotor is taking shape, thanks to advances in manufacturing technology. Graham Warwick/FORT WORTH MAJOR PIECES OF THE FIRST production-representative V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor are coming together at Bell Helicopter Textron and Boeing Helicopters, and confidence is growing that the dramatic cost and weight reductions achieved ...
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Concorde wins race against US TCAS ban
Andrew Doyle/LONDON BRITISH AIRWAYS and Air France have avoided the threat of a ban on their Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde operations to the USA, after Rockwell-Collins finally solved technical problems associated with the external antennae for the traffic-alert and collision-avoidance systems (TCAS) which it is supplying for the supersonic airliner. ...
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Aircraft news
JAL has ordered five B777-300s to enter service in 1998. The carrier already has 10 B777-200s on order with options on a further 10. Uzbekistan Airways has ordered two B767-300ERs and one B757. The National Civil Aviation Authority of Turkmenistan has ordered two Rolls-Royce powered B757s. ...
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'Economic' spying bugs Japanese
Not many people were surprised to learn, in October, that the CIA undertook 'economic' spying on US trade rival Japan. The high-profile impetus for the intelligence gathering was the US-Japan automobile trade talks that were resolved in July after the two sides negotiated an eleventh-hour settlement under the spectre of ...
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Boeing barred from lead role in STARS
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON, DC THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration has barred Boeing from leading an industry consortium bidding for the $1 billion Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (STARS) programme. Boeing, BDM and Oracle had teamed to compete for STARS, with Boeing selected as the prime contractor. The ...
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SIA goes for 777 with Rolls-Royce powerplants
SINGAPORE AIRLINES (SIA) has placed an order for 34 Boeing 777s, with options on an additional 43 aircraft. Deliveries will run from 1997 to 2004. The $12.7 billion deal includes spares and the selection of Rolls-Royce Trent 800-series engines. The selection of R-R was the biggest surprise - the ...
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First GE90-powered 777 is ready for BA
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE FIRST GENERAL Electric GE90-powered Boeing 777, is finally ready for its long awaited delivery to British Airways, after clearing certification on both sides of the Atlantic The first BA aircraft was due to touch down at London Heathrow on 12 November, as the ...