All aerospace news – Page 765
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NewsPARIS: HK Airlines orders 747-8I, to sign for A380s
Hong Kong Airlines is the undisclosed customer that signed orders for 15 Boeing 747-8I passenger jets. The deal was announced by Boeing during the Paris...
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NewsPARIS: Carbon fibre or aluminium? Too early to forecast
Will the next-generation single-aisle aircraft be made of plastic or metal? No-one has given this more thought than GKN director of...
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PARIS: EADS Astrium looking for funds to launch Spaceplane
EADS Astrium's Spaceplane concept - designed to take four passengers 100km into sub-orbit - is edging closer to reality following the signing up of Singapore as a partner.
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PARIS: Tunisia promises aerospace investors new opportunities in a new country
Six months after its popular revolution ignited a series of revolts across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Tunisia is at the show promising aerospace investors "new opportunities in a new country"
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PARIS: GECI notches up Skylander orders
GECI International has notched up 30 orders at the show for its Skylander SK-105 twin-engine turboprop from a trio of southeast Asian carriers, while its smaller Reims F406 stablemate has been given a boost following the acquisition of three of the types from the Mali government for special missions.
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PARIS: MRJ's improved seats on show
Mitsubishi Aircraft has unveiled new and improved seats at its Mitsubishi MRJ regional jet cabin mock-up. Manufactured by Japanese seat...
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NewsPARIS: Show call for Hawker Beechcraft air ambulance
Hawker Beechcraft is debuting a King Air 350ER special mission aircraft at the show that it has added to its demonstrator fleet.
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PARIS: Astrium Space in missile defence push
EADS's Astrium Space Transport hopes by 2016 to test a ballistic missile interceptor that could form the basis of a European missile defence system.
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NewsPARIS: Thales's flightdeck of the future on show at Paris
The primary flight display in Thales's vision of the future flightdeck is a broad screen showing a blue-sky synthetic vision of the real outside world, but...
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PARIS: Thales Eurocat ATM system goes live
Thales (hall Concorde) has revealed at Paris that an expanding partnership of air navigation service providers has launched its Eurocat air traffic control...
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PARIS: Irkut tests new wingbox for MS-21
Irkut president Alexey Fedorov said the carbon wingbox for the Irkut MS-21 regional jet was subjected to bench testing earlier this year as part of the next-generation narrowbody technology proving process.
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PARIS: Jet Aviation lines up Gulfstream support at Le Bourget
Jet Aviation's Paris Le Bourget facility has gained European regulatory approval to conduct line maintenance on large-cabin Gulfstream aircraft.
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PARIS: Airbus signs up Parker for fuel cell APU replacement
Airbus has partnered Parker Aerospace to develop a hydrogen-based replacement system for today's auxiliary power unit that could find its first application on the projected next-generation single-aisle aircraft.
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PARIS: Constellium ramps up Airware production and research
Paris-headquartered aluminium specialist Constellium plans to open this year two new foundries for its new Airware alloy, which Airbus and Bombardier selected for the A350 and CSeries.
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PARIS: Gulf Air turns to Panasonic for fleet-wide connectivity
Panasonic Avionics can add Gulf Air to its rapidly growing list of customers for in-flight high-speed broadband Internet, mobile connectivity and live television...
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PARIS: ESA chief confident in Galileo launches
European Space Agency director general Jean-Jacques Dordain has expressed growing confidence in achieving the planned 20 October launch of the first two of Europe's Galileo navigation satellites.
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PARIS: Thales delivers SESAR progress report and calls for funding
Thales is pressing the EU to release funds for the deployment phase of the SESAR programme, aimed at boosting efficiency and capacity in the continent's air traffic management system.
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NewsPARIS: Ryanair in talks with Comac to acquire C919 - O'Leary
Irish low-cost carrier giant Ryanair is in talks with Chinese company Comac to acquire the Comac C919 narrowbody and could order hundreds of aircraft, said the airline's chief executive Michael O'Leary.
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NewsPARIS: Russian Helicopters throws down gauntlet to Robinson
Russia is pitching hard to win international orders for its Mi-34C1 light multipurpose helicopter, arguing the type's superiority to the Robinson Helicopter...
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PARIS: Hamilton Sundstrand and Microturbo together in electric dreams
Hamilton Sundstrand and Safran unit Microturbo have agreed to work as partners on the development of new-generation electrical and bleed auxiliary power units