ShowNews

Our roundup of airplane orders announced on day 2 of the Paris air show.
Paris Air Show

Paul Jackson
Some exhibitors are giving away pens on their booths, but Satair Group has a more novel form of aide memoire of your visit: a miniature, future Airbus airliner produced by 3-D printer.
Paris Air Show

A roundup of orders and announcements at the Paris air show, courtesy of SpeedNews

Paris Air Show

Airbus Helicopters has lifted the covers on its successor to the highly popular Super Puma.

Paris Air Show

United Aircraft Corporation and Comac will present detailed plans for their widebody aircraft to the Russian and Chinese governments in September.

Paris Air Show

Rockwell Collins’s President and CEO Kelly Ortberg spoke recently with Aviation Week editors in their Washington offices.
Paris Air Show

By Jen DiMascio
With a little help from the U.S. Congress and the potential for international orders, Boeing is bullish about prospects for its international fighters.
Paris Air Show

The company recently completed full qualification of the floatation system for the AW169.
Paris Air Show

By Tony Osborne
Pakistan air force top guns, Wing Cdr. Usman Ali and Sqn. Ldr. Yasar Mudasser-Aslam are showing off Sino-Pakistani fighter aircraft in the skies over Le Bourget.
Paris Air Show

Noam Eshel
Following an aggressive sales campaign in recent months, IAI Bedek has added new customers as it adapted its portfolio to new market needs, Joseph Melamed, general manager of IAI Bedek Aviation Group, told ShowNews.
Paris Air Show

By Tony Osborne
Israeli Aircraft Industries says that there is growing interest in the conversion of Boeing 767-300ER airliners into aerial refueling tankers.
Paris Air Show

By John Morris
Development of revolutionary engines at GE Aviation is setting the stage for the next 50 years in military aircraft propulsion, engineers there believe.
Paris Air Show

Production of GE Aviation’s F414 fighter engine could run for another decade. Although orders for the main aircraft it powers, the twin-engine F-18 Super Hornet and Growler, are winding down, it is finding success elsewhere in the world.
Paris Air Show

By Karen Walker
CFM International will keep its maintenance costs for the new LEAP narrowbody engine to levels at or similar to those of the current CFM56 engine, company senior executives said.
Paris Air Show

Seattle-based Aviation Partners estimates that its blended winglets have saved commercial and business jet operators about 5 billion gal. of jet fuel and expects that amount to double by the end of 2019.
Paris Air Show

By Karen Walker
Airbus has announced Saudi Arabian Airlines as its launch customer for the A330-300 Regional.
Paris Air Show

Similar to other members of the 331 APU family, the HGT1700 is a single-shaft design with a single load compressor, dual engine compressors and three turbine stages
Paris Air Show

Aerospace: where some things change more than you can imagine and others don’t change at all.
Paris Air Show

By Victoria Moores
ATR will announce the launch customer for a high-density, 78-seat ATR 72-600 here Tuesday.
Paris Air Show

By Tony Osborne
During the NATO operation over Libya in 2011, European nations were criticized for a lack of aerial refueling assets and their need to depend on the U.S. for assistance. But plans for multinational tanker purchases may soon reverse that trend.
Paris Air Show

The opening ceremony of the U.S. International Pavilion took place on Monday.
Paris Air Show

With both Boeing and Aviation Week commemorating their 100th birthdays next year, the two have agreed to create a digital, searchable, living archive of Aviation Week & Space Technology dating back to the very beginnings of human flight.
Paris Air Show

Satellite Internet startup OneWeb Ltd. has selected Airbus Defense and Space to serve as an industrial partner in the design and production of a fleet of 900 small Internet satellites.
Paris Air Show

The Aviation Week Network captured four awards at Sunday’s Aerospace Media Dinner at the Aero Club in Paris.
Paris Air Show

“Acquiring technologically advanced airplanes, such as the 777X, is integral to our expansion strategy,” said Qatar CEO Akbar Al Baker.
Paris Air Show