Boeing plans to eliminate a group of in-house training pilots dedicated to helping operators introduce new aircraft types, citing the lack of consistent work for them, and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic that has forced cost cuts.
Boeing and Safran successfully completed flight tests of passive noise reduction fairings developed by Safran as part of the latest phase of its long-running ecoDemonstrator program.
Neste Corporation and Royal Dutch Shell have signed a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) supply agreement, in a bid to anticipate increasing demand from airlines.
Pilot groups and at least one regulator have raised concerns about several non-normal pilot procedures being changed following a review of the grounded Boeing 737 MAX that also apply to older versions of the venerable narrowbody.
Calls for an additional angle-of-attack indicator and concerns over the flight crew’s ability to manually trim the aircraft in an emergency are among the issues highlighted in the initial set of comments on the FAA’s proposed requirements to approve the Boeing 737 MAX’s service return.
Airbus is expecting to gather the first results of a demonstration program on onboard hydrogen storage and distribution in 2021, according to Airbus EVP for engineering Jean-Brice Dumont.
An intermediate engine between the current LEAP turbofan and one that would enter service in 2035 with slashed greenhouse gas emissions is not in the cards, according to Safran CEO Philippe Petitcolin.
Raytheon Technologies is on its way to cutting at least 15,000 employees in response to the company’s recent merger and the fallout from COVID-19, the aerospace and defense giant’s CEO told an investor conference, and likely more will occur.
The purpose-built freighter variant of the ATR 72-600 made its first flight Sep. 16 in Toulouse, as part of a program ATR hopes will culminate with the first delivery to Fedex by year-end.
Universal Hydrogen has selected MagniX to provide the electric propulsion system for its planned conversion of the de Havilland Canada Dash 8-300 regional turboprop to hydrogen fuel-cell power.
Greece is set to become the first European export customer for the Dassault Rafale, announcing plans to order 18 aircraft as part of a modernization of its armed forces.
Boeing confirmed that it uncovered a manufacturing problem with 787 vertical fins—the fourth production-quality issue linked to the widebody twinjet program in recent weeks.
Vancouver Airport Authority, scaling back ambitious growth plans in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, has canceled a four-part infrastructure improvement project that targeted Vancouver International Airport’s (YVR) energy usage.
