All Analysis – Page 35
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Brakes applied after commercial orders glut
January is traditionally a quiet month for commercial aircraft sales, and 2019 did not break from this trend. Information from Cirium’s Fleets Analyzer shows there were 27 new orders recorded during the month, along with 11 cancellations, leaving a net total of 16.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Airlines still in the dark on Mexico City airport plan
Months after the decision of Mexico's government decision to scrap a long-needed airport for its capital city, the country's airlines remain confounded by how a complex alternative proposed by authorities will actually work.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Supersonic projects speed towards Concorde's successor
Almost exactly 20 years after the Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde's final revenue flight from New York touched down in London in October 2003, a commercial jet will once again cross the Atlantic at speeds faster than sound. At least that is the ambition of Tom Vice, chief executive of Aerion, one of ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: MH-60R Romeo comes of age Down Under
When the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) became the second operator of the Lockheed Martin/Sikorsky MH-60R "Romeo" helicopter in 2013, it represented a major step up in capability and training for its combat aircrews.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: How Sikorsky S-92 is weathering offshore storm
One unheralded aspect of the crisis in the market for offshore helicopter transportation supporting the oil and gas market, is the rise – by default, some would argue – of the Sikorsky S-92 to become the heavy rotorcraft of choice in the West.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Leonardo Helicopters advances on next-gen tiltrotor
One might think that given the decades so far required to bring its AW609 to market that Leonardo Helicopters would shy away from developing another tiltrotor aircraft.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: How Bell will deliver urban air taxi success with Nexus
Designing a new aircraft is, relatively speaking, a simple task. If you know the fine detail of the market it is aimed at – who will fly it and why – and the regulatory environment in which it will operate, then you can develop something that addresses those concerns.
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ANALYSIS: Business jet shipments rise, but performance mixed
The business jet market experienced a modest hike in shipments in 2018. While performance across each segment was mixed, there is a widespread consensus that the industry has finally turned a corner, aided by a strong US economy, and the introduction of a plethora of new, innovative and reinvigorated aircraft ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Why Global 7500 is key to Bombardier's future
At entry into service, any new aircraft is the apple of its manufacturer's eye, and from that perspective the Bombardier Global 7500 is no different.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Australia’s ageing regional fleet soldiers on
Across Australia's vast and far-flung regions, many people naturally rely on air transport to get around, and many of those services rely on ageing turboprops and regional jets. Indeed, Cirium's Fleets Analyzer shows that Australia's 300-strong regional aircraft fleet has an average age of just over 23 years.
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ANALYSIS: Why Airbus Helicopters is on an Even keel
After a little under a year in the job, Bruno Even, chief executive of Airbus Helicopters, seems to be settling into the role.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: How Aero Vodochody recharged the L-39
Most of the pilots who honed their combat skills in the Aero Vodochody L-39 Albatros single-engined jet trainer were defending the Soviet empire. The 21st century-born aviators who fly its successor – the L-39NG – will only know of the Cold War from history books.
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ANALYSIS: Cape Town to the test in row over Avianca Brazil jets
The battle over aircraft at Avianca Brazil is proving to be a true test for the Cape Town Convention's efficacy.
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AnalysisValues outlook poor for A380 after termination decision
The momentous decision by Airbus to end the A380 programme was really the only logical option, given the almost nonexistent market faced by its sales team in recent years.
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ANALYSIS: How the NMA might prepare Boeing for a 737 replacement
Boeing's new mid-market airplane (NMA) concept may be much larger than a single aircraft programme.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Submarine threat buoys demand for Boeing's P-8
Steadily growing anti-ship cruise missile threats from Chinese and Russian submarines, among other factors, are compelling more of the world's militaries to retire their ageing fleets of Lockheed Martin P-3 Orions in favour of acquiring Boeing's 737-based P-8 maritime patrol aircraft.
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ANALYSIS: Mobility key to line maintenance at Northern Aerotech
Danish line-maintenance specialist Northern Aerotech has come up with an unusual plan to grow its business – by putting it in a box.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: New era for Bombardier Belfast?
Thirty years after its transition from one of the UK’s last aircraft builders into a unit of Bombardier, the one-time Shorts factory in Belfast may be about to reinvent itself again. The flagship of the Canadian firm’s aerostructures business – which includes facilities in Canada, Mexico, Morocco and Wichita – ...
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ANALYSIS: Aerostructures pushes up Northern Ireland value chain
Northern Ireland has less than 3% of the population of the UK, yet of the four companies with the highest rating in a nationwide scheme to improve quality and competitiveness in the aerospace supply chain, two of them are in this corner of the British Isles. Investment agency Invest NI ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Why Northern Ireland is seating comfortably
Two Northern Irish concerns – one a unit of US giant United Technologies and the other owned by China’s state-owned aerospace group AVIC – comprise, along with their supply chains, one of the industry’s most important clusters for aircraft seating. Collins Aerospace in Kilkeel and Thompson Aero Seating in Portadown ...