All Analysis – Page 105
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AnalysisANALYSIS: International growth focused on largest US markets
Much has been made about the new generation of widebody aircraft opening up new international gateways in cities like Austin, San Diego and San Jose, with routes to faraway cities like London and Tokyo.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Airlines reap benefits of cheap funding for now
Strong capital markets are proving to be a boost for airlines looking to raise capital this year, but this strong market sentiment should be met with guarded optimism as the financial recovery is anything but ordinary.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Geared turbofans usher P&W into Big Data era
By 2030, tens of thousands of Pratt & Whitney geared turbofans will be generating a staggering amount of data along with thrust. The combined fleet will stream 12 petabytes – equivalent to 12 million gigabytes – to servers on the ground every year, with each engine capturing 50 times the ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Recovering eurozone markets driving April growth
April data from Flightglobal’s schedules specialist Innovata shows a number of EU airports, in particular Greek capital Athens, making up lost ground from the recession as airlines lift their capacity
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AnalysisANALYSIS: France's ISAE studies reasons for pilot error
Pilots make mistakes. Mistakes are a product of the brain. If it were possible to identify the common neurological precursors for pilot errors, it might be possible to prevent them.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Novaer develops new trainer, utility aircraft for world market
Privately-owned Novaer Craft’s thirty-odd employees temporarily operate from rented offices in a rather rundown office park positioned at the very edge of the São José dos Campos aerodrome. The location – adjacent to Embraer headquarters – is appropriate. Founded and managed by ex-Embraer employees, Novaer trusts that its new side-by-side, ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: How Europe's hardest-hit airports are driving growth
Some of the European markets hardest hit by the recession, compounded by the debt and currency crisis in the eurozone that accompanied it, are now leading the pace of growth in the region.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: L-3 spurs ADS-B hopes for GA with low-cost Lynx
Five years ago, the US Federal Aviation Administration set a very ambitious goal. By 31 December 2019, any pilot operating in controlled airspace must carry a system compliant with automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) out that continuously transmits the aircraft’s identify and precise position.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Has the light sport aircraft market lived up to expectations?
Sun-n-Fun in April 2015 will mark the 10th anniversary of the introduction of the light-sport aircraft sector in the USA. Both Evektor and Flight Design obtained their S-LSA certificates on the opening day of that 2005 show. Conceived by the FAA as a way to bring ultralights under FAA ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Preparing for a connectivity revolution
Like the air we breathe, access to wi-fi is increasingly seen as a necessity to get us through the day. Gone are the days when airline passengers were content to be incommunicado during their time on board an aircraft.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: What will a Delta-Aeromexico joint venture offer?
A planned joint venture between Delta Air Lines and Aeromexico will create a competitor on US-Mexico routes that can challenge the dominance of United Airlines and American Airlines, say Delta and Aeromexico.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Pegasus fights for international recognition
Turkey's second airline, Pegasus, is predicating its fleet expansion plans on how rapidly it receives new traffic rights to countries in the former Soviet Union, the Middle East and North Africa, and acknowledges that its struggle to be taken seriously by the government is ongoing.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: KC-390 lifts expectations in Brazil
Embraer has a long tradition of identifying – and succeeding in – unattended market niches. Over the years, they have done this with regional turboprops and jets, turboprop trainers and counter-insurgency aircraft, airborne early warning aircraft, light business jets and now the mid-range military transport segment, where the Lockheed C-130 ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Gol's net loss echoes Latin American challenges
Depreciation of the Brazilian real and weakening corporate demand have impacted Gol's 2014 financial results, mirroring the challenges faced by other South American carriers last year.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Germanwings crash accident investigation
Airline pilot organisations have expressed their shock at the Germanwings Airbus A320 crash on 24 March – but also their distress that international standards for investigation and the release of information are not being followed.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Well-rounded Robin DR401 shows its strengths
The Robin 400 design dates back to 1972, and well over 1,300 variants of the aircraft have been produced by the manufacturer at its factory in Darois, just northwest of Dijon in France.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: CFM leads in engine markets – but P&W on the rise
Powerplants are central to key airframe developments in the air transport sector as the tempo rises around the re-engined narrowbody sector – and the battle is raging as the manufacturers fight for market share.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Is Europe's General Aviation industry turning a corner?
Things are looking up for Europe’s embattled general aviation community.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Fast track beckons for Galileo navigation system
After a decade lost to false starts and budget wrangling and a partial launch failure, Europe’s bid to have its own satellite navigation system got a huge boost with what appears to be a perfect mission to orbit the seventh and eighth spacecraft in what will eventually be a 30-unit ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Field on making ordinary aircraft extraordinary
For almost 70 years, Field Aviation has been turning mainly Canadian-built types into special mission platforms – making, as its website boasts, “ordinary aircraft extraordinary”. The modifications house, based next to Toronto’s international airport, began transforming surplus wartime transports in the late 1940s. Its latest projects include partnering with Boeing ...