All Aircraft programmes articles – Page 171
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OpinionOPINION: How feasible is a 757 replacement?
There would have to be a market of at least 2,000 aircraft to prompt one of the big airframers to launch a product to fill the middle-of-the-market gap between their largest narrowbodies and smallest twin-aisles, Flightglobal's Ascend consultancy concludes in a new white paper.
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NewsPARIS: CSeries ferry flight operated 'typical airliner' profile
Bombardier's CSeries operated at "typical airliner" cruise speeds for its first transatlantic flights to make its appearance at Le Bourget, test pilot Mark Elliott has revealed.
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NewsPARIS: Bombardier unveils improved CSeries performance
Executives at Bombardier took the offensive on the Sunday before the 2015 Paris Air Show, announcing that the company’s flagship CSeries aircraft will have even better performance than the company had previously predicted.
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NewsPARIS: CFM prepares for first Leap deliveries to Comac
CFM International president Jean-Paul Ebanga has confirmed that the manufacturer will in the next few weeks deliver the first two engines to China's Comac for the C919 flight-test programme.
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OpinionOPINION: Rate 60 – a narrowbody rate too far?
Airline traffic will need to keep growing aggressively to the end of the decade to absorb production rates of 60 narrowbodies a month by each of the big two manufacturers.
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PARIS: Lockheed Martin to make its civil simulator presence felt
This year’s Paris air show will see Lockheed Martin (LM) adding its brand name to the increasingly competitive market for simulators serving civil airline crew training needs.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Gardner invests in France to be closer to the customer
The Airbus supply chain may span the globe, but pure logistics mean many of the companies producing large sections or components of Airbus aircraft are near its factories. Airia makes the forward structure of the A350’s pylon in Mazeres in the south west of France. “The section is six to ...
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NewsPARIS: CFM expects Leap-1A certification in 'coming weeks'
CFM International plans to wrap up certification testing "within the coming weeks" for the Airbus A320neo-family's Leap-1A turbofan option after completing a milestone test on 13 June, the engine maker's executive vice-president Allen Paxson has disclosed.
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NewsPARIS: Superjet International confident of securing further Western customers
Superjet International is again at Paris in its quest to secure a second Western customer for the Sukhoi Superjet.
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NewsA330neo enters detailed design phase
Airbus’s re-engined A330neo has achieved the concept freeze point of its development, enabling detailed design work to start.
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NewsFirst A350-1000 for Qatar achieves definition freeze
Qatar Airways’ first Airbus A350-1000 has reached the stage of contractual definition freeze.
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NewsPICTURE: A380 shows off illuminated decal technology
One of Airbus’s A380 test aircraft has demonstrated a new electro-luminescent display technology designed for external use on aircraft.
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Airbus and Aerospace Valley foster eco-innovation
A programme to foster innovation created by Airbus and the Aerospace Valley industry R&D cluster in France’s Aquitaine and Midi-Pyrénées regions has selected a group of four projects to support, following a 2014 call for ideas that attracted 59 applications.
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NewsPICTURE: CSeries appears in Swiss livery
Bombardier has painted one of its CSeries flight-test aircraft in the colour scheme of the type's launch customer Swiss.
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NewsFirst A321neo rolls out for test-equipment installation
Airbus has completed the initial assembly work on its first A321neo at its German Hamburg Finkenwerder plant.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: How will Boeing fill a 757-sized hole?
What kind of aircraft should occupy the yawning gap in size and capability that separates a 180-seat 737 Max 9 with a range of 3,600nm (6,670km) from a 7,850nm-range, 242-seat Boeing 787-8?
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IATA: Walsh calls for investigation into MRO practices
IAG chief Willie Walsh, speaking in a panel discussion yesterday at the AGM, called on airlines, in partnership with IATA, to put the microscope on restrictive practices in the maintenance world.
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NewsIATA: Airbus selling A330 on early availability rather than price
Airbus is taking advantage of its ability to offer early delivery slots to secure A330 deals as it transitions to the re-engined A330neo in 2017, but is not having to offer significant discounts to secure orders.
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IATA: Boeing bullish on single-aisles, eyes 757 successor
When it comes to re-engined narrowbodies, Boeing may trail Airbus by almost 1,000 orders – but the US manufacturer is confident it will recover ground when it comes to the all-important delivery cycle.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Boeing reinvests in 767 for freighter market
By any reasonable standard, Boeing's 767 has had a good run. The twin-engined widebody is approaching 35 years of uninterrupted serial production. It has outsold its smaller, narrowbody sibling, the 757, with 1,073 deliveries up to April 2015 and orders for 38 commercial freighters left in the backlog.