Southern Airlines has selected Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines for the five Airbus A380s it has on firm order for delivery from late 2007. The airline becomes the seventh of 11 customers for the A380 to select the Trent 900 over the rival Engine Alliance GP7200 powerplant. China Southern already operates Trent 700-powered Airbus A330s in its fleet. Rolls-Royce values the agreement to supply the Trent 900 engines at around $600 million.
Source: Flight International
US regulator the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will take no immediate action to address a smoke-related issue involving the CFM International Leap-1B engines that power the Boeing 737 Max.
Airbus intends to finalise readiness of jigs and tools on its A350 final assembly line over the next six months in order to handle the manufacture of the freighter variant of the twinjet type. Designated the A350-1000F, the freighter is sized between the -900 and -1000 passenger versions and this, ...
Sweden’s Heart Aerospace has selected Plattsburgh International airport in upstate New York as the location for the maiden sortie of its HX-1 demonstrator – a flight that will take place with a pilot on board.
