As expected, Kuwait's Aviation Lease and Finance Company (ALAFCO) has opted for Pratt & Whitney PurePower PW1100G-JM engines to propel yesterday's order for 50 firm Airbus A320neo family aircraft.
Air Arabia has selected Rockwell Collins's second-generation digital programmable audio video entertainment system (dPAVES) in-flight entertainment (IFE) system for 44 new Airbus A320 aircraft.
Raytheon has finished the installation and testing of its AutoTrac III (AT3) air traffic management (ATM) system at Dubai World Central's Al Maktoum International Airport.
CFM's new baby – the LEAP engine – has already racked-up orders and commitments for around 2,450 units to power Airbus A320neo, Boeing 737 MAX and COMAC C919 airliners at a list price of more than $29 billion.
A popular feature of each day's flying display is the appearance of the Chinese twin turboprop regional airliner, the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) MA600.
Delays in the software development of the fly-by-wire systems for the Legacy 450 and Legacy 500 will not delay the entry of the aircraft on to the market, according to Embraer's Claudio Camelier, vice president market and product strategy.
The Rolls-Royce Trent 700 that powers Airbus's A330 wide-body airliner has become the 'workhorse of the Middle East' according to the engine's programme director Rosie Toogood, speaking to Show Business.
Raytheon has completed the development and testing of a new 'WiPak' method of wirelessly integrating its Paveway family of laser-guided and dual-mode (laser/GPS) bombs.
As Boeing's 787 Dreamliner landed yesterday for its first-ever visit to Dubai – and also its first foray into the key Middle East marketplace – it brought with it fervent hopes from the giant US airframer that the current order list of 131 would be increased in the coming months, if not actually at the show.
Inmarsat is working on new “bearers” or waveforms that will push its L-band SwiftBroadband service to the limit. The existing (up to) 432kbps download speeds may be pushed to 500kbps, or even as much as 700kbps, when the new high data rate (HDR) bearers are introduced in 2013.
Esterline CMC Electronics was selected recently by the Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) to supply its latest generation CMA-9000 flight management system (FMS) and CMA-5024 global positioning system wide area augmentation system (GPS WAAS) sensor.
