All Engines news – Page 551
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Airbus gives the go ahead for A340 offspring
Max Kingsley-Jones and Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Airbus Industrie is working at top speed to fly the first Rolls-Royce Trent 500-powered A340-600 in January 2001, following board approval for the full launch of the $2.9 billion A340-500/600 programme. The European consortium says that it holds some 100 commitments, from seven ...
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Air 2000 to expand long-haul operations with 767-300
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Air 2000 is set to become a genuine long-haul airline in 1999 following the signing of a lease deal for delivery of its first dedicated widebodies in the form of the Boeing 767-300ER. The charter airline, which is based at Luton in the UK, has signed ...
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Boeing plans to push up 777-200 weight
Boeing is planning a further incremental increase in the 777-200IGW (increased gross weight)'s maximum take-off weight (MTOW), in an effort to meet improved range and payload performance requirements from Air France, which is already a customer, and potential client Qantas. The proposed new weight offering would increase the MTOW ...
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Garuda stands by DC-10 pilot
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Garuda Indonesia Airlines has indicated that it will contest any charges of criminal manslaughter which may be brought against one of its pilots, who is blamed by a recent Japanese report for the 1996 fatal crash of a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 at Fukuoka Airport. Three Japanese passengers were ...
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ING sells A300s to fund updated portfolio
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON The equipment-leasing division of Dutch financial institution ING is disposing of the Airbus A300B4s in its portfolio to fund an expansion of newer aircraft for its operating-lease business. ING Lease International Equipment Management (IEM) has sold eight of its 12 ex-Eastern Airlines A300B4-200s to A300 freighter-leasing ...
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Lufthansa board clears plans for long-range fleet expansion
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Lufthansa's supervisory board has cleared plans to expand the airline's long-range fleet with a launch order for the Airbus A340-600, plus additional Boeing 747-400s. The order, worth at least DM3.6 billion ($2 billion), is for ten stretched A340-600s and five 747-400s. It means that Lufthansa's long-range ...
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RB.211 in Seattle
Rolls-Royce has completed certification flight testing of the latest variant of the RB.211, the RB.211-524G/ H-T. R-R expects that the Federal Aviation Administration will certificate the engine on the Boeing 747-400 during January 1998. The G/H-T uses the high-pressure module from the Trent 700. This provides a 2% fuel-consumption improvement, ...
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P&W plans for hybrid PW4000
Guy Norris/EAST HARTFORD Pratt & Whitney is planning a new family of hybrid PW4000 engines to meet the thrust requirements of widebodies under study by Airbus Industrie and Boeing. News of the development emerged as the company gave its long-awaited commitment to develop a 454kN (102,000lb)- thrust engine for ...
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SEP is interested in space-propulsion link with Dasa
Julian Moxon/PARIS French rocket-engine maker SEP is talking to Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) about a space-propulsion alliance as part of a move by the Snecma division to restructurethe business. According to SEP director-general Jaques Rossignol, who headed CFM International in its formative years, "-we need to assemble space-engine companies ...
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Airbus launches more safety aids
Julian Moxon/TOULOUSE Airbus Industrie plans to introduce a variety of new automated functions to all production aircraft from 1998 in a move aimed at improving safety. Coupled with improved pilot feedback and training, the initiatives are aimed at reducing the number of human-error accidents, which Airbus calculates account ...
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Currency crisis delays Saeaga's launch plans and A320 purchase
Malaysia's Saeaga Airlines is postponing plans to order new Airbus Industrie A320s, and the launch of its first scheduled international services, in the face of the recent Asian currency crisis and economic downturn. "We're looking to buy five A320s, but this has now been deferred," says Ting Pek Khiing, ...
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P&W A330-200 flies
Airbus Industrie flew a Pratt &Whitney-powered A330-200 for the first time on 4 December from Toulouse. The aircraft is fitted with the PW4168, one of three engine types to be offered on the A330-200. A General Electric CF-6-80E1-powered aircraft has been flown, while a Rolls-Royce Trent-powered version will be ...
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Lucas for JSF
Rolls-Royce-owned Allison Engine has selected Lucas Aerospace to supply the lift- fan drive shaft for Lockheed Martin's Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) concept development aircraft. Allison is supplying the lift fan for the aircraft. The value of the contract has not been disclosed. Lucas Aerospace is also supplying the lift-fan clutch-control ...
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Marketplace
++ Lotus Air of Egypt has signed a firm contract for a new Airbus A320 and has taken an option on one more. The new charter carrier will begin operating in January 1998 with the first of two A320s leased from International Lease Finance (ILFC), linking Egyptian resorts with European ...
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Boeing's long stretch
Guy Norris/SEATTLE BOEING'S stretched 777-300 carries a list of superlatives almost as long as the aircraft itself. The latest member of the Boeing family is the largest twin-engined aircraft ever built, the world's fastest widebody twin, the longest airliner ever made and the first transport big enough to replace the ...
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Lycoming inspection
The US National Transportation Safety Board has requested that all Textron Lycoming IO-320-B1A engines with older-style, thinner, propeller-mounting flanges be inspected for cracks after aerobatic manoeuvres, following the 1996 fatal crash of a Lancair 320. Source: Flight International
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Hangover cure
Karen Walker 'Swire prince' are words often whispered in the wake of David Turnbull, an acknowledgement of his rapid rise through the management strata of the Swire Group. His 21 years of experience at Swire have been tested severely over the last 12 months, however, since he inherited one ...
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Suppliers
Boeing's 777-300 made its maiden flight on 16 October. Solair is to be Delta Air Lines' sole supplier of airframe spare parts in a deal worth $150 million over three years. Pratt & Whitney Eagle Services has acquired Interturbine's Flight Repair Group. Finavitec and Airbus have signed ...
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Boeing begins hybrid Trent tests on 747
Boeing has begun flight tests of the Rolls-Royce RB.211-524G/H-T engine on a new British Airways 747-400. The engine, a hybrid combination of the Trent 700 high-pressure O4 module and the existing -524G/H low-pressure system, has been ordered by Cathay Pacific and South African Airways (SAA). R-R is using ...
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Swissair's offer stops Gemini from closing LTU MD-11 deal
A last-minute offer from Swissair for LTU's fleet of four Boeing MD-11s has blocked Gemini Air Cargo's attempt to acquire the aircraft for use as freighters. William Stockbridge, president of US supplemental cargo carrier Gemini, says that his failure to secure the aircraft is "very disappointing". On 17 ...