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Explorer first flight
Boeing's first production MD 903 Explorer twin-turbine helicopter had its first flight on 5 September at the manufacturer's base at Mesa, Arizona. The eight-seat light helicopter aircraft is an upgraded version of the original MD Explorer, offering more powerful Pratt & Whitney 206E turboshafts, 8% more range, 4% more endurance, ...
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Merger speculation mounts as Rohr holds mystery talks
Nacelle manufacturer Rohr is in merger discussions with an unnamed entity. The deal being discussed values the Chula Vista, California-based company at over $790 million. Rohr reported revenues of $771 million for 1996, and expected to exceed this in its 1997 fiscal year ended 31 July. Speculation over ...
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Dasa tests flight management
AndrzejJeziorski/MUNICH Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa)is beginning a six-month flight-test campaign for a new flight-management system (FMS), the NFS-5000, developed by its Ulm, Germany-based subsidiary Navigation and Flight Guidance Systems (NFS). The system creates flight plans for pilots, who simply have to enter their point of departure and ...
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Low fares or bust?
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Air South's recent bankruptcy has struck a chill note for US start-up airlines. Although the carrier may have been a relatively small player, its demise is dangerously close to home for a low-cost airline sector in which nobody is looking secure. The financial performance ...
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Hymatic
Richard Thwaites has been appointed business-development director, and joins the board, of the UK's Hymatic Engineering, of Redditch, Worcestershire, part of the Cobham Group and which specialises in the design and manufacture of cryogenic systems for infra-red imaging, and other applications for aerospace and defence. He was formerly with Ultra ...
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Blanc quits over privatisation
Julian Moxon/Paris Christian Blanc has resigned as Air France chairman because the recently elected French Government has refused to press ahead with privatisation of the state-owned airline. Blanc says that he has a "moral contract" with the Government to proceed with privatisation, arguing that it forms ...
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Boeing expects to reap Chinese harvest
China is set to announce sizeable new orders for Boeing 777-200, 757-200 and 737-700/800 passenger aircraft during the state visit to the USA in October of the country's president, Jiang Zemin. Boeing is hoping that Jiang's trip will finally give the green light to a large number of ...
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P&W effort to improve PW4000 reliability starts to pay dividend
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Pratt & Whitney says that an upgrade effort to counter reliability problems on more than 1,600 PW4000 engines is showing results, with a "dramatic reduction" to in-flight shutdown rates. The upgrade effort, known as the Number 1 reliability programme, involves around 100 service ...
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Saab pushes 35-seat option
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Saab Aircraft president Gert Shyborger says that Europe should look at the 30- to 35-seat market for its next regional jet, rather than the 70-seat sector being pursued by Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)). The comments come as Saab re-assesses its future in the regional-aircraft ...
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Comair consortium wins battle to take over Sun Air
A consortium led by South African regional carrier British Airways Comair has won the race for state-owned Sun Air. Comair, a BA franchise partner, will take a 25%stake in the rival domestic carrier, with another 5%earmarked for Sun Air staff, and the remaining 70%taken by two investment vehicles ...
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Taiwanese tourists boost CAL
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON A return in confidence among Taiwanese travellers has lifted profits at China Airlines (CAL)over the first half of 1997, and the airline expects better to come during the rest of the year, which includes Taiwan's peak holiday season. CAL posted pre-tax profits of nearly ...
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GE gets Greenwich
General Electric completed its $530 million acquisition of Greenwich Air Services, as promised on 2 September, but is still waiting for a vote by UNC shareholders on whether to join the engine maintenance giant. That vote is expected this month. Source: Flight International
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Eastern rising
EVA Airways of Taiwan has achieved formidable progress in six years Brent Hannon/TAIPEI EVA Airways, launched with little fanfare in mid-1991, today boasts a fleet of 30, a route network which extends to London, New York and Panama City, and a balance sheet which shows ...
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AI(R) holds talks on 70-seater plans
Aero International (Regional) (AI(R) is in last-minute talks with potential partners on its planned Airjet family of regional jets as it nears a decision on whether to go ahead with the 70-seat aircraft. Embraer, Saab and Aerostructures are all competing to supply the wing, although the US firm ...
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Boeing looks again at plans for NLA
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing has restarted efforts which could lead to the rebirth of the New Large Airplane (NLA) concept, dropped in 1995 in favour of plans to develop the stretched, re-winged 747-500X/600X. One of the initiatives is aimed at creating "faster, cheaper", processes which would ...
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Airbus and Boeing benefit as ILFC orders new aircraft
International Lease Finance (ILFC) has placed orders for 126 new aircraft, shared almost equally between the Airbus Industrie consortium and Boeing. The orders from the world's largest aircraft-leasing company are for 61 Boeings, worth $4.5 billion, and 65 Airbuses, worth around $3.9 billion. ILFC has 112 airline customers ...
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STAe thinks again on AE31X
Paul Lewis/BEIJING Singapore Technologies Aerospace (STAe) is having second thoughts about participating in the planned joint Sino-European AE31X aircraft programme because of financial and workshare uncertainties. According to industry sources, STAe has in recent weeks voiced reservations to partners Airbus Industries Asia (AIA) and Aviation Industries ...
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AlliedSignal reveals China manufacturing plans
AlliedSignal Aerospace is aiming to finalise the first of three planned manufacturing joint ventures with Chinese industry by October, strengthening its bid to participate in the Sino-European Airbus/Avic/Singapore Technologies AE31X programme. The first joint venture involves a partnership with China Aero Technology Import & Export (CATIC) to produce ...
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Keeping promises
Emma Kelly/London The in-flight-entertainment (IFE) industry has undergone a radical change this year, with the leading hardware providers finally conceding that they are guilty of over-promising and under-delivering to their airline customers. After years of trying to meet airline requests for ever-more ambitious IFE applications, the makers have ...
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A 'super jumbo' by any other name could fit the bill
Sir - I read with interest the article "MDC flies new concept demonstrator" (Flight International, 13-19 August, P26), about the 6%-scale model of a blended-wing-body aircraft (which should be capable of carrying up to 800 passengers) designed, built and flown for McDonnell Douglas (MDC) by Stanford University, California. ...