Air cargo operator Kitty Hawk is to lease seven Boeing 737-300SF special freighters from GE Capital Aviation Services, becoming the US launch customer for a conversion programme offered by the Bedek division of Israel Aircraft Industries. The first aircraft will be delivered to the operator in November 2004, with the balance arriving by the end of 2005.
Source: Flight International
Royal Jordanian Airlines is to open a new transatlantic service to Washington DC ahead of the summer season next year. The Oneworld alliance carrier states that it will fly the nonstop route from Amman twice-weekly. Royal Jordanian will deploy Boeing 787s for the service. It will bring to four the ...
GE Aerospace in 2025 plans to use two of the world’s fastest computers, both at US-government-funded research facilities, to study how its open-fan engine concept will integrate with an aircraft’s wings and other structures.
Developing novel propulsion technologies has proven more challenging than expected, leaving Embraer’s chief engineer now predicting his team would need until 2040 to bring a hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered aircraft to market.
