Paris Air Show

A roundup of news from Day 3 at the air show.

The first NH90 fitted with Saab’s Tactical Mission System is due to be delivered to Sweden before the end of the year.

Simulated training appears to be an idea very much in tune with affordability and cost reduction goals.

Our roundup of airplane orders announced on day 2 of the Paris air show.

The team agreement was finalized last week and announced at the Paris Air Show.

Airbus Helicopters, Vector Aerospace and Rockwell Collins have announced an agreement to equip vintage Airbus AS332 Mk1 Puma helicopters with Rockwell Collins Pro Line Fusion avionics kits.

As the Paris Air Show wraps up, Avio will be ready for a new milestone: the fifth launch of its Vega, to send a Sentinel 2 satellite into orbit on June 23.

Some exhibitors are giving away pens on their booths, but Satair Group has a more novel form of aide memoire of your visit: a miniature, future Airbus airliner produced by 3-D printer.

Could this be the exhibition at which the British surveillance aircraft meets a willing sponsor? After three decades, the economics still make sense.

SMBC ordered 60 LEAP-1A engines and 20 LEAP-1B engines for 10 additional 737 MAX aircraft. The order is worth $1.16 billion.

Finmeccanica continues to push ahead with its industrial plan and reduce costs.

Confirmed: France will be the Feature Country at the Singapore Air Show, 2016.

ATR will most likely not set a new sales record this year and the start of 2015 has been “challenging,” CEO Patrick de Castelbajac acknowledged.

Current and future European operators will be able to conduct pilot and sensor-operator qualifications without leaving the continent.

Introducing helmet-mounted displays for business jets.

The winners of Aviation Week's Top-Performing Companies study were recognized Tuesday at Aviation Week Network’s Paris AIr Show chalet.

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.

The airline plans to discontinue services to Stavanger, Norway; Vigo, Spain; Verona, Italy; and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and has decided to fly smaller aircraft less frequently to destinations in Japan, Russia and Brazil.

The five largest European airline groups are in the process of defining the details of a new industry-lobbying body that would supersede current organizations, industry sources tell Aviation Daily.

Airbus comes to this year’s Paris air show with mixed fortunes.

The carrier is investing about $2 billion in the CSeries, which Hohmeister said is “a quite heavy investment for a small airline like Swiss.”

It’s an exciting time for engine makers with the Bombardier CSeries, Airbus A320neo and Mitsubishi MRJ all undergoing flight tests with new powerplants. Larger engines are also being built for the the Airbus A350-1000 and Boeing 777X.

Development of revolutionary engines at GE Aviation is setting the stage for the next 50 years in military aircraft propulsion, engineers there believe.

As developer and producer of the Antares core stage, Yuzhnoye is working toward a March 2016 Antares launch, which is expected to carry Orbital ATK’s Cygnus cargo vessel to the International Space Station (ISS) under a $1.9 billion fixed-price agreement with NASA to haul 20,000 kg (44,000 lb.) to the orbiting outpost by the end of 2017.

Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed, though Arianespace said it expects to remain an independent company, with plans to keep its Evry, France-based headquarters, launch facilities in French Guiana and offices in Washington, Singapore and Tokyo.