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(Update at the bottom of this post.) So the selection announcement for the long running, never dull KC-X tanker competition may come as soon as Thursday. As I write this, media reports indicate that the odds would appear to favor the EADS bid of an A330...
National protectionism and favoritism in the aerospace industry never quite goes away I guess. Between the debates over Airbus subsidies, the influences of the “Buy America” mentality, airline foreign ownership regulations, and political pressure...
I read the title of Jon Ostrower's FlightBlogger post, "Airbus Outlines Future A30X Concepts" with anticipation, but was alas a bit disappointed with what I saw in the Airbus PowerPoint slide posted within (sorry Jon, it's not your fault...
The year 2009 wasn't a great one for the A340. Etithad chose not to replace the -600 that was written off in a 2007 Toulouse ground-test accident, Kingfisher cancelled one of their orders for a -500, and on December 30th, Virgin Atlantic chose to...
The first real post! Where to begin? There’s so much I could talk about from this past week, but one thing which got my attention in particular was United Airlines’ orders for both the Boeing 787 and the Airbus A350. This one kind of caught...