For big production increases, including for the PW1000G, Pratt is investing in manufacturing initiatives such as “intelligent” or automated production cells and advanced materials.
As GE readies for a series of new campaigns culminating in flights of the GE9X in 2017, it is feeling the operational benefit of changes made to cope with a set of simultaneous test efforts, which hit an all-time record in 2015.
Rolls-Royce’s Trent 1000 TEN is designed to improve fuel burn by 2% over the current Package C production standard and is therefore crucial to the company’s long-term competitiveness battle against GE’s GEnx-1B, the alternate engine for the 787.
Rolls-Royce’s Advance engine demonstrator is a hybrid combining a Trent XWB-84 case, the fan system from a Trent 900 and the low-pressure turbine from a Trent 1000.
Governments are looking for ways to work around disruptions in service, increasingly caused by proliferating equipment that can jam and spoof GPS signals.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Aurora Flight Sciences bring computer science to bear on the problem of ensuring software-heavy unmanned aircraft behave as they are supposed to.
FAA tests UAS counters; ADS-B in a tube for BVLOS; persistent stare from a Cessna; ship landing system that can see; navigating undersea by acoustic GPS.
Darpa programs exploit moves to open up weapon-system architectures and enable faster, cheaper upgrades to the capabilities and technologies of today’s platforms.
Routes Africa 2016 will help to improve African connectivity by bringing together airlines, airports and tourism authorities to discuss future air services. Around 250 route development professionals are expected to attend the forum which was founded ten years ago to stimulate growth in the industry.
The African Business Aviation Association (AfBAA) is to announce its new conference concept during the European Business Aviation Convention and Expo, EBACE.
Startup Echodyne develops a cellphone-sized detect-and-avoid radar compact and cheap enough to be carried by small UAS flying beyond visual line of sight of the operator.
Nile Air's chief executive officer Ahmed Aly said the Egyptian airline is looking to go public on the Egyptian Stock Exchange at some point in 2017, reports ch-aviation.
Etihad Airways Medical Centre has welcomed more than 120 medical professionals as well as international medical experts to the annual Aviation Health Conference, under the theme “Ophthalmology and Colour Vision in Aviation,” taking place from September 3 – 4 in Abu Dhabi.
Flydubai has announced its half-year results for 2016 and has reported total revenue of AED 2,302 million (USD 627 million) an increase of 5.4% compared to the first six months of last year and a loss of AED 89.9 million (USD 24.5 million) 39% lower than the same period last year.
