The company is seeing countries increasingly look to its business-jet platforms capable of special missions which can operate with lower costs than converted airliners or military aircraft.
By Thierry Dubois, Jens Flottau, Guy Norris, Karen Walker
As the Dubai Airshow is seeing a resuscitation of giant orders, our commercial aviation experts are discussing the development of new freighters and regional aircraft upgrades against a backdrop of ramping-up production.
The GE Aviation CEO also commented on the RISE program and the recently announced decision by General Electric to spin off its other businesses and focus on aerospace.
The revised system will be flight-tested on the 737-10 in 2022 and is likely to be rolled in as a retrofit to the MAX following certification of the stretched derivative which is planned for 2023.
While most of the deliveries will only be a major factor for production from 2025 onwards, the endorsement from the blue-chip customer is highly welcome ammunition in Airbus’ struggle to convince customers and suppliers of its way of thinking.
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On day 1 of our podcast from the Dubai Airshow our defense editors discuss, ballistic missile protection for the region, and is Russia’s Sukhoi starting a trend in aviation-related perfumes?
After recent input from both commercial and cargo airline customers, Boeing has been encouraged to stretch the 777-8 baseline and may now use this design as the basis for the 777XF.
