All Analysis – Page 99
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Germanwings crash accident investigation
Airline pilot organisations have expressed their shock at the Germanwings Airbus A320 crash on 24 March – but also their distress that international standards for investigation and the release of information are not being followed.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Well-rounded Robin DR401 shows its strengths
The Robin 400 design dates back to 1972, and well over 1,300 variants of the aircraft have been produced by the manufacturer at its factory in Darois, just northwest of Dijon in France.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: CFM leads in engine markets – but P&W on the rise
Powerplants are central to key airframe developments in the air transport sector as the tempo rises around the re-engined narrowbody sector – and the battle is raging as the manufacturers fight for market share.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Is Europe's General Aviation industry turning a corner?
Things are looking up for Europe’s embattled general aviation community.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Fast track beckons for Galileo navigation system
After a decade lost to false starts and budget wrangling and a partial launch failure, Europe’s bid to have its own satellite navigation system got a huge boost with what appears to be a perfect mission to orbit the seventh and eighth spacecraft in what will eventually be a 30-unit ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Field on making ordinary aircraft extraordinary
For almost 70 years, Field Aviation has been turning mainly Canadian-built types into special mission platforms – making, as its website boasts, “ordinary aircraft extraordinary”. The modifications house, based next to Toronto’s international airport, began transforming surplus wartime transports in the late 1940s. Its latest projects include partnering with Boeing ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: O'Leary still at first base on transatlantic
For those believing Michael O'Leary's much talked-of interest in launching a transatlantic operation is just another headline-grabbing move by the publicity-hungry Ryanair boss, developments over the last 10 days will have given them more ammunition.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Air France, Malaysia Airlines losses prompt rethink on flight data
Calgary-based communications specialist Flyht did not need events like the loss of Air France flight 447 or Malaysia Airlines MH370 to persuade it that airlines’ connectivity with their aircraft could beneficially be improved. It had been producing intelligent on-board satellite communications systems since 2003, and if either or both those ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: How recent wins have powered up P&WC
These are “exciting times” in the business aviation market for Michael Perodeau, vice-president of corporate and military aviation at Pratt & Whitney Canada. Although the sector has failed to fully recover from the global downturn at the turn of the decade, the Montreal-based manufacturer, one of the oldest brands in ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: How Airbus is squeezing more seats into A330neo
A key component of the re-engined A330neo’s operating cost gains is Airbus’s project to squeeze up to 10 more passenger seats into the cabin, compared with its current-generation A330ceo equivalents.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Can Airbus challenge 787 with A330neo?
Airbus added a dash of spice to the mid-range, mid-size market with last year’s launch of an updated version of its best-selling widebody, the A330. But in a sector where there are already several established types, is there enough room for another big twin to be dropped into the mix?
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Canada's Héroux-Devtek gears up for big time after landing 777X deal
Two years ago, Héroux-Devtek was a distant number three in the civil landing gear market, behind Safran’s Messier-Bugatti-Dowty (MBD) and the former Goodrich business of United Technologies (UTC).
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Airbus enjoys fruits of a maturing space age
Like the Solar Orbiter it is building for ESA, Airbus Defence & Space is basking in sunshine
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Flymojo, international airline of mystery
Last week’s Langkawi International Aerospace & Maritime (LIMA) Exhibition was an unlikely venue for the birth of a new airline, Flymojo, and its letter of intent for up to 40 Bombardier CS100 aircraft.
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ANALYSIS: Clouds in ASEAN’s open skies
Hopes are high that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will be able to make further steps towards a true single aviation market over the next few years.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: 'Radical change well under way' at Finmeccanica
Finmeccanica looks to be rising strongly out of a five-year slump, with 2014 figures showing its first positive net result since 2010 and a strong performance in its aerospace and defence core.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Experts urge MROs to prepare for innovation wave
In recent years, the North American MRO business has been relatively stable and predictable, growing modestly in line with carriers’ fleet plans while capturing incrementally-more work from overseas operators, says experts.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: How Viking Air's Twin Otter gamble paid off
About as far west as you can go from the aerospace corridor around Montreal and Toronto and the Twin Otter’s original manufacturing site, Canada’s other original equipment manufacturer is proving its gamble to bring the type back to life is more than paying off. Viking Air – based on Vancouver ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Solar Orbiter mission heats up for the European Space Agency
To get a sense of the challenge in designing the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter mission, consider that the surface temperature on the planet Mercury gets up to 427°C – nearly twice the melting point of tin.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Strength of UK's offensive fleet hangs on upcoming SDSR
The island state of the UK is positioned – both politically and geographically – within a number of ongoing international conflicts.