Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Feb 08, 2010
Pratt & Whitney announced that Hong Kong Airlines selected the PW4170 Advantage 70 to power the six A330-200s it ordered last week at the Singapore Airshow (ATWOnline, Feb. 5).
Feb 08, 2010
Lufthansa's first A380 completed painting Friday and is on schedule for May 10 delivery (ATWOnline, Feb. 2). Aircraft is named Frankfurt am Main. LH's second A380, dubbed Munchen, arrived at Airbus's Hamburg Finkenwerder facility last week ahead of cabin interior and painting work. Iberia Friday took delivery of a new A319, the first aircraft to join its fleet since deliveries were suspended more than a year ago as the company reduced capacity.
Feb 08, 2010
Bombardier Aerospace received net orders for 88 commercial aircraft in its fiscal year ended Jan. 31, down from 114 the prior year. Orders for 2009-10 comprised 22 CRJs, 16 Q400s and 50 CSeries aircraft. However, the company's net total was 11 owing largely to -85 net orders for business aircraft. Its 2008-09 net was 367. Full-year commercial deliveries rose to 121 from 110 in 2008-09, comprising 60 CRJs and 61 Q-Series aircraft. Total deliveries dropped to 302 from the 349 posted in the year ended Jan. 31, 2009.
Feb 08, 2010
Airbus announced A350 supplier contracts with Panasonic Avionics Corp. on OnAir, its joint venture with SITA. Panasonic will provide on-demand audio and video, eXPhone inflight mobile phone service, eXConnect broadband Internet and its Panasonic Airborne Television Network. OnAir's connectivity technology will be linefit offerable on the A350, the company said, adding that more than 40% of A350 customers have ordered the product.
Feb 05, 2010
Sukhoi said the fourth Sukhoi Superjet 100 joined the flight test program yesterday, operating a 2 hr. 45 min. flight. The aircraft will " undergo a complex evaluation of onboard equipment and avionics as well as failure safety tests" and be subject to fire protection and inert gas system testing. It also will host flight crew training for initial customers. Sukhoi is aiming for type certification in mid-year.
Dec 11, 2019
Air France-KLM has placed a firm order for 10 additional Airbus A350-900s, which will replace the A380s scheduled to leave the fleet by 2022.
Dec 11, 2019
British jet engine maker Rolls-Royce said Bradley Singer, the chief operating officer of activist investor ValueAct Capital and Rolls-Royce’s largest shareholder, left the board of directors Dec. 9.
Dec 11, 2019
Vietnam startup Bamboo Airways has received its first Boeing 787-9 at the US manufacturer’s South Carolina delivery center Dec. 9.
Dec 10, 2019
Boeing says formation flight tests conducted with FedEx Express using two 777F freighters confirm the potential for reducing fuel consumption by up to 10% by flying in the wingtip vortex of the lead aircraft.
Dec 10, 2019
Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Technologies (ATI) and GE Aviation have reached agreement on several new long-term contracts worth a total of around $2.5 billion to ATI for the supply of iso-thermal and hot-die forgings used in the manufacture of commercial jet engines, the companies announced Dec. 10.
Dec 10, 2019
The Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) has transferred the fifth prototype in the C919 narrowbody flight-test program to Nanchang, China, six weeks after the aircraft’s first flight.
Dec 10, 2019
Congo Airways signed a firm order with Embraer for two E175 aircraft, with purchase rights for a further two. The deal has a total value of $94.4 million at current list prices with all purchase rights exercised.
Dec 10, 2019
COMAC has transferred the fifth prototype in the C919 narrowbody flight-test program to Nanchang, China, six weeks after the aircraft’s first flight.