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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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P&W solves A330 engine problem
Pratt & Whitney is retrofitting all PW4164 and PW4168 turbofans powering the Airbus A330 with a redesigned blade platform after tests revealed the potential for high N1 (low-pressure-spool rpm) rotor imbalance and the loss of the fan-containment system in the event of a fan blade detaching - a risk with ...
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Vietnam nears decision on long-haul fleet
Vietnam Airlines expects to make a decision on a new long-range passenger aircraft before the end of the year, but says that its final type selection will be largely contingent on the availability of either US or European export-credit financing. The airline has narrowed its choice down to ...
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ARIA posts profits after year of growth
Aeroflot-Russian International Airlines(ARIA) has posted a positive set of 1996 results, showing a strong growth in passenger numbers and a boom in cargo traffic. ARIA revealed an overall net profit of 124.5 billion roubles ($22 million) for 1996, and the results would have been better but for an ...
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Power shortage
According to current folklore, engine makers don't actually make any money out of building engines: they give them away, and then hope they will recoup the cost out of spares and maintenance in years to come. The engine makers, at least in public, will reject that as a wild exaggeration, ...
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Lockheed Martin to fly all-electric F-16
LOCKHEEDMARTIN has been cleared to proceed with modification of an F-16 to demonstrate the all-electric flight controls planned for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). The Advanced Fighter Technology Integration (AFTI)/ F-16 will be modified in 1998 for flight tests starting in January 1999. The six-month, 60-flight demonstration, under ...
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A340 growth engine is stuck in stalemate
Airbus Industrie, Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce are locked in a three-way stand-off over the way forward on the growth A340-500 and -600. P&W and R-R are seeking exclusivity on the new variants, while Airbus does not want to offer it.The engine makers expect a final decision by ...
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EC proposes to extend powers
The European Commission (EC) is proposing to give itself sweeping new powers over air-transport competition, including extending its authority to rule on mergers outside the European Union(EU). The proposals, if approved by the Council of Ministers, would give the Commission significant influence over alliances, co-operative joint ventures and ...
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Orbital will launch hypersonic vehicles
ORBITALSCIENCES IS to produce four modified Pegasus air-launched boosters for NASA's Hyper-X hypersonic test programme. The Hyper-X is a small, unmanned, research vehicle powered by a supersonic-combustion ramjet (scramjet) and designed to reach speeds of up to Mach 10 and altitudes of up to 100,000ft (30,500m) after launch ...
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Jumbo challenge
If Airbus Industrie sticks to its timetable for the A3XX, the first example of the 560- to 660-seat long-range giant will be undergoing flight demonstrations for the first time in public at the 2003 Paris air show. What visitors to the show will see circling over the famous Le Bourget ...
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Growth markets
While the prime focus at the last major European air show, Farnborough in September 1996, was on the dog-fight between Boeing and Airbus Industrie to launch a 747 successor, the duel has now regrouped around longer range, and/or increased capacity derivatives of the two rivals' existing products. Airbus ...
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Thrusting forward
Two years ago, the world's three big engine makers - General Electric, Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce - were at the Paris air show, fighting over the future direction of thrust growth for one major programme, the Boeing 777. Other airframes, and their potential derivatives, were very much in the ...
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The necessity for European mergers
Sir - The Comment "Hands off" (Flight International, 21-27 May) appropriately addresses the real problem of European aerospace-industry integration. This difÌculty is also highlighted in the problems surrounding Aerospatiale and the valuation of its intellectual property rights in the negotiations to formalise Airbus Industrie as a standalone corporation. ...
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H+S Aviation
UK engine-overhaul company H+S Aviation, of Portsmouth, Hampshire, has appointed David McRobert to the new position of marketing and business-development director. He was previously responsible for H+S' Pratt & Whitney Canada and Allison repair and overhaul businesses. Source: Flight International
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Twinjet
Andrew Lee, formerly with Falcon Jet Centre at the UK's London Heathrow Airport, has been named commercial manager for Twinjet Aircraft of London Luton Airport. He will be responsible for the lease of Twinjet's Boeing 727-200 and Hawker 800, and will also establish a corporate-aircraft charter sales division. Source: ...
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P&WC delivers first Dash 8-400
PRATT &WHITNEY Canada has delivered the first PW150A turboprop engine for Bombardier's Dash 8-400 70-seat regional airliner. The first flight of the stretched, high-speed -400 is scheduled for December, leading to certification and first deliveries in the second quarter of 1999. Flight testing of the 3,780kW (5,070shp) PW150A ...
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Boeing orders fuel-tank checks on all 747s
All Boeing 747 operators will receive a service bulletin (SB) this month detailing inspection procedures for centre-wing fuel tanks, the manufacturer says. The SB relates to the continuing investigation into the July 1996 crash of a Trans World Airways (TWA) 747 which has "-determined that the centre-wing tank ...
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American agrees provisional deal for USAirways Shuttle
AMERICAN AIRLINES has agreed to buy the US Airways Shuttle - if US Airways decides not to buy the New York-Boston-Washington high-frequency operation, which it manages under a ten-year contract signed in 1992. US Airways has previously said that plans to buy the Shuttle are on hold until it negotiates ...
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NAPO predicts An-38 exports
The Russian production plant responsible for final assembly of the Antonov An-38 turboprop is confident that the new regional airliner will find market niches in Russia and overseas. Novosibirsk Aircraft Manufacturing Association (NAPO) marketing director Valery Skvortsov, where the Ukrainian-designed, Western-powered airliner is assembled, says that An-38 deliveries ...
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Jordan calls for regional 'open-skies' deal in the Middle East
Governments and the major airlines in the Middle East should end their protectionist policies and allow an "open-skies" policy for regional carriers operating aircraft with 85 seats or fewer, according to Jordan's Prince Faisal bin Hussein. Speaking at a regional-airlines conference in Dubai in late May, Prince Faisal ...