Providing integrated support packages is a significant challenge for suppliers of air, land, and naval equipment, who are increasingly operating under PBL contracts.
The European Commission (EC) is expected to demand that several airlines operating to the Italian island of Sardinia pay back what have been deemed unfair subsidies.
SAP can connect the purchasing and processing departments of 3-D buyers and sellers, as well as helping to define the products needed, eliminating the need for costly manual processes.
Embraer's new multi-mission transport aircraft, the KC-390, has made its maiden stop at the Farnborough Airshow. Still in the thick of flight testing, the aircraft is flying internationally for the first time on a summer tour of Europe and the Middle East.
Benefit: The Service Bulletin (SBs 72-0159 and 72-0140 - Cooling Hole Modification) is a product improvement which introduces the GEnx-1B/-2B/P2 configuration that improves the fuel efficiency of both GEnx engine models. Description: These Service Bulletins rework high-pressure turbine (HPT) Stage 1 shroud hangers to part number 2100M84G04. The reworked hanger has revised airflow requirements.
U.S. industry chiefs lauded former JetBlue Airways CEO Dave Barger in June when he was presented with the 2016 L. Welch Pogue Lifetime Achievement Award, awarded by the International Aviation Club (IAC) of Washington DC and Aviation Week & Space Technology.
Aviation Week joined the crew of a KC-10 Extender, departing McGuire AFB, New Jersey, as it escorted three Lockheed Martin F-35As across the Atlantic to RAF Fairford in the U.K.
In the 1995 movie “Apollo 13,” an oxygen tank explodes in the spacecraft’s Service Module, forcing astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise to initiate a perilous return to Earth.
Additive-manufacturing (AM) specialist SLM Solutions is using its branch office in Moscow to tap aerospace and other AM markets in the troubled but resource-rich Russian market.
What do engine operators want from an overhaul provider? A team from Marketing, Sales, Mature Fleet and Customer Technical Programs joined forces to hear straight from African operators at a GE Aviation-hosted Engine Services Customer Symposium held in Casablanca, Morocco.
Purchasing California-based smart materials company Rolith Inc., could help Canada's MTI develop large-scale optical metamaterial products for aerospace.
When its first-generation E-Jets were launched more than a decade ago, Embraer marketed the aircraft family by associating the letter “E” with design benefits in four areas - efficiency, engineering, economics and ergonomics. Now, e-Enabled is added to that list.
See a live magnetic particle inspection of a propeller component at Aircraft Propeller Service, in Lake Zurich, Illinois. Magnetic particle inspection (MPI) is a nondestructive testing (NDT) method. An electric current is run through the magnetized component, and cracks or faults are identified by ultraviolet light.
In-flight broadband is a multi-billion dollar opportunity for airlines to boost ancillary revenues. So they need to move it up their list of priorities.
