All United States articles – Page 166
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Renton factory evolves to meet 737 production rate
Boeing’s factory complex on the south shore of Lake Washington has seen busy times before. In July 1945 alone, the Renton workforce built 160 B-29 bombers, representing about 5.4 million kg (11.9 million lb) of combined empty weight. Seventy years later, an expanded factory with 112 square metres (1.2 million ...
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NewsPARIS: P&W signs long-term deal with component supplier EDAC
Connecticut-based EDAC Technologies is to continue providing components used in P&W's geared turbofans and its F135 powerplant, under the terms of a new deal confirmed at the Paris air show.
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NewsPARIS: Is it too early to write the 747-8 obituary?
Analysts were writing the obituary for the 747-8 programme last January. When the US Air Force committed to buy the aircraft for an Air Force One replacement, Boeing was expected to cease production after delivering the two VC-25A replacements to the US government in 2017, concluding a proud, 48-year production ...
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NewsPARIS: CAE to provide tailored sim for Italian Predators
The Italian air force is to receive a mission-specific simulator for its fleet of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-1 and MQ-9 Predator unmanned air vehicles, a contract for which was signed between the aircraft prime and simulator developer CAE at the show on 16 June.
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NewsPARIS: Lockheed introduces new hybrid airship design
Lockheed Martin has introduced the new LMH1 hybrid airship, a commercialised variant of its half-sized P-791 demonstrator that it first flew in 2006.
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NewsPARIS: US firms team for F-16 component repair offering
Four US defence firms have joined forces to provide a web-based component MRO offering for operators of the Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter.
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NewsPARIS: Boeing, Saab test ground-launched small diameter bomb
Boeing and Saab have extended their cooperation agreement – which already includes working on a clean-sheet jet trainer design for the US Air Force’s T-X contest – to trial a novel new application for the former’s SDB I small diameter bomb.
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PARIS: Accenture predicts defence growth at show
Defence exposure at the show is expected to increase this year, as stretched budgets undergo a gradual upturn and spending is on the rise, according to consultancy firm Accenture.
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PARIS: Woodward ready with new GE joint venture
For actuation and fuel systems supplier Woodward, a talking point of the Paris air show will be its evolving relationship with key customer GE Aviation, in the form of a joint venture the companies announced in May, that will design, develop, source, supply and service the fuel system for GE’s ...
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NewsPARIS: US firm lomax reveals armed variant of turboprop aircraft
US firm Iomax is displaying an armed variant of the Thrush S2R-T660 turboprop aircraft in the static park.
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NewsPARIS: Airbus and Textron to carry out UAV testing for French requirement
An Airbus Defence & Space and Textron Systems team is due to travel to Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona, USA this week, to carry out testing of its offering for France’s tactical unmanned air vehicle requirement for the French DGA defence procurement agency.
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NewsPARIS: Embraer lands deals for 50 E-Jets
Embraer has secured firm orders from three airlines and one aircraft lessor for a total of 50 E-Jets, evenly split between the current generation and the E2 variants, the Brazilian airframer disclosed today at the Paris air show.
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NewsPARIS: Scorpion shows new sensor combination, as interest mounts
The phrase “well-travelled” can be easily used, but in the case of one Paris air show debutant, it is more than apt.
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NewsPARIS: GE Aviation working on new military engine project
GE Aviation is working on a new engine for the military market that includes technology advances introduced by the GE9X and "something a little more radical", says GE Aviation chief executive David Joyce.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Bell 505 Jet Ranger X technical description
Replacing an icon of the rotorcraft industry was never going to be easy. Since its arrival in the mid-1960s the Bell Helicopter 206 Jet Ranger had dominated – if not invented – the market for light, single-engined turbine helicopters. And then in 2010 production of the class-leader - by then ...
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NewsPARIS: P&W developing upgrade package for B-52 engine
Pratt & Whitney is developing a proposal for a package of performance upgrades for the existing Boeing B-52 engine after the US Air Force again postponed a plan to replace the venerable bomber’s 60-year old TF33 engine.
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PARIS: P&W evaluates options for T-X requirement
Pratt & Whitney is evaluating engine options in the 10,000lb-thrust to 15,000lb-thrust range for the US Air Force’s next-generation T-X training requirement, says P&W military engines president Bennett Croswell.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Cost challenge rises as 787 ramps up
A familiar and at times unsettling rhythm of crisis management has gripped the 787 programme since it entered production. A major issue – say, a fastener shortage, a side-of-body redesign, a systems reliability breakdown, a production bottleneck – emerges, seizes global headlines and then… subsides. The 787 orderbook, meanwhile, might ...
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OpinionOPINION: How feasible is a 757 replacement?
There would have to be a market of at least 2,000 aircraft to prompt one of the big airframers to launch a product to fill the middle-of-the-market gap between their largest narrowbodies and smallest twin-aisles, Flightglobal's Ascend consultancy concludes in a new white paper.
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NewsPARIS: Raytheon’s robust weapons offering at Paris packs punch
Raytheon Missile Systems has set up shop at the Paris Air Show with hopes of expanding its customer base for advanced weapons like the traditional advanced medium-range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM), AIM-9X sidewinder and joint standoff weapon, but also newly developed offerings like the small diameter bomb (SDB) II.