All articles by Dan Thisdell – Page 21
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PARIS: Dassault Systemes joins the dots for high-rate challenge
One way to look at today's aerospace industry is that it is moving into the post-787/A350 era - and few would disagree with Dassault Systemes' aerospace...
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PARIS: Safran rewires electrical business to drive growth
As Safran gears up to bring its electrically-powered nose-wheel taxi system to market with partner Honeywell, the French aerospace and security technology...
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PARIS: Earth observation projects on show
While Paris air show eyes are naturally fixed on the aircraft and systems on static display or flying daily overhead, much of the action that helps give the "aerospace" industry its name will be well out of sight.
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NewsPARIS: EADS works towards all-electric airliners
UP FOR IT: Dassault will be keen to show what Europe can do Jean Botti's job is to see the future - and get Airbus there. That's no mean feat,...
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PARIS: Cobham ramps up in-flight connectivity offering
Cobham (chalet A106) is reinforcing its stance in the airborne connectivity market with a new product in its Aviator antennae series. The Aviator S terminal...
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PARIS: Aerojet Rocketdyne unveils hypersonic scramjet technology
If anybody here at Paris feels the need for speed, it's Aerojet president Warren Boley. Coming off last week's completion of parent Gencorp's $550 million...
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NewsPARIS: Shingo management concept reaches BAE Systems in UK
For BAE Systems (chalet 264), Le Bourget is naturally a show ground for its latest aeronautical technology, ranging from the Eurofighter Typhoon starring...
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NewsPARIS: Engine systems driving growth at GKN
Anyone doubting GKN Aerospace's ability to handle the bleak outlook surrounding military spending in its key North American and European markets should consider...
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NewsPARIS: Newly formed Selex ES makes show debut
Sensors, information management and systems integration business Selex ES is making its Paris debut following the amalgamation in January of Finmeccanica's...
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NewsPARIS: GE takes flight on A350 wing
When the Airbus A350 first took to the skies last week, much attention was focused on the Rolls-Royce Trent XWB powerplants that made the flight possible....
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Baggage skid wins Airbus ideas challenge
An air-powered baggage handling concept scooped the €30,000 ($40,000) top prize at the Airbus Fly Your Ideas competition, with a team of students from the...
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NewsPARIS: European Space Agency's busy year looks forward and very far back
ESA is in the middle of one of its busiest years, with missions to study galaxies, moons and magnetic fields
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Bio-LNG airliner concept 'has near-term potential'
A jury of Airbus and independent technology experts will choose a winner on 12 June in the airframer's 2013 Fly Your Ideas challenge, a biennial UNESCO-sponsored...
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NewsPARIS: Defence industry waiting out 'phoney war'
A decade of steady growth in defence spending aligned with the longest bull run in commercial aviation history, but now companies must plan to weather a slack period
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NewsHoming in on threat posed by near Earth objects
While awareness that a cataclysmic meteor strike could end life on Earth as we know it is hardly new, events this year have rung alarm bells and flagged up the gap between our detection capabilities and the astonishing number of threats lurking in space.
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NewsIon wind promises breath of fresh air
Generating thrust to fly an aircraft using the technology behind ionic air purifiers sounds too good to be true - until now.
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NewsUK spaceflight gets a boost with Peake selection for 2015 ISS mission
Europe's contribution to the International Space Station crew rota has been agreed up to April 2016 with the selection of Timothy Peake to join expedition...
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NewsVega’s second success ‘confirms functionality’
The European Space Agency and its launch operator, Arianespace, have declared their new light launcher, Vega, to be "fully functional" following its second flight success in two attempts.
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NewsChinooks to get ‘fly-by-wire’ makeover
In a bid to expand the performance envelope of its CH-47F and MH-47G Chinook heavy-lift helicopters, Boeing has called on BAE Systems electronics engineers...