Airbus expects the A380 to be around 15dB within the new ICAO Chapter 4 noise standard. The manufacturer's director of environmental affairs Rainer von Wrede says also that the next Airbus aircraft is "probably not" going to be a conventional design.
Source: Airline Business
Representatives of Spirit AeroSystems workers in the UK are seeking political support over concerns for the future of the company’s Short Brothers plant in Belfast as it faces break-up. Airbus has reached an agreement to acquire wing production for the A220 and – if a third party is not identified ...
Boom says it expects to begin testing the Symphony engine’s core this year at the Colorado site.
Boeing this summer will stop developing NASA’s X-66 truss-braced-wing demonstrator aircraft and shift its focus specifically toward developing thin-wing technology that had been central to X-66’s design.
