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MDC returns assembly to Long Beach
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is to build MD-11 fuselage barrels at its Long Beach final-assembly site after a coalition of California state, local city, union and local utility officials agreed a cost-saving package worth up to $138 million over the next five years. ...
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DASA/DLR push for test aircraft funding
Andrzej Jeziorski/Munich DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace Airbus (DAA) and the German Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR) are pushing for Government funding to refit a second MBB VFW 614 as a testbed for a new electronic flight-control system (EFCS). According to DAA, discussions are now under way with the ...
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Concern grows over NSA viability
JAPAN'S JOINT YS-X/New Small Aircraft (NSA) feasibility study with Boeing is unlikely to be completed by the 1 March deadline, amid growing uncertainty about the market and financial viability of the programme (Flight International, 15-21 February). The 90- to 110-seat-aircraft study is still at the preliminary stage ...
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Plague brought loss to Air India
THE INDIAN Government has admitted that the outbreak of plague in the country in 1994 has pushed its international flag carrier Air India into loss. Air India had made an estimated loss of $6.5 million by the end of December after the first nine months of its financial ...
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CFMI seeks to pin down airlines on Il-86
CFM INTERNATIONAL hopes to launch its re-engineing programme for the Russian Ilyushin Il-86 by June and to have certification for the CFM56-powered aircraft by the end of 1996. General manager of engine sales, Henri Cabannes, says that a group of Russian airlines have declared their intentions to re-engine ...
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Airbus warns Japan over indecision
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE has warned that it is becoming increasingly impatient with Japan's indecision about joining its proposed A3XX ultra-high-capacity aircraft. Instead, it is turning its attention to other potential Asia-Pacific partners. The European consortium approached Mitsubishi, Kawasaki and Fuji Heavy Industries three-and- a-half years ago about the project, ...
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Fokker prepares for new round of cuts
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON FOKKER IS CLOSE TO announcing a new wave of restructuring, with further workforce cuts expected to be on the agenda as the Dutch manufacturer attempts to match cutbacks made by its major competitors. A decision on the scope of the rationalisation is due ...
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Northrop Grumman plans to shed 1,000 more jobs
NORTHROP GRUMMAN is to shed another 1,000 jobs, following the Pentagon's decision to abandon the Tri-Service Stand-off Attack Missile (TSSAM) programme. The group says that the cancellation of the troubled stealth-missile programme should have little impact on this year's financial results, however. The latest cuts ...
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Alenia rebuffs Airbus to chase MDC stake
EFFORTS BY THE AIRBUS consortium, to woo Alenia away from its proposed airliner alliance with McDonnell Douglas (MDC), have been given a clear rebuff during a hearing by the Italian Senate, into the future of its aerospace industry. In evidence to the Italian upper house, Alenia's state-owned parent ...
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Costly Business
The Japanese, it seems, are having problems sorting out how to justify investment in a new small airliner. So are the Koreans and the Chinese, and others, much to the bemusement of at least one potential Western partner for some or all of them. At the same time, the Indonesians ...
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P&W 4098 launch heralds heavyweight 777 move
Guy Norris/LOSANGELES PRATT & WHITNEY is to launch a 436kN (98,000lb)-thrust derivative of its PW4000-series engine to power heavier versions of the Boeing 777, as well as the planned stretch model. The two companies have formed a team to "...exchange information and work with airlines ...
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Turbine failures ground ANZ's hushkitted 737s
AIR NEW ZEALAND, suddenly grounded ten of the 13 Boeing 737-200s, in its domestic fleet on 17 February. Managing director Jim McCrea says that the decision followed the fourth turbine failure on a Nordam hushkitted Pratt & Whitney JT8D-15A engine in six months. The CAA says ...
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Gamesa delivers EMB-145 wing
GAMESA AERONAUTICA OF SPAIN HAS delivered the first wing set for the Embraer EMB-145 regional jet. The Vitoria based company, a risk-sharing partner in the EMB-145, is also responsible for the design and supply of the body to wing fairings and the nacelle, including the thrust reverser, which is being ...
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FlightSafety
Training company FlightSafety International, of Flushing, New York, has named Rudy Canto director of airline operations. He will be based at the Long Beach centre, in California. Canto was most recently chief pilot at McDonnell Douglas. Source: Flight International
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Lockheed
Gordon England will retire on 1 May as president of Lockheed's Fort Worth, Texas, fighter-aircraft division. No reason for his retirement was announced, but it may be related to the planned $10 billion merger between Lockheed and Martin Marietta. England also served as a corporate vice-president. Dan Tellep, Lockheed's chairman, ...
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UK DTI
Roy McNulty has been appointed chairman of the Aviation Committee of the UK Department of Trade and Industry. McNulty is also president of Short Brothers of Northern Ireland, a past president of the Society of British Aerospace Companies and chairman of the UK Defence and Aerospace Technology Foresight panel. Appointed ...
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Pakistani private sector survivors
Sir - I would like to comment on the article "Bhoja Air leases Yak-42s" (Flight International, 25-31 January, P11). Airlines in the private sector started operations in Pakistan in April 1993. Initially, there were four entrants: Aero Asia, Hajveri, Raji and Bhoja. Six months later, semi-private Shaheen emerged. ...
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Aviall Caledonian
Peter Muirhead (right) has become production director of Aviall Caledonian, the Prestwick, UK-based aero-engine overhaul and repair company. He was formerly with the PA Consulting Group. John Horsburgh (left) has been promoted to director and general manager for the CF6. He was previously general manager for the CF6. David Crews ...
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Living dangerously
Apathy has forced take-off performance monitoring to be shelved. David Learmount/LONDON The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says that there were more than 4,000 take-off related accidents and serious incidents involving airliners in the USA between 1983 and 1990, resulting in 1,378 fatalities. ...
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McDonnell Douglas calls MD-11 axe the 'worst-case' option
McDONNELL DOUGLAS is examining ways of keeping MD-11 production profitable through to the end of 1996 but says that one option - temporarily halting the line for much of 1996 - is considered "the worst-case scenario". "It's definitely a far-out option," says the company, which still hopes to ...