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NewsBoeing adds four 747-8Fs to backlog
An unidentified customer has ordered four 747-8 Freighters, Boeing confirms on 8 April.
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Superjet manufacturer appears to cut full-year losses
Sukhoi’s civil aircraft division cut pre-tax losses by more than three-quarters last year, its newly-released accounts have revealed.
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INTERIORS: Hamburg's crucible of technology development
Testing innovative technologies in a cabin environment has just become much easier – so long as you’re looking to work on Airbus products. Hamburg’s newly opened Zal centre of applied aeronautical research has built a cabin and cargo test rig that adapts to any in service commercial aircraft from any ...
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Embraer starts E190-E2 engines on wing
Embraer has started engines for the first time on the wing of an E190-E2.
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NewsBoeing, FAA warn 787 pilots of bad airspeed data
Boeing 787 pilots are being warned not to make sudden control inputs in response to a “sudden, unrealistic” drop in airspeed shown on cockpit displays.
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NewsLockheed venture lifts off with LOI for 12 hybrid airships
Lockheed Martin has bested its British rival, the Hybrid Air Vehicles Airlander 10, by signing a launch customer for its LMH-1 airship: Straightline Aviation (SLA).
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Finmeccanica's long road to renaissance
As Mauro Moretti puts it, 2015 marked “the end of an era” at Finmeccanica, and so a new age begins, appropriately, with a new identity. The fact Italy’s resurgent national aerospace champion will adopt the name of one of the country's greatest sons – no less than Leonardo, as in ...
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FIDAE: Boeing stresses market penetration at Chile show
Boeing is marking its 100th birthday at FIDAE with a chalet resembling the red barn that Bill Boeing used as his original workshop. But the world’s biggest aircraft manufacturer is also stressing the strength of its market presence in Latin America, from airliners to military aircraft, and from research facilities ...
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Opinion
OPINION: The battle to break into the airliner establishment
This year will bring some fascinating developments for the “tin lovers” as two all-new mainline jets, one backed by the might of China and the other by Russia, enter the fray.
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PICTURES: Airbus offers glimpse of new cabin for A330neo
Airbus has promised clearer legroom, bigger overhead storage bins and onboard wireless in its forthcoming A330neo.
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NewsRolls-Royce delays 787 engine upgrade to 2017
Rolls-Royce confirms that an upgraded version of the Trent 1000 engine for the Boeing 787 fleet will be delayed one year before entering service and reducing fuel burn levels to the originally promised standard.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Engine selection trends on the A320neo
With the Airbus A320neo recently entering into service, how successful have the two engine manufacturers been in winning customers to power the re-engined twinjet?
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NewsGE maintains GEnx-1B performance despite new mod
A new modification for the most advanced version of the GEnx-1B engine alters one of the fuel-saving features added to the Boeing 787 propulsion system.
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Interview
FLIGHT INTERVIEW: Safran's Philippe Petitcolin
Safran is easily Europe’s most diversified aerospace company, with a range of businesses covering airliner, helicopter and space rocket engines to security detection systems, and landing gear to unmanned air vehicles. However a year into the top job, chief executive Philippe Petitcolin is keen to slim down the partially state-owned ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Can China and Russia threaten the single-aisle duopoly?
This year is a significant one for the mainline jet sector: during 2016, not one but two all-new 150-seat airliners powered by next-generation engines will stake their claim for a slice of a market that for two decades has been the preserve of Airbus and Boeing.
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First Southwest 737 Max progresses to final assembly
Boeing has embarked on production of the first customer 737 Max which is due to be delivered to Southwest Airlines next year.
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Boeing to roll out higher 777 seating in third quarter
Boeing is to start rolling out an enhanced-capacity interior for its Boeing 777 in the third quarter.
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Electric-driven PD-14 reverser tested for MC-21
Russian state holding Rostec’s Technodinamika division is to supply electrically-driven systems for the Irkut MC-21’s reverse-thrust capability.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: How to stay ahead in the 21st century innovation game
For a company as large as Airbus Group, the loss of any one employee should not pose a particular threat; well-managed operations will carry on and typically have many, indeed many good, options for succession via promotion or external recruitment. But for Europe’s aerospace champion, the imminent departure of one ...
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787-10 major assembly underway
Major assembly of the first Boeing 787-10 is underway, says Boeing.