Paris Air Show

Clean Aviation structures a large part of the European effort toward future aeronautics, while research and technology are involved in early testing.

As climate concerns grow, at the heart of the controversy is whether business aviation operations are actually for business or leisure.

Spanish companies are playing leading roles in developing the sixth-gen Future Combat Air System sensor suite, low-observability features and remote carriers.

Across France, Germany and Spain, engineers from 15 companies and consortia are working on the sixth-generation Future Combat Air System.

European carriers say they need support, not constraints, to help them decarbonize.

Boeing bags first-of-its-kind Airbus A320 support contract.

By the middle of the Paris show week, the order tally had climbed to more than 325, including 100 from United Airlines.

Unwilling to take more risks on a program that may fail, Emirates asks Airbus for a clear answer on the A380's future.

As part of a tradeoff for reduced deliveries, the French Air Force gets a pumped-up combat aircraft.

Airbus Helicopters’ Clean Sky 2 high-speed rotorcraft uses radical box-wing and pusher-propeller configuration.

With a clear niche identified in the company’s product lineup between the 737 single-aisle family and its bigger jets, Boeing is saying more than ever about the gap-filling NMA.

As Boeing dribbled out concept details, the Paris Air Show was rife with speculation about plans for the company’s New Mid-size Airplane. We discuss the NMA’s market potential, design details and what airlines are saying they want.

Turkish Aerospace Industries is making its presence felt at Le Bourget this year, with a static display of its fixed and rotary-wing products and the international flying display debut of the company’s Hurkus turboprop trainer.

Less than two months after making its debut in Istanbul, Turkish Aerospace Industries has brought the mockup of its T625 utility helicopter to Le Bourget.

Poland and Bahrain have expressed interest, but it seems likely that the first customer could be Pakistan.

Airbus will fit new fixed and deployable combined flight data and voice recorders as standard on long-range aircraft starting in 2019 in a bid to make it easier to find aircraft wreckage in the event of an accident over the sea.

After years of difficulties, the hangars at the Bedek MRO division of Israeli Aircraft Industries are full and faces are smiling.

After putting it into service just a few weeks ago, the world’s largest aero-engine manufacturer is thrilled with the performance of one of the world’s smallest business jets.

“I want to know what Airbus will do with the aircraft,” Emirates Airline President Tim Clark said on the sidelines of the Paris Air Show.

Modeled after the GE-Safran CFM aircraft engine joint venture, the Nexcelle partners “mesh together very well,” says the unit’s president, Kenneth Onderko.

Kawasaki’s big light blue P-1 maritime patrol aircraft has taken center stage at the Paris Air Show, marking its debut at a major international trade show, and the first time a Japanese military aircraft has visited Le Bourget.

With the international debut of the joint Saudi-Ukrainian Antonov An-132D airlifter here at Paris, Saudi officials believe there may be a need for as many as 100 aircraft in the Kingdom.

From the F-35’s first Paris aerial display, the emergence of Asian players, the potential end of the A380 program . . . and a few tidbits on Boeing’s new midsize airplane, listen in to a lively debate as our team on the ground discuss the main events at the Paris Air Show.

Thales Alenia Space is to take a “minority stake” in Airstar Aerospace, a company with know-how in balloon envelopes, in a bid to advance its Stratobus telecommunications airship project.

The proliferation of MANPADS – man-portable air defense systems – increased dramatically in recent years, leaking from collapsed nations (Libya, for example) and from radicals sponsored by rough nations (Iran and North Korea, to mention few of the most obvious). As MANPADS are available for sale on the black market, they appear in conflict zones throughout the world, as well as in the hands of criminal organizations. The growing threat drives military and government agencies to turn to proven countermeasures to protect their air.