All articles by Dan Thisdell – Page 18
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Gulf Air to revamp A330 interiors
Gulf Air is to overhaul its Airbus A330 interiors with a $20 million refit including fully-flat business class seats, six years after their last update as it bids to match service levels of its rivals.
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NewsSaudiGulf to take up to 26 CSeries
Start-up SaudiGulf Airlines has ordered 16 Bombardier CSeries CS300 airliners, with another 10 options, during the Bahrain air show.
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Virgin Galactic promises to reach space in 2014
Virgin Galactic has promised to make it to space in 2014, following a successful third supersonic flight of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital rocketplane.
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Europe chases dream of spaceplane operations
A US-European agreement to develop spaceplane technology may extend the remit of Sierra Nevada’s in-development Dream Chaser beyond its planned use by NASA to shuttle astronauts to and from the International Space Station.
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Russian Helicopters made steady headway in 2013
An interim report on 2013 shows steady growth at Mil and Kamov parent Russian Helicopters, with production of 303 aircraft for Russian and international customers exceeding the 290 delivered in 2012 by 4%. Efficiency also appears to be improving on the back of investment in processing, plating and composite materials ...
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Arianespace eyes record 12 flights in 2014
European launch operator Arianespace has set itself the challenge of making 2014 a record year, with 12 launches from the spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana – eclipsing the eight flights of 2013 and its all-time high of 10, in 2011.
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Finmeccanica heads for power business exit
Alenia Aermacchi, AgustaWestland, Selex and DRS parent Finmeccanica has closed the sale of a nearly 40% stake in its troubled Ansaldo Energia power generation business, for €277 million ($378 million) to Italian investment fund Fondo Strategico Italiano.
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Safran completes electric power business consolidation
Safran has completed the consolidation of its electrical power businesses, as Labinal Power Systems.
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NewsEADS's Astrium unit may be eclipsed by costs
EADS’s Astrium space division ended 2013 on a note of triumph, with the Gaia star-mapping satellite it built for the European Space Agency enjoying a perfect Soyuz launch from the agency’s spaceport in French Guiana.
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Astrium wraps up 2014 on high note but faces months of uncertainty
EADS’s Astrium space division ended 2013 on a note of triumph, with the Gaia star-mapping satellite it built for the European Space Agency enjoying a perfect Soyuz launch from the agency’s spaceport in French Guiana.
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When seeking innovation, don't discount organisation
Tom Enders closed 2013 with some inspiring words on innovation. Giving the annual Wilbur and Orville Wright lecture at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London, the EADS chief executive urged a packed house to support the aggressive pursuit of new technical horizons – because the alternative is stagnation in aviation ...
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News'More cuts' and Eurofighter pain if EADS fails in bid to slash costs
EADS chief executive Tom Enders has called time on the “unwieldy” industrial structure in its Cassidian defence and Astrium space divisions, that has left the businesses unable to compete on cost when bidding for work outside their home markets.
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UK government targets skills growth in industry partnership
As both the UK government and the ADS industry association are eager to remind anyone who is interested, the UK aerospace sector has a 17% global market share, making it the number one aerospace industry in Europe and globally second only to the USA.
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UAV air taxi concept reveals clear thinking about VTOL efficiency
An Austrian unmanned air systems entrepreneur with a novel take on the problem of combining vertical lift with fast horizontal flight has unveiled a fully automated air taxi concept that promises fly-anywhere capability and 6-10h endurance from a heavy fuel engine.
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Civil-use UAVs face regulatory hurdles
For unmanned air systems makers looking to exploit a latent US civil market, technical hurdles are increasingly the least challenging aspect of establishing a viable business.
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Senior looks to heat up fluids division with Thermal acquisition
Components and systems manufacturer Senior has purchased Thermal Engineering of Royston, Hertfordshire, UK for £21.8 million ($35.7 million) cash plus £6.5 million in debt.
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NewsGlasgow EC135 crash: investigation continues
Investigations continue into the crash of a Eurocopter EC135T2 helicopter operated by Scottish police that crashed through the roof of a busy city centre pub in Glasgow at 22:25 on Friday, 29 November, killing at least nine people and at one point hospitalising more than 30.
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Aertec keeps local focus on global challenge
For engineering consultancy Aertec, one key challenge these days for itself – and its clients – is an aerospace take on the environmental movement’s mantra, “think global, act local”. For a company that specialises not in product design, but in design of the factories and test regimes that support the ...
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Swarm launch is triple play success for ESA
The European Space Agency (ESA) racked up a triple success today with the launch of its three-satellite Swarm mission, a four-year quest to study the Earth’s magnetic field in unprecedented detail.
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Galileo back on launch path after technical delay
The European Space Agency (ESA) expects to get its Galileo satellite navigation system deployment back on track to provide a functional service from early 2015, if final tests of the first two new-generation satellites go to plan.