TWA put the first of 20 new 180-seat Boeing 757s into service on 1 August, operating between St Louis, Missouri and Orange County, California. The aircraft is one of three 757s which TWA will take in 1996 on ten-year leases from International Lease Finance (ILFC). Seven more ILFC 757s, plus ten ordered directly from Boeing, will be delivered to TWA from 1997. All the aircraft are Pratt & Whitney PW2037-powered.
Source: Flight International
This week’s Farnborough air show follows one of the busiest events for aircraft order announcements at the Paris equivalent last year.
Rolls-Royce is on course to perform ground runs later this year of a Pearl 15 business jet engine adapted to run on gaseous hydrogen.
Rolls-Royce has revealed more detail on the hot-section improvements it is making to its Trent-series widebody engine family as it targets better durability and time-on-wing, particularly in hot and sandy operating environments.
