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  • Airbus E-Fan X Demonstrator
    Analysis

    E-Fan X hybrid project edges towards system integration

    2020-01-23T16:50:00Z

    Airbus has started preparing a BAE Systems Avro RJ100 for installation of an experimental hybrid-electric propulsion system later this year, as part of the joint E-Fan X technology project with Rolls-Royce.

  • 737 Max Leap-1B
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    737 Max engine software revised to address icing thrust loss

    2020-01-23T08:53:00Z

    Boeing 737 Max operators are to be instructed to update engine-control software to address a loss of thrust issue, attributed to icing, on the type’s CFM International Leap-1B powerplants. At least two occurrences have been investigated which Leap-1Bs suffered temporary loss of thrust control as a result of icing in ...

  • 777X-3 Being unveiling 031319-2 Boeing
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    Boeing delays 777X’s first sortie owing to weather

    2020-01-23T05:28:00Z

    The maiden flight of the Boeing 777X will be postponed owing to poor weather conditions around the company’s Everett, Washington production facility. “We are postponing the 777X first flight that was scheduled to take place tomorrow, Jan. 23, due to weather,” says the company. “The team is currently assessing the ...

  • 737 Max
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    Boeing plans to restart 737 production ‘months’ before midyear: CEO

    2020-01-23T02:45:00Z

    Boeing intends to restart 737 Max production several months before midyear and ahead of the Max’s return to service, meaning production could start humming again within three months, Boeing chief executive David Calhoun says on 22 January.

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    Boeing to take another ‘clean sheet’ to NMA with focus on pilots

    2020-01-23T02:19:00Z

    Boeing is taking a fresh look at the design of its so-called New Mid-market Airplane due to changes in the global aviation market and heightened focus on pilot-aircraft interactions.

  • Compass Embraer 175 Delta
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    ​Regional aircraft lessors and OEMs see unfulfilled demand

    2020-01-23T01:03:00Z

    Demand for leased regional aircraft is “unfulfilled” and the market offers “unique opportunities” for investors, according to panel participants at the Airline Economics Growth Frontiers conference in Dublin. During the webcasted session, Chorus Aviation Capital president Steven Ridolfi highlighted “real demand for leases in the regional aircraft space that is ...

  • SAA tail
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    SAA should be retained and restructured: ruling party

    2020-01-22T18:27:00Z

    South Africa’s ruling political party insists that embattled South African Airways should be restructured and retained as the country’s flag-carrier. The African National Congress made the declaration following strategy meetings of its national executive council over 17-20 January. It states that SAA should be “retained as a national airline” but ...

  • United 737 Max 9 970x550
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    United says it does not expect to fly 737 Max this summer

    2020-01-22T18:21:00Z

    United Airlines is not planning for the Boeing 737 Max’s return to service this summer, making it the first airline to announce it will operate without the aircraft during a second peak travel season.

  • UIA 737 crash in Iran
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    Flight Safety Foundation considers calling for regional accident investigation bureaus

    2020-01-22T18:16:00Z

    The Flight Safety Foundation thinks that creating new, regionally based aircraft crash investigation teams could help bring impartiality and expertise to crash probes that might otherwise be hamstrung by politics, bias and technical inexperience.

  • Air France A319
    News

    Fuel indicator flaw led to A319’s single-engine landing

    2020-01-22T17:37:00Z

    French investigators have disclosed that an Air France Airbus A319 was forced to make a single-engine landing at Paris Charles de Gaulle after an undetected indicator fault resulted in partial fuel exhaustion. Investigation authority BEA – which analysed the 12 March 2014 event – says pilots operating a series of ...

  • BA A350-1000
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    British Airways checks newest A350-1000 after Tel Aviv hard landing

    2020-01-22T10:19:00Z

    British Airways is expecting to put a four-week old Airbus A350-1000 back into service on 23 January, after precautionary checks following a hard landing at Tel Aviv. The aircraft (G-XWBD) had registered the abnormal landing as the aircraft touched down on runway 12 at about 05:30 on 20 January, following ...

  • Bek Air F100
    News

    Bek Air defends operations after regulator’s safety accusations

    2020-01-22T09:01:00Z

    Grounded Kazakh operator Bek Air is continuing to defend its operations and practices after being slated by the country’s regulator in the aftermath of the fatal Fokker 100 accident at Almaty. Bek Air is accusing Kazakhstan’s aviation administration of proving “strained and biased” remarks about the airline’s procedures and safety ...

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    Airline Business

    Coronavirus outbreak follows years of strong airline traffic growth at Wuhan airport

    2020-01-22T08:02:00Z

    The Wuhan Coronavirus outbreak in China comes after years of strong traffic growth from Wuhan Tianhe International airport, which serves dozens of domestic and international destinations. Media reports about the outbreak indicate that reported cases have risen to over 440 with nine fatalities being recorded. The virus, which is in ...

  • Avic MA700
    News

    MA700 tipped for late-2020 first flight

    2020-01-22T07:41:00Z

    Avic’s new turboprop programme, the MA700, has entered its final production phase, with the airframer targeting a maiden sortie by this year. According to a report by state news agency Xinhua, the first MA700 is expected to roll off the production line by the middle of the year. State-owned Avic ...

  • GECAS A320neo
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    GECAS sees soft landing for airline earnings in 2020

    2020-01-22T01:30:00Z

    GECAS believes industry earnings may decline slightly into 2020, but positive wider economic conditions and strong passenger demand for air travel will prevent any significant drop.

  • Etihad 787-9
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    Etihad training arm wins EASA approval to train 777/787 pilots

    2020-01-22T01:04:00Z

    Etihad Airways’ training unit has received European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) approval to train Boeing 777 and 787 pilots on behalf of airlines based in Europe and those outside the continent which follow its safety standards. Etihad Aviation Training, which has 11 full-motion simulators including five 777 and 787 ...

  • 737 Max line - Boeing
    News

    Boeing now expects mid-year certification of 737 Max

    2020-01-21T20:57:00Z

    The FAA says it has set no timeframe for when the certification work will be finished.

  • TK1951 crash
    News

    Dutch reject notion of US pressure during Turkish 737 crash probe

    2020-01-21T19:50:00Z

    Investigators from the Netherlands have defended their inquiry into a Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-800 crash near Amsterdam, after suggestions that the final report into the accident was watered-down in response to US remarks. The Dutch Safety Board, in its response, has published in full a human-factors analysis which contributed to ...

  • Boeing 777-9 test run
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    Boeing schedules first 777X flight for 23 January

    2020-01-21T17:00:00Z

    Boeing has scheduled the 777X’s maiden sortie for 23 January, an event that will finally kick off the revamped widebody’s delayed flight-test programme and potentially keep the airframer on track to begin deliveries in early 2021.

  • 737 damage-1
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    Two anti-aircraft missiles fired from north towards UIA 737: inquiry

    2020-01-21T10:59:00Z

    Iranian investigators have disclosed that two missiles from a Tor-M1 anti-aircraft system were fired before the loss of a Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 shortly after departure from Tehran. The Civil Aviation Organisation states that secondary radar contact with flight PS752 was initially lost at 06:15, about 3min after take-off, ...