All air transport news – Page 550
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SINGAPORE: Bombardier promotes special mission aircraft
Bombardier foresees a big market in the Asia-Pacific region for its Challenger series of aircraft modified for special operations missions.
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SINGAPORE: Lessors keeping faith in CSeries – Bombardier
Lessors that have ordered the CSeries remain confident in the product despite the low numbers of airline customers, says Bombardier.
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SINGAPORE: Comac works to optimise ARJ21
Comac says it is working to optimise its ARJ21 regional jet, and that changes could be incorporated into production aircraft within the next two to three years.
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SINGAPORE: Rolls-Royce launches enhanced Trent XWB
Rolls-Royce has launched an enhanced version of its Trent XWB engine, with Singapore Airlines (SIA) as the first customer.
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SINGAPORE: Avation to focus new ATRs on Asia-Pacific, Europe
Avation is looking to place the additional five ATR 72-600s it has ordered in Asia-Pacific and Europe when they are delivered in 2017 and 2018.
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Infographic: The single-aisle battle is heating up between Airbus and Boeing
The single-aisle battle is intensifying as Airbus A320neo deliveries begin and A321neo trials start, while Boeing's 737 Max has just taken to the air. We scrutinise their sales story using Flightglobal's Fleets Analyzer.
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SINGAPORE: MRJ pushes ahead, confident of 2018 EIS
Mitsubishi Aircraft says it has incorporated all known risks into the MRJ regional jet’s schedule, and that it is confident of delivering the first aircraft in mid-2018.
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SINGAPORE: A330neo passes detailed design review
Airbus’s re-engined A330neo has passed its detailed design review, some six months after concept freeze.
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SINGAPORE: Israeli companies market debris and wildlife aviation protection systems
Israel's Controp is teaming with Pharovision to provide adapted electro-optical/infrared sensors for two new aviation safety systems.
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SINGAPORE: Extra assembly stations to handle A350 ramp-up
Airbus has completed an extension of its final assembly line at Toulouse which will be used for A350 ramp-up and integration of the -1000 variant of the twinjet.
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SINGAPORE: Rolls-Royce begins building 100th Trent XWB-84
Rolls-Royce has begun building its 100th Trent XWB-84 as it prepares to ramp up production from three to five engines a week for the Airbus A350 by the end of the year.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Ascend highlights what to watch for in the rest of 2016
Richard Evans, senior consultant with Flightglobal’s advisory arm Ascend, here shares some of the indicators and issues the team will be keeping a close eye on as 2016 wears on – and explains what they may mean for the health of the industry
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SINGAPORE: Airbus seals in-depth MRO pact for SIA A380s
Singapore Airlines has reached a flight-hour services maintenance agreement with Airbus covering the carrier’s A380 fleet.
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SINGAPORE: P&W opens fan blade manufacturing facility
Pratt & Whitney has opened its first manufacturing facility in Singapore to produce fan blades and other key components for its PW1000G geared-turbofan (GTF) engine family.
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SINGAPORE: Kallman, AIA sign air show pact
Exhibition firm Kallman Worldwide has signed a memorandum of agreement (MoA) with the leading aviation trade body in the United States, the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA), aimed at boosting the US presence at international air shows.
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Opinion
OPINION: Can NASA's new X-planes transform aviation?
It was the golden age of flight experimentation when Scott Crossfield arrived at Edwards AFB, California, in 1950. The soon-to-be legendary test pilot likened the atmosphere to an “Indianapolis 500 without rules”, as each flight attempted something – a speed, an altitude or some combination – that no human had ...
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SINGAPORE: Government sees OEMs deepening regional supply chain
Singapore’s Economic Development Board (EDB) sees OEMs increasingly broadening their supply chains to Southeast Asia, in an an effort to be closer to what will amount to the world's fourth largest economy.
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SINGAPORE: Aviage, Roketsan among newcomers at 2016 show
The Singapore Airshow this year has attracted several new aerospace firms in 2016, while retaining 75% of the companies that participated in 2014.
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SINGAPORE: MRJ misses Singapore air show
Mitsubishi Aircraft has decided not to bring its MRJ regional jet to the Singapore air show, to allow the aircraft to focus on its test programme.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Seletar – Singapore's home of aerospace
Singapore's Changi airport may be the premier passenger hub for Southeast Asia, but the smaller Seletar airport is staking its claim as the region's hub for the aerospace industry.