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R-R details Trent 890 flight-test schedule
Kieran Daly/DERBY ROLLS-ROYCE WILL begin flight testing of the Trent 890 for the Boeing 777 on the airframer's 747 testbed in late March. The company had hoped to avoid the 747 test phase, but Boeing insisted, following unexpected events with the rival Pratt & Whitney and ...
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MD-95 clash forces Halla out of Korean consortium
HALLA AEROSPACE HAS been dropped from South Korea's regional-aircraft consortium, following a Government stipulation that a manufacturer cannot participate in the programme and be a risk-sharing partner in competing foreign developments. The condition was included in the consortium's charter, recently signed by 11 local aerospace companies, including Samsung, ...
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Valujet thrives as other US start-ups hit trouble
TWO FLEDGLING US carriers - USAfrica Airways and Leisure Air - have suspended operations and a third airline - Kiwi International Air Lines - has drastically revamped its top management. Atlanta-based Valujet, however, reports strong profits for 1994 and is expanding services aggressively, at the expense of USAir. ...
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Hispano/ZF combine on FLA transmission
SNECMA SUBSIDIARY Hispano-Suiza and ZF of Germany have formed a joint venture to supply high-power aerospace transmissions. The two will co-operate on a transmission for the Future Large Aircraft (FLA). The new group will be called Aerospace Power Transmissions. An initial accord has been signed with BMW Rolls-Royce, ...
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Low-priced NSA 'will not be in service until 2002', says Boeing
Allan Winn/SEATTLE BOEING DOES NOT expect its proposed New Small Airplane (NSA) to enter service before 2002. The project will be beaten to the market by McDonnell Douglas with its MD-95, it says, but it insists that the market is sufficient for up to three contenders. ...
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Bombardier and Embraer confirm regional sales
BOMBARDIER REGIONAL Aircraft has won a firm order for five Canadair Regional Jets (CRJs) from Delta Connection carrier Comair and is holding out the prospect of the airline taking a total of 70 aircraft. Cincinnati-based Comair confirmed five options, worth about $87 million, to add to its 20 ...
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FAA approves Boeing 777 pressure solution
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES A CEILING LIMIT of 25,000ft (7,500m) temporarily placed on the Boeing 777 by the US Federal Aviation Administration after two incidents of cabin decompression has been lifted after the installation of a modified check valve. The FAA imposed the limit after the incidents ...
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Saab is latest to sponsor Awards
SAAB AIRCRAFT HAS joined the growing list of leading aviation companies now backing the Flight International Aerospace Industry Awards '95. The Swedish airliner manufacturer becomes the tenth sponsor to lend support to this year's Awards, which will be presented during a gala dinner at the Paris air show ...
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Boeing/Lockheed consider JAST link
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES BOEING AND LOCKHEED are discussing teaming on the US Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) programme, despite developing radically different solutions to the short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) requirement which makes up part of the effort. Boeing is studying a direct-lift design, while ...
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GE eyes growth from CRJ-X engine
GENERAL ELECTRIC'S newly unveiled CF34-8C turbofan for Canadair's proposed CRJ-X regional airliner may form the basis of an entirely new family of engines in the 60-80kN (13,000-18,000lb)-thrust class, says the company. The GE general manager for small commercial turbofans, Lloyd Thompson, has revealed the first details of the ...
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BA to take first growth GE90 for 777
BRITISH AIRWAYS IS TO TAKE delivery of the first growth-version of the GE90 engine for use on its Boeing 777 B-market twinjet in December 1996. Certification is scheduled for May 1996. The growth version will produce 410kN (92,000lb) of thrust, although it is understood British Airways will operate the engine ...
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Crash penalty
Taiwanese flag carrier China Airlines warns that 1994 profits have plummeted because of its Airbus A300B4 crash at Nagoya in Japan in April 1994. Pre-tax profits are expected to fall to around NT$500 million ($19 million), down from NT$3.44 billion in 1993. Provisional figures reportedly indicate a 13% drop in ...
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Reliable upgrade
Coltec Industries' Chandler Evans Control Systems division is offering to exchange the Allison 250 turbine-engine main fuel-pump for a new, more reliable and maintainable, pump "for about the price of an overhaul". Source: Flight International
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General Electric
General Electric Aircraft Engine Services of Nantgarw in the UK has won a five-year contract, worth about $60 million, to maintain the Pratt & Whitney JT9 engines powering Paris-based Corse Air's Boeing 747 fleet. Source: Flight International
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Caribbean start-up
Start-up Caribbean regional carrier Carib Express is to begin services on 15 February, employing 100 staff. The first of its British Aerospace BAe 146s was due to arrive on 10 February, permitting daily services between Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St Lucia and St Vincent. The second and third aircraft are due ...
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Biman Bangladesh
Biman Bangladesh Airlines has signed for two Airbus A310-300s, with Pratt & Whitney PW4000 turbofans, for delivery in the second and third quarters of 1996. It is the first order for the type in more than a year. Source: Flight International
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Bavaria Fluggesellschaft
German leasing company Bavaria Fluggesellschaft has ordered two Boeing 737-700s, worth a total of $80 million, with orders for two more "subject to later confirmation". The deal takes orders for the -600/-700/ -800 series to 91. Source: Flight International