All air transport news – Page 487
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Airbus crams A321neo deliveries into fourth quarter
Airbus is aiming to squeeze half of this year's overall deliveries of the reconfigured Airbus A321neo into its fourth-quarter output.
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A330-800 certification slips to 2020
Airbus has quietly pushed back A330-800 certification to next year, shifting the timeline for approval of the smaller A330neo variant.
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Airbus starts to feel deliveries impact from WTO dispute
Airbus expects newly-imposed import tariffs arising from its subsidies dispute with Boeing to affect a small number of deliveries this year, but is concerned that the situation will become more difficult in mid-2020.
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Airbus cuts full-year aircraft delivery forecast
Airbus has cut its commercial aircraft delivery forecast to 860 aircraft, down from the previous 880-890, as it continues to deal with production ramp-up on its single-aisle lines.
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South Korea's Air Premia commits to five Boeing 787-9s
South Korean carrier Air Premia has committed to acquiring five Boeing 787-9s, in a deal valued at $1.4 billion at list prices.
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A220 engine checks revised after high-cycle Swiss failure
US regulators have disclosed that the most recent incident involving failure of a Swiss Airbus A220 engine occurred with a powerplant which had accumulated more than 300 cycles.
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Boeing CEO denies knowing of troubling emails and defends safety culture
Boeing's chief executive told lawmakers on 29 October that he was unaware until recently of newly-disclosed instant messages in which Boeing's former chief technical pilot described concern about the function of the 737 Max's Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) and said he unknowingly lied to regulators.
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Trent blade limit ‘insufficient’ before Norwegian 787 failure
Italian investigators have disclosed that there was no engine de-pairing requirement in place for the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000s fitted to a Norwegian Boeing 787 before one of its powerplants failed after take-off from Rome. The engines were subject to a modification – under a service bulletin designated 72-H818 – which ...
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A220 operators told to limit engine thrust at high altitude
Operators of Airbus A220s are facing operational limitations of the twinjet's engines, following several serious incidents involving powerplant failure.
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Embraer’s growth tied to health of Latin American economies
Brazilian planemaker Embraer sees its future success in Latin America closely tied to the region’s economic prosperity and political stability as its current customers, both in its home country as well as amongst its Latin American neighbors, mull their next metal move.
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Czech Republic signs up to NATO tanker effort
The Czech Republic has become the sixth country to join NATO’s multinational tanker fleet following the signature of a memorandum of understanding in Brussels on 24 October.
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CFM returns to on-time Leap production, preps for 737 Max return
CFM International's production of Leap powerplants is back on schedule, with the company having overcome bottlenecks that had hindered its ability to fully meet a planned ramp-up, says the engine maker's chief executive Gael Meheust.
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NewsFirst Starlux A321neo departs for Taiwan
Taiwanese carrier Starlux Airlines’ first Airbus A321neo has departed the airframer’s Hamburg Finkenwerder plant following delivery of the jet to the new airline.
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Lion Air probe advises rethink of pilot skill assumptions
Commercial aircraft designers need to rethink fundamental assumptions that pilots have sufficient knowledge, training and skill to cope with failures, the inquiry into the Lion Air Boeing 737 Max accident has concluded.
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Lion 737 Max crew not alerted to sensor misalignment
Pilots of the Lion Air Boeing 737 Max 8 which crashed after take-off from Jakarta last year would not have received an alert regarding the disagreement between the angle-of-attack sensors, because the carrier had not selected an optional angle-of-attack indicator for its aircraft.
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FAA pulls licence of shop that repaired crashed 737 Max’s sensor
The US Federal Aviation Administration has revoked the aircraft repair station licence held by Xtra Aerospace, the Florida shop that repaired the angle-of-attack (AOA) indicator investigators say contributed to the 2018 crash of a Lion Air Boeing 737 Max. The FAA ordered that the shop’s licence be pulled on 25 ...
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OpinionCan Qantas go the distance with Project Sunrise?
On paper, it shouldn’t work. Nonstop flight between the UK and Australia was certainly once a “holy grail” of air transport, and even that was an improvement on being a ludicrous prospect when antipodean travel was an endurance feat involving days in transit and a multitude of refuelling points.
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Thai 777 engine failure spurs emergency checks order
Operators of certain Boeing 777-300ERs are being ordered to conduct engine checks after the uncontained failure of the General Electric GE90 powerplant on a Thai Airways International aircraft.
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NewsFifth C919 prototype completes test flight
The fifth prototype of Comac’s C919 programme has completed its first test flight.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: How Honda’s aero-engine team aided Formula 1 success
Honda’s achievements in Formula 1 motor-racing are legendary – and the company’s not been too shabby in the aerospace sector, either. Given that there are so many technical disciplines shared between the two, it should be no surprise that the company’s divisions have collaborated to drive themselves forwards.