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PARIS: Xiamen chooses GEnx for 787 fleet

Xiamen Airlines has signed a letter of intent with GE Aviation for a $560 million GEnx-1B engine deal to power its six Boeing 787 Dreamliners, which includes the cost of the engines and an OnPoint maintenance agreement. "We selected the GEnx-1B engine for its excellent fuel efficiency, reduced emissions and lower noise levels," said Che Shanglun, Xiamen Airlines' chairman and president. "With the engine's outstanding economy and operational perfo ...

Vickers VC10 Vickers VC10

The Vickers VC10 is a long-range British airliner designed and built by Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd, and first flown at Brooklands, Surrey, in 1962. The airliner was designed to operate on long-distance routes with a high subsonic speed and also be capable of hot and high operations from African airports. The initial concept of the VC10 was to provide a jet-powered airliner that could comfortably make use of the shorter runways commonly in ...

Vickers-Armstrongs Vickers-Armstrongs

Vickers-Armstrongs Limited was a British engineering conglomerate formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth Company in 1927. The majority of the company was nationalised in the 1960s and 1970s, with the remainder being divested as Vickers plc in 1977. History Vickers merged with the Tyneside-based engineering company Armstrong Whitworth, founded by W. G. Armstrong, to become Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd. Arm ...

PARIS: Indonesia gears up for T-50

Indonesia will receive its full complement of 16 Korea Aerospace Industries T-50 Golden Eagle advanced jet trainer aircraft between September 2013 and February 2014. The disclosure was made by a company spokesman at the company's chalet. Jakarta ordered 16 T-50s in May 2011, marking the first export sale for the type, which is powered by a single General Electric F404 engine. Indonesian pilots and maintenance crews are in South Korea familiarisin ...

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Vickers Viscount Turboprop airliner and freighter Type Turboprop airliner and freighter History Vicker's Viscount was the first turboprop airliner from any nation to enter service. The Viscount was one of the results of the UK's wartime Brabazon Committee, which was set up to define requirements for British postwar commercial aircraft. Discussions between the committee and Vickers designers in late 1944, who had already been working on the VC-1 V ...

Victa Aircruiser Four Seat Light Aircraft Victa Aircruiser Four Seat Light Aircraft

The Victa Aircruiser was an 1960s Australian four-seat touring monoplane designed by Henry Millicer and built by Victa. History - The Victa Aircruiser was designed by Dr Henry Millicer, who had earlier designed the two seat Victa Airtourer (described separately), the most popular light aircraft designed and built in Australia. With Airtourer production in full swing in the early 1960s Victa commissioned Dr Millicer to develop a four seat light ai ...

Vickers Vanguard Turboprop Airliner Vickers Vanguard Turboprop Airliner

The Vickers Vanguard was a British short medium-range turboprop airliner introduced in 1959 by Vickers-Armstrongs, a development of their successful Viscount design with considerably more internal room. The Vanguard was introduced just before the first of the large jet-powered airliners, and was largely ignored by the market. Only 44 were built, ordered by Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) and British European Airways (BEA). After only about 10 years ...

Build a Plane builds two planes, Day 2: The engine has landed Build a Plane builds two planes, Day 2: The engine has landed

On Day 2 of the Build a Plane GAMA project, the builders from Saline, Mich., and Canby, Minn., kept up the same teen-fueled pace that they had set on day one. But it wasnt all work and no play. All eight of the students got to take breaks in the form of airplane rides today, and the weather cooperated beautifully. (Im told that when its nice here, its really nice. With scattered to broken clouds at 10,000 feet, nearly unlimited visibility, and te ...

Ex-Lockheed official joins board of Norwegian titanium firm

PARIS Chris Kubasik, fired last year as Lockheed Martin Corp's incoming CEO after having an affair with a subordinate, said he has joined the board of directors of a Norwegian titanium producer that works closely with Spirit AeroSystems Inc . Kubasik told Reuters at the Paris air show that he saw great promise in the technology developed by Norsk Titanium Components AS for processing titanium far more efficiently than conventional methods, and he ...

Russian Fighter Tops Flying Demos at Paris Russian Fighter Tops Flying Demos at Paris

The Paris Air Show, which opened yesterday at Paris-Le Bourget Airport, is usually a stage for U.S. pilots to demonstrate their amazing flying machines to a world audience. Thanks to the sequester, thats not the case this year. Instead, Russian aviators and hardware is taking the spotlight and they have not disappointed. Just witness this demonstration, shot on Monday by PlanesTV, of the Sukhoi Su-35 multi-role fighter as it uses its thrust-vecto ...