All Analysis – Page 103
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ANALYSIS: 2015 sources of aircraft finance
This year there is a $124 billion financing requirement for commercial jets, says Boeing Capital, and although almost all indicators are green in the aircraft financing environment, the industry is not immune to external factors.
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ANALYSIS: Aircraft lessors continue to rise from the East
Aircraft lessors have been growing fast in Asia, but few are likely to pose a major challenge to Western domination of the sector.
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ANALYSIS: Lynx 'set to roar' in 2015
While Virgin Galactic waits for the results of an NTSB investigation into the 31 October 2014 fatal crash of SpaceShipTwo, another Mojave-based suborbital hopeful is making steady progress towards first flight of a very different concept.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Where next, Virgin Galactic?
A 2014 that opened with great expectations that the era of privately funded personal spaceflight would finally begin ended with a crash, nowhere near space
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AnalysisANALYSIS: India’s fleet grows despite short-term struggles
India's airlines continue to struggle with high costs and competition, but a huge order backlog ensures major growth ahead.
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ANALYSIS: Why appraisers downplay the fleet impact of cheap fuel
Falling oil prices will have a favourable impact on certain older aircraft lease renewals but are unlikely to sway airlines and lessors to part with their new-technology orders, aircraft appraisers predict.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Can Eurofighter enhancements power sales revival?
This could be a pivotal year for the four-nation Eurofighter programme, as partner companies Airbus Defence & Space, Alenia Aermacchi and BAE Systems push to secure fresh export deals on the back of a range of capability enhancements which are now starting to approach operational readiness.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Space Station maintaining orbit – for now
The International Space Station has been the focal point of human spaceflight activity for so long now that the outpost can seem like a permanent, if remote, feature of our planet.
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ANALYSIS: Ramping up to 100 aircraft a year ATR's main challenge
For a company that almost ran out of work a decade ago, the challenge of energising a supply chain to build more than 100 aircraft a year must seem a nice problem to have.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Hurdles ahead as Lockheed works to meet full-rate F-35 production
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is an incredibly complex jet fighter. Each jet is hand assembled from about 300,000 parts by more than 1,000 workers at the company's mile-long Fort Worth, Texas, manufacturing facility.
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ANALYSIS: F-35 production system evolves ahead of ramp-up
Mass manufacturing and stealth aircraft have never mixed well. Hundreds of thousands of parts must align at tolerances measured in the thousandths of an inch. A structural misalignment no wider than a few human hairs is enough to make the aircraft shine like a lighthouse in electromagnetic space.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Will JAL, ANA codeshares save Skymark?
Japanese carrier Skymark Airlines’ unusual plan to have rivals Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways both codeshare on some of its flights appears to be coming to fruition, but it still faces some major short-term challenges.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Accidents are not the only threat to safety
If large numbers of passengers and crew die on a commercial airline flight because of an event that was not an accident, is it valid to exclude it from airline safety statistics? After all, passengers boarding a flight want to be assured their lives are not at risk from any ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Looking beyond the short-term impact of low oil prices
Recent and apparently continuing falls in the oil price – with Brent trading below $50 per barrel today – provides further evidence of the difficulties associated with forecasting, writes CTAIRA analyst Chris Tarry.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Refining the MH370 search
Since Capt Simon Hardy revealed in Flightglobal/Flight International his calculations about where Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is likely to have come to rest, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau – leading the MH370 search team – has spoken at length to him.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Fleet Watch - Orders for December 2014
Commercial aircraft net orders came in at 647 for December 2014 where 673 new orders were offset by 26 cancellations.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: We check out Eurofighter's P1E upgrade in simulator
In mid-November 2014, Flight International was given the opportunity to visit BAE Systems’ facility at Warton in Lancashire, to be briefed by its Eurofighter Typhoon chief test pilot Mark Bowman and project manager Luke Dickson about the successful introduction and first deliveries to the Royal Air Force under the Phase ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Narrowbody conversions drive P2F market in 2014
The year 2014 saw a 10% increase in global passenger-to-freighter (P2F) conversions to 70 aircraft, driven by growth in narrowbody conversions, while extreme weakness continued to dog the widebody conversion market.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Is Haneda a network Shangri-La for US carriers?
One could easily think that Tokyo Haneda International airport is the airline network equivalent of Shangri-La based solely on US carriers repeated pining for access to the airport.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: A380 enters maturity as overhauls accelerate
When Emirates last summer towed one of its Airbus A380s into its Dubai MRO facility for a 3C-check – an overhaul scheduled after six years of operation – this was not the type's first such event but marked the beginning of a heavy maintenance cycle for what is, by a ...