Paris Air Show

Pratt & Whitney is enjoying a profitable Paris with contract signings for engine supply and manufacturing support.

Airbus is teaming up with Singapore-based MRO provider ST Aerospace and Elbe Flugzeugwerke to give the passenger-to-freighter conversion of its A320/A321 aircraft a second try.

The bit that will join the engine to the wing of an Airbus A350 – impressively illustrates the turnaround achieved in the fortunes of Gardner Aerospace.

Stratasys is showing large components destined to fly in an Atlas 5 launcher next year as part of its avionics cooling system.

Designed by an Oklahoma State University graduate student, the Unmanned Cowboys Atlas UAV cages its propeller inside a sphere for safe flight indoors and outdoors.

IAI and Airbus want to follow successful Heron lease to Germany with the top-of-the-line Heron TP.

Weapons and upgrades could define the next era for the worldwide fighter market.

Speculation that Finmeccanica might pull out of the joint venture with Superjet Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company have not dented the enthusiasm of Superjet International's CEO.

AFI KLM E&M will be able to further expand its international footprint with new facilities and joint ventures despite the Perform 2020 restructuring program, its executives said.

A roundup of news from the Paris Air Show.

Captains Mark Elliott and Estaban Arias flew the new 108-pax Bombardier CS100 regional jet in Swiss Airlines livery from Montreal-Mirabel to Paris last Friday so that it could be displayed at this week’s Paris Air Show.

Alan Jones, CEO and president of Aviage Systems, believes that joint ventures, such as that of the three-year-old collaboration between GE and Aviation Industry Corporation of China, are key to earning credibility in the international market.

"What a great show," says Jean-Paul Ebanga, president and CEO of CFM International.

Textron AirLand’s $20 million Scorpion Light Attack Armed Reconnaissance gains momentum with possible landing of a launch customer.

Dassault Aviation’s versatile large cabin twin will be Beijing Red Cross Emergency Medical Center’s first fixed wing aircraft dedicated to medevac services.

IBM rolls out solution designed for the configuration of an aircraft.

Aviation needs equivalents of the “concept car” to spur it forward, says new exhibitor NewFace.

High above the Paris Air Show from angles you have never seen it before. And for free.

A China Airlines Boeing 777-300ER parked in the Paris Air Show static display is generating a buzz for its cabin, which was designed by a top Taiwanese architect.

MBDA will be the lead contractor developing the Medium Extended Air Defense System for Germany, which recently selected Meads over the Raytheon Patriot missile defense system.

Turkish Aerospace Industries has chosen the Light Helicopter Turbine Engine Company’s (LHTEC) CTS800 turboshaft as the powerplant for Turkey’s twin-engine indigenous utility helicopter program.

The missile market is growing. Bill Sweetman details some of the latest trends in the air-to-air, surface-to-air and loitering attack segments.

A roundup of orders and announcements from day 3 of the Paris air show, courtesy of SpeedNews

Hazy said a stretch of around six meters would allow Airbus to accommodate up to six additional rows on both the lower and upper deck.

Airbus and Boeing need to increase output of narrowbody jets to burn off massive backlogs, but lofty production rates the two airframers are talking about probably cannot be sustained over the long run, says the CEO of U.K.-based aerostructures suppliers GKN Aerospace.