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Sextant courts China with AVIC proposal
France's biggest avionics manufacturer, Sextant Avionique, has made an unprecedented offer for an "across-the-board" alliance with Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) for local development and manufacture of avionics for civil aircraft and helicopters. The offer, which comes a month before French president Jacques Chirac visits China, parallels overtures ...
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KLM switches to Boeing for 747 SUD freighter-conversion work
KLM has signed a contract with Boeing for the freighter conversion of two 747-200 stretched-upper-deck (SUD) combi aircraft, having previously signed a commitment for Israel Aircraft Industries' (IAI) Bedek division to conduct the modification. KLM values the contract at DFl80 million ($42 million). The two 747-200 SUDs, which ...
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BMW R-R studies BR700-powered 727
BMW Rolls-Royce (BMW R-R) is studying the possibility of launching a re-engineing programme for the Boeing 727-200, with BR700-series powerplants. According to BMW R-R, it has begun a study, together with US maintenance and modification centre Dee Howard, which has already re-engined 727-100 freighters with R-R Tay 650s ...
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Boeing irks Lufthansa with maintenence plans
Lufthansa is threatening to cut back its future orders for Boeing airliners if the US manufacturer goes ahead with plans to enter the third-party airliner maintenance market, in competition with the German flag carrier's Lufthansa Technik subsidiary. Juergen Weber, Lufthansa's chairman, says that any such plans by Boeing ...
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BMW R-R studies BR700-powered 727
BMW Rolls-Royce (BMW R-R) is studying the possibility of launching a re-engineing programme for the Boeing 727-200, with BR700-series powerplants. According to BMW R-R, it has begun a study, together with US maintenance and modification centre Dee Howard, which has already re-engined 727-100 freighters with R-R Tay 650s ...
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Boeing irks Lufthansa with maintenance plans
Lufthansa is threatening to cut back its future orders for Boeing airliners if the US manufacturer goes ahead with plans to enter the third-party airliner maintenance market, in competition with the German flag carrier's Lufthansa Technik subsidiary. Juergen Weber, Lufthansa's chairman, says that any such plans by Boeing ...
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The story of the Transavia 737
Sir - I refer to the article "Maintenance mistake threatened Transavia Boeing 737 flight" (Flight International, 16-22 April, P7) and, in particular, to the reference made to TAP-Air Portugal. I would like to comment as follows. Aircraft registration PH-TSW, operated by Transavia, underwent a heavy maintenance check by ...
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Barry wins cabin-noise deal for Northwest DC-10s
Barry Controls Aerospace's Active Tuned Mass Absorber (ATMA) has been selected by Northwest Airlines to reduce cabin noise in its 173 McDonnell Douglas (MDC) DC-9s. The system has been on trial with the airline for two months and was selected after a competitive evaluation against a noise-suppression system ...
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GE move for Greenwich puts plans for China site in doubt
Proposals under consideration by Greenwich Air Services to establish an engine-overhaul-and-repair capability in China have been thrown into doubt by General Electric's planned takeover of the company. Greenwich Air confirms that it has been looking at the possibility of investing in a joint venture in Asia. It adds, ...
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Polyot commercial flight fails by red tape
A Russian Cosmos 3M booster carried a military navigation satellite into orbit from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on 17 April without its commercial payload, the US-built Faisat 2V. Polyot, of Omsk, Siberia which markets the Cosmos for commercial launches, had failed to produce the necessary documentation to the Russian ...
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Bombardier and Raytheon expand maintenance
The world's two largest corporate-aircraft makers have moved to reinforce their maintenance capabilities in Europe. Bombardier Aerospace has teamed with Lufthansa Technik, while Raytheon Aircraft is expanding its UK service centre. The Lufthansa Bombardier Aviation Center at Berlin Schonefeld Airport will be responsible for the maintenance, repair and ...
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European lead
Europe's flag carriers may be leading the charge into the brave new world of liberalisation, but there are signs that the region's airports, too, are beginning to wake up to some of the new commercial realities of running as efficient businesses rather than as government arms. Airports have ...
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Airport role-reversal
On 1 January, 1998, the two main airports of Italy's second city will start a process of gradual role-reversal. Linate, which has always been Milan's main airport, is almost logjammed, while Milan Malpensa opens the first stage of a development which will give it more than twice Linate's capacity, both ...
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Swissair strategy advances
A year ago, when Swissair first presented Philippe Bruggisser as the incoming chief executive, he promised to take a firm hand with the group's costs and inject a touch more pragmatism to its alliance strategy. Twelve months later, Bruggisser appears to be making headway on both fronts. His ...
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Pie in the sky?
Meet the demands for air travel, but do it with existing resources, the UK Government has told airport operators in the country's busiest region, London and the south-east. This may be beyond them, however. The signs are that air-traffic control may be able to cope, but that airports may not ...
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Joint boost
A new joint venture has been set up to manufacture and market Russia's RD-180 and RD-120 rocket engines. The partners in the new company, known as RD AMROSS, are Pratt & Whitney (P&W) Space Propulsion of West Palm Beach, Florida, and Russia's NPO Energomash (NPO-EM), of Khimky, outside Moscow. ...
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Letfreezes work on L-610M but gears up for -610G
Regional-aircraft manufacturer Let Kunovice has frozen its L-610M twin-turboprop-aircraft programme to dedicate its energy to the much-delayed certification of the Westernised L-610G variant. The 40-seat L-610G is now scheduled to receive certification in the third quarter of 1998 to US Federal Aviation Regulations Part 25 requirements. The programme ...
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Trimble releases GPS training for GA pilots
Trimble, the California-based global-positioning-system (GPS)-navigation specialist, has developed a comprehensive instrument-flight-rules GPS training system for general-aviation use. The system combines a CD-ROM-based, multi-media tuition programme with a free-flight simulator developed for Trimble by Initiative Computing, an international software-development company specialising in aviation "teachware" products. The CD-ROMs, ...
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FLS Aerospace
Stephen Lee has been named vice-president of maintenance services at UK-based maintainer FLS Aerospace, with effect from 1 June. He is now director and general manager of Dowty Aerospace Aviation Services. Source: Flight International
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Atlantis tool probes CRJ problems
ATLANTISAEROSPACE has launched a troubleshooting tool to help solve elusive problems with complex aircraft systems. The first application of the Canadian company's SpotLight system is to help Bombardier with problems on the Canadair Regional Jet's (CRJ) flight controls, landing gear, doors and ice- and rain-protection systems. Brampton, Ontario-based ...