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    India's DGCA identifies new gearbox issue on PW1100G

    2017-03-03T21:02:42Z

    ​India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has identified the first known incident involving the gearbox of the PW1100G geared turbofan engine on the Airbus A320neo.

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    Engine shortage, airframe tweaks prompt CSeries delivery pause

    2017-03-03T19:59:55Z

    ​Bombardier has halted deliveries of the CSeries aircraft for two months to refine the production system and upgrade the aircraft configuration while the supply of Pratt & Whitney’s geared turbofan engines remains a bottleneck, chief executive Alain Bellemare tells Flightglobal.

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    Boeing CEO highlights global approach in Trump era

    2017-03-02T18:42:58Z

    ​In public remarks a couple miles away from the White House on 2 March, Boeing chief executive Dennis Muilenburg re-issued a call for re-empowering the Ex-Im Bank and elaborated on the company’s approach to globalisation in an era of the Trump administration in the USA and Brexit in the UK.

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    Boeing sets roll-out date for 737 Max 9

    2017-03-01T21:09:51Z

    ​Two months before the anticipated entry into service of the 737 Max 8, Boeing has scheduled the official roll-out of the first 737 Max 9 for 7 March in Renton, Washington.

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    Leap-powered A321neo gains US and European approval

    2017-03-01T14:53:15Z

    Airbus has gained type certification for the A321neo variant powered by CFM International Leap-1A turbofan engines, the airframer disclosed today.

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    AVALON: Boeing’s Australian innovations see light of day

    2017-03-01T07:32:43Z

    ​Collaborative robotics, virtual reality and aircraft cabin disease transmission prevention are among the latest projects under way at Boeing Research and Technology-Australia – the manufacturer’s largest research organisation outside of the United States.

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    ANALYSIS: Airbus hits stride in Mobile as political winds turn in its favour

    2017-02-23T09:23:42Z

    Four years and four months before Donald Trump rode a wave of industrial nationalism to the White House, Airbus decided to plant a factory in Mobile, Alabama, to deliver A320-family aircraft to US customers. In retrospect, that fateful announcement looks, well, prescient.

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    PICTURES: Qantas unveils new 787 premium economy seat

    2017-02-23T01:31:42Z

    ​Qantas has revealed the new premium economy seat that will be fitted to its Boeing 787-9s, which it says offer more recline and width over its current offering.

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    P&W develops plan to exceed GTF 2017 delivery targets

    2017-02-22T17:32:21Z

    ​Pratt & Whitney has an internal plan to exceed delivery targets for the geared turbofan GTF) engine family this year after falling short of the objective in 2016, says chief executive Greg Hayes of P&W parent United Technologies.

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    VIDEO: A320 family first flights

    2017-02-22T09:54:44Z

    ​When an Airbus flight test crew took the A320 to the sky for the first time, they must have known they were flying a special aircraft. For sure, as this video shows, that 1987 sortie was a sight to behold. But what must have surprised even its flight crew and ...

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    ANALYSIS: How Airbus is managing A320's production transition

    2017-02-22T09:36:57Z

    Airbus has not quite reached the point of declaring: “The A320 is dead – long live the A320neo,” but the transition to the re-engined version is accelerating and the backlog for the original model of its first single-aisle aircraft is rapidly diminishing.

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    ATR opens Miami training center to fix pilot shortage

    2017-02-21T23:11:38Z

    ATR today opened a new pilot training centre in Miami as part of a wider effort to address a global pilot shortage problem that lately has become an "impediment to growth" for the turboprop manufacturer.

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    ANALYSIS: How A320 changed the world for commercial pilots

    2017-02-20T09:14:29Z

    As the world’s first digital fly-by-wire (FBW) airliner, Airbus Industrie’s A320 was positioned to bring commercial flying and flight management into the 21st century when it was rolled out in 1987.

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    Boeing rolls out 787-10 in politically charged ceremony

    2017-02-17T19:37:32Z

    ​Boeing formally introduced the first 787-10 on 17 February in North Charleston, South Carolina, in a strikingly political ceremony led by US president Donald Trump.

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    United debuts new Polaris business class

    2017-02-17T18:57:20Z

    ​United Airlines debuted its new Polaris business class seats on domestic flights this week, as it prepares for a rapid roll-out of the hard product on flights from its San Francisco hub.

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    Bombardier recovery in 'full motion' with 2016 results

    2017-02-16T12:12:23Z

    The first year of Bombardier’s five-year recovery plan ended as promised, with the Canadian manufacturer recording a $981 million net loss overall, including a $903 million loss before interest and taxes in the Commercial Aircraft division.

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    INSIGHT FROM FLIGHTGLOBAL: V1EWPoint - a review of 2016 and how this year will be different

    2017-02-16T12:07:50Z

    At first glance, 2017 looks like it will be a tough year. Demand outlook indicators have largely turned from green to amber as we see the potential slowing of the demand cycle. Traffic growth will also be lower in 2017 than 2016, with Airlines facing cost increases from fuel prices ...

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    INSIGHT FROM FLIGHTGLOBAL: What you want to know about commercial aviation in 2017

    2017-02-16T10:15:44Z

    ​Audience questions prompted by Flight Ascend Consultancy’s latest commercial aviation market update webinar reveal much about the industry’s concerns, with our consultants’ views sought on areas such as the future of the Bombardier CSeries and Airbus A380, values trends, and the likely impact of higher oil prices or Donald Trump’s ...

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    Boeing workers deny IAM bid to organise North Charleston

    2017-02-16T02:00:58Z

    Nearly 3,000 workers at Boeing’s eight-year-old campus in North Charleston, South Carolina have rejected a second attempt to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM).

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    A330neo maiden flight date still hazy

    2017-02-15T21:21:00Z

    ​Rolls-Royce is progressing with assembly of the initial flight-test Trent 7000 engines for the Airbus A330neo, although a maiden flight date has yet to become clear.