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Next Generation 737 CFM56 failure was a 'one-off', says CFMI
Initial investigations into the failure of a bearing on a new CFM56-7 powering a Maersk Air Boeing 737-700 show that the incident was a "one-off", says CFMInternational (CFMI). The Maersk aircraft, delivered to the Danish operator in early March, suffered "a complete failure of the number four bearing" on ...
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Kelowna sells stretched Convair 5800s to IFL
Kelowna Flightcraft has sold its two stretched, re-engined Convair 5800 freighters to US cargo operator IFL Group. The first aircraft is already in service with Pontiac, Michigan-based IFL's Contract Air Cargo. The second is being repainted at Flightcraft's Kelowna, British Columbia, plant ready for delivery. The Canadian company ...
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Unloading procedures tip Polar 747 balance
Non-standard unloading procedures appear to have caused a Polar Air Boeing 747 freighter to adopt a spectacularly high nose attitude on the ramp at New Delhi airport, India, during the night of 6-7 June. Ground engineers who inspected the aircraft have reported that main-deck cargo pallets seem to have been ...
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P&W delivers revised PW4098 for next 777-300 flight tests
The second of two upgraded Pratt & Whitney PW4098 turbofans was expected to be delivered to Boeing by late June, to allow flight tests of the 777-300 to resume in July, following a two-month delay caused by the discovery of cracked compressor stators in April. The powerplant was originally ...
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Routes
Royal Jordanian and Air Canada are introducing a code share between Amman and Canada. The deal starts on 2 July and relates to economy seats on four Air Canada flights a week between Montreal/Toronto and Heathrow, connecting with Royal Jordanian services to Amman. Jet Airways is expanding routes following ...
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Air Wisconsin adds to fleet with CRJs
Air Wisconsin has placed a firm order for four 50-seat Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets (CRJs), worth $84 million. The US regional will fly the aircraft under the United Express banner from Denver, Colorado, from the first quarter of 1999. Air Wisconsin says that the CRJ allows service to ...
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Workshop
Dee Howard has sold its maintenance activities at San Antonio,Texas to Code, Hennessy & Simmons, a private equity investment fund, allowing Dee Howard to focus on its thrust reverser business Vietnam Airlines has awarded Lufthansa Technik subsidiary Lufthansa AERO a three-year contract to overhaul its ATR 72 turboprop fleet's ...
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Third Airbus A300 for HeavyLift
HeavyLift Cargo Airlines is to acquire a third Airbus A300B4-200 freighter and is planning to increase its fleet by one aircraft every six months for the next two years. The first two are already in service, operating European flights for KLM Cargo and Lufthansa Cargo. A customer for the third ...
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BAe sets up joint venture to develop Chinese markets
Ian Goold/LONDON British Aerospace has established a joint venture designed to position the group to develop new aerospace and aviation opportunities in China and to strengthen links with the country's developing industry. The move follows last year's similar effort to develop relationships with Malaysia, initially through regional aircraft ...
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Emirates turns down Star for its own global network plans
Doug Cameron/Dubai Emirates has turned down an offer to join the Star Alliance, the Dubai-based flag carrier opting instead to develop its own global network following an order for up to 12 ultra long haul aircraft. A decision between the Airbus Industrie A340-500 and Boeing 777-200X - for six firm ...
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Additional Chinooks bound for Australia
Boeing is to provide the Australian Defence Forces with two additional Boeing CH-47D Chinook heavy-lift helicopters as part of a $45 million contract signed on 19 June. The deal covers two of six CH-47Ds that were being built for an unnamed customer which cancelled the purchase. The other four ...
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HUDs for hubs
Tony Booth/Basle Switzerland's Crossair has completed the installation of head-up displays (HUDs) in its Saab 2000s, thus providing the schedule reliability required for its EuroCross strategy to turn Basle Airport into a major European regional hub. With careful arrival and departure co-ordination, Crossair now guarantees more than 500 ...
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Open for business
The success of Hong Kong's Chek Lap Kok, due to open on 6 July, will depend on keeping costs down Paul Lewis/HONG KONG Hong Kong's new international airport makes its operational debut on 6 July - the culmination of a remarkable eight-year undertaking. The $20 billion infrastructure investment was initiated ...
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A common cause
Arianespace's chairman says that the company must forge partnerships to maintain its market share Tim Furniss/PARIS Arianespace of France and Antrix, the commercial wing of India's Department of Space, signed an agreement on 11 June to pursue a plan to market jointly the Indian Space Research Organisation's Polar ...
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Air Livery rolls out BAe 146 for Formula One customer
A British Aerospace BAe 146-100, acquired by Formula One motor racing entrepreneur Bernie Ecclestone in February, has been painted in corporate colours by Southend, UK-based Air Livery. The aircraft will be used as a 60-seat corporate shuttle to transport Formula One personnel between the European Grand Prix circuits, and will ...
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American Eagle confirms ERJ-135
Guy Norris/FORT WORTH American Eagle has selected the Embraer ERJ-135 to meet its requirement for up to 150 of the 37-seat regional jets. The carrier expects formally to announce the deal by early September - probably in time for the Farnborough air show. The decision will be a major, but ...
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US Air Force makes a start on $1 billion upgrade of F-16C/Ds
US Air Force makes a start on $1 billion upgrade of F-16C/DsThe USAir Force has embarked on a $1 billion programme to upgrade and standardise 700 Lockheed Martin F-16C/ Ds to improve reliability and increase capability. There is already some international interest in the update, the company says. Under ...
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Shorts removes obstacle to resumption of Fokker production
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON Bombardier Aerospace Shorts has removed a major obstacle to the restart of Fokker airliner production by finally agreeing to sell to the Dutch company's trustees the tools, equipment and drawings it has held as the wing producer. Belfast, Northern Ireland-based Shorts was a risk sharing partner in the ...
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BAe tests RJ parts production at TAPO
Ian Sheppard/London British Aerospace Regional Aircraft has dispatched the first raw material to Uzbekistan's Tashkent Aircraft Production factory (TAPO), which will produce 20 shipsets of nose-section components for the Avro RJ regional jets. The parts are now produced by Avro supplier Midcast Engineering of Maesteg, South Wales, but, ...
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Airline News
All Nippon Airways is set to launch services from Osaka/Kansai to Xiamen and to Shenyang via Dalian; and from Tokyo to Qingdao, Saga and Yonago, all in July. Air France launched a twice weekly service from Paris/CDG to Shanghai on 11 May. It will become three times weekly from ...