Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Jun 21, 2011
Boeing appears to be moving toward an all-new solution for the replacement of the 737, the biggest selling commercial jet aircraft in history.
Jun 20, 2011
Airbus kicked off the Paris Air Show Monday with aircraft orders from GECAS, Air Lease Corp., SAS and Saudi Arabian Airlines totaling $15 billion in value. COO-Customers John Leahy said the manufacturer "will push up the pace" of orders Tuesday.
Jun 20, 2011
Airbus pushed back EIS for the A350-1000 to 2017 from 2015 and unveiled a modified -1000 model featuring a higher thrust variant of the Trent XWB engine being developed by Rolls-Royce
Jun 20, 2011
ATR landed its first-ever order from GECAS, which committed to taking 15 ATR 72-600s, plus 15 options. The deal, announced Monday at the Paris Air Show, is valued at approximately $680 million at list prices, including options.
Sep 23, 2020
Across most of the supply chain, aerospace suppliers wonder aloud when they can expect stability in orders by and deliveries to their customers in the upper tiers or OEMS.
Sep 23, 2020
Boeing plans to eliminate a group of in-house training pilots dedicated to helping operators introduce new aircraft types, citing the lack of consistent work for them, and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic that has forced cost cuts.
Sep 23, 2020
Boeing and Safran successfully completed flight tests of passive noise reduction fairings developed by Safran as part of the latest phase of its long-running ecoDemonstrator program.
Sep 23, 2020
Neste Corporation and Royal Dutch Shell have signed a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) supply agreement, in a bid to anticipate increasing demand from airlines.
Sep 23, 2020
Aviation Week discusses the future of Safran and the propulsion industry with CEO Philippe Petitcolin.
Sep 22, 2020
Pilot groups and at least one regulator have raised concerns about several non-normal pilot procedures being changed following a review of the grounded Boeing 737 MAX that also apply to older versions of the venerable narrowbody.
Sep 21, 2020
Calls for an additional angle-of-attack indicator and concerns over the flight crew’s ability to manually trim the aircraft in an emergency are among the issues highlighted in the initial set of comments on the FAA’s proposed requirements to approve the Boeing 737 MAX’s service return.
Sep 21, 2020
Airbus is expecting to gather the first results of a demonstration program on onboard hydrogen storage and distribution in 2021, according to Airbus EVP for engineering Jean-Brice Dumont.