All Airframers articles – Page 193
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Airbus expects to park around 30 engineless A320neos
Airbus is intending to open its latest final assembly line at Hamburg next month, advancing its preparation to hike the A320 monthly production rate to 60 in two years' time.
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VIDEO: Paris air show static display
This video captures the stunning static display at the Paris air show, including the Boeing 737 Max 9, Airbus A350-1000 and the Lockheed Martin F-35.
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PARIS: Embraer eyes turboprop for notional 'E3' programme
Embraer has again hinted at its interest in a potential future turboprop development, but insists the E-Jet range will remain its core focus, whatever it eventually produces as the "E3".
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PARIS: Viking targets China, Russia with Twin Otter
Viking Air's latest version of its Twin Otter, the DHC-6-400, stopped at Le Bourget this week before resuming a delivery flight to Africa.
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Paid contentINSIGHT FROM CAE: 255,000 new airline pilots needed in the next decade
With 1.6 billion additional passengers taking to the skies over the next ten years, airlines around the world will be faced with an increasing demand for new airline pilots. This growth will challenge current pilot recruitment channels and development programs worldwide.
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PARIS: Hybrid Air Vehicles set to fly Airlander at Farnborough
Hybrid Air Vehicles is making its Paris debut but the first air show appearance of its radical Airlander hybrid airship is set to be at Farnborough next year, with the start-up keen to make the world's largest aircraft one of the stars of that show.
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PARIS: Embraer's Slattery confident on 'marquee' customers
Embraer Commercial Aviation chief John Slattery is in bullish mood about the sales prospects for its E-Jet E2 family, after the firm unveiled orders and commitments worth over $3 billion at the show on Tuesday.
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PARIS: MRJ test pilot lauds aircraft's pitch control
Mitsubishi Aircraft test pilot Captain Akira Udagawa believes the smooth handling of the MRJ regional jet makes it stand out among its peers.
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NewsPARIS: Lessor Stellwagen orders 12 C295 transports
Stellwagen Group has signed for 12 C295 medium transports, with manufacturer Airbus Defence & Space describing the agreement as a "pioneering deal".
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PARIS: How many laptop batteries could power a 747 to takeoff?
Although there is lot of talk these days about electronic aircraft, technology required to develop a large electric transport aircraft remains more than elusive.
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PARIS: Autonomy and supersonics among Boeing research pursuits
Boeing is back in the moonshot business.
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PARIS: GKN Fokker to complete Dutch head of state BBJ
GKN’s Fokker business is to design and carry out the completion on the Dutch government’s new Boeing Business Jet.
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PARIS: Irkut explores MC-21 wing configurations
Russian airframer Irkut has tested various configurations of the MC-21's high-lift devices during its latest flight.
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PARIS: Daher eyes US expansion opportunities
Daher is a long-established business from over here with big ambitions over there. The Paris-headquartered family firm – whose roots stretch back to the 19th century and with a portfolio that spans aerostructures and aircraft parts, supply chain management and the TBM turboprop – is at its home show to ...
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AerFin takes last three A340s from Cathay
UK-based teardown specialist AerFin has taken delivery of the last three Airbus A340-300s from Cathay Pacific, marking the retirement of the type from the airline's fleet.
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PARIS: Momentum building behind 3D printing
Airbus’s 3D printing technology business has teamed up with software house Dassault Systemes to streamline the process for designing and series manufacture of flight-approved metal parts – which could help bring printed structural components inside airliner cabins within a year.
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PARIS: An-132 draws on long history, opens new international cooperation
One of this year’s Paris debutants has a familiar look, but is an almost entirely new aircraft, albeit one developed from a long pedigree of light transport aircraft.
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PARIS: Airbus shelves further A350 stretch
Airbus's management has given its firmest indication that it is shelving a proposed further stretch of the A350.
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PARIS: Diamond to deliver first Dart-450s this year
Diamond Aircraft is displaying a duo of Paris debutantes, with its Dart-450 and surveillance-roled DA62 MPP both attracting significant interest.
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PARIS: Boeing partially unveils New Midsize Airplane concept
Boeing partially unveiled a New Midsize Airplane (NMA) concept with a 787-like composite wing and fuselage, a likely narrower wingspan than the Dreamliner and, for the first time, what the company calls a "hybrid cross-section".