Bucking industry trends, Didier Evrard, Airbus’s executive vice president of programs, was awarded Aviation Week’s 2015 Civil Aviation Laureate for bringing the A350 widebody to market on time.
Snowstorm shuts down Washington but fails to halt Aviation Week’s 58th annual Laureate awards ceremony, which salutes aerospace sector’s high achievers.
Airbus’s not so secret weapon is Chief Operating Officer-Customers John Leahy, who in his more than three-decade career helped the manufacturer climb from a very distant third-place spot to a parity position with Boeing.
Despite challenges from LCC expansion at its home base, Brussels Airlines seems poised to achieve profitability after investments and management improvements coordinated by its largest shareholder, the Lufthansa Group.
The Scout motto, “Be Prepared,” came in handy for the pilots of a Boeing 757 flying scientists from Christchurch to Pegasus Field in Antarctica when fog forced a landing at well below instrument minimums.
Dassault Aviation, long noted for both its civil and military aircraft offerings, may eventually have to opt for a purely civil product line due to diverse market and political influences.
Boeing conducted the initial functional check flight and handling qualities test sortie for its newly completed 757 ecoDemonstrator test aircraft on March 17.
According to Hogan, the carrier has always made clear that it received equity investment and shareholder loans. Those have been “supplemented” by $10.5 billion in loans from international institutions, Hogan told listeners at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce aviation summit in Washington D.C. on Tuesday.
With more than 6,200 receivers in place around the populated portions of the world, Flightradar24 will now turn to the oceans to give the nascent surveillance provider more visibility of long-haul routes.
Health and usage monitoring systems—a necessity for offshore operations—could soon appear on light helicopters, thanks to technology envisaged for wind turbines
Aviation Week editors discuss Airbus and Boeing production: Is there an order bubble that may burst one day? They also talk about the 777 upgrade, the possibility of an A380neo and Bombardier’s CSeries.
The two dominant aircraft manufacturers are sanguine their robust orderbooks are sound; other industry analysts caution that they are being overly ambitious.
Influential lessor Air Lease Corp. (ALC) has recommended to Airbus that any plan to launch the A380neo should include a fuselage stretch that would add valuable belly-hold capacity and boost its broader appeal to the cargo market.
