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FARNBOROUGH: Rockton signs for 10 MRJ90s
Mitsubishi Aircraft has attracted its first European customer with Swedish lessor Rockton's signing of a letter of intent that covers a firm order for 10 MRJ90s plus options on an additional 10.
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FARNBOROUGH: Comac wins deals for 90 ARJ21s
Comac has disclosed commitments for 90 ARJ21 regional jets from two Chinese lessors, with both deals targeted at putting the Chinese aircraft with foreign customers.
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FARNBOROUGH: Powering transition at Avio Aero
Avio Aero is a company in transition. Three years after its acquisition by General Electric was completed, the Italian engine specialist – founded over a century ago – is embarking on the final stage of what chief executive Riccardo Procacci describes as a big change in the way the company ...
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ANALYSIS: Early A350 deployment reflects mature operation
Airbus is showcasing its latest widebody, the A350, again at Farnborough this year and is progressively building the big twinjet’s in-service experience.
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FARNBOROUGH: Show a pivotal moment for the new Leonardo
An air show debut for any company is a big moment, a sign that it has truly arrived. And to make that arrival at Farnborough is to announce its arrival on the grandest stage of all. However, in this case the business in question has a level of experience unmatched ...
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ANALYSIS: BAE Systems to stage Farnborough show of strength
As the UK prepares for a shock divorce from the European Union following its public’s Brexit vote, the implications for the nation’s major aerospace players include much uncertainty – but also potential opportunity.
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FARNBOROUGH: Boeing confirms technical feasibility of '777-10'
Boeing has confirmed that a stretch of the 777-9 is technically possible if customers express interest.
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FARNBOROUGH: South Carolina factory evolving into familiar Boeing facility
A hunk of yellow scaffolding labeled “scrap” in spray paint sat abandoned outside the 787 aft-body assembly building, no doubt waiting for a few of Boeing’s 8,000 workers in North Charleston, South Carolina to haul it away.
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NewsFARNBOROUGH: Irkut designs global competitor with MC-21, but hurdles remain
Go back in time to March 2008. What if Bombardier never launched the CSeries aircraft family with Pratt & Whitney’s geared turbofan engines? What if Airbus never responded two years later by deciding to re-engine the A320? And what if Boeing wasn’t forced to respond to the A320neo a year ...
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NewsBoeing selects E170 as next ecoDemonstrator
Boeing has selected the Embraer E170 regional jet to be the next platform in a series of flying testbeds for advanced technologies named ecoDemonstrators.
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FARNBOROUGH: Airbus overcomes A320neo technical snags to close on delivery targets
Gradually diminishing parking space probably wasn’t on the Airbus watchlist of potential hitches that the airframer might encounter at the early stage of entry-into-service for the re-engined A320neo.
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FARNBOROUGH: Boeing bids to redeem in-service record with 787-9
Redemption is not a word often associated with the introduction of new aircraft models, but the entry into service of the 787-9 nearly two years ago was anything but a typical event.
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FARNBOROUGH: Bionic design emerges from Airbus 3D printers
Machining aircraft parts out of giant metal billets is time-consuming, wasteful of material and very expensive – but still, for the most part, necessary. Despite significant advances in the past two decades, autoclave-cured composite parts remain usually more expensive to build than metallic equivalents. Additive manufacturing – so-called 3D printing ...
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FARNBOROUGH: Rolls-Royce ramps up testing on next-generation programmes
The next 18 months are destined to be a busy period for Rolls-Royce’s research and development engineering teams as the UK-based engine manufacturer ramps up test activities on its next generation of turbofan engines.
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SITA OnAir to assist Rolls-Royce engine health monitoring
Rolls-Royce has chosen SITAONAIR technology to collate and distribute engine health monitoring data.
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FARNBOROUGH: Airbus sets stage for A350-2000 launch decision
Only one piece remains missing in the long-term portfolios of Airbus and Boeing widebody products as the two companies enter the Farnborough air show – and it could remain purposefully obscure for at least a while longer.
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FARNBOROUGH: 787 - Rolls-Royce bang on the money with Trent plans
Boeing first flew the 787-8 in December 2009, but the first run of the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engine came almost four years before in February 2006. Now more than a decade old, the engine competition between R-R and the GE Aviation GEnx-1B is as intense as ever, with still unpredictable ...
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FARNBOROUGH: Proposed stretch of 737 Max 9 possible, but challenging
The nearly 50-year-old 737 airframe may have one more stretch left to give, but it will not be easy.
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ANALYSIS: Automation leap on 777 hits growing pains
When Boeing executives decided to re-invent a critical element of the 777 production process two years ago, they knew it was going to be hard. Memories of the costly, three-and-a-half-year delayed entry of the 787 were still fresh around Everett, Washington.
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ANALYSIS: Middle of the Market is 'when', not 'if' at Boeing
Mike Delaney was named as head of Boeing’s four-year-old aircraft development organisation in April. The veteran Boeing executive immediately inherited a conceptual puzzle often called the “middle of the market (MoM)” study, a proposed aircraft family with widebody payload and range performance and, somehow, narrowbody economics.