All Analysis – Page 109
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AnalysisANALYSIS: CSeries gains traction with lessors
Bombardier's confirmation of a CSeries order from Macquarie is another step in validating the programme with the aircraft leasing community.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Heli Offshore chief Gretchen Haskins puts safety first
Offshore helicopter operators have clearly been hurt by events over the past few years. A series of accidents, mostly but not exclusively, on the UK side of the North Sea, culminating in the August 2013 fatal crash of a CHC Scotia-operated Super Puma near Shetland, have led to unprecedented scrutiny ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Rolls-Royce makes progress with Trent 7000
Although understandably coy before Airbus’s Farnborough announcement that it was launching the A330neo, Rolls-Royce was by July quite far along the path of finalising the design for the Trent 7000, the 72,000lb (320kN) thrust engine that will exclusively power the re-engined widebody. Airbus already has a more than 50% share ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: A look into Comac and its C919 ambition
Chinese airframer Comac has certainly been keeping busy.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Rolls-Royce harvests a decade of research for new engine projects
As Rolls-Royce prepares to build and begin testing next year its seventh member of the Trent family – the 7000 for the Airbus A330neo – it is harvesting the fruits of a decade’s worth of research and development projects into two studies that could form the basis for a new ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Europe's pilots fight for control
Industrial action has played havoc with operations at Air France and Lufthansa over recent weeks as pilots revolt against legacy carriers' cost-cutting plans.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: 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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AnalysisANALYSIS: USAF push to oust Russian rockets turning into high-stakes contest
A US Air Force drive to end its reliance on Russian rocket motors is turning into a high-stakes competition between rival technologies, with propulsion specialist ATK throwing its hat into the ring just a week after United Launch Alliance and Blue Origin agreed to jointly fund development of a new, ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: 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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AnalysisANALYSIS: 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.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: How transparent perimeter walls could cut airport noise
In a bid to reduce the impact of aircraft noise on local communities, Stockholm Bromma airport is on the verge of erecting a large, transparent perimeter wall that will minimise the sound of its operations while still enabling nearby residents to view them. In keeping with the thorny nature of ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Ukraine's and Russia's aerospace industries will be hit hard by deteriorating relations
Ever since Russia-backed forces began to take control of the Crimean peninsula at the end of February, a steady of escalation of sanctions by Ukraine against Russia has had increasingly negative effects on the aerospace sectors of both countries. Since the collapse of the former Soviet Union in 1991, ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Transatlantic capacity reaches new peak
As transatlantic capacity flies towards a new peak, the market’s newest arrival has unveiled plans to bolster its operations across the pond.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Pratt & Whitney banks on V2500 for MRO growth
As Pratt & Whitney’s business shifts from large commercial engines to small and medium-sized ones, the manufacturer is expecting its aftermarket business to expand significantly.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Virgin Galactic 'close to reaching space'
Virgin Galactic has formally backed away from its pledge to put its first fare-paying passengers into suborbital space by the close of 2014 – but has made a very public declaration that suborbital operations from its purpose-built spaceport in New Mexico will begin in early 2015.
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ANALYSIS: Leisure carriers look to adapt to new markets
In August, Monarch's chief executive Andrew Swaffield revealed that after 56 years operating as a leisure carrier, it plans to cease charter operations for good in 2015 and focus entirely on scheduled low-cost operations.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Lessors unfazed by airline leasing subsidiaries
Despite airlines such as Lion Air and Norwegian setting up their own leasing platforms, there is consensus that they will not pose a major challenge to the dedicated lessors.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Asian airports play catch-up with surging demand
Asia has been a hotbed of airline activity, but infrastructure at a number of airports has been lagging behind.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Virgin's Little Red dilemma
Press speculation suggests that the future of Virgin Atlantic’s Little Red could be in jeopardy due to poor performance - but if Virgin is looking to scrap its domestic operation it could prove difficult to find an alternative.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Cockpits nearly all paperless but manufacturers still face dilemma
The manufacturers intend cockpits to be paperless soon. Airbus, for example, says it intends its aircraft to be completely paperless - therefore totally EFB-dependent - within two years. But they all face a permanent dilemma about what interface they should choose. Boeing with its 787 and Airbus with the ...