All articles by Stephen Trimble – Page 17
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Northrop Grumman acquires Orbital ATK in $9.2B deal
Space and missile specialist Orbital ATK will be acquired by Northrop Grumman under a $9.2 billion agreement announced on 18 September.
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P&W completes testing on F135 engine with adaptive fan
Tests this year on an F135 core engine paired with an experimental fan module featuring adaptive bypass airflow to improve fuel efficient and cooling capacity “met or exceeded expectations”, says engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney.
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P&W opens new facilities for GTF fan blades and MRO
A key facility in Pratt & Whitney's campaign to get the production ramp-up for the geared turbofan engine family back on track "recently" opened in Lansing, Michigan, the manufacturer disclosed on 14 September.
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Boeing commits to next production-rate increase for 787
Boeing will build 14 787s per month – or 168 per year – starting in 2019, said Boeing chief executive, chairman and president Dennis Muilenburg on 13 September.
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Bombardier factory tour reveals path to 30 CSeries deliveries
With about 19 CSeries aircraft deliveries to make in less than 15 weeks, a senior Bombardier executive stands by an eight-month-old target to deliver at least 30 of the small single-aisle jets to customers over the full year 2017.
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Bombardier forecasts 6,800 deliveries in CSeries segment
Airlines will order 6,800 small single-aisle aircraft over the next 20 years, Bombardier says in a new market forecast released on 12 September.
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Unidentified USAF aircraft crashes at Nevada range
An unidentified US Air Force aircraft assigned to Materiel Command crashed in the Nevada Test and Training Range on 5 September, killing the test pilot and raising questions about the potential existence of a new classified aircraft.
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Boeing re-inserts orders for Air Force One aircraft into backlog
Boeing confirms that two passenger-carrying 747-8s added to the order backlog a week ago will be delivered to the US Air Force for the Air Force One replacement.
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Lilium secures $90 million financing for electric VTOL air taxi
Start-up aircraft designer Lilium has closed a $90 million round of financing, garnering support from the founders of Skype and Twitter, to continue developing a five-seat, electric-powered, vertical take-off and landing vehicle as an air taxi scheduled to enter service by 2025.
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ANALYSIS: F-22 still rules skies 20 years after first flight
Twenty years after the first flight of a production aircraft on 7 September 1997, the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor remains unchallenged as the world’s top air superiority fighter. Remarkably, the F-22 dominates despite some startling gaps in its arsenal which are only now being addressed as the US Air Force ...
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Silicon Valley-style software approach comes to F-35, F-22
US military and defence industry officials are close to adopting Silicon Valley-style software development and refresh processes for military aircraft, starting with billion-dollar upgrade programmes for the Lockheed Martin F-35 and F-22.
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News photo reveals new Northrop stealth design concept
Northrop Grumman confirms that a previously unpublicised design concept for an apparently stealthy aircraft was revealed in a photograph as part of a Los Angeles Times newspaper articleabout a top company executive.
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United adds 10 A350s, switches -1000s to smaller model
United Airlines has converted orders for 35 A350-1000 aircraft to the smaller A350-900 and added 10 of the latter model to the overall order.
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Perlan II sets new soaring altitude record in Argentina
American and Australian pilots in the two-seat Perlan II broke on 3 September soared to an GPS-recorded altitude of 52,172ft over southern Argentina, breaking the 11-year-old record of 50,700ft set by a different pair of pilots in the Perlan I at the same location.
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Gulfstream adds fifth G600 to flight test fleet
A fifth G600 flight test aircraft and the first to be equipped with a full interior has joined Gulfstream’s campaign to certificate and begin delivering the ultra-long-range business jet next year, the Savannah-based manufacturer announces.
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Airbus outlines lofty ambitions with Perlan II glider
Perlan II pilot Jim Payne plans to soar to 91,000ft in his Airbus-sponsored unpowered glider – but that was not the objective of a quick, 1h flight on 30 August in El Calafate, a rugged tourist destination in southern Argentina. Payne’s team had made several modifications to the Perlan II’s ...
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GE reveals major achievements in hybrid electric propulsion
GE Aviation has broken a two-year silence on a major research project in hybrid electric propulsion with a new white paper that discloses several major advances demonstrated in two experiments since 2015 and that confirms the company is in talks with several potential aircraft makers about using the new technology.
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ANALYSIS: How Boeing is approaching the future of pilotless airliners
Sometime next year Mike Sinnett, Boeing’s vice-president of product development, will enter a small, experimental aircraft and – he hopes – do nothing.
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LABACE: US-based PT6 repair shop to open facility in Brazil
Covington Aircraft has announced plans to open a facility in Brazil, the first international site for the Oklahoma-based radial and turboprop engine overhaul specialist.
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LABACE: Bombardier expands role of Brazilian maintenance centre
MAGA Aviation will provide support for Bombardier Global Express and Global 5000 jets in South America, the Canadian manufacturer announced at LABACE.