engines
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Southern Air, MTU in MRO deal for B777/B747-8
Southern Air Holdings, Inc. has awarded MTU Maintenance Hannover an exclusive 12-year maintenance and spare engine support contract covering all present and future GE90-110B engines in Southern Air’s 777 Freighter fleet.
01 October 2011
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Cathay places order for eight B777-200Fs
Cathay Pacific Airways has announced a significant investment in 12 B777s, including eight B777-200 Freighters and four B777-300ER passenger aircraft. The 12 new aircraft have a list price of about HK$25.6 billion. The aircraft are expected to be delivered to the airline between 2013 and 2016 and will be powered by General Electric GE90 engines.
19 August 2011
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One engine good, two engines bett er, 12 engines...?
Although continuing to insist that there is nothing wrong with the Trent 900 engine used on the A380, despite the uncontained failure that left a hole in the wing of a Qantas A380 and rained down bits of engine over the Indonesian island of Batam - e…
01 February 2011
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Commercial engines pull down RR profit
The world’s second-largest aircraft engine maker – UK-based engine-maker Rolls-Royce – posted a four per cent rise in full-year profit to £915 million (US$$1.43 billion) on sales of £10.4 billion, up 14 per cent on a year earlier, for the ye…
01 March 2010
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Successful maiden flight for Boeing’s new 747-8F
Boeing’s new 747-8 Freighter took to the sky for the first time last week, nearly 41 years to the day that the orginal B747-100 first flew, for the start of the freighter’s 1,600 hour flight test programme. Boeing’s 747 chief pilot Mark Feu…
19 February 2010
