All articles by Murdo Morrison – Page 33
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ANALYSIS: Can the Evektor EV-55 stay the course?
If the Evektor EV-55 Outback looks like a scaled-down L-410, that is no coincidence. Several of the brains behind the in-development Czech twin turboprop – which flew for the first time in 2011 and as a production-conforming test example this April – spent their formative years with the L-410’s manufacturer, ...
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ILA: Hamburg's cluster philosophy
Hamburg may be best known in aviation circles for having one of Airbus’s two European final assembly lines but the region around the Finkenwerder plant is also home to the third biggest aerospace cluster in the world after Seattle and Toulouse, with 40,000 employees (counting Airbus) and some 300 suppliers, ...
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ANALYSIS: Diehl Aerosystems poised for Airbus ramp-up
For Diehl Aerosystems, Airbus’s production ramp-up is both opportunity and massive challenge. The company’s powerful position as an interiors supplier to Toulouse – and the A350 in particular – has helped turn what was a niche business in the Diehl group six years ago into its biggest division. However, meeting ...
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ILA: MTU gets powered up by PW1000G
Business is brisk for blisks at MTU. The German engine specialist is months from completing an investment in what it describes as the biggest facility in the world for milling bladed disks. By the turn of the year, the last of 24 identical machines will be lowered into position to ...
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EBACE: Rolls-Royce set to accept 2,000th CorporateCare jet
Rolls-Royce is at EBACE poised to mark the 2,000th aircraft on its CorporateCare power-by-the-hour programme, as the fleet of business aircraft powered by its engines continues to grow.
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EBACE: Comlux confident over future of completions
Comlux is undaunted by the slump in the completion market that coincided with the unveiling in April of a widebody extension to its Comlux America centre in Indianapolis.
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EBACE: Large-cabin jet values taking biggest hit: Ascend
The secondhand values of large-cabin jets are falling faster than those of smaller counterparts, as high-end business aircraft take the biggest hit from a collapse in demand from emerging economies.
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EBACE: Innovation aplenty but completions still challenging for Lufthansa Technik
Lufthansa Technik may be having a torrid time on the completions front – after taking the decision last year to put its Bizjet facility in Tulsa in “dormant mode” – but the German maintenance house is at EBACE in confident mood, promoting a series of cabin innovations from interior concepts ...
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EBACE: Bombardier forecasts healthy decade of deliveries
Bombardier is predicting 8,300 business jet deliveries – in the markets it competes in – over the next decade.
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EBACE: 'Tough decisive action' saves Bombardier
Bombardier says “tough decisive action last year to reduce production rates” has saved it from the worst of the collapse in new orders and residual values of large-cabin jets.
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EBACE: PW800 performing in line with expectations: P&WC
Pratt & Whitney Canada says its PW800 breakthrough engine in the 10,000lb-20,000lb-thrust segment is performing in line with expectations on Gulfstream’s four G500 test aircraft, with total flight hours now “well past” 2,000 and “climbing rapidly”.
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EBACE: Comlux makes widebody move
Comlux is undaunted by the slump in the completion market that has coincided with the unveiling in April of a widebody extension to its Comlux America centre in Indianapolis.
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EBACE: GE Aviation Prague centre of excellence readies for Advanced Turboprop
With its mix of brand-new, five-axis CNC equipment and hand-cranked milling machines – some dating from just after the Second World War – a tour of GE Aviation’s Prague facility highlights the journey the one-time Walter Aircraft Engines has been on since becoming the US business’s first overseas fully integrated ...
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ANALYSIS: The mixed fortunes of all-business class services
At the start of the 21st century, the only all-business class service was Concorde. Now – after a short-lived flurry of all-premium transatlantic start-ups in the mid-2000s – a second wave is having mixed success. Those who appear to be making the model work – albeit in a modest way ...
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ANALYSIS: Is business aviation in Europe headed for a triple-dip?
Is it third time unlucky for business aviation in Europe? In less than a decade, the sector has experienced two sharp downturns in traffic – once in the midst of the global crisis of 2009, and again in 2011 and 2012 after a short-lived rebound. Now, as the sector prepares ...
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NewsHybrid Air Vehicles in race to debut Airlander at Farnborough
The biggest aircraft to grace the skies over Farnborough will make its show debut in July if Hybrid Air Vehicles can meet its target of putting its Airlander 10 airship through more than around 20 hours of flight testing in the next six weeks or so.
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VIDEO: What to expect from Farnborough International Airshow 2016
It may be a global village that comes to life for a week every two years, but there is an increasingly established feel to the Farnborough show grounds. Around the perimeter, housing, smart offices and an upscale hotel have replaced a clutter of redundant buildings from its days as a ...
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NewsEvektor seeks investment to take EV-55 into volume production
As the flight test programme for its EV-55 utility transport gathers pace, Czech manufacturer Evektor is hoping it can generate the investment to take the country’s first new civil aircraft in the post-Communist era into volume production.
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INTERIORS: TAP Portugal revealed as A330neo launch operator
TAP Portugal is to be the first to operate the re-engined Airbus A330neo, taking delivery of the type towards the end of 2017. Airbus announced the identity of the launch operator at the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg on 6 April.
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INTERIORS: Airline travellers are warming to wi-fi
In-flight connectivity and IFE provider Gogo is giving prospective customers at Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg a chance to sample its satellite-based 2Ku product at 30,000ft. The Chicago-based company has brought its newly-outfitted Boeing 737-500 to Hamburg for the first time, basing it at the airport where it will be ...