All Engines articles – Page 102

  • News

    UTAS pursues nanotubes for aircraft ice protection

    2017-03-14T18:59:12Z

    ​UTC Aerospace Systems has licensed a carbon nanotube-based heater technology that it believes could be ready as an electrothermal ice protection system for aircraft within three or four years, the company says.

  • News

    Cracked component, crew lapses cited in SIA 777 fire report

    2017-03-14T08:38:41Z

    A cracked component in the General Electric GE90 engine was behind a wing fire sustained aboard a Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-300ER on 27 June 2016.

  • News

    Qatar Airways to receive first A320neo-family jet next year

    2017-03-13T15:56:57Z

    Qatar Airways expects to take delivery of its first Airbus A320neo-family aircraft in 2018.

  • News

    Boeing defends 737 Max 10 after lessors demur

    2017-03-09T02:38:12Z

    ​A day after two lessors held back from endorsing the 737 Max 10X, a top Boeing executive defended the company’s proposed double-stretch of its re-engined single-aisle now being offered to customers.

  • News

    Thai links with Airbus to set up MRO facility

    2017-03-08T11:33:00Z

    ​Thai Airways International has reached a tentative deal with Airbus to establish a new maintenance operation at U-Tapao.

  • News

    Embraer unconcerned over P&W GTF issues

    2017-03-07T15:03:14Z

    ​Embraer believes its E-Jet E2 will be unaffected by issues related to the Pratt & Whitney geared turbofan engine family, when the aircraft enters into service in 2018.

  • News

    Boeing unveils first image of 737 Max 10X

    2017-03-07T03:07:27Z

    Boeing’s marketing chief unveiled on 6 March the first image of the proposed 737 Max 10X amidst the first of likely a series of rhetorical duels with his Airbus counterpart at the ISTAT Americas convention in San Diego.

  • Analysis

    ANALYSIS: Mexico's aerospace cluster prepares for Trump's changes

    2017-03-06T11:18:01Z

    Larger in area than the UK, the Mexican state of Chihuahua snakes along the southern bank of the Rio Grande from New Mexico across the western one-third of Texas. More than any of Mexico’s 32 states, Chihuahua’s manufacturing sector has prospered under the 23-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) ...

  • PW1100G A320 - Airbus
    Opinion

    OPINION: Can commercial engine suppliers deliver on innovation?

    2017-03-05T14:15:00Z

    ​For all the challenges within its own production system and the wider supply chain, it is engines that are producing the biggest headaches for Airbus.

  • News

    India's DGCA identifies new gearbox issue on PW1100G

    2017-03-03T21:02:42Z

    ​India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has identified the first known incident involving the gearbox of the PW1100G geared turbofan engine on the Airbus A320neo.

  • News

    Engine shortage, airframe tweaks prompt CSeries delivery pause

    2017-03-03T19:59:55Z

    ​Bombardier has halted deliveries of the CSeries aircraft for two months to refine the production system and upgrade the aircraft configuration while the supply of Pratt & Whitney’s geared turbofan engines remains a bottleneck, chief executive Alain Bellemare tells Flightglobal.

  • News

    Boeing CEO highlights global approach in Trump era

    2017-03-02T18:42:58Z

    ​In public remarks a couple miles away from the White House on 2 March, Boeing chief executive Dennis Muilenburg re-issued a call for re-empowering the Ex-Im Bank and elaborated on the company’s approach to globalisation in an era of the Trump administration in the USA and Brexit in the UK.

  • News

    Boeing sets roll-out date for 737 Max 9

    2017-03-01T21:09:51Z

    ​Two months before the anticipated entry into service of the 737 Max 8, Boeing has scheduled the official roll-out of the first 737 Max 9 for 7 March in Renton, Washington.

  • News

    Leap-powered A321neo gains US and European approval

    2017-03-01T14:53:15Z

    Airbus has gained type certification for the A321neo variant powered by CFM International Leap-1A turbofan engines, the airframer disclosed today.

  • News

    New snags emerge with GTF-powered A320neos in India

    2017-03-01T06:06:44Z

    India's Directorate General of Civil Aviation is undertaking extensive examinations of the Pratt & Whitney PW1100G geared turbofan engines on Airbus A320neos operated by GoAir and IndiGo, following the emergence of new issues with the engine.

  • News

    Labour costs central to location for MTU-LHT overhaul venture

    2017-02-24T10:58:50Z

    Labour costs will be the factor that determines the location of MTU's planned overhaul joint venture with Lufthansa Technik.

  • Analysis

    ANALYSIS: Airbus hits stride in Mobile as political winds turn in its favour

    2017-02-23T09:23:42Z

    Four years and four months before Donald Trump rode a wave of industrial nationalism to the White House, Airbus decided to plant a factory in Mobile, Alabama, to deliver A320-family aircraft to US customers. In retrospect, that fateful announcement looks, well, prescient.

  • News

    P&W develops plan to exceed GTF 2017 delivery targets

    2017-02-22T17:32:21Z

    ​Pratt & Whitney has an internal plan to exceed delivery targets for the geared turbofan GTF) engine family this year after falling short of the objective in 2016, says chief executive Greg Hayes of P&W parent United Technologies.

  • News

    VIDEO: A320 family first flights

    2017-02-22T09:54:44Z

    ​When an Airbus flight test crew took the A320 to the sky for the first time, they must have known they were flying a special aircraft. For sure, as this video shows, that 1987 sortie was a sight to behold. But what must have surprised even its flight crew and ...

  • Analysis

    ANALYSIS: How Airbus is managing A320's production transition

    2017-02-22T09:36:57Z

    Airbus has not quite reached the point of declaring: “The A320 is dead – long live the A320neo,” but the transition to the re-engined version is accelerating and the backlog for the original model of its first single-aisle aircraft is rapidly diminishing.