Aircraft & Propulsion

Lab is working on additive metal production which is still in a mostly experimental stage for aircraft engines.

RUAG Australia is collaborating on a two-year project to investigate laser metal deposition’s uses for component repair and manufacturing.

AirBaltic, based in Latvia, is expanding its in-house maintenance capabilities as it alters its fleet.

Virgin Atlantic's 2018 saw highly publicized issues with its Boeing 787 fleet. Phil Wardlaw, vice president of engineering and maintenance services at the UK airline, talks to James Pozzi about how it has addressed these problems while updating on plans to grow its day-to-day operation.

CFM56 shop-visits still on rise and should exceed 3,000 annually in the 2025 timeframe.

The Portuguese airline maintenance business has entered into a general support license agreement with LEAP engine maker CFM International.

Hawaiian Airlines outlines its fleet transition plan progress, including when it will retire its Boeing 767s.

Leo Koppers, MTU’s senior vice president of MRO programs, will retire at year-end following a 3.5-decade career in aviation, most of it in the aftermarket sector. For the last 16 years, he has held various management positions at MTU. Koppers and Martin Friis-Petersen, who heads up MTU Maintenance Lease Services and will replace Koppers after he retires, speak with Lee Ann Shay and James Pozzi about the transition

European and U.S. regulators have expanded a software-upgrade mandate to CFM International Leap-1B engines that ensures Boeing 737 Max-powered aircraft will not experience engine-fan-speed issues caused by extremely cold weather.

Heatcon says its Smart Susceptor system makes repairs easier through advances in control and heating technology--as well as enables repair that previously were not possible.

The aircraft manufacturing giant recently partnered with ELG Carbon Fibre to target the recycling of excess aerospace-grade composite material.

The $1 billion market for the CF34 engine is open, competitive and growing, despite expected -3A retirements.

Uptake and Rolls-Royce are about half way through a two-month proof of concept to ascertain whether a different data-science approach will improve Trent engines’ reliability—including detecting problems before they occur.

At a celebration for Hainan Airlines’ first transcontinental biofuel 787 flight--between Beijing and Chicago--Darrin Morgan, Boeing’s sustainable biofuel strategy director, talks to Aviation Week at Chicago O'Hare about the future of biofuels within aviation.

Watch Jet Yard's special disassembly of a Boeing 777 airframe.

From MRO Europe 2017, James Pozzi talks to Nick Ward, Head of OEM Digital Solutions at Rolls-Royce, about how the company is taking a digitally-focused approach to its service division.

Singapore Technologies Aerospace again sits atop our charts with more than eight million man-hours amassed in 2008, but O&M's biennial survey of the airframe MRO market reveals burgeoning competition in the lower ranks and changes in the middle ground. Data points to a shift among top players and illustrates the impact of the down economy on business. Companies interviewed by O&M cited negative market conditions ranging from parked aircraft to loss of major customers and shut downs of major facilities.