All air transport news – Page 595
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Hexcel to build new composites plant for Airbus and CFM contracts
Carbonfibre materials specialist Hexcel is to cement its relationship with Airbus via a $250 million investment in production and quality control facilities at Roussillon in France.
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PICTURE: Vietnam Airlines' first A350 aircraft enters final assembly
Vietnam Airlines' first Airbus A350-900 has entered final assembly.
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DBJ ready to finance MRJ soon
Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) may soon start offering finance to customers of the Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) as it expands its aircraft financing business and the type gains more popularity.
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Airbus aims to line-fit A350 with lithium battery from 2016
Airbus is to work towards offering a lithium battery as the line-fit standard for its A350-900 from 2016, following certification of the type with nickel-cadmium cells.
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EASA certifies A350-900
Airbus has secured European certification for the A350-900 following a 15-month flight-test campaign comprising more than 2,600h.
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PICTURE: Air China receives Asia’s first Boeing 747-8I aircraft
Air China has taken delivery of its first Boeing 747-8I aircraft, making it the first Asian customer of the type.
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PICTURES: A350s fly in formation ahead of certification
All five aircraft in the Airbus A350-900 test fleet have taken part in a formation flight, ahead of certification of the type.
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ANALYSIS: From vision to world's most successful commercial engine: 40 years of CFM
It began with a casual encounter in Paris and has flourished into a 40-year marriage with a prodigiously successful offspring. CFM International – the union between the USA’s General Electric and France’s Snecma – is heading towards production of its 30,000th engine. But the joint venture’s start, back in the ...
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PICTURES: Air China receives Boeing 777-300ER in special livery
Air China has taken delivery of a specially liveried Boeing 777-300ER.
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Delta focused on A350-900 and 787-9 for widebody order
Delta Air Lines has narrowed down its options for a planned widebody order to either the Airbus A350-900 or the Boeing 787-9, says chief executive Richard Anderson.
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Air Berlin cancels 787 order
Air Berlin has cancelled all 15 of its on-order Boeing 787s, along with 18 737s.
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Macquarie orders up to 50 CS300s
The leasing arm of Macquarie AirFinance has signed a firm order for 40 Bombardier CS300 aircraft for delivery between 2017 and 2019.
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PICTURE: Eastern Air Lines firms up order for up to 40 MRJs
Eastern Air Lines has firmed up an order for 20 Mitsubishi Regional Jets (MRJ), following its signing of a memorandum of understanding at July’s Farnborough air show.
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Airbus details composition of A320neo test fleet
Airbus is planning to use four A320neos, two A319neos and two A321neos for its re-engined narrowbody programme's flight-test programme.
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A320neo completes first flight
Airbus has completed the first flight of its A320neo, with the re-engined narrowbody spending close to 2.5h in the air before landing at 14:22 French time.
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PICTURE: A320neo makes maiden flight
The Airbus A320neo has made its maiden flight, taking off from Toulouse at just past noon Central European Time.
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JTSB fails to pinpoint cause of 2013 ANA 787 battery incident
The Japan Transport Safety Board (JTSB) has released findings from an investigation into the 16 January 2013 main battery incident aboard an All Nippon Airways Boeing 787-8 aircraft, which resulted in an emergency landing and contributed to a global grounding of the type.
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PICTURES: China Eastern takes delivery of first Boeing 777-300ER
China Eastern Airlines has taken delivery of its first Boeing 777-300ER aircraft.
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ANALYSIS: Morris explains how GE came to embrace 3D printing
While GE's rapid acceptance of additive manufacturing technology may leave some industry commentators sceptical, the decades of work by Morris Technologies into the trailblazing technology should assuage even the most strident naysayers
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ANALYSIS: GEnx misses fuel burn spec on 787, but on upgrade path
One month before Boeing returned the 787-8 to flight in May 2013 after an 18-week grounding caused by battery fires, GE Aviation quietly certificated the third major production version of the GEnx-1B, inching one of the two propulsion options for the Dreamliner closer to the promised fuel efficiency targets.