All Engines news – Page 618
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Collins and Dassault team up on GCAS
ROCKWELL-COLLINS has linked with Dassault Electronique of France to develop a ground-collision avoidance system (GCAS). Airbus Industrie will flight-test a "red-label" prototype of the Dassault unit in late 1995, in an A319, and the system is to enter service with Air Inter in early 1997. Rockwell's Collins Commercial ...
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Appointments
Graham Atkinson has been named vice president Atlantic division for United Airlines. This gives him responsibility for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The Board of Airline Representatives in the UK has appointed Peter North as its first chief executive. Ed Bavaria has been named deputy ...
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Merger mania
Europe still has a long way to go to match the strategic power of big US alliances. Julian Moxon/PARIS Only an optimistic visionary would have come out of the Paris air show maintaining that the European aerospace industry had begun seriously to re-organise itself. After all, ...
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Atlas to deal second ACE after crash
ATLAS AVIATION is to build an improved ACE turboprop trainer following the crash of the prototype in February. The new ACE II, is scheduled to be flown, in the second half of 1996. The aircraft will differ from the original principally in its use of the more powerful ...
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Air Macau goes for Airbus
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE has won a close fight with Boeing to provide aircraft for start-up carrier Air Macau, which is to begin operations soon after Macau's first international airport opens for business in November. Air Macau is to lease two A320s and two A321s, both powered by International Aero ...
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ValuJet adds four more
DC-9s to fleet US LOW-FARE operator ValuJet Airlines has purchased four additional McDonnell Douglas (MDC) DC-9s. The total cost of the aircraft, including installation of hushkits and completion of ValuJet and federal-mandated modifications, is expected to be about $18 million. The previous operators were Alitalia and ...
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Slow progress
Progress towards achieving a US/Russian bilateral airworthiness agreement remains slow. Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE USA AND RUSSIA will break no speed records in their marathon efforts to complete a bilateral airworthiness agreement, say US aviation officials involved in the negotiations. While some progress is reported ...
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United trials ERS
For One-Step FANS UNITED AIRLINES has begun a six-month evaluation of a computer-based electronic-resource system (ERS), developed by Minnesota-based Computing Devices International, on 5 June. The ERS, fitted to a McDonnell Douglas DC-10, is "basically the pilot's interface to the FANS [Future Air Navigation System]," says ...
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Boeing narrows NSA propulsion bidders' field
BOEING HAS short-listed three competing turbofan engines to power its proposed 90- to 108-seat New Small Aeroplane (NSA), due to enter service early in the next century. The three candidate engines are the BMW Rolls Royce BR.715, CFM International CFM56 Lite and the planned standard version of the ...
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United studies 727 life-extension
UNITED AIRLINES IS examining the possibility of extending the lives of its Boeing 727s in an effort to reduce fleet-renewal costs. The carrier's work on head-up displays (HUDs) and enhanced-vision systems (EVS) has helped move it towards a life-extension decision. United has been increasingly voluble in its questioning ...
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KAL chooses PW4000 engine family to power 777s and A330s
KOREAN AIRLINES (KAL) has selected the Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engine family for its Boeing 777s and Airbus A330s, in a deal worth about $850 million. KAL's first four 777-200Bs will be powered by the 400kN (90,000lb)-thrust PW4090 and its remaining eight stretch -300s by the PW4098, derated ...
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GE confident of fan blade answer
Graham Warwick/PARIS GENERAL ELECTRIC Aircraft Engines has developed a solution to the fan-blade failure which has grounded GE90-powered Boeing 777 flight-test aircraft (Flight International, 14-20 June, P4). GE has until mid-July to restage the 3.6kg birdstrike test successfully, if Boeing is to deliver the first GE90-powered 777 ...
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Four engines on offer for A340 stretch
AIRBUS WILL begin evaluating four engine options for the stretched version of the A340 in the fourth quarter of the year, says vice-president, engineering, Bernard Ziegler. The consortium says that it would "...prefer to offer a choice of engines, but that depends on the manufacturers". "We're working with ...
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BMW Rolls-Royce defines family to rival GE CF34
BMW Rolls-Royce has defined the configuration for a new 35-62kN (8,000-14,000lb)- thrust engine family to rival the General Electric CF34-8C. A military-trainer engine is one of the potential applications. A final launch decision on the new BR500 engine family, which comes in below the thrust range of ...
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Honeywell co-operates with Trimble for GPS retrofit market
HONEYWELL HAS teamed with Trimble Navigation to develop and market global-positioning-system (GPS) products for the air-transport retrofit market. The agreement, signed on the eve of the Paris air show, does not affect Honeywell's alliance with Canadian Marconi, which supplies the sensor for the US manufacturer's new-airliner GPS products. ...
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A340 ruled out of JSTARS
NORTHROP GRUMMAN and the main Airbus Industrie partners have ruled out the Airbus A340-200 as the basis for a NATO Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) in favour of the Boeing 707. The US company says, that a study team including British Aerospace, Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) ...
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Bombardier costs Dash 8-400 development
DEVELOPMENT OF THE de Havilland Dash 8-400 high-speed regional turboprop will cost C$450 million ($327 million), Bombardier says, with the Canadian company performing half of the work and risk-sharing partners the rest. Bombardier launched the stretched, 70-seat, Dash 8 at Paris with 18 firm orders, including 12 from ...
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CFMI to ground-test improved A320 engine
CFM INTERNATIONAL (CFMI) will begin ground-testing the first improved CFM56-5B/P turbofan for the Airbus A320 family in July. The engine is based on the core of the CFM56-7 under development for the next-generation Boeing 737. The new engines will have wide-chord fans, three-dimensional aerodynamic design, new materials and ...
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Frakes Aviation
FRAKES AVIATION DISPLAYED a Turbo-Mallard amphibian at Paris to gauge demand to place the 17-passenger aircraft back in production. Texas-based Frakes owns the design rights to the Grumman-developed Mallard and has re-engine 12 of 59 aircraft already built with Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A turboprops. The company sees a market ...
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ARIA Il-96 order in the balance
AEROFLOT RUSSIAN International Airlines (ARIA) has signed a contract for the delivery of 20 Ilyushin Il-96 wide-body transports, subject to the approval of a financing package from the US Exim Bank. The $1.5 billion contract is for ten Il-96T freighters and ten Il-96M passenger aircraft, to be delivered ...