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Boeing’s first production 737 MAX to emerge from Renton facility
Despite being months away from entering service, the first production version of the 737 MAX is scheduled to emerge from Boeing’s Renton facility this month as part of a plan designed to ensure a trouble-free manufacturing and assembly build-up. The aircraft, a 737-8, is the fifth off the new “central” production line and will be stored without engines at the Washington state facility along with several other complete airframes until test and certification is finished and deliveries begin in 2017.
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P&W locks in $1 billion contract for F-35 engines
Pratt & Whitney secured a $1 billion contract this week to fund the first 66 of 167 F135 propulsion systems being purchased by the US government to power the growing domestic and international fleet of Lockheed Martin F-35s. The government reached a handshake agreement with P&W for low-rate initial production lots nine and 10 in January, and the contract announced on 11 April is the realisation of Lot 9.
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​Comac plugs away at C919 systems integration
Comac is engaged in the second stage of software integration testing for its C919 narrowbody programme, while the first test aircraft awaits the installation of wiring. The software integration work is taking place at the company’s campus on the outskirts of Shanghai, where an avionics test lab is located down the hallway from the C919 iron bird rig.
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Airlines

Tail-strike damage found after Corendon 737 diversion
Turkish investigators are looking into a serious incident involving a Boeing 737-800 which suffered a tail-strike on departure from Billund. The Corendon Airlines aircraft had been bound for Antalya on 5 March. Although it sustained the tail-strike on take-off, in darkness, the aircraft did not return to the airport but proceeded to follow its course to Turkey.
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Delta: Qatar Airways’ Doha-Atlanta flights won’t be successful
Delta Air Lines executives predicted Qatar Airways’ daily Doha-Atlanta Boeing 777-200 flights, scheduled to start on June 1, will fail financially and reiterated that waging a campaign against Gulf airlines’ alleged subsidies remains a top priority. Outgoing Delta CEO Richard Anderson, who has been vocal in the campaign waged by Delta, American Airlines and United Airlines against Middle East airlines Qatar, Emirates Airline and Etihad Airways, did not participate in Delta’s April 14 first-quarter earnings conference call.
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Delta First Quarter Profit Up 27 Percent
Delta Air Lines reported first-quarter net income up 27 percent and indicated it may cut capacity after the summer if necessary to stop a decline in unit revenue. Delta earned USD$946 million in the first quarter, up 27 percent from USD$746 million in the same period last year.
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Germanwings Crash Victim Families Sue In US
Families of those killed on a Germanwings flight last year have sued a training unit of the airline's parent, Lufthansa, in US district court in Arizona for wrongful death. Kreindler & Kreindler said it had filed a lawsuit on behalf of 80 families against Airline Training Center Arizona, which instructed the Germanwings pilot who barricaded himself in the cockpit and flew his aircraft into the French Alps on March 24, 2015, killing 150 passengers and crew.n US
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Lufthansa Talking To SAS, Brussels Airlines
Lufthansa is in talks with the owners of Scandinavian carrier SAS and Brussels Airlines to expand the number of destinations it flies to and grow its low-cost Eurowings business, people close to the German airline said. Two people said Lufthansa had been in talks with the owners of SAS since the autumn, which could lead to Lufthansa taking a stake in SAS - half owned by Denmark, Norway and Sweden - or some other kind of partnership, they said.
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Red Wings to cease SSJ100 operations
Russia’s Red Wings Airlines will cease Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) operations in May. The Moscow-based carrier will return two aircraft to Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Co. (SCAC) and three to the State Transport Leasing Co. (STLC). Neither Red Wings nor SCAC would comment on the decision, which ATW understands could be the result of lease payment debts.
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Airports

Dallas passengers see benefits of airline competition
If you’ve been waiting for years to book that dream summer vacation, there might not be a better time than now. Domestic airfares across the country have generally been dropping amid increased competition and lower fuel prices. The trend has been even stronger in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, as the end to restrictions on nonstop flights from Love Field in 2014 has led to a spike in capacity at the airport.
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Military

RNZAF stands up T6-equipped pilot training operation
The Royal New Zealand Air Force has stood up its new initial pilot training capability, which will use 11 recently delivered Beechcraft T-6C Texans for the role. Operated with CAE and Safe Air, the RNZAF is also making use of ground-based training systems and two flight simulators.
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The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.

— Nevil Shute, Slide Rule: The Autobiography of an Engineer

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