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Face the facts with...Michael Graff
Michael Graff is the newly appointed president of Bombardier Aerospace's business Aircraft division with responsibility for the global marketing of Canadair and Learjet aircraft and the fractional ownership programme. A graduate of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Graff has worked in London and the USA, with ...
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Sales boost
Sales of V2500 engines this year are set to overtake the record $1.5 billion achieved by International Aero Engines (IAE) in 1995. Including five unannounced orders, the total at the beginning of September stood at $1.2 billion in firm and option business. New deals have been won at a ...
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Carbon copies
Textron Systems is building a carbon rapid densification plant to scale-up production of carbon/carbon composite products using the company's patented RD process. Announcing the news at Farnborough, Textron Systems says the new plant, located in Massachusetts and scheduled to be fully operational by early 1997, will give the company ...
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Douglas sales point to brighter future
McDonnell Douglas commercial aircraft division comes to Farnborough with news in triplicate - a new boss, a fresh direction and $170 million worth of aircraft orders. Mike Sears, who is attending his first Farnborough as president of MDC's Douglas Aircraft Company, has announced orders for six new airliners with ...
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R-R puts its confidence in the new Trent design
Rolls-Royce yesterday revealed new details of its Trent 900 as it reiterated its determination to win engine orders for 50% of the Boeing 747-500/600 and Airbus A3XX market. R-R is confident that the Trent 900 will be lighter than its General Electric/Pratt & Whitney competitor because of the Trent's ...
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Titans clash over low level passes
The great Airbus-Boeing battle burst into life at Farnborough ‘96 only hours before the show was due to open, with the American giant laying into its rival's flying display. Speaking minutes after Airbus Industrie chief test pilot Bill Wainwright had described the company's flying programme, Bill Cashman, Boeing's chief ...
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Boeing breakthrough with its new one-piece 737 fuselage
When Boeing Commercial Airplane declares that one plus one equals one, it is better not to argue mathematics. Boeing, which has just married two aircraft sections to create the first complete one-piece fuselage for the 737-700, knows what it is talking about. A roll-out ceremony for the fuselage ...
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New P&W engine powers show 777
Good fortune has shone early on Pratt & Whitney at Farnborough - its newly-certificated PW4090 engines are powering the Boeing 777 in the static display. Flight tests of the 400kN (90,000lb) thrust engine on the 777 began at Boeing's Seattle, Washington factory less than a month ago on 3 ...
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Raytheon wins African 'first' deal
Raytheon has won a contract to supply eight aircraft for Africa's first fractional aircraft ownership scheme, it has been announced at the show. The deal is for four Hawker 800XPs and four Beech King Air B200s, valued in excess of $50 million. Jet Time, owned by National Airways ...
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Helo to the good buys
An order for ten McDonnell Douglas MD Explorer helicopters is expected to be announced at Farnborough today - kicking off what may prove to be a bumper show for orders. British police sources confirmed that Police Aviation Services, which provides air support to UK police forces, has awarded the ...
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Set-up moves into the fast lane
Binocular-toting ‘spotters' must have thought Farnborough ‘96 was cancelled when they saw no sign of major activity on the airfield site this summer. It normally takes at least six months to build the exhibition halls and chalets that make up the show ‘village'. This year the company in ...
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PAL phased by cargo bias
Struggling Philippine Airlines is fighting to retain its share of the cargo market as it starts to suffer under the impact of the government's liberal air services regime. Reportedly heading for a US$65 million loss in its current financial year, the carrier has appealed to the Civil Aeronautics ...
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Cost-cutters save more
As Lufthansa launches an interim cost-cutting campaign to offset a weak first half performance, Swissair aims to cut salaries by 5 per cent after agreeing a pay deal with its pilots. Lufthansa is looking to save DM190 million ($130 million) in the second half of 1996, following a ...
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Deciphering codes
The burst of renewed scrutiny of codesharing practices may say more about the attitude of regulators than the concern of passengers. By Doug Cameron. Please tick as applicable. The aircraft was late. The seats were too narrow. The service was lousy. You had red wine spilled down your white ...
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Fans support spreads
The benefits of the Future Air Navigation System have been slow in coming, but now they are tantalisingly close to being realised and more countries are rallying to the cause.
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Off to a head start
After a long wait, deregulation in Europe has spawned a growing number of startup carriers which are now providing a serious challenge to the majors. Lois Jones reports Until now, startup carriers have tended to provoke no more than a bemused glance from Europe's old timers. But the ...
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Financial data
Air Canada's operating profit fell from US$33m to US$27m as domestic yields fell, but the sale of Continental Airlines shares netted C$129 million. America West's record quarterly earnings came as traffic grew 13.8%, load factors rose 3.3 points, yields jumped 4.1%, and unit costs fell 7.5%. ...
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Liability still in question
The TWA crash in mid-July underscores the uncertainty that still surrounds airline liability, despite progress made on Iata's voluntary agreement on unlimited liability. The agreement was signed after the crash, so won't affect claims against TWA. But the carrier could still follow the example of American Airlines, which ...
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Air Afrique states case
We have been deeply upset by the article 'Eleven oust Afrique boss' (Airline Business, June) commenting on Yves Roland-Billecart's departure from Air Afrique. Roland-Billecart's decision to resign was a consequence of the resolution from the Ministers of Transport of Air Afrique's owner states to separate the functions of chairman ...
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All together in the Middle East
The collapse in yields to the Indian subcontinent and the Philippines has pushed carriers in the Middle East into a fares pact aimed at stemming the decline. Gulf Air, Emirates and Kuwait Airways agreed at a meeting in Kuwait in June to raise market fares on sectors to ...