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Pratt & Whitney pushes claims for AE31X with PW6000 plan
Pratt & Whitney has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) as part of efforts to bolster its chances of having the PW6000 selected for the Sino-European AE31X regional-jet programme. The US company says that "discussions are under way on what parts and ...
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Pemco teams to solve FAA cargo directives
Pemco World Air Services has teamed with Hamilton Aviation and Wagner Aeronautical to resolve the technical issues which will be raised by the US Federal Aviation Administration airworthiness directives (AD) concerning third-party Boeing 727 freighter conversions. Pemco is expecting two ADs from the FAA. The first, focusing on ...
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ACI
Jonathan Howe has been appointed director-general of Airports Council International (ACI) and will take up the position in September when incumbent Oris Dunham reaches the end of his term of office. Howe will be principal spokesman for ACI and responsible for developing its services to members and reinforcing relations with ...
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Suckling
The president and chief executive of Fairchild Dornier, Jim Robinson (pictured left) was present at London Stansted Airport on 9 June to see unveiled a Dornier 328-100 operated by Suckling Airways in Air UK colours. Suckling Airways managing director Roy Suckling (right) and Air UK executive chairman Henny Essenberg (centre) ...
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Dowty group
Former student apprentice Geoff Smith has been appointed deputy chief executive of Dowty Group, manufacturer of landing gear, through its Messier-Dowty joint venture with Snecma, and of specialised aerospace systems. Smith began as a Dowty apprentice in 1968, and has since held senior positions within Dowty, Lucas and Messier-Dowty. ...
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SAA is first airline to order RB-211 hybrid
Rolls-Royce has received its first firm order for the RB.211-524G/H-T turbofan from South African Airways (SAA). The engine is a hybrid combination of the Trent 700 high-pressure core and the existing -524G/H low-pressure system. The powerplants will be fitted to two new Boeing 747-400s now on order and will be ...
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Reims will restart Cessna assembly
Reims Aviation is to restart its Cessna single assembly line in a deal which could see the French general-aviation company start work as early as July. Three sets of knocked-down 172R Skyhawks sold to European customers by Cessna are already being shipped to Reims from the new Cessna ...
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Jordanian raises new capital to fund fleet
Royal Jordanian has completed an important refinancing package of its Airbus A310 leases which will provide capital to fund the acquisition of new long-range twinjets in 1998. The airline, which says that it has a desperate need to update its long-range fleet of five 220-seat Lockheed L-1011 TriStar ...
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Saab shapes up for the future
Saab Aircraft hopes to complete a study by the end of the year aimed at mapping out its future strategy. Gert Schyborger, who took over the reins as president at the Swedish civil-aircraft manufacturer earlier this year, says that until the study is complete he will not be ...
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Transatlantic shorts
Hughes (UK) has signed an agreement with Shorts Missile Systems for the Northern Ireland company to participate in future beyond visual-range air-to-air missile programmes in international markets. Shorts is co-operating in the Hughes-led Future Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (FMRAAM) bid for the Royal Air Force. Diehl of Germany has also ...
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Snecma holds Trent 500 workshare talks
Snecma is in talks with Rolls-Royce on taking up to a 10% workshare stake in the latter's new Trent 500. The engine has been selected for the Airbus Industrie A340-500 and -600. R-R chief executive John Rose confirms that negotiations began at the show following the formal announcement ...
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IAR presents SOCAT Puma upgrade
Romanian helicopter manufacturer IAR Brasov has presented the first prototype Anti-Tank Optronic Search and Combat System (SOCAT) combat upgrade for the IAR-330 Puma at this year's Paris air show. According to Carciga Dragos, SOCAT programme manager in the procurement department of the Romanian defence ministry, the helicopter was ...
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ESA's orbiter prepared to put lander on comet
The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft is expected to enter orbit round the comet Wirtanen at a distance of as little as 1km during a mission in 2012 which is designed to deploy a small lander on the comet. It is hoped that samples of the Wirtanen can be taken ...
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China launches GEO weather satellite
China has successfully launched its first geostationary-orbiting (GEO) meteorological satellite. Called the Feng Yun 2, the satellite was launched atop a Long March (LM) 3 booster from Xichang on 10 June. The launch, which followed two consecutive successful launches, of an LM2D in October 1996 and ...
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Ariane 5 on tight schedule after engine-change delay
Tim Furniss/PARIS The critical demonstration flight of the Ariane 502 launch vehicle has been delayed to 30 September, or later, by the need to change its Vulcain first-stage engine. The launch schedule is now "very tight", says the European Space Agency (ESA), and further delays are possible. ...
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Spaceport Florida
The Spaceport Florida Authority has been issued a licence by the US Office of Commercial Space Transportation to operate a second launch pad at Cape Canaveral. The organisation, a state agency created to boost commercial space enterprises, will charge $300,000 a launch to use the new pad or the recently ...
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Thiokol to power Spain's Capricornio
US solid-rocket manufacturer Thiokol of Ogden, Utah, has been chosen to supply the Castor 4B motor for the first stage of Spain's first satellite launcher, the Capricornio. The company will supply Spain's Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial (INTA) with motors for the first two launches of the booster, ...
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Lockheed Martin finalises $1 billion rocket-engine deal
Lockheed Martin has agreed an exclusive contract to buy 101 Russian RD-108 rocket engines worth $1 billion from RD AMROSS, the joint venture of Russia's NPO Energomash and Pratt & Whitney. The engines will be used on the Atlas 2AR satellite launcher to be operated by ILS International ...
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Boeing to bid for Pentagon GBS satellite project
BOEING DEFENSE & Space is bidding to supply the US Department of Defense with a Global Broadcast Service (GBS) designed to move large blocks of data such as intelligence maps, video imagery, data files and technical manuals to troops in the field in real time via satellite, using low-cost receiver ...