Airframers – Page 1605
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Digital gyro deal
Airbus Industrie has selected Honeywell's GG1320 digital ring-laser gyro as a replacement for analogue ring-laser gyros in its A319, A320, A321, A330 and A340 types. The GG1320 is scheduled to be certificated on the A320 as part of the US avionics manufacturer's air-data/inertial-reference system in December. It will then be ...
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Boeing's £6 billion bonanza
Boeing Commercial Airplane set the show alight yesterday with the announcement of 68 jetliner orders worth $6.3 billion. The company also revealed it is to launch a new version of the 757 twinjet - the 757-300 which will seat 20 per cent more passengers than the 757-200. Launch ...
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Flying display
Today's flying display (current at time of going to press) 14.00-16.30: A340; Kamov KA50; Embraer 145; Firefly; Tornado; Super Tucano Hawk 100; Eurofighter 2000; Tornado GR1; Gripen; Harrier GR7; Aero L59; Grob 115TA; F18 Hornet; Yak 52; Dassault Rafale; Dassault Falcon 2000; Dassault Falcon 900; F16; ZLIN 242; MiG ...
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Boeing's trump card is a new 650-seat Jumbo
Boeing has plans for a 650-seat version of the 747, dubbed the 700X, it was revealed at Farnborough yesterday. Although the company says it does not expect to build the aircraft, it is clearly gearing up to take on Airbus Industrie if it launches its 555-800 seat A3XX double-decker ...
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GPS option
Aero International (Regional) has chosen the Honeywell/Trimble HT1000 as standard option Global Navigation Satellite Sensor Navigation Management System on the ATR 42 and 72 regional airliners. Certification is expected in the first quarter of 1997, and the HT1000 will also be available for retrofit through a field service bulletin ...
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IAE looks East for opportunity
International Aero Engines (IAE) is to expand its presence in Asia with a planned V2500 maintenance centre and parts distribution network, developments formally announced following the company's recent China Aviation Symposium. Talks are also being held on a proposed IAE/Rolls-Royce training unit for Chinese students and employees to be ...
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MiG-AT makes debut over Farnborough
Russia's new generation MiG-AT trainer makes its international debut at Farnborough ‘96, with scheduled daily demonstration flights. The Russian-French training system combines the aircraft's aerodynamic characteristics, high thrust-to-weight ratio, Sextant state-of-the-art avionics and reconfigurable fly-by-wire control system with a ground-based training system to ensure a dramatic time and cost ...
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Did the earth move for you at the show?
Journalists at the recent Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, may have had trouble getting between venues, but at least they were allowed in. Many Farnborough hacks were not so lucky yesterday. Despite having Ministry of Defence-approved photo press passes, journalists were brought almost to mutiny at Gate F ...
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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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Cool deal
Hamilton Standard and Sumitomo Precision Products, whose business relationship goes back more than half a century, have teamed up to develop an advanced air conditioning system for the emerging 100-seat aircraft market. The system will use Hamilton Standard's patented condensing cycle system, first introduced in the environmental control system ...
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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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Japanese eye up billion dollar launch deal
Japan's contingent at Farnborough could soon be celebrating a $1.28-billion deal with two US companies for 15 launches of the H2 booster. Mitsubishi-led Rocket Systems, which markets the launcher, is in final negotiations to carry 15 Hughes and Loral communications satellites after 2000. The launcher will be an ...
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US still tops defence market says survey
Reports that the Russians have overtaken the Americans for top position in the world defence market are flawed, a top British Government analyst says at Farnborough ‘96. A US Congressional Research Service survey released just prior to Farnborough ‘96 claims that the Russians had leapt to pole position ...
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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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Record orders for Bombardier
Bombardier Regional Aircraft Division (BRAD) is celebrating a bonanza week of sales. At a press conference today, it will be confirming a record-breaking Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8 order for 25 firm and 15 conditional aircraft plus 30 options. The buyer is Horizon Air of Seattle, Washington and ...
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Flying display
Today's flying display (correct at time of going to press): 14.00-16.45: Airbus A330/A340 combined display; Kamov KA-50; Embraer EMB-145; B2A Spirit; Firefly; Super Tucano Hawk 100; Eurofighter 2000; Tornado GR1; Gripen; Harrier GR7; Aero L59; Grob 115TA; F-18 Hornet; YAK 52; Dassault Rafale; Dassault Falcon 2000; Dassault Falcon 900; ...
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P&W orders
Pratt & Whitney has announced a trio of orders for PW4000 engines to power expanded Boeing 747-400 fleets in the Asia Pacific region. Deliveries to Air China of three aircraft powered by PW4056 engines, rated at 250kN (50,000lb) of thrust, will begin in June 1997. In Taiwan, China ...
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Airline Business 100 - 1996
Rank Airline Revenue US$M OpResult US$M NetResult US$M net margin % fleet Total emps Revenue Tonne kilometres (mil) Revenue Pax km Pax millions Load Factor % Year End 95 94 Pax ...
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Aircraft news
General Electric Capital Aviation Services has placed 40 firm orders for Airbus A319s, A320s and A321s, with options for a further 40, plus five firm orders and five options for A340-300s. GATX Capital has placed orders for 10 B737-800s, with options for a further 10, as well as ...