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Mitsubishi takes "close look" at MRJ testing campaign
Mitsubishi Aircraft is re-assessing its flight test campaign for the MRJ regional jet following the latest design changes, amid reports that it may require at least 500 more flying hours to achieve certification.
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PICTURES: E195-E2 makes first flight in normal fly-by-wire mode
Launching a two-year flight test campaign for Brazil’s largest commercial aircraft in history, Embraer completed a 2h-long first flight of the E195-E2 test aircraft in Sao Jose dos Campos on 29 March with the regional jet’s fly-by-wire system engaged in normal mode for the duration, senior vice-president and chief operating ...
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CS100 flies transatlantic nonstop from London City
Bombardier has conducted a nonstop transatlantic service from London City airport using a CS100 test aircraft.
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PICTURE: A350-1000 wraps up high-elevation tests
Airbus has wrapped up high-elevation airport testing of the A350-1000 following a 10-day campaign in South America, and the aircraft involved has resumed tests in Toulouse.
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Malindo Air named as 737 Max launch operator
Malaysian carrier Malindo Air will be the first carrier to put the Boeing 737 Max 8 into commercial service.
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Opinion
OPINION: How airliner development is fraught with difficulty
Fifteen years ago, the aviation industry gathered in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, to witness the unveiling of the first all-new large regional jet in a generation, the Fairchild Dornier 728.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Can the A350-1000 live up to Airbus’s expectations?
The audience at Airbus’s annual press conference this year may have been a little surprised to hear the company’s senior executives singing the praises of the best-selling widebody produced by their arch-rival, the Boeing 777-300ER.
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French authority joins UK in Airbus fraud probe
French financial judicial institution Parquet National Financier has joined the probe into alleged fraud at Airbus previously opened by UK authorities.
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Leonardo sketches 'modular, multi-task' civil-military aircraft
ATR shareholder Leonardo intends to break the industry impasse on development of a 100-seat regional turboprop with a new programme to create a "modular and multi-task" aircraft that would also replace the Italian manufacturer's C-27J tactical airlifter.
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UTAS pursues nanotubes for aircraft ice protection
UTC Aerospace Systems has licensed a carbon nanotube-based heater technology that it believes could be ready as an electrothermal ice protection system for aircraft within three or four years, the company says.
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PICTURE: Airbus A350-1000 undergoes low-speed take-off tests
Airbus has been carrying out low-speed take-off tests with one of the A350-1000 development aircraft as it heads towards certification later this year.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Airline support gathers around Boeing MoM concept
US airlines are increasingly showing firm interest in Boeing’s middle-of-the-market aircraft concept, which potentially could replace many of the 757s and 767s that continue to fly.
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Boeing defends 737 Max 10 after lessors demur
A day after two lessors held back from endorsing the 737 Max 10X, a top Boeing executive defended the company’s proposed double-stretch of its re-engined single-aisle now being offered to customers.
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Thai links with Airbus to set up MRO facility
Thai Airways International has reached a tentative deal with Airbus to establish a new maintenance operation at U-Tapao.
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NewsPICTURES: Latest Boeing and Embraer derivatives make their debuts
The latest derivatives of two new airliner types broke cover today at roll-out ceremonies in North and South America.
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Boeing unveils first image of 737 Max 10X
Boeing’s marketing chief unveiled on 6 March the first image of the proposed 737 Max 10X amidst the first of likely a series of rhetorical duels with his Airbus counterpart at the ISTAT Americas convention in San Diego.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Mexico's aerospace cluster prepares for Trump's changes
Larger in area than the UK, the Mexican state of Chihuahua snakes along the southern bank of the Rio Grande from New Mexico across the western one-third of Texas. More than any of Mexico’s 32 states, Chihuahua’s manufacturing sector has prospered under the 23-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) ...
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India's DGCA identifies new gearbox issue on PW1100G
India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has identified the first known incident involving the gearbox of the PW1100G geared turbofan engine on the Airbus A320neo.
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Engine shortage, airframe tweaks prompt CSeries delivery pause
Bombardier has halted deliveries of the CSeries aircraft for two months to refine the production system and upgrade the aircraft configuration while the supply of Pratt & Whitney’s geared turbofan engines remains a bottleneck, chief executive Alain Bellemare tells Flightglobal.
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Boeing CEO highlights global approach in Trump era
In public remarks a couple miles away from the White House on 2 March, Boeing chief executive Dennis Muilenburg re-issued a call for re-empowering the Ex-Im Bank and elaborated on the company’s approach to globalisation in an era of the Trump administration in the USA and Brexit in the UK.