Singapore Airlines (SIA) is looking to operate its first Airbus A380 around December 2006. “Based on the latest indications from Airbus, [the first A380] will not be delivered to us earlier than late November next year,” says SIA chief executive Chew Choon Seng. “If so, we will not put the aircraft into service before Christmas.”
Source: Airline Business
GE Aerospace in 2025 plans to use two of the world’s fastest computers, both at US-government-funded research facilities, to study how its open-fan engine concept will integrate with an aircraft’s wings and other structures.
Developing novel propulsion technologies has proven more challenging than expected, leaving Embraer’s chief engineer now predicting his team would need until 2040 to bring a hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered aircraft to market.
German turboprop manufacturer Deutsche Aircraft is justifying an ambitious outlook for its D328eco, arguing that there are fewer rival manufacturers pursuing the primary markets. Deutsche Aircraft, in its latest full-year financial statement, says its planning for the D328eco “assumes” sales of 1,000 aircraft, based on various market studies – a ...
