All Systems & interiors articles – Page 75

  • Analysis

    ANALYSIS: Rebel Aerospace shows its creative spark in seating

    2017-03-28T08:14:46Z

    The aptly named Rebel Aero is one of a number of recent European start-ups out to prove that when it comes to the aircraft seating market there is still plenty creative thinking to be done. Although the spin-off from an established composites specialist called United Aerospace has yet to win ...

  • News

    AIX: Inmarsat takes a quieter approach to connectivity

    2017-03-27T16:19:24Z

    ​Inmarsat Aviation is confident its “measured” approach of adding satellite capacity where and when it is required to meet growing demand for in-flight connectivity will drown out the “noisier claims” made by some of its rivals.

  • Analysis

    ANALYSIS: Opportunities open for smaller players in interiors

    2017-03-27T09:57:42Z

    ​Many of the world’s airlines are making ongoing improvements to their onboard products in response to various economic and competitive pressures. But resulting demand for interior products such as seats is placing a growing strain on the relatively few manufacturers, resulting in new business opportunities for smaller, upstart providers, sources ...

  • News

    CS100 flies transatlantic nonstop from London City

    2017-03-26T16:41:00Z

    ​Bombardier has conducted a nonstop transatlantic service from London City airport using a CS100 test aircraft.

  • News

    PICTURE: A350-1000 wraps up high-elevation tests

    2017-03-24T22:22:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Acro's simple approach to seating

    2017-03-23T15:27:19Z

    Since entering the market a decade ago, Acro has made its reputation from supplying mostly no-frills airlines with “simple seats”. But do not make the mistake of calling the UK-based manufacturer a bargain-end upstart. “It may sound like we are a low-cost supplier, but we stand for comfort and an ...

  • News

    French authority joins UK in Airbus fraud probe

    2017-03-16T21:28:00Z

    ​French financial judicial institution Parquet National Financier has joined the probe into alleged fraud at Airbus previously opened by UK authorities.

  • News

    Leonardo sketches 'modular, multi-task' civil-military aircraft

    2017-03-15T17:19:48Z

    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.

  • News

    UTAS pursues nanotubes for aircraft ice protection

    2017-03-14T18:59:12Z

    ​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.

  • News

    Boeing defends 737 Max 10 after lessors demur

    2017-03-09T02:38:12Z

    ​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.

  • News

    Thai links with Airbus to set up MRO facility

    2017-03-08T11:33:00Z

    ​Thai Airways International has reached a tentative deal with Airbus to establish a new maintenance operation at U-Tapao.

  • News

    Boeing unveils first image of 737 Max 10X

    2017-03-07T03:07:27Z

    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.

  • Analysis

    ANALYSIS: Mexico's aerospace cluster prepares for Trump's changes

    2017-03-06T11:18:01Z

    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) ...

  • News

    India's DGCA identifies new gearbox issue on PW1100G

    2017-03-03T21:02:42Z

    ​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.

  • News

    Engine shortage, airframe tweaks prompt CSeries delivery pause

    2017-03-03T19:59:55Z

    ​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.

  • News

    Boeing CEO highlights global approach in Trump era

    2017-03-02T18:42:58Z

    ​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.

  • News

    Boeing sets roll-out date for 737 Max 9

    2017-03-01T21:09:51Z

    ​Two months before the anticipated entry into service of the 737 Max 8, Boeing has scheduled the official roll-out of the first 737 Max 9 for 7 March in Renton, Washington.

  • News

    Leap-powered A321neo gains US and European approval

    2017-03-01T14:53:15Z

    Airbus has gained type certification for the A321neo variant powered by CFM International Leap-1A turbofan engines, the airframer disclosed today.

  • News

    AVALON: Boeing’s Australian innovations see light of day

    2017-03-01T07:32:43Z

    ​Collaborative robotics, virtual reality and aircraft cabin disease transmission prevention are among the latest projects under way at Boeing Research and Technology-Australia – the manufacturer’s largest research organisation outside of the United States.

  • Analysis

    ANALYSIS: Airbus hits stride in Mobile as political winds turn in its favour

    2017-02-23T09:23:42Z

    Four years and four months before Donald Trump rode a wave of industrial nationalism to the White House, Airbus decided to plant a factory in Mobile, Alabama, to deliver A320-family aircraft to US customers. In retrospect, that fateful announcement looks, well, prescient.