All articles by Stephen Trimble – Page 22
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Airbus calls on France to join European future fighter effort
A week before the Paris air show, the head of Airbus Defence & Space's military aircraft division has called on France to participate in the development of a new airborne weapon system proposed by Germany and Spain to succeed the Eurofighter Typhoon.
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Proposed F-35 engine upgrade validates performance promises
Pratt & Whitney has verified that an unfunded upgrade for the 40,000lb-thrust-class F135 engine could increase the thrust of the Lockheed Martin F-35 by 6-10% and reduce fuel consumption by 5-6%, the company announces on 31 May.
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Rolls-Royce UltraFan could spark patent complaint: P&W
Rolls-Royce could face a patent fight if the future UltraFan engine is chosen to power a potential new Boeing aircraft, Pratt & Whitney president Bob Leduc tells FlightGlobal on 31 May.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: After six years, 777X engine starts certification tests
GE Aviation has spent six years designing, testing and tweaking the engine now officially dubbed the GE9X-105B1 for Boeing’s 777X family.
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Swiss receives first CS300 for Geneva build-up
Swiss will begin a long-planned counter-attack to Easyjet’s growing dominance in Geneva on 1 June, with the delivery of its first Bombardier CS300.
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EBACE: PC-12 operators eye UK for single-engined charters
Finnish operator Hendell Aviation and Switzerland-based Fly7 have announced plans to expand into the newly opened UK market for commercial flights with single-engined turbine-powered aircraft.
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EBACE: Embraer wins EASA approval for Phenom 100EV engine
Embraer is poised to deliver the Phenom 100EV to the European market, with regional certification approval of Pratt & Whitney Canada’s upgraded engine received on the eve of EBACE.
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EBACE: Airbus partners with hypercar designer for ACJ319neo
Airbus Corporate Jets has teamed up with Italian hypercar interior designer Atelier Pagani Automobil to unveil the Infinito cabin design for the ACJ319neo at EBACE today.
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EBACE: Gulfstream stays on track with G500 flight test
Three and a half years after a powered roll-out event, Gulfstream says the G500 remains on track to complete a two-year-old certification programme on schedule by the end of the year.
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EBACE: A330neo joins Airbus corporate jet range
Airbus has formally included the re-engined A330neo in its corporate jet line-up, offering up to 17.5% more range than the baseline A330 version.
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EBACE: Airbus launches ACJ330neo into slow market
Airbus this morning unveiled the A330neo as the latest member of the company’s line-up of widebody corporate jets, offering 17.5% more range than the baseline version.
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EBACE: Core technology tests set to begin for PT6 replacement
Pratt & Whitney Canada will launch demonstration tests this year of engine core technology and advanced systems for a proposed 2,000hp engine designed to replace the most powerful versions of the venerable PT6 family.
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EBACE: Longitude arrives after three-day journey
Over an epic, three-day journey, Textron Aviation’s Cessna Citation Longitude crossed the Atlantic to make an EBACE static park debut less than two weeks after the fourth flight test vehicle completed its maiden flight in Wichita, Kansas.
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EBACE: GE partners with Aerion on supersonic engine study
GE Aviation will partner with Aerion to design a supersonic engine that could power the AS2 business jet, meet stricter community noise regulations and potentially serve as a gateway to a commercial supersonic transport.
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EBACE: Four used A380s offered to head-of-state market
Geneva-based reseller Sparfell & Partners has announced it’s been charged to market four used Airbus A380s as Head of State aircraft and will unveil at EBACE a Winch Design-provided rendering of the private double-decker.
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USAF lifts ban on lightweight pilots for F-35A ejection seat
The US Air Force has removed a nearly two-year-old restriction in the Lockheed Martin F-35A cockpit that banned pilots lighter than 61.9kg (136lb) over concerns that an ejection could cause a severe neck injury.
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NewsBoeing delivers first 737 Max
Boeing has delivered the first 737 Max 8 to launch operator Malindo, becoming the fourth generation of the 50-year-old single-aisle design to be handed over to a customer.
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EBACE: Embraer's new business aviation boss changes the conversation
Business jet sales are stuck at a market-wide range of 650-700 aircraft per year. A few hopeful signs are visible in the market data, but nothing that fills forecasters with unbridled optimism.
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AT-6, Scorpion invited to challenge A-29 for USAF demo
Textron Aviation has confirmed the US Air Force will invite the AT-6 turboprop and Scorpion twin-jet to face off against the Sierra Nevada/Embraer A-29 Super Tucano in a demonstration of close air support capabililty in August called the Light Attack Experiment.
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ANALYSIS: The dream of resuming supersonic flight ramps up
Fourteen years after the retirement of the Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde, the dream of resuming civilian supersonic flight has seemed never more active than in 2017, with four major development efforts scheduled to pass key milestones before the year ends. Activity stretches across laboratories, boardrooms and assembly hangars dotted across the USA.