All aerospace news – Page 508
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ISTAT: Bombardier sales chief defends Air Canada CSeries deal
Bombardier vice-president of commercial operations Ross Mitchell vowed on 1 March that orders coming in the next 12 months for the CSeries aircraft family will lift any doubts about the future of the programme.
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ISTAT: Scope-clause status quo could benefit CRJ900 – Bombardier
A failure to obtain scope clause relief by US regional carriers could have the unintended effect of boosting sales prospects for the CRJ900 regional jet, predicts Bombardier vice-president of commercial operations Ross Mitchell.
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NewsMontenegro to sell fixed-wing fleet as focus turns to rotorcraft ops
The government of Montenegro has given the go-ahead for the sale of its remaining four Soko G-4 Super Galeb jets and three Utva 75 basic trainers, in line with a newly released development plan that envisages the air force flying an all-rotary-wing fleet.
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Honeywell drops UTC acquisition bid
Honeywell on 1 March withdrew a public and controversial bid to acquire rival aerospace engines and systems supplier United Technologies.
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HELI-EXPO: Airbus slashes H225 output, anticipates military rebound
Airbus Helicopters is to dramatically slash output on its H225 over the next two years as it tries to deal with lower demand from the oil and gas market.
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HELI-EXPO: Lockheed-Sikorsky considers new commercial helicopters
Sikorsky is looking beyond the S-76D and S-92 to new commercial products, potentially clean-sheet designs in the medium or light classes or “significant upgrades” to existing designs.
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HELI-EXPO: H215 makes show debut ahead of US tour
Making its HAI Heli-Expo debut this year is the Airbus Helicopters H215 which has landed in Louisville ahead of a month-long US demo tour.
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NewsHELI-EXPO: Coming H175 deliveries key to broadening operator base
Airbus Helicopters intends to deliver 10 examples of its H175 super medium in 2016 as it works to broaden the operator base beyond launch customer Noordzee Helikopters Vlaanderen.
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NewsHELI-EXPO: Airbus Helicopters begins sales push on H160
A year on from its launch at 2015’s HAI show, Airbus Helicopters is beginning the first stage of the sales push for its new H160 medium twin as flight test activity continues to ramp up on the new model.
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NewsFinmeccanica to offer AW139 and AW119 for US military missions
Finmeccanica intends to compete for two substantial helicopter requirements by the US military, offering the 15-seat AW139 as a replacement for the US Air Force’s 62 UH-1Ns and the AW119 Koala for the US Navy's helicopter training programme, potentially replacing up to 117 Bell 206-based TH-57 Sea Rangers.
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HELI-EXPO: P&WC lays out upgrades and PT6 successor plan
Turboshaft manufacturer Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) is working on a series of near-term upgrades for its current engine range, even as it develops a future replacement for its ubiquitous PT6 powerplant due to arrive in around five years’ time.
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HELI-EXPO: Return to flight edges closer for AW609 tiltrotor
Ground runs of the third AW609 prototype, AC3, are due to take place in the coming days as Finmeccanica Helicopters looks to get its civil tiltrotor back into the air.
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HELI-EXPO: AgustaWestland rebrands SW-4 for civil market
Finmeccanica Helicopters has unveiled a new name and a pair of critical upgrades for civil variants of the SW-4 light single produced by its Polish subsidiary PZL Swidnik.
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HELI-EXPO: Bell outlines progress on new commercial platforms
Bell Helicopter is giving a Heli-Expo debut to its two clean-sheet civil programmes, with prototypes of the light single-engined 505 Jet Ranger X and the super-medium twin 525 Relentless both on display on the show floor.
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NewsNASA selects Lockheed Martin to design supersonic X-plane
NASA has selected Lockheed Martin to design a half-scale supersonic X-plane with boom-suppression technology in an effort to lift the international ban on flying faster than Mach 1.0 overland.
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NewsHELI-EXPO: Bell rules out future conventional military helicopter developments
Mitch Snyder, the chief executive of Bell Helicopter, does not imagine the company offering another clean-sheet helicopter type to the US military after completing delivery of the AH-1Z Viper and UH-1Y Venom programmes of record.
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Opinion
ISTAT: Leahy changes opinion on demand for new A350 stretch
Airbus chief operating officer for customers John Leahy now thinks a market exists for a 45-seat stretch of the A350-1000 after speaking to multiple airlines around the world.
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HELI-EXPO: Bell mulls new clean-sheet launch
Bell Helicopter’s new chief executive Mitch Snyder has again re-iterated his commitment to bringing “disruptive technology” to the rotorcraft market and has dropped the strongest hint yet of its plans to launch an entirely new design.
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HELI-EXPO: Marenco flies second SKYe SH09 prototype
Marenco Swisshelicopter has successfully conducted the maiden sortie of its second flight-test SKYe SH09 light single-engined rotorcraft.
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NewsVIDEO: Bell relentlessly pursuing 525 despite market troubles
Work on the Bell Helicopter 525 Relentless is accelerating at the company’s assembly plant in Amarillo, Texas, as the third flight-test vehicle (FTV) nears completion and the first two production-representative examples also begin to take shape.