All Analysis – Page 2
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Fast-growing Skyborne Airline Academy gets ready to soar higher
With several airline contracts – including for British Airways’ reborn Speedbird programme – and sites on both sides of the Atlantic, Skyborne has quickly become a major provider of ab initio pilot training.
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Affinity boss looks to build on UK military training pedigree
Affinity Flying Training Services is looking to extend its support for military aircrew instruction in the UK and for potential international customers.
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Back to engineering: why incoming Boeing CEO Ortberg is reason for optimism
There is a sense among people who study Boeing that the company’s board of directors made a very good decision in picking longtime aerospace executive Kelly Ortberg to succeed David Calhoun as chief executive.
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Farnborough air show Order Tracker 2024
Keep track of the commercial aircraft order announcements made at this year’s Farnborough air show
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Scrapped aircraft go around again in the circular economy
Increasingly, aircraft recyclers are diversifying from parts harvesters to sustainability partners as aviation embraces the circular economy.
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AALTO gets set for new series of Zephyr demonstration flights
Recently lifted by a $100 million funding commitment from a Japanese consortium, Farnborough-based AALTO is poised to launch a new series of customer flights with its ultra-long-endurance Zephyr vehicle.
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How will Farnborough compare for air show order announcements?
This week’s Farnborough air show follows one of the busiest events for aircraft order announcements at the Paris equivalent last year.
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Airbus’s range-busting A321XLR secures European certification
Poised for certification and due to enter revenue service before year-end, the 4,700nm-capable A321XLR and its crucial range-boosting rear fuel tank have tested Airbus’s engineering mettle.
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Why Lockheed Martin’s Hercules is still going strong 70 years after first flight
The ubiquitous Hercules has been a tactical airlift champion since its August 1954 debut, with deliveries passing 2,700 and production expected to continue through the next decade.
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How close calls overshadowed airlines’ safety figures in first half of 2024
The first six months of this year saw strong airline safety performance, with 11 fatalities – but a series of close calls could have seen that number spike towards a total akin to during the 1980s.
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New Super Hornet missile offers more sting against Chinese kill chains
A new long-range air-to-air missile for the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet will pose a challenge for Chinese aircraft and unmanned air vehicles attempting to target US aircraft carrier battle groups.
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Analysts fault Boeing guilty fraud plea for lack of leadership change
Boeing intends to plead guilty to criminal charges that it defrauded the Federal Aviation Administration but some observers fault the plan for failing to require leadership change.
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How the UK’s aerospace R&D investments are powering change
Ten years on from its launch and post-Brexit, how effectively has UK R&D funding body and facilitator, the ATI, helped to cultivate disruptive technologies and future-proof aerospace businesses for the decarbonisation revolution?
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Why GKN acquisition has brought added value to transformed Melrose
Now a pure-play aerospace business, GKN is enjoying strong growth as part of Melrose Industries – and embracing a new mantra to design, deliver and improve.
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Grob Aircraft France launches TPX Cobra trainer, with ISR version to follow
First flown in secret five years ago, the TPX Cobra is set to hit the market in trainer guise – but its developer Grob Aircraft France is eyeing broader applications for the versatile, all-composite type.
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Why European fighter programmes are soaring again
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has forced European nations to assess their combat air capabilities, causing new developments and current programmes to assume ever-greater importance.
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Hybrid Air Vehicles boss maintains giant ambition for Airlander 10
Hybrid Air Vehicles is putting sustainability firmly at the heart of the Airlander 10’s appeal as it moves – slowly – towards certification of the world’s largest aircraft.
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Why Swedish Gripen fleet is NATO’s new ACE off base
Like a Nascar pit stop. That is how one former Saab Gripen and Viggen pilot describes the Swedish air force’s decades-old prowess in conducting road-strip operations.
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Gripen E testing set to ramp up ahead of deliveries to Swedish air force
Stockholm’s Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) plans to markedly increase flight-testing of the Saab Gripen E within the coming weeks, ahead of the fighter’s entry into service with the Swedish air force next year.
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Italy’s Air Corporate praises performance of new ACH160
Air Corporate is already full of praise for its new ACH160, following the VIP-configured helicopter’s service entry earlier this year.