All articles by David Kaminski-Morrow – Page 377
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Confident ATR outlines Paris order surge
Orders from four customers at the Paris air show will push regional airframer ATR's sales this year beyond the record figure of 53 achieved at the same point...
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A350-900 first flight pushed back to end-2012
Airbus has pushed back the first flight of the A350-900 to the end of 2012 and is aiming for certification and service entry by the end of 2013 because of a delay to final assembly, disclosed in January, which will start at the end of 2011.
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Airbus to broaden in-cockpit surveillance function
Airbus is intending to extend an in-flight traffic awareness system to airport surface movements following certification of the concept by European safety...
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Toulouse on track with A350XWB
Airbus appears gradually to be winning its battle with A380 production just as it faces the daunting prospect of keeping its latest airliner programme, the three-member A350 twinjet family, on schedule
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The Airbus-Boeing narrowbody contest, pre-Paris
Boeing faces mounting pressure to commit to a narrowbody strategy for its high-stakes battle with Airbus
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Weak Flybe MRO procedures led to Dash 8 dual-engine oil leak
UK investigators recommended the tightening of maintenance procedures at Flybe Aviation Services after determining that several weaknesses led to a Bombardier...
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Airbus takes deliveries to 217 over first five months
Airbus sold just seven aircraft in May, but the airframer typically holds order disclosures in reserve in the weeks before the Paris air show.
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EASA prepares to broaden icing certification criteria
Europe's safety authority is preparing to assess feedback over a proposed overhaul of icing certification criteria that would broaden the scope to include other hazardous icing phenomena such as supercooled large drops and crystallisation.
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Vladivostok Avia A330 snags construction fence on landing
Russian investigators are examining why a Vladivostok Avia Airbus A330-300 struck a construction work fence while landing at Moscow Vnukovo airport, where...
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EADS cites strong residual values for end of P2F programme
Costly residual values of the baseline Airbus A320 appear to have contributed to a decision by the airframer to cancel its passenger-to-freighter conversion programme.
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CFM prepares to unveil Leap-X customers
CFM International is preparing to detail orders for its Leap-X turbofan, which has yet to receive its first customer for the Airbus A320neo platform.
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Investigators try to explain crew reaction to AF447's stall
Initial findings from the crashed Air France Airbus A330's flight recorders have left investigators trying to understand why the crew maintained nose-up inputs despite entering a fatal stall.
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Airbus cancels A320 freighter conversion programme
Airbus is cancelling its A320 freighter conversion programme, and has started to dissolve its partnership with Russian aerospace firms United Aircraft and...
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Stalled AF447 did not switch to abnormal attitude law
Investigation into the accident sequence of Air France flight AF447 has revealed that the Airbus A330 did not enter the abnormal attitude law after it stalled,...
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Investigators look to pre-crash activation of locator beacons
The BEA investigation agency has inquired as to whether emergency locator transmitters could be developed to signal ahead of impact rather than activate on shock or water contact.
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AF447 inquiry: distress-triggered data could minimise search
French investigators are to advise development of technical methods to reduce the search zone for missing aircraft, after the expensive two-year hunt for...
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Revised stall procedures centre on angle-of-attack not power
Investigators have been left attempting to explain why the crew of Air France flight AF447 failed to recover the Airbus A330 from a high-altitude stall,...
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Air France highlights evidence of technical problem on AF447
Air France has emphasised the evidence of a technical malfunction on the Airbus A330 which crashed in the South Atlantic two years ago, after French investigators...
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AF447 stalled but crew maintained nose-up attitude
French investigators have disclosed that the crew of Air France flight AF447 maintained nose-up inputs to the aircraft even after the Airbus A330 entered...
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PICTURES: Korean's first A380 takes deliveries almost to 50
Korean Air has formally taken delivery of its first Airbus A380, becoming the sixth carrier to operate the double-deck aircraft. The Seoul-based operator...