Lockheed Martin is marketing its LM-100J civil Hercules variant in tandem with the newly unveiled LMH-1 cargo carrying hybrid airship as part of the company’s broader strategic initiative to grow its commercial aerospace business.
General Electric has set out to become the world's Digital Industrial Company, transforming itself by using Big Data to shape everything from the way it makes things to supporting customers in the field.
By close of the show Tuesday, announced orders and commitments for airliners totaled 478 firm sales, plus a total of 38 options, letters of intent and memoranda of understanding.
In an effort to overcome different approaches of the company’s shareholders, ATR CEO Patrick de Castelbajac is proposing a sequence of initiatives that includes re-engining the ATR 72, and could ultimately result in a new 100-seater.
A KC-46 equipped with a reworked boom has successfully refueled a C-17 heavy cargo aircraft, a sign that Boeing’s tanker troubles may finally be coming to an end.
Saab CEO Håkan Buskhe is betting on reactivity at development and production levels to keep its Gripen C/D and Gripen E fighters attractive to foreign buyers.
To make up for a capacity shortfall caused by delays in the Airbus A350 delivery stream, Qatar Airways is considering an additional order for Boeing 777-300ERs, CEO Akbar Al Baker told Aviation Week.
European low-cost carrier Wizz Air has placed orders and options for up to 432 Pratt & Whitney PW1100G geared turbofans worth US$2.5 billion for its future fleet of Airbus A321neos, representing a significant confidence booster for the U.S. engine maker.
Eight years after launching the Leap engine to succeed the CFM56, CFM is poised for service entry of the first Leap-1A-powered Airbus A320neo, with six operators expected to take the new engine-airframe combination in the first 100 days.
The RAF’s senior intelligence and surveillance officer launched a passionate defense of the Sentinel program yesterday, as the perennially overworked yet permanently under-threat system faces yet another period of uncertainty about its future.
One of Britain’s most senior cyber warriors has a message for Farnborough’s SME community. You’ve got a problem, but there’s help available from the government and from some of the biggest names in the defense industry – and it’s free.
Boeing will source composite materials for its 777X aircraft from a new joint venture formed by United Arab Emirates-based Mubadala Development and Belgian composite materials and adhesives manufacturer Solvay, Boeing Commercial Airplanes president and CEO Ray Conner said at Farnborough.
The nEUROn unmanned combat air vehicle demonstrator took flight on June 4 at the Dassault Aviation flight test center at Istres in what is claimed to have been first time a stealth aircraft controlled from the ground has flown in public.
GE Aviation unveiled one of the first digital customer solutions built on its Predix software platform, an application developed through a collaboration with Flydubai.
Technologies designed to reduce costs of major public building programs may offer terrorists an unprecedented reconnaissance capability, the Security Service has warned.
In March Norsk Titanium AS broke ground on a new 9,843-sq.-ft. European final assembly and test center near Oslo, Norway, that is due to be completed in October.
Israel Aerospace Industries is developing a supplemental type certificate for a 737-700BDSF cargo conversion. A first prototype aircraft is under conversion from passenger to full freighter configurations at IAI’s facility.
Northern Ireland Department for the Economy Minister Simon Hamilton has welcomed the launch of Causeway Aero, a new local collaboration in aerospace, during a visit to FIA 2016.
In an effort to overcome different approaches of the company’s shareholders, ATR CEO Patrick de Castelbajac is proposing a sequence of initiatives that includes re-engining of the ATR 72 and ultimately a new 100-seater.
