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Early warning for market as heavyweights join forces
In a teaming of US giants, Lockheed Martin and Northrup Grumman have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to capture business in the international airborne early warning/command & control (AEW&C) market. The two companies plan to market an AEW&C variant of Lockheed Martin's C-130J Hercules. Northrop Grumman's vice-president ...
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Boeing will step up 777 output
Boeing will boost 777 production to seven a month in July 1997. The 777 line is rising to three and a half a month by October, and will rise to five a month for the first half of 1997. The company has also announced plans to employ 5,000 ...
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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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Appleton amphibious
Tom Appleton has moved from his post of vice-president of Bombardier Regional Aircraft division (BRAD) to president of the company's Amphibious Aircraft division. A former test and development pilot at de Havilland Canada, Appleton joined Bombardier as executive vice-president of the Canadair Regional Jet programme in 1991, and took up ...
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Airbus sales
Airbus has received an order for one A340 from unannounced customer, taking its 1996 order tally for this type to 25. Korean Air has cancelled its two remaining A300-600R orders (with Pratt & Whitney PW4158 engines), however, reducing its order tally for the type to 32. Source: ...
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First Boeing 737-700 fuselage approaches completion
THE FIRST fuselage for Boeing's New Generation 737 family is nearing completion at the company's Wichita factory. The 737-700 fuselage, pictured above in an integration tool, will be shipped by train to the final assembly line at Renton, Washington, in one piece. The first flight of the new 737 has ...
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Boeing will step up 777
Boeing will boost 777 production to seven a month in July 1997. The 777 line is rising to three and a half a month by October, and will rise to five a month for the first half of 1997. The company has also announced plans to employ 5,000 ...
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British Airways
BRITISH AIRWAYS John Wood has been named director for Asia-Pacific at UK national carrier British Airways. Wood, most recently general manager/ vice-president for Canada, based in Toronto, replaces Val Gooding, who is to leave the airline. LITTON Steven Lambert has been appointed president ...
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Safety standards must be consistent
Sir - Like Steve Kirby, in his letter "Engines should be treated separately" (Flight International, 14-20 August, P40), I was reminded of the US National Transportation Safety Board accident report on the 5 May, 1983, Lockheed L-1011 TriStar oil-loss incident. There were lessons to be learned from that near-accident, which ...
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Aerospace top 100
Industry consolidation is beginning to make its mark on the ranking of the world's top 100 aerospace companies. Compiled by Flight International and Booz¥Allen & Hamilton Kevin O'Toole/LONDON AFTER THE turbulence of the past few years, it would be reasonable to assume that the world aerospace industry ...
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Airbus is poised to join AE-100 programme
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CHINESE AND European aerospace-industry negotiators are expected to reach an agreement by the end of the month for Airbus Industrie to join the proposed Chinese AE-100 regional-jet programme. Under a plan which is now in the process of being finalised, Airbus will assume a leading role in Aero ...
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NTSB asks TWA to help
THE US NATIONAL Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is asking Trans World Airlines (TWA), Boeing and Pratt & Whitney for $8 million towards accident-investigation costs in the continuing probe of the July TWA Boeing 747 crash. Meanwhile, traces of a chemical used in plastic explosives have been detected on ...
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European aerospace survey 1996
Research among Europe's aerospace companies reveals a growing pace of change. Kevin O'Toole/LONDON SPECULATION HAS BEEN rife over the fate in store for Europe's aerospace industry. Clearly, there is a period of radical change in prospect as the region gears up for some long-awaited restructuring. Yet, ...
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China Eastern to go public
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CHINA EASTERN Airlines has been given the go-ahead to have its shares listed on the New York and Hong Kong stock exchanges by the end of the year, says a senior Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) official. The Shanghai-based carrier, together with ...
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Qantas aims to keep on saving
QANTAS CHAIRMAN Gary Pemberton has warned that, despite improved profits, further fleet expansion will have to be backed by renewed cost savings. Qantas ended its latest financial year to the end of June with net profits up by more than one-third at A$247 million ($190 million), comfortably ahead ...
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BWIA confirms cancelled Airbus orders
GILLES FILIATREAULT, incoming chief executive at BWIA International Airways, has confirmed that the Caribbean carrier does not intend to take two Airbus A340-300s it had ordered. Filiatreault says that, when he took over the job in August, he was reassured by BWIA's shareholders that the Airbus orders were effectively cancelled. ...
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A3XX will 'seat 1,000'
SEATING FOR more than 1,000 passengers will be possible aboard growth versions of the Airbus Industrie A3XX, according to Jurgen Thomas, senior vice-president for the consortium's Large Aircraft division. Thomas says that, when it enters service in 2003, the A3XX will be the "world's largest airliner, and the ...
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Space Systems Loral plans five H2 launches for Japan
Tim Furniss/LONDON SPACE SYSTEMS/Loral is negotiating a $370 million deal with Japan's Rocket Systems for five flights between 2000 and 2005 on the new, uprated, H2A satellite launcher. The Japanese company already has a $910 million deal under negotiation with Hughes Space and Communications for ten launches, ...
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Fokker Elmo starts China venture
Andrew Doyle/LONDON FOKKER ELMO has set up a joint venture with two Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) subsidiaries, with the aim of manufacturing electrical-wire harnesses for AVIC's planned AE-100 regional jets and other new types. Called Lang Fang Fokker, the new company is 60%-owned by Fokker Elmo, part of the ...
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Lufthansa plans to cut fleet as first-half profits fall
Andrzej Jeziorski/HAMBURG LUFTHANSA IS TO STEP up cost-cutting measures and reduce its fleet, in an effort to combat an unforeseen stagnation in traffic growth which has left the German group with a significant drop in profits for the first half of the year. Pre-tax profits amounted to DM119 million ($80 ...