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Power play
Greenwich Air Services has secured a ten-year deal with Britannia Airways for the repair and overhaul of General Electric CF6-80A2 and -80C2 engines. The contract value is put at around $85 million. Greenwich, which is in the throes of a takeover by General Electric, has also signed a $40 million ...
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Landing contract
The new Fairchild Dornier 328-300 regional jet is to be fitted with a Messier-Dowty landing gear. The deal is expected to be worth $70 million to the Anglo-French venture over the life of the programme. Source: Flight International
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Maintenance venture
GE Engine Services and EVA Airways have signed a memorandum of intent to explore the formation of an engine- overhaul and maintenance venture in Taiwan. The deal, in which EVA would have the majority stake, will handle engine overhaul for EVA and other airlines. Source: Flight ...
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Airbus waits for orders before committing to growth A340s
Airbus Industrie says that it needs a "significant" number of orders for the new A340-500/600 versions of the A340 before committing to full development and production. Despite that, sales chief John Leahy is "optimistic" that sufficient airlines to justify the $2.5 billion development cost will commit to the ...
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AMR Eagle divides regional-jet order: Embraer wins key deal
AMR Eagle has divided its long-awaited order for regional jets between Embraer and Bombardier, although the Brazilian manufacturer has won the key competition to supply 50-seaters. AMR Eagle will take delivery of the first of 42 firmly ordered EMB-145LRs, powered by the Allison AE3007A1 engine, in February 1998, ...
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Work begins on low-maintenance Adour
Rolls-Royce and Turboméca have launched development of a new low-maintenance version of the Adour 871 turbofan which powers the British Aerospace Hawk and McDonnell Douglas T-45 trainers. The Adour 900 will offer 4,000h between overhauls to meet what R-R military-engines chief Terry Graham describes as a demand for ...
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Canada considers sanctions over US overflight charges
Graham Warwick/WASHington DC CANADA IS considering sanctions that could be imposed on the USA if it fails in legal efforts to ban overflight fees introduced by the US Federal Aviation Administration in May. Options range from levying similar fees on US airlines overflying Canadian airspace to asking the ...
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ICAO plans CNS/ATM implementation conference in Rio
ACKNOWLEDGING that financing the transition costs is the biggest hurdle to introducing satellite-based communication, navigation, surveillance and air-traffic management (CNS/ATM), the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) plans a conference on the subject in Rio de Janeiro on 11-15 May, 1998. ICAO president Dr Assad Kotaite announced the conference ...
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Atlantic Coast Airlines raises cash for jets
ATLANTIC COAST Airlines (ACA) has announced a $50 million bond issue designed to help support the introduction of regional jets into the fleet and the repurchase of shares owned by aircraft manufacturer British Aerospace, which had been obliged to bail out the airline. Washington DC-based ACA, which operates ...
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BMW R-R signs up to power Tu-334s
BMW Rolls-Royce (BMW R-R) has signed with Russian manufacturer Tupolev to power its Tu-334-120 twin-engine regional jet with BR710-48 turbofans. At the same time, Honeywell has signed an agreement with Russian counterpart Aviapribor to fit the US company's avionics into Russian-made aircraft, with the Tupolev Tu-334 as one ...
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Customers flock to civil tilt-rotor
Bell Boeing has revealed that it has secured orders for 36 Bell Boeing 609 civil tilt-rotor aircraft from 25 customers. Included in the list of those which have been publicly identified are Canadian Helicopter, Helikopter Services of Norway, Helitech of Australia, Petroleum Helicopters of the USA and Sheikh Sultan Maohammed ...
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Eurocopter wins Dauphin orders
Eurocopter has netted launch orders for six N4 widebody versions of its Dauphin helicopter from Norway's Helicopter Service group, along with orders for a total of 15 AS350-B3 single-engined Ecureuils and six EC135s. The group has also received European Joint Aviation Authorities certification for the EC120 Colibri. Eurocopter ...
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Small is beautiful
Tim Furniss/GUILDFORD When the UK's UoSAT 1 microsatellite was launched in 1984, the project was run by a small team of engineers and graduates in the University of Surrey at Guildford, in the UK. Today that team is Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), a world leader in the ...
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Robinson offers turnkey R44 for law enforcement
Robinson is to integrate a Wescam aerial camera with the police version of its R44 helicopter and offer a turnkey airborne law-enforcement system. The initial order is for two Model 12DS dual-sensor cameras, with an option for 14 more. The lightweight, gyro-stabilised system combines a staring-array thermal imager and colour ...
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AAlliedSignal cleans up
Aircraft lighting specialist Grimes Aerospace has been bought by AlliedSignal from investment firm Forstmann Little for an undisclosed sum. Ohio-based Grimes makes interior and exterior lighting systems, strobes, night-vision imaging systems and power supplies in addition to a range of aircraft engine systems, electronic and windshield systems. AlliedSignal has also ...
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American Airlines in massive seat-upgrade deal
AMERICANAIRLINES has placed orders exceeding $268 million for more than 70,000 new and upgraded passenger seats for its entire fleet. The deal has been split between three seat suppliers: US manufacturers B/E Aerospace (BEA) and Weber Aircraft, and Germany's Recaro. Installation is to be completed by the year ...
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Sabena selects Avros and Airbuses to replace 737s
Sabena is to order a mix of Aero International (Regional) Avro RJ100s and Airbus A319s and A320s by the end of 1997 to replace its 14 Boeing 737-200s, according to Air Transport Intelligence (ATI), the new Reed Aerospace news and data service . The electronic news service, formally ...
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The great escape
An SSTL-built satellite made history in 1996 as the first officially registered surviving victim of a space-debris impact. The Cerise microsatellite bus, made for Alcatel Espace and the French ministry of defence, was launched into a 700km polar orbit in July 1995, riding piggyback on the Ariane 40 ...
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Propulsion pioneers
SSTL is also engaged in the development of its own spacecraft-propulsion system. The company has recognised that the lack of an on-board propulsion system has prevented it from exploiting fully the potential of its micro/minisatellite fleet. The company has certainly pioneered the use of small craft to conduct ...