All aerospace news – Page 379
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Thales takes on light helicopter avionics challenge
HAI Heli-Expo visitors will get a fresh look at Thales’s vision of the future of rotorcraft cockpit technology, a development project which is building enough momentum to be scheduled for possible certification in 2020.
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News
Air France-KLM agrees partnership for line maintenance in China
Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance has partnered Beijing General Aviation to set up line maintenance operations in the Chinese capital.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Snyder charts course for innovation at Bell
As one employee of Bell Helicopter puts it: “Having the right leader at the right time is what makes a business successful. We really think with Mitch that he’s the right person for the next stage of our development.”
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News
HELI-EXPO: Universal vision for integrated avionics may be in sight
Deep within the cavernous Dallas Convention Center during Heli-Expo in early March, Universal Avionics will display the mock-up of its InSight integrated avionics suite in an exhibit booth adjacent to MD Helicopters, the aircraft manufacturer that lined up four years ago to be the first customer for the avionics vendor’s ...
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Opinion
OPINION: Why safety pays on helicopter programmes
Aerospace, by nature, is an industry of extremes. Costs are huge, technical and financial risks severe. Timescales are long, business cycles fierce. Political winds can be fair or very foul.
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News
Labour costs central to location for MTU-LHT overhaul venture
Labour costs will be the factor that determines the location of MTU's planned overhaul joint venture with Lufthansa Technik.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Airbus hits stride in Mobile as political winds turn in its favour
Four years and four months before Donald Trump rode a wave of industrial nationalism to the White House, Airbus decided to plant a factory in Mobile, Alabama, to deliver A320-family aircraft to US customers. In retrospect, that fateful announcement looks, well, prescient.
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News
PICTURES: Qantas unveils new 787 premium economy seat
Qantas has revealed the new premium economy seat that will be fitted to its Boeing 787-9s, which it says offer more recline and width over its current offering.
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P&W develops plan to exceed GTF 2017 delivery targets
Pratt & Whitney has an internal plan to exceed delivery targets for the geared turbofan GTF) engine family this year after falling short of the objective in 2016, says chief executive Greg Hayes of P&W parent United Technologies.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Helicopter market still suffering, but new products may provide stimulus
Everybody in the rotorcraft industry knew that 2016 would be a difficult year, but last January you could still discern traces of optimism; the first green shoots of recovery would soon be visible, they said.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Downturn in offshore helicopter sector may be bottoming out: Flight Ascend Consultancy
The downturn in the oil and gas sector that has seen deliveries and values of large and medium helicopter types plummet in the past two years may be bottoming out – but any recovery is likely to be at least a year away, believes Flight Ascend Consultancy.
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News
VIDEO: A320 family first flights
When an Airbus flight test crew took the A320 to the sky for the first time, they must have known they were flying a special aircraft. For sure, as this video shows, that 1987 sortie was a sight to behold. But what must have surprised even its flight crew and ...
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: How Airbus is managing A320's production transition
Airbus has not quite reached the point of declaring: “The A320 is dead – long live the A320neo,” but the transition to the re-engined version is accelerating and the backlog for the original model of its first single-aisle aircraft is rapidly diminishing.
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News
GMF AeroAsia to build hangar in Batam
GMF AeroAsia has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Batam Industrial Development Authority to develop the city’s Hang Nadim International airport for MRO purposes.
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ATR opens Miami training center to fix pilot shortage
ATR today opened a new pilot training centre in Miami as part of a wider effort to address a global pilot shortage problem that lately has become an "impediment to growth" for the turboprop manufacturer.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: How A320 changed the world for commercial pilots
As the world’s first digital fly-by-wire (FBW) airliner, Airbus Industrie’s A320 was positioned to bring commercial flying and flight management into the 21st century when it was rolled out in 1987.
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News
Boeing rolls out 787-10 in politically charged ceremony
Boeing formally introduced the first 787-10 on 17 February in North Charleston, South Carolina, in a strikingly political ceremony led by US president Donald Trump.
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NewsUnited debuts new Polaris business class
United Airlines debuted its new Polaris business class seats on domestic flights this week, as it prepares for a rapid roll-out of the hard product on flights from its San Francisco hub.
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News
Bombardier recovery in 'full motion' with 2016 results
The first year of Bombardier’s five-year recovery plan ended as promised, with the Canadian manufacturer recording a $981 million net loss overall, including a $903 million loss before interest and taxes in the Commercial Aircraft division.
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Paid contentINSIGHT FROM FLIGHTGLOBAL: V1EWPoint - a review of 2016 and how this year will be different
At first glance, 2017 looks like it will be a tough year. Demand outlook indicators have largely turned from green to amber as we see the potential slowing of the demand cycle. Traffic growth will also be lower in 2017 than 2016, with Airlines facing cost increases from fuel prices ...