Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Jun 18, 2010
Honeywell signed a contract with Tiger Airways to provide a full suite of safety avionics including its IntuVue 3-D weather radar for the carrier's 50 new A320s. The aircraft are expected to be delivered starting in late 2010 and continuing through 2015. Honeywell's full suite will include an Air Data Inertial Reference Unit, Flight Management System, next-generation Aircraft Collision and Avoidance System, Flight Data Recorder, Cockpit Voice Recorder and Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System.
Jun 18, 2010
The first 787 test aircraft powered by GEnx-1B engines completed its first flight late Wednesday, landing at Boeing Field in Seattle at 6:29 p.m. local time following a 3 hr. 48 min. flight. The aircraft is the fifth of six 787s in the Dreamliner flight test program (ATW Daily News, April 22). A second GEnx-1B-powered 787 will take flight before the end of July, Boeing said.
Mar 09, 2020
Boeing’s failure to ensure sensors linked to Collins Aerospace-supplied head-up guidance systems (HGS) delivered to customers were approved for use under the applicable supplemental type certificate (STC) has prompted the U.S. FAA to propose a $19.7 million fine.
Mar 09, 2020
Commercial passengers still are likely to be driven more by airline ticket prices than whether they are flying on the embattled Boeing 737 MAX narrowbody, according to a new survey provided by Jefferies analysts.
Mar 09, 2020
Norway electrifies; Boom slips; repairing satellites; GoFly unfinished; Joby flies for NASA; fluidic propulsion.
Mar 06, 2020
A report commissioned by the Norwegian government recommends Norway should be a driving force in the development, testing and early implementation of electrified aircraft.
Mar 06, 2020
IATA projects the industry could lose up to $113 billion in revenues in 2020 if the coronavirus spreads further.
Mar 05, 2020
Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 third-scale demonstrator for the Mach 2.2 Overture airliner is now planned to fly by mid-2021, CEO Blake Scholl told the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Aviation Summit in Washington on March 5.
Mar 05, 2020
Aircraft manufacturers and suppliers widely expect the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis to result in a short, sharp shock to the air transport sector, but nothing disruptive yet to their business models, according to comments made during the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s 2020 Aviation Summit.
Mar 04, 2020
The COVID-19 outbreak and the disruption it is causing to international travel could hit industry-wide orders for long-haul aircraft, Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury told a Mar. 4 hearing of the French senate’s economic affairs committee.