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Technology-transfer key to regional-jet deal
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CHINA'S AND South Korea's selection, of a Western partner to help develop a new 100-seat regional jet, will be determined by the level of foreign technology transfer. According to South Korean aerospace sources, local industry access to new technology will be the key ...
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Oriental headache
Western manufacturers seem to be tripping over themselves in their eagerness to sign collaborative agreements with Asian partners as a low-cost route to developing new airliners. Their potential Asian partners seem to be tripping over themselves to sign such agreements, as a low-cost route to acquiring new airliner technology. If ...
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How cabin-noise suppression works
There are three principal sources of noise in the cabin of a typical twin-engine turboprop aircraft. The first is a result of engine vibration transmitted through the wing structure, which causes the cabin walls to vibrate. Secondly, cabin noise is generated by the propeller slip-stream, coming into contact with the ...
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Grob plans GF200 stretch version
GERMAN MANUFACTURER Grob is already planning to develop a six-seat stretched version of its prototype GF200 light "pusher" aircraft (above), despite the so-far unsuccessful search for a major partner to fund series production. Known as the GF250/6, the stretched version will be powered by a313kW (420hp) Allison turbine engine, replacing ...
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Piper
Larry Bardon, formerly with Lockheed's "Skunk Works" and Pilatus Aircraft, has been appointed director for marketing and sales at light piston-aircraft manufacturer New Piper Aircraft, of Vero Beach, Florida. Dan Elliott becomes manager for manufacturing. Elliott, who previously spent 13 years with Piper, returns having served as chief tool engineer ...
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SAAB
Saab Aircraft of America has appointed John Sterne as a director for regional-airline sales. He was formerly sales director with ATR Marketing. Al Smolinski, previously marketing director for Jetstream Aircraft, becomes vice-president for marketing support. Mike Miller, previously of Rolls Royce, will serve as director of fleet planning. ...
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Lockheed Martin
Sandra Walls has been appointed vice-president of business management at Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems, of Marietta, Georgia. She replaces Todd Kallman, who becomes vice-president of business management for the aeronautics sector of Lockheed Martin, of Bethesda, Maryland. Walls, with Lockheed since 1969, was formerly director of enterprise business planning. ...
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Cessna
Arbrey Barrett has been named vice-president for aircraft completions at Cessna Aircraft, of Wichita, Kansas. Barrett joined Cessna as a manufacturing supervisor in 1965, having held similar positions at airframe manufacturer Boeing, of Seattle, Washington. Five new executives are appointed for the company's single-engine-aircraft interests. They are H D Cartwright, ...
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Rolls-Royce Inc
Stanley Doepke is named director of airline marketing and Bruce McClelland becomes airline-analysis manager at Rolls-Royce Inc, the US arm of the UK aero-engine manufacturer. Doepke was formerly sales director at Fokker Aircraft USA, while McClelland was director of strategic market planning at Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dornier). Frederick Kocher becomes senior ...
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How green is a hushkit?
Sir - The article in Flight International, 23-29 August, on hushkit fitment to European Aviation's 20 BAC One-Elevens highlights the fact that, even 12 years after the first One-Eleven Tay re-engining proposals (Weybridge, 1983), the "thinking" operator prefers a re-engined aircraft to one fitted with hushkits. A similar pronouncement, was ...
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AirTran spin-off
AirTran shareholders have approved the spin-off of the company's fast growing AirTran Airways (ATA) charter subsidiary. Formed in October 1994 with two Boeing 737-200s, Orlando, Florida-based ATA will operate eight 737-200s by the end of 1995. AirTran also owns Meseba. Source: Flight International
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Airbus flight-tests longer range A340
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE HAS flown the first high gross-weight version of the four-engine A340-300. Delivery of the first of 17 aircraft ordered by Singapore Airlines (SIA) is due in April 1996. Maximum take-off weight of the modified aircraft, termed the A340-300E by SIA, is increased to 271t from the ...
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Safety board seeks FAA AD for CF6 fatigue-crack inspections
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON, DC THE US NATIONAL Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has called for an airworthiness directive (AD) to be issued requiring fatigue-crack checks on General Electric CF6 engine high-pressure compressor (HPC) spools. The US Federal Aviation Administration says that an AD is imminent - only ...
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The race is on to hit BA 777 delivery date
BOEING IS confident that it can deliver the first General Electric GE90-powered 777 to British Airways on schedule, on 28 September, despite the grounding of a flight-test aircraft for compressor-blade repairs. Certification flight-testing continues with the first GE90-powered 777, and ground runs have begun on the first production ...
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Boeing drops Japanese from regional-jet talks
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE BOEING HAS DROPPED Japan from its proposed partnership with China and South Korea to develop a new 100-seat passenger aircraft, in the face of intense competition from European manufacturers. Boeing is understood to have abandoned hopes of including Japanese industry in the programme, as ...
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MDC delays MD-95 engine selection
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE MCDONNELL Douglas (MDC) has not renewed its exclusivity agreement with BMW Rolls Royce, leaving the choice of power plant open for the yet-to-be launched MD-95 twinjet. The way is now open for the MTU/Pratt & Whitney Mid-Thrust Family Engine (MTFE). An agreement between MDC ...
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KHI and IHI in engine talks
KAWASAKI HEAVY Industries (KHI) is negotiating with Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries (IHI) and General Electric for a in the production share of the planned CF34-8C turbine engine. According to KHI, discussions centre mainly on production of the auxiliary gearbox and do not include Kawasaki taking a stake in the ...
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NASA engine-thrust landing successful
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA NASA HAS successfully landed a McDonnell Douglas MD-11 using only engine-thrust for flight control. The propulsion-controlled aircraft (PCA) tests at Edwards AFB, California on 29 August follow similar flights in April 1993 with a McDonnell Douglas F-15. Further PCA tests are planned using a McDonnell Douglas ...
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Airlines are checking Hamilton propellers propeller checks follow EMB-120 crash
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA AIRLINES ARE inspecting Hamilton Standard propellers on several regional-turboprop types after the 21 August fatal crash of an Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA) Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia following blade failure (Flight International, 30 August-5 September, P12). On 25 August, the US Federal Aviation Administration ordered the ...