All air transport news – Page 638
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Boeing looks to 3D-print thermoplastic aircraft parts
Making aircraft parts on 3D printers is becoming increasingly popular, despite several stubborn constraints. Among the most limiting features are the laptop computer-sized dimensions of the 3D printing machines. Coupled with a relatively plodding material lay-down rate, 3D printers are confined to making only the smallest and usually most intricate ...
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Emirates foresees being A380's 'market maker'
Emirates will be the "market maker" for the Airbus A380, the Gulf carrier's senior vice-president of corporate treasury Nirmal Govindadas argued today.
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Wizz extends A320 MRO pact with Lufthansa Technik
Central European budget carrier Wizz Air is to extend its agreements with Lufthansa Technik for Airbus A320 and A321neo maintenance services.
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Opinion
OPINION: MRJ has certification hurdles ahead
For a while it almost felt like the Mitsubishi Regional Jet would never make it to the USA. It is not often that a flight-test prototype aborts its mission twice in two days, but that was just what happened when Mitsubishi Aircraft attempted to ferry its first flight-test article to ...
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Mitsubishi warns ANA of delay risk for first MRJ
Mitsubishi Aircraft has spoken to launch customer All Nippon Airways of a “risk of delay” for the delivery of its first MRJ regional jet, but stressed that no decision has been made to change its delivery schedule at present.
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Comac delivers second ARJ21 to Chengdu Airlines
Comac delivered the second ARJ21-700 regional jet to Chengdu Airlines on 29 September, more than 10 months after the first delivery of the type.
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NewsBoeing receives third contract for Air Force One replacement
The US Air Force has awarded a third contract to Boeing under the Presidential Aircraft Recapitalization (PAR) programme aimed at preparing a process to convert the 747-8 into the next Air Force One.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Latest 787 line remake adds AGVs and 2h work kits
Within a few months, the world’s busiest widebody aircraft assembly line will change again. Mobile robotic carts will begin replacing human workers shuttling parts and tools to machinists assembling Boeing 787s in Everett, Washington. Each automated cart will bear kits loaded with precisely enough gear to occupy a machinist for ...
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NewsPICTURE: Interjet takes first A321
Mexican low-cost carrier Interjet has taken delivery of its first Airbus A321, an aircraft the carrier says will allow it to optimise Mexico City slots.
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News
CORRECTION: Top 100 Senior
An currency conversion error meant we significantly misrepresented Senior's position in our recent Top 100 ranking of aerospace companies by turnover.
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News
PICTURES: MRJ arrives in Moses Lake for flight tests
Mitsubishi Aircraft's first flight test prototype for the MRJ regional jet programme has landed in the US, after a 8,300km journey.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Cathay’s 747s enter their twilight hour
Cathay Pacific will retire its last Boeing 747 passenger aircraft next month, a key milestone as the venerable type becomes increasingly less common in Asian skies.
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CFM touts zero-glitch service entry of Leap-1A engine
CFM International has started taking a victory lap with the Leap-1A entry into service record nearly two months after delivery to the Turkish launch customer.
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NewsMRJ test aircraft finally enroute to Moses Lake
The first flight-test Mitsubishi Aircraft MRJ90 regional jet is enroute to Moses Lake to continue its flight testing in the US.
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IndiGo converts 20 A320neos on order to A321neos
Indian low-cost carrier IndiGo has converted 20 of its Airbus A320neos on order to the larger A321neo.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: MRJ readies for its ultimate test
Mitsubishi Aircraft is a Japanese company based in Nagoya, but its fate resides a three-hour drive west of Seattle, where most of the flight test campaign of the MRJ regional jet programme will occur.
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News
WTO: EU failed to comply with Airbus subsidy remedies
Subsidies granted for a host of Airbus programmes pre-dating the A350 have yet to be remedied, a World Trade Organization panel has ruled.
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Airbus' Leahy equivocal on retirement question
A series of retrospective speeches by Airbus’ head of sales John Leahy over the last few months has rekindled a seemingly annual round of questions about the 66-year-old’s retirement plans.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Japan’s changing commercial fleet
Major changes in the market have shaken up the perception that Japanese carriers’ fleets are built around tightly-packed widebody aircraft.
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News
Boeing selects Rockwell Collins for 777X touchscreens
Rockwell Collins will supply touchscreen flight displays for the Boeing 777X cockpit, ushering the technology into scheduled commercial aviation when the 777-9 enters service in 2020.