All articles by Murdo Morrison – Page 37
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FARNBOROUGH: Air show launched in Turkey
There is a new air show on the calendar – in Turkey. Farnborough International is teaming with local company Medyacity to launch the Eurasia Airshow at Antalya Airport on 25-28 April 2018.
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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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FARNBOROUGH: Triumph gets back in shape
Size doesn’t always equate with wise in aerospace. Just ask the owners of Triumph Group, who have seen the company double in size in the past six years, but also the value of their shares more than half from a 2013 peak of over $80, as the conglomerate has struggled ...
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FARNBOROUGH: Viking's plans for the CL-415
Ten years after buying the rights to the DHC-6 Twin Otter, Viking Air has acquired another venerable aircraft programme from Bombardier – the CL-415 water bomber.
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FARNBOROUGH: Cadet demand drives commercial success for CAE
Increasing air travel means a need for more airliners, and also more pilots. These pilots have to be trained – as part of ongoing assessments, for new types, or to become flightcrew in the first place. CAE is one of those benefiting from the surge in people who want to ...
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FARNBOROUGH: UK industry braces for Brexit
Listen to naysayers and you might be led to believe that the UK’s glory days as an aircraft-building nation are behind it. All the independent constructors of the early jet age have long disappeared or been subsumed, and – save for the odd Britten-Norman Islander – the country stopped building ...
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FARNBOROUGH: New Aero Vodochody boss to review aerostructures business and give new push to L-39NG
In the 1980s, it was a heavyweight in military training – supplying thousands of aircraft to the Soviet Union and its allies. In the 1990s and 2000s, it became an industrial relic with cul-de-sac programmes that no one – including one-time stakeholder Boeing – wanted. Finally, this decade has seen ...
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FARNBOROUGH: An exciting new chapter for the regional jet market
It has been a pivotal 12 months for the new wave of sub-100-seat jets. Two types powered by Pratt & Whitney’s geared turbofan PW1000G family – the Mitsubishi Regional Jet and the Embraer E2 – have embarked on flight test campaigns. In the last few weeks, Embraer’s successor to the ...
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FARNBOROUGH: CityJet flies the flag for Superjet International's SJ100 at show
At air shows past, Superjet International has given pride of place to an aircraft belonging to a carrier operating on the other side of the Atlantic. It had little choice: Mexico’s Interjet was its sole customer. But an airline flying much closer to home will be the face of the ...
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FARNBOROUGH: Lord looks to future with French fly-by-wire acquisition
It has been a year of mixed fortunes in aerospace for Lord. Like most suppliers to commercial airliner manufacturers, the US corporation headed into Farnborough with the “nice problem” of having to ramp up fast to deliver on a large backlog of contracts for Airbus and Boeing aircraft. It has ...
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FARNBOROUGH: Bombardier’s CSeries wing plant in Belfast readies for ramp-up
The UK may be where every Airbus wing is engineered and assembled, but in another part of the kingdom wing production is also critical to the prospects of the aerospace sector. With delivery of the first Bombardier CS100 to Swiss International Air Lines scheduled during Farnborough, and handover of the ...
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UK special: Strength of Northern Ireland consortium greater than sum of the parts
Five aerospace SMEs in Northern Ireland are tackling the problem of being squeezed down the supply chain by coming together as a consortium to compete for complex work packages
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FARNBOROUGH: Show set to be a vintage one for new aircraft
Although not everyone has revealed their cards yet, with two weeks or so to go, this year’s Farnborough air show looks like being one of the most exciting in years for significant aircraft appearances. Both re-engined single-aisle contenders – the Airbus A320neo and the Boeing 737 Max – could be ...
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FARNBOROUGH: Show a turning point for CFM: Ebanga
This year’s Farnborough air show will be a “landmark” for CFM International, says chief executive Jean-Paul Ebanga, as it ends an eight-year development phase of the Leap programme and embarks on the next stage – entry into service. The Leap-1A for the Airbus A320neo received final approval on 31 May, ...
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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.