All articles by Dan Thisdell – Page 35
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First quarter commercial jet orders plunge at Bombardier
Higher deliveries of commercial aircraft and a favourable mix in its business jet sales bumped first quarter revenue up 10% to $2.2 billion for Bombardier's...
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Scavenger UAS could be first to use Selex sensor concept
The UK Ministry of Defence's requirement for an unmanned surveillance system, dubbed Scavenger, could result in the first aircraft to carry the "platform-agnostic integration system" sensor concept being developed by Selex Galileo for medium-altitude, long-endurance and larger air vehicles.
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Canada special: Clusters of success
Quebec and Montreal are more than an industrial cluster. Aerospace is in the province's genes, say those who work there
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Canada special: Canada's hidden assets
Aerospace is vital to Canada, but to continue holding its own it may need to invest more in R&D and marketing strategies
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Sandra Pupatello, Ontario’s aerospace champion
politics DAN THISDELL toronto flying the aerospace flag for ontario There can be few more energetic champions of Canada's aerospace industry...
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Airbus grows share of EADS sales
EADS's push to improve profitability got off to a shaky start this year, with a first-quarter pre-tax result €16 million ($22.9 million) in the red despite 10% sales growth, to €9.85 billion.
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NewsSoyuz sees the light in French Guiana
Preparations for the first Soyuz launch from the European Space Agency's spaceport in French Guiana made a highly visible step forward last week when the 52m (170ft)-tall service gantry made its maiden roll-back from a fully assembled Soyuz rocket.
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NewsShuttle Endeavour launch no earlier than 10 May
Space Shuttle Endeavour's final launch - and the next-to-last in the 30-year Shuttle programme - will come no earlier than 10 May; STS-134 had been set to launch to the International Space Station on 29 April, but lift-off was scrubbed with 4h to go owing problems with an auxiliary power ...
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UK government committed to aerospace exports: minister
UK minister of state for business and enterprise Mark Prisk today underscored the government's commitment to helping the UK aerospace industry boost exports...
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EADS, GKN aim to bring additive layer manufacturing to aerospace
EADS and GKN have teamed up at their Filton research centres to drive a radical new manufacturing technology to the aerospace market.
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Honda picks GKN for Hondajet fuselage
Honda has selected GKN to supply the entire composite fuselage for its Hondajet business aircraft, with first deliveries set for spring 2012. GKN Aerospace...
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Space junk raises alarm
In January 2007, China successfully tested an anti-satellite missile, destroying one of its redundant spacecraft orbiting about 800km (1,290 miles) above...
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Fokker legacy lives on
Its fleet may be dwindling, but the famed Dutch name is gaining altitude
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Europe to target space hazards
Europe must, as a matter of priority, establish a space situational awareness system to monitor orbiting debris, solar radiation and asteroids, according...
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Imagine that - thought-controlled computers are here today
When US Air Force major turned super-spy Mitchell Grant, aka Clint Eastwood, infiltrated the Soviet Union to steal a super-secret, Mach 6, Cold War-winning...
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Airbus hails WTO finding on Boeing
'At least' $5.3 billion worth of subsidies to US airframer included help with move to Chicago and 787 aid
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UAV market set to double
US investment will lead the way as unmanned sector outpaces overall military spending
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CSeries health monitoring to be satellite-based
Bombardier is promising its CSeries will carry "one of the most advanced, if not the most advanced" real-time health monitoring systems to transmit data to and from airborne aircraft, from the single-aisle type's 2013 service entry.
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NewsFly-by-wire for new Bombardier Global duo?
Bombardier seems likely to announce whether it will go fly-by-wire on the super-long-range Global 7000 and 8000 - due to enter service in 2017 and 2018 - at the EBACE business aviation show in Geneva in May.