Engines – Page 591
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Sales boost
Sales of V2500 engines this year are set to overtake the record $1.5 billion achieved by International Aero Engines (IAE) in 1995. Including five unannounced orders, the total at the beginning of September stood at $1.2 billion in firm and option business. New deals have been won at a ...
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IAE looks East for opportunity
International Aero Engines (IAE) is to expand its presence in Asia with a planned V2500 maintenance centre and parts distribution network, developments formally announced following the company's recent China Aviation Symposium. Talks are also being held on a proposed IAE/Rolls-Royce training unit for Chinese students and employees to be ...
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GE, P&W ink pact for new engine
Two of the aerospace world's fiercest rivals have joined forces and technological know-how to develop a new engine for Boeing's proposed 747-500/600 airliner. General Electric and Pratt & Whitney used the Farnborough stage to sign a commitment to develop, produce and deliver on schedule a new 310kN-350kN (70,000lb-80,000lb) engine. ...
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Satcom boost
Passenger demand will see Satcom installations on narrowbody aircraft grow substantially in the next several years, as global communications capability becomes an expectation, not just a convenience for business travellers, says Honeywell. The Honeywell/Racal satellite communications team has launched an upgrade of its multi-channel systems suited to narrowbody use. ...
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R-R puts its confidence in the new Trent design
Rolls-Royce yesterday revealed new details of its Trent 900 as it reiterated its determination to win engine orders for 50% of the Boeing 747-500/600 and Airbus A3XX market. R-R is confident that the Trent 900 will be lighter than its General Electric/Pratt & Whitney competitor because of the Trent's ...
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Dowty double
Dowty Aerospace has won two contracts, worth an estimated $25 million, to supply engine rings and rigid tube on three leading aero engine programmes - the CFM56, the GE CF6 and the P&W JT8D. In another contract Dowty Aerospace's Reynolds Rings business has been awarded a four-year contract to ...
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New P&W engine powers show 777
Good fortune has shone early on Pratt & Whitney at Farnborough - its newly-certificated PW4090 engines are powering the Boeing 777 in the static display. Flight tests of the 400kN (90,000lb) thrust engine on the 777 began at Boeing's Seattle, Washington factory less than a month ago on 3 ...
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LAN focus
CommScope, a division of General Instrument, has acquired Teledyne division Thermatics to boost its manufacturing capacity for Local Area Network (LAN) markets, primarily in the aerospace sector. Brian Garrett, executive vice-president and general manager of CommScope, says: "Thermatics' speciality cable expertise brings access to new process capabilities and markets ...
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Helo to the good buys
An order for ten McDonnell Douglas MD Explorer helicopters is expected to be announced at Farnborough today - kicking off what may prove to be a bumper show for orders. British police sources confirmed that Police Aviation Services, which provides air support to UK police forces, has awarded the ...
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P&W orders
Pratt & Whitney has announced a trio of orders for PW4000 engines to power expanded Boeing 747-400 fleets in the Asia Pacific region. Deliveries to Air China of three aircraft powered by PW4056 engines, rated at 250kN (50,000lb) of thrust, will begin in June 1997. In Taiwan, China ...
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Yemen choice
Yemenia-Yemen Airways' entree into the wide-body market will be powered by Pratt & Whitney's PW4156 engines. The Arab airline has ordered five engines - four installed and one spare - for two Airbus A310-300s, and a further four installed engines with one spare for two similar aircraft on option. ...
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Suppliers
Dutch manufacturer Stork is to pay DFl302.5 million ($182 million) to take over Fokker Aviation, the solvent maintenance and support arm of Fokker. Rolls-Royce has signed a memorandum of understanding with Boeing about developing the Trent 900 engine for the stretched B747. Pratt & Whitney's PW4090 ...
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Seven-year countdown
Airbus makes progress towards a launch of its vitally important new large aircraft. Julian Moxon/TOULOUSE THIS AIRCRAFT "-will be the biggest challenge in civil-aviation history", says Jurgen Thomas, head of the new large-aircraft division of Airbus Industrie charged with developing the A3XX. While such words ...
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The curtain rises
Coming soon - the next installment in an exciting tale of aircraft engines and orders. Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES This year's Farnborough air show provides the stage for an extraordinary drama, the cut and thrust of which would defy even the most imaginative playwrights of the West End ...
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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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UPS ups orders
UPS has announced orders for five additional Rolls-Royce RB.211-535E4-powered Boeing 757-200PFs for delivery in 1998, which will bring its orders for the aircraft to 75. The express-parcels carrier operates more than 50 757s, including 35 powered by the Pratt & Whitney PW2000. Source: Flight International
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Regional rivalry
The Embraer EMB-145's Farnborough debut will help to focus attention on regional airliners. Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON WHILE THE 1996 show is the first occasion on which the three major airliner manufacturers - Airbus Industrie, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) - will be exhibiting their latest commercial wares at ...
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X-tended players
Airbus Industrie, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas are all poised to move forward with their X projects. Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDONGuy Norris/LOS ANGELES THE LATEST AIRCRAFT models of the big three airliner manufacturers are all now carrying revenue passengers, and the industry is standing by for the next ...
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GE prepares Snecma invitation to A340-600 engine project
Julian Moxon/PARIS GENERAL ELECTRIC Aircraft Engines says that Snecma will "-definitely be invited" to join development of a power plant for the Airbus A340-600, if Airbus Industrie accepts the US company's proposal to supply an engine for the aircraft. Under a six-month exclusivity deal signed ...
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Failure on Delta JT8D concerns Safety Board
A DELTA AIR LINES Boeing 727 suffered engine surge followed by the uncontained turbine failure of one of its three Pratt & Whitney JT8D-15A engines during a climb from New York's LaGuardia Airport, on 14 August, says the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The incident, the second ...