All Aircraft programmes articles – Page 115
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ANALYSIS: Investment a family value for Italy's Secondo Mona
Secondo Mona’s directors believe the €40 million ($48 million) that the family-run aerospace manufacturer has invested in technology in the past decade has paid off. An array of new equipment and the addition of specialist competencies have helped the engineering firm double revenues over that period and shift up a ...
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Ground incident leaves Airlander deflated
Hybrid Air Vehicles is staying silent on the impact of an 18 November incident in which its Airlander experimental airship collapsed during a ground incident at the UK firm's base at Cardington airfield.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: How do you replace a first-generation A330?
Richard Evans, senior consultant at Flight Ascend Consultancy, considers the possible successors to the Airbus’s ubiquitous twinjet
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AnalysisANALYSIS: How Airbus’s first big twin blossomed into the A330neo
Whisper it, but the recent first flight of a second-generation Airbus A330, the re-engined -900, was tantalisingly close to the 25th anniversary of the twinjet’s maiden sortie on 2 November 1992. Understandably, Airbus hasn’t made much of this historic milestone, but the fact is that the aircraft’s continuing appeal in ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Late surge gives Dubai deal momentum
A glut of tentative aircraft order commitment announcements on the final day pushed business unveiled during the Dubai air show to a new high, though just 15% of the roughly 800 aircraft covered by announcements are for firm deals.
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Austrian to bid farewell to its last Fokker in December
Austrian Airlines plans to operate its last remaining Fokker 100 until the end of the year.
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DUBAI: EgyptAir plans to firm CS300 order before January
EgyptAir intends to finalise a commitment to order 12 Bombardier CS300s by year-end and become the type's launch operator in the Middle East and North Africa region, the Canadian manufacturer disclosed today at the Dubai air show.
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DUBAI: Emirates seeks assurances over A380 continuity
Emirates is unlikely to conclude an Airbus A380 agreement during the Dubai air show, as the two sides continue a chicken-and-egg wrangle over commitments to the double-deck aircraft's production line.
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Analysis
DUBAI: Boeing 787-10 data snapshot
With Emirates announcing a $15.1 billion commitment for 40 Boeing 787-10s, we examine the firm-order status for the largest Dreamliner with data from Flights Fleets Analyzer.
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DUBAI: Orbis Flying Eye Hospital in it for the long-haul
Among the aircraft at the Dubai air show sits a special Boeing MD-10 that has been converted into a hospital to deliver sight-saving surgeries and training for doctors in developing countries.
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ANALYSIS: GE9X on track to enter flight testing
GE Aviation’s Boeing 747-400 flying testbed in Victorville, California, is ready to receive the first GE9X test engine.
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FLIGHT TEST: Embraer's KC-390 an airlift jet-setter
Test pilot Michael Gerzanics puts Embraer's KC-390 transport/tanker through its paces and asks: how does it fare against Lockheed Martin's long-established C-130 Hercules?
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DUBAI: CFM starts closing Leap-1 delivery gap
CFM International expects to close a delivery gap for the Leap-1 engine family by the second quarter of next year as the manufacturer works to address a spreading technical problem within the engine.
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DUBAI: Bombardier still discussing Q400 outsourcing
Bombardier still wants to outsource major structural work for the Q400 to factories outside Canada, but discussions with potential partners remain ongoing, the company's top commercial aircraft executive has disclosed.
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DUBAI: Boeing achieves 90% drawing milestone on 777-9
Boeing reached the 90% engineering drawing release milestone with the 777-9 on 7 November, vice-president and 777X general manager Eric Lindblad has disclosed.
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DUBAI: Tariffs won't apply to US-assembled CSeries – Cromer
Bombardier intends to start building a $300 million aircraft factory in Alabama immediately after the CSeries joint venture's sale to Airbus closes – and CS100s delivered to US customers from that facility will not be subject to a possible import tariff, predicts the president of the Canadian airframer's commercial aircraft ...
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DUBAI: Proposed 767 revival 'nothing more than a study' – Boeing
Boeing has given an indication that airlines interested in reviving production of passenger-carrying 767s should not get their hopes up just yet.
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DUBAI: CS300 on show after Airbus acquisition
Bombardier is displaying a CS300 at the show adorned in the livery of European customer Air Baltic, in the airframer's first major exhibition since agreeing to divest the CSeries programme to Airbus.