All Analysis – Page 77
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ANALYSIS: Marshall Aerospace diversification plan pays off
Two years ago, the long-term prospects for the privately-owned Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group (MADG) looked decidedly fragile. Decades of in-service support provided to the Royal Air Force’s Lockheed Martin C-130Ks and TriStars had recently come to an end – and worse was on the horizon, with the service’s new-generation ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Insurers eye aircraft debt
Insurers are increasingly looking at providing senior debt for aircraft finance as part of their wider hunt for yield in the current low-interest-rate environment, financial sources indicate.
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ANALYSIS: Flight looks through its pages at 100 years of Boeing
We look back through our archives at the pivotal moments in the 100-year history of aerospace’s biggest company, from the early days of aviation to the space programme.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Farnborough air show order tracker 2016 – summary
Aside from an AirAsia-fuelled jump on the second day, order activity at this year’s show was much lower than the deal announcements frenzies of recent years.
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ANALYSIS: How Taranis points the way for future air combat
Unmanned combat air systems (UCAS) look all but certain to play a part in future offensive operations, but considerable work remains to be done to demonstrate that such technology – plus concepts of operation and regulations surrounding its use – can be effectively employed in a combat scenario.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Farnborough air show order tracker 2016 – updates
FlightGlobal's Order Tracker provides regularly updated details of all the firm and LoI commercial air transport announcements made during this year's Farnborough air show: Updated 17:00 Wednesday 13 July.
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ANALYSIS: Can airlines tap efficiency gains from connectivity?
The airline industry has yet to fully articulate its vision for the connected aircraft, but the current focus on in-flight connectivity for passengers provides the impetus to establish a robust broadband pipe to the aircraft, creating future opportunities to improve operational efficiencies.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: How increased profits spread across airlines in 2015
Profit levels and the immediate outlook ahead have never been better for airlines.
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ANALYSIS: GKN keeps playing it big
When considering GKN Aerospace, one does not get very far before concluding that the UK-headquartered Tier 1 is an acquisitive company – and that it is very good at acquisitions.
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ANALYSIS: Early A350 deployment reflects mature operation
Airbus is showcasing its latest widebody, the A350, again at Farnborough this year and is progressively building the big twinjet’s in-service experience.
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ANALYSIS: BAE Systems to stage Farnborough show of strength
As the UK prepares for a shock divorce from the European Union following its public’s Brexit vote, the implications for the nation’s major aerospace players include much uncertainty – but also potential opportunity.
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ANALYSIS: Automation leap on 777 hits growing pains
When Boeing executives decided to re-invent a critical element of the 777 production process two years ago, they knew it was going to be hard. Memories of the costly, three-and-a-half-year delayed entry of the 787 were still fresh around Everett, Washington.
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ANALYSIS: Middle of the Market is 'when', not 'if' at Boeing
Mike Delaney was named as head of Boeing’s four-year-old aircraft development organisation in April. The veteran Boeing executive immediately inherited a conceptual puzzle often called the “middle of the market (MoM)” study, a proposed aircraft family with widebody payload and range performance and, somehow, narrowbody economics.
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ANALYSIS: How aviation financiers see Brexit's likely effects
Warnings on the implications of Brexit for UK and European aviation were sounded at the Flightglobal Finance Forum in London yesterday.
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ANALYSIS: Big three continue to dominate Civil Simulators market
Flightglobal data reveals the size and shape of the world market for airliner training simulators
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ANALYSIS: TransAsia's hybrid theory
When TransAsia Airways placed its first order for the Airbus A330-300 in 2010, it was on a growth path looking to capitalise on booming cross-straits traffic and to expand its network internationally.
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ANALYSIS: Future turning bright for Montreal’s aerospace cluster
Montreal’s aerospace cluster has good reason to celebrate.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: AirAsia India's slow, but steady growth
Two years since its launch, AirAsia India is showing increasing signs of life in the competitive Indian market.
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ANALYSIS: Can the Evektor EV-55 stay the course?
If the Evektor EV-55 Outback looks like a scaled-down L-410, that is no coincidence. Several of the brains behind the in-development Czech twin turboprop – which flew for the first time in 2011 and as a production-conforming test example this April – spent their formative years with the L-410’s manufacturer, ...
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ANALYSIS: EasyJet sticks to MRO tack despite new Gatwick hangar
EasyJet insists that its opening of a hangar at London Gatwick does not represent a shift in its strategy of outsourcing technical services to external maintenance providers.