All Airframers articles – Page 152
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News
Rolls-Royce touts modernised Indiana factory for B-52 engine bid
Rolls-Royce plans to build its F130 turbine at a modernized factory in Indiana if selected by the US Air Force to replace the engines on the service’s fleet of Boeing B-52 bombers.
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Interview
INTERVIEW: Taking a lead at Aerogility
Alex Wenk is a technical lead and graduate trainer at Aerogility, a US-headquartered company that delivers maintenance scheduling systems to global civil and defence aerospace companies.
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Interview
INTERVIEW: Demonstrating the value of communication
Adam Konowe is vice-president of client strategy for US advertising and commuications agency TMP Worldwide. Konowe also teaches communications at American University in Washington DC, which he says "keeps me on my toes".
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AnalysisANALYSIS: How Aero Vodochody recharged the L-39
Most of the pilots who honed their combat skills in the Aero Vodochody L-39 Albatros single-engined jet trainer were defending the Soviet empire. The 21st century-born aviators who fly its successor – the L-39NG – will only know of the Cold War from history books.
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Interview
INTERVIEW: CR929 boss details progress, timeline
Sino-Russian joint venture CRAIC is “very close” to finalising the engine supplier for its CR929 widebody programme, with certification pushed back two years to 2027.
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News
Air Lease expects Airbus delays through 2020
Air Lease will continue to experience delays to its deliveries in 2019, management says.
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Spirit AeroSystems to do preliminary design of Aerion AS2’s fuselage
Spirit AeroSystems agreed to do the preliminary design work for the forward, pressurized fuselage of Aerion’s supersonic business jet, the AS2.
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Analysts call attention to cracks in widebody demand
Aerospace analysts are calling attention to indications of easing demand for widebody aircraft, with some suggesting manufacturers could eventually respond by trimming some production rates.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: How the NMA might prepare Boeing for a 737 replacement
Boeing's new mid-market airplane (NMA) concept may be much larger than a single aircraft programme.
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News
Leonardo opens Naples aerostructures R&D centre
Italian group Leonardo has opened a research and technology centre in Naples as part of an effort to boost the aerostructures business.
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OpinionOPINION: Boeing's Poseidon adventure pays off
In these days of huge order backlogs and soaring assembly rates for the air travel industry's narrowbody favourites, it could be hard to understand why the sector's giants would bother with adapting their jets to meet niche military requirements.
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Opinion
OPINION: Airbus lets head rule heart with A380 cancellation
Of all the days to be dumped, St Valentine's Day is probably the most painful. But prompted by Emirates cancelling most of its remaining orders, Airbus on 14 February finally let its head rule its heart, and said au revoir to commercial aerospace's biggest vanity project – an airliner more ...
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AEI gains STC for 737-800 freighter conversion
Miami-based Aeronautical Engineers Inc (AEI) has received supplemental type certification from the US Federal Aviation Administration for its Boeing 737-800 freighter conversion.
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Bombardier swings to $318m profit in 2018
Bombardier earned a $318 million profit in 2018, reversing a loss in 2017 thanks largely to strong performance of company's business aircraft and aero-structures divisions, which offset commercial aircraft losses.
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Clean Sky 2 to test hybrid laminar-flow demonstrators
European researchers are preparing a series of ground and flight tests to asses the viability of using fuel-saving hybrid laminar-flow technology on future large aircraft.
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Pentagon lays out F-35’s Tier II global repair network
The US Department of Defense roughly outlined the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II’s Tier II global repair network.
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USAF to struggle with novice aircraft maintainers for years
The US Air Force continues to struggle to keep and replace sufficient numbers of experienced and highly skilled aircraft maintainers.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: New era for Bombardier Belfast?
Thirty years after its transition from one of the UK’s last aircraft builders into a unit of Bombardier, the one-time Shorts factory in Belfast may be about to reinvent itself again. The flagship of the Canadian firm’s aerostructures business – which includes facilities in Canada, Mexico, Morocco and Wichita – ...
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Aerostructures pushes up Northern Ireland value chain
Northern Ireland has less than 3% of the population of the UK, yet of the four companies with the highest rating in a nationwide scheme to improve quality and competitiveness in the aerospace supply chain, two of them are in this corner of the British Isles. Investment agency Invest NI ...
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OpinionOPINION: Bombardier answers regional riddle with CRJ550
For quite some time, there has seemed to be no question for which the appropriate answer is "more CRJs".