All Aircraft programmes articles – Page 150
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FARNBOROUGH: Show a pivotal moment for the new Leonardo
An air show debut for any company is a big moment, a sign that it has truly arrived. And to make that arrival at Farnborough is to announce its arrival on the grandest stage of all. However, in this case the business in question has a level of experience unmatched ...
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ANALYSIS: BAE Systems to stage Farnborough show of strength
As the UK prepares for a shock divorce from the European Union following its public’s Brexit vote, the implications for the nation’s major aerospace players include much uncertainty – but also potential opportunity.
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FARNBOROUGH: Boeing confirms technical feasibility of '777-10'
Boeing has confirmed that a stretch of the 777-9 is technically possible if customers express interest.
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PICTURES: Three new airliners make their Farnborough debuts
This year’s show sees three new airliners make their Farnborough debut – two of which are being displayed to the public for the first time.
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FARNBOROUGH: South Carolina factory evolving into familiar Boeing facility
A hunk of yellow scaffolding labeled “scrap” in spray paint sat abandoned outside the 787 aft-body assembly building, no doubt waiting for a few of Boeing’s 8,000 workers in North Charleston, South Carolina to haul it away.
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NewsFARNBOROUGH: Irkut designs global competitor with MC-21, but hurdles remain
Go back in time to March 2008. What if Bombardier never launched the CSeries aircraft family with Pratt & Whitney’s geared turbofan engines? What if Airbus never responded two years later by deciding to re-engine the A320? And what if Boeing wasn’t forced to respond to the A320neo a year ...
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Bombardier confirms CSeries wing could accommodate larger variant
Bombardier could use the existing CSeries wing without major changes if it were to develop an additional large model within the family.
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FARNBOROUGH: An exciting new chapter for the regional jet market
It has been a pivotal 12 months for the new wave of sub-100-seat jets. Two types powered by Pratt & Whitney’s geared turbofan PW1000G family – the Mitsubishi Regional Jet and the Embraer E2 – have embarked on flight test campaigns. In the last few weeks, Embraer’s successor to the ...
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FARNBOROUGH: CityJet flies the flag for Superjet International's SJ100 at show
At air shows past, Superjet International has given pride of place to an aircraft belonging to a carrier operating on the other side of the Atlantic. It had little choice: Mexico’s Interjet was its sole customer. But an airline flying much closer to home will be the face of the ...
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NewsBoeing selects E170 as next ecoDemonstrator
Boeing has selected the Embraer E170 regional jet to be the next platform in a series of flying testbeds for advanced technologies named ecoDemonstrators.
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PICTURE: Boeing's 737 Max arrives for Farnborough debut
The Boeing 737 Max 8 arrived at Farnborough on 6 July ahead of its debut at this year's international air show.
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FARNBOROUGH: Boeing bids to redeem in-service record with 787-9
Redemption is not a word often associated with the introduction of new aircraft models, but the entry into service of the 787-9 nearly two years ago was anything but a typical event.
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FARNBOROUGH: Bionic design emerges from Airbus 3D printers
Machining aircraft parts out of giant metal billets is time-consuming, wasteful of material and very expensive – but still, for the most part, necessary. Despite significant advances in the past two decades, autoclave-cured composite parts remain usually more expensive to build than metallic equivalents. Additive manufacturing – so-called 3D printing ...
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FARNBOROUGH: Airbus sets stage for A350-2000 launch decision
Only one piece remains missing in the long-term portfolios of Airbus and Boeing widebody products as the two companies enter the Farnborough air show – and it could remain purposefully obscure for at least a while longer.
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FARNBOROUGH: 787 - Rolls-Royce bang on the money with Trent plans
Boeing first flew the 787-8 in December 2009, but the first run of the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engine came almost four years before in February 2006. Now more than a decade old, the engine competition between R-R and the GE Aviation GEnx-1B is as intense as ever, with still unpredictable ...
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FARNBOROUGH: Proposed stretch of 737 Max 9 possible, but challenging
The nearly 50-year-old 737 airframe may have one more stretch left to give, but it will not be easy.
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FARNBOROUGH: Bombardier’s CSeries wing plant in Belfast readies for ramp-up
The UK may be where every Airbus wing is engineered and assembled, but in another part of the kingdom wing production is also critical to the prospects of the aerospace sector. With delivery of the first Bombardier CS100 to Swiss International Air Lines scheduled during Farnborough, and handover of the ...
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ANALYSIS: Automation leap on 777 hits growing pains
When Boeing executives decided to re-invent a critical element of the 777 production process two years ago, they knew it was going to be hard. Memories of the costly, three-and-a-half-year delayed entry of the 787 were still fresh around Everett, Washington.
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ANALYSIS: Middle of the Market is 'when', not 'if' at Boeing
Mike Delaney was named as head of Boeing’s four-year-old aircraft development organisation in April. The veteran Boeing executive immediately inherited a conceptual puzzle often called the “middle of the market (MoM)” study, a proposed aircraft family with widebody payload and range performance and, somehow, narrowbody economics.
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NewsBoeing selects iPad-like touch screens for 777X flightdeck
Future Boeing 777X airline pilots that will be able to interact with their flight information displays in the same way that they use their smart phones and tablets.