All articles by Murdo Morrison – Page 25
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ANALYSIS: Heli-One pioneers rotorcraft MTO in Aviation Valley
Heli-One’s maintenance, repair and overhaul operation at Rzeszow airport is an example of how Aviation Valley has been expanding its appeal into the services sector and beyond its traditional base of engine components manufacturing and helicopter assembly. Opened in 2014, the facility is the CHC Helicopters subsidiary’s fourth and newest ...
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ANALYSIS: UK aerospace investors head to Aviation Valley
The relatively little-known name McBraida is up in lights for anyone arriving at Rzeszow airport in southern Poland. Facing the terminal, the neon logo of the British engineering company adorns the side of the 3,100m2 (33,400ft2) factory it opened in 2013. Privately-owned McBraida’s first overseas facility manufactures mainly build-to-print, high-precision ...
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ANALYSIS: Fifteen years on, Poland's Aviation Valley continues to power on
Once home to some of the most important aero engine, military trainer, and helicopter factories in the Eastern bloc, post-communist Poland has powered its way back to the top ranks of European aerospace, after a painful transition to a market economy. It is thanks largely to the success of one ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: How Israel gave birth to a plethora of aerospace innovations
Seventy years ago, just after the surviving architects of the Holocaust faced grim justice at Nuremberg, a few hundred thousand idealists – many refugees from post-war Europe’s ruins and committed to creating a Jewish homeland in the Holy Land – established the state of Israel. At first, the new nation ...
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ANALYSIS: Israel's UAV specialists target exports
From compact, battlefield-launched, eyes in the sky to large, tactical reconnaissance platforms and warhead-armed systems that can loiter for hours before hitting their targets with deadly effect, Israel has led the world in developing unmanned air systems. With know-how created by the need to survey enemy combatants in built-up areas ...
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ANALYSIS: Poland's helicopter manufacturers look to new opportunities
Other than the home nations of Airbus and Leonardo, Poland is the only OEM for rotorcraft in Europe, and the only country in which a non-European airframer has a presence. Romania might beg to differ, but Airbus Helicopters is still waiting for an order from the domestic customer to instigate ...
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SINGAPORE: VTOL business aircraft concept unveiled
Bombardier, Cessna, Dassault and Gulfstream may not be watching their backs just yet, but a UK start-up has unveiled plans at the show for the world’s first vertical take-off and landing business aircraft.
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ANALYSIS: Israel Aerospace Industries pushes into commercial market
The Singapore air show remains one of the most important events on the calendar for Israel’s aerospace and defence industry. The island state has been a major customer of Israeli equipment since Israeli Defence Force officers helped establish Singapore’s military after independence in 1965. The nations have many similarities – ...
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SINGAPORE: Bombardier shows off Global 6000 cabin
Bombardier is showing its latest Global 6000 cabin in Asia for the first time, as the Canadian manufacturer continues to notch up orders in the region for its revamped long-range, large cabin business jet.
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ANALYSIS: Israeli weapons house Rafael has Asian nations in its sights
India and Australia are among the Asia-Pacific nations that Rafael has firmly in its sights with its current and in-development weapons and targeting systems. The company is “in the final stages” of developing the third and latest, ER, version of its I-Derby active radar air-to-air missile, and is eyeing a ...
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SINGAPORE: Farnborough show to debut host of new features
Farnborough air show organisers are in Singapore to talk up this year’s event, which will feature a host of new features as well as the site’s first permanent exhibition hall.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Daher looks to expand US and digital footprint
TBM owner Daher has notched up its second best year for deliveries of the single-engined turboprop, and a record since it acquired the Tarbes-based airframer in 2009. The French group shipped a combined 57 TBM 910s and TBM 930s in the 12 months to December, three more than the previous ...
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Airbus chief Enders condemns protectionism and Brexit
Airbus chief executive Tom Enders last night launched a blistering attack on "protectionism" in the aerospace and aviation industries, linking the election of US president Donald Trump and the 2016 UK vote to leave the European Union as moves that could damage free trade and aircraft manufacturing on both sides ...
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ANALYSIS: Airbus powers up its other assets in Romania
Its helicopters division is not the only Airbus unit to have set up shop in Romania. In 2011, Premium Aerotec, the group’s wholly owned but autonomous aerostructures subsidiary, opened its first factory outside Germany next to the Airbus Helicopters facility in Brasov. The plant has since almost doubled in size ...
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ANALYSIS: Airbus's big plan to revive the Romanian rotorcraft sector
If you build it, they will come. Airbus Helicopters might have been following the famous advice of the film Field of Dreams when it invested almost €52 million ($62 million) in a factory in Romania in November 2015. Two years on, the Brasov plant is ready to produce its first ...
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IAI to decide imminently on whether to launch business jet
Israel Aerospace Industries will take a decision imminently on whether to relaunch its own business jet. It comes 17 years after the Israeli defence giant divested its two aircraft programmes and their marketing and completions arm, Galaxy Aerospace to Gulfstream parent General Dynamics, and as Yosef Melamed, head of IAI’s ...
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ANALYSIS: The reinvention of Romania's Aerostar
On first appearance, Aerostar’s sprawling complex of buildings next to Bacau airport may reflect its heritage as a state-run enterprise focused on supporting the Romanian defence forces.
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ANALYSIS: Airlines ponder how to capitalise on big data
Every hour, via a host of onboard sensors, a new-generation airliner will record and stream a vast amount of data that would have been unthinkable a few years ago. But how do operators process and exploit this firehose of information on the aircraft’s real-time performance? In the past 12 months, ...
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ANALYSIS: Inside Brooklands Museum's new old aircraft factory
Many countries have renowned air museums. Few if any – until now – have set out to explain the history of aircraft design and manufacturing. The new Brooklands Aircraft Factory – part of a £10.7 million facelift of the aviation and motor racing heritage centre in Weybridge, just outside London ...
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ANALYSIS: Can a deflated HAV rise again with Airlander?
With its “substantially damaged” prototype back in the hangar for the second time in 15 months, a feeling of deflation once again pervades the Bedford base of Hybrid Air Vehicles, developer of the lighter-than-air Airlander 10 experimental aircraft. However, the developers of the world’s largest flying structure insist the latest ...