All articles by Murdo Morrison – Page 46
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FARNBOROUGH: Komsomolsk - an unlikely centre for Russia's new aviation industry
Russia’s first “Western” jet is assembled in a city that is about as far from the West as you can be in that vast country. An 8h flight across seven time zones from Moscow and frozen for much of the year, Komsomolsk-on-Amur was established in the 1930s to build ships ...
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NewsFARNBOROUGH: Airbus faces up to its widebody conundrums
The rivalry in the widebody sector is intense not because Airbus and Boeing have directly competing products, but because they do not. Each has a different vision for the long-haul market, and the Farnborough air show will see them continue their tussle over which is right.
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NewsFARNBOROUGH: Airbus continues to forge ahead in single-aisles
It may be playing catch up with Boeing on widebodies, but in the single-aisle market Airbus has a clear head-start on its rival. While Seattle dithered about its narrowbody strategy at the turn of the decade, Airbus committed in 2010 to re-powering its existing A320 family with a choice of ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: After series of acquisitions, Nasmyth looks to make a name for itself
Ten years after being founded, Nasmyth Group is out to make a name for itself at the Farnborough air show.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: How Marshall is re-engineering its aerospace business
“You don’t get to be a 105-year-old company without reinventing yourself many times over,” admits Steve Fitz-Gerald, chief executive of Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group. As part of its latest transformation, the Cambridge-based company has been tackling costs and performance issues, and loosening its reliance on defence by developing and ...
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Embraer prepares to unveil E2 cabin concept
Embraer will reveal a cabin mock-up of the first of its new E-Jet E2 family at Farnborough, as it presses ahead with development of its trio of re-engined regional jets.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: How can Airbus widen the appeal of the A380?
Airbus sensed it could be a long haul, but almost a decade after the world’s largest airliner took to the skies for the first time, A380 sales remain underwhelming.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: What to expect at this year's Farnborough
Farnborough air show boss Shaun Ormrod admits that hosting a major air show is harder than it used to be. A generation ago – with the industry concentrated in North America and western Europe and focused on a small number of events – the biennial UK gathering was a must-attend. ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: ABS Jets offering the best of both worlds in Prague
Like many aviation companies in the Czech Republic, ABS Jets – a Prague-based business aviation services company – markets itself on the “Western values/Eastern prices” principle.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: GE looks to turn former Walter Engines into its turboprop centre of excellence
GE Aviation’s Business and General Aviation Turboprops business in Prague – the former Walter Aircraft Engines – combines the Czech company’s decades-long expertise in small turboprop engines with the US giant’s vast experience in industrial production and new product development
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Czech champion Aero Vodochody's structural change
Aero Vodochody has been through two revolutions of its own since the political changes that swept eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall
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NewsEBACE: Race is on to deliver first BBJ 747-8
The race is on for the delivery of the first BBJ 747-8 head of state aircraft and Boeing Business Jets president Steve Taylor wants to be at the office in the front when the delivery happens sometimes in the next month.
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NewsILA: Premium Aerotec gears up to meet the demands of parent Airbus
It was a very European compromise. Back in 2007, reeling from a feeble dollar, the A380 debacle and the need to fund development of the A350, bosses of the then-EADS launched a drive to cut costs and streamline the Franco-German group’s cumbersome vertically-integrated organisation. Part of the solution involved divesting ...
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NewsILA: Show to fly flag for German aerospace
Berlin’s ILA air show may not have the global status of Paris or Farnborough, but its importance to the German aerospace industry and the federal republic’s international image is illustrated by the fact it will once again be opened by Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: ADAT sale signals strategic change for Mubadala
Abu Dhabi’s investment house Mubadala has signalled a major switch in its ambitious aerospace strategy, offloading its maintenance, repair and overhaul unit ADAT to Etihad Airways while taking full control of specialist Italian airframer Piaggio Aero.
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SR Technics cuts completion costs with off-shelf VIP narrowbody cabin
SR Technics is launching an off-the-shelf interior product for Airbus and Boeing narrowbodies that it says will shave 30% off the typical time for a cabin installation by dumping many of the “habits” of the large-business jet completion industry.
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NewsVIDEO: F-35 and A350 among highlights of a new-look Farnborough air show
Most of the serious aerospace business at Farnborough goes on behind closed doors, but it is in the skies and static display that the world’s attention will be focused at this year’s show, with treats for fans of both latest-generation airliners and fighters.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Can Rolls-Royce find a way back into narrowbodies?
Despite committing the thrust of its development energies in a two-step evolution of its Trent family – the target being a widebody engine in the 2020s featuring extensive composite structures and geared technology – Rolls-Royce is reaffirming its determination to return to the single-aisle market.
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NewsRolls-Royce in talks with Airbus on new widebody engines
Rolls-Royce is in “light discussions” with Airbus about developing more fuel-efficient engines for the A330 and A380, and is confident it can deliver new products if asked.
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NewsRolls-Royce to develop two new Trent-based engines
Rolls-Royce is developing two new Trent-based engines – ready for service in 2020 and 2025 – which it says will deliver fuel efficiencies of up to 10% over the Trent XWB engine for the Airbus A350.