All Analysis articles – Page 56
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AnalysisANALYSIS: 'Sleeping' Ecuador awakens to airlines
With its embracing of open skies, Ecuador has brought about new optimism in an airline industry that is hoping to see changes similar to those witnessed in Argentina over the recent year.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Aerion shows a configuration of supersonic jet engine
Aerion has released a configuration of the first civil supersonic jet engine since the Bristol Siddeley Olympus.
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ANALYSIS: Mood lifts at Bell as 505 ramps up
Only a year ago, the mood at Bell Helicopter's civil business looked grim. The company had entered the HAI Heli-Expo a month after reporting a six-year low for civil helicopter deliveries in 2016, against the backdrop of a broader industry downturn that seemed to have no bottom. Moreover, the flagship ...
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ANALYSIS: New discipline, new drive at Leonardo Helicopters
Helicopters account for a short third of Leonardo annual revenue, so the group is taking strict action to reverse a 2017 downturn
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Qatar Airways aircraft will feed Air Italy fleet
Air Italy will lease Boeing aircraft from shareholder Qatar Airways as the relaunched Meridiana embarks on a rapid fleet expansion programme.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: UPS goes big with freighters as e-commerce booms
In the early hours of 1 February, a gleaming white-and-brown Boeing 747 touched down in Louisville, Kentucky, and taxied to a stand.
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ANALYSIS: Electric unmanned rotorcraft make economic case for air taxi role
Airbus A3 gave employees working on Project Vahana the day off on 2 February. The team had spent the previous two days on an unmanned air systems test range in Oregon marking the first and second test flights of Alpha One, the San Francisco-based rapid innovation cell’s concept for an ...
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ANALYSIS: Faury leaves Airbus Helicopters a business transformed
How do you measure whether a chief executive has succeeded during their time in charge of a company? Is improved profitability the key metric? The launch of a new product? Some deep cultural transformation? Perhaps a mixture of all the above and more? But at a basic level the question ...
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ANALYSIS: Leonardo marks another new beginning
Are new beginnings becoming a habit for Leonardo? The Italian aerospace champion formerly known as Finmeccanica has set the scene for disappointment with its 2017 results, due to be published on 14 March, by unveiling a “new industrial plan” designed for a return to “steady, sustainable growth”.
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ANALYSIS: Kopter is the new name in helicopters
For Switzerland's only helicopter manufacturer, the past 14 months have been a period of radical change: its founder and former chief executive has departed, to be replaced by a swathe of new management, much arriving from elsewhere in the rotorcraft industry; brand-new engineering and production facilities have opened; and the ...
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ANALYSIS: NMA decision time looms for Boeing
Boeing has some big decisions to make soon with regard to its future strategy, and these will have far-reaching ramifications for many decades to come.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Qantas's capex conundrum
Qantas's turnaround since 2015 may be an obvious case study for airline management textbooks – but one voice has warned that its conservative financial management could actually be sowing the seeds of its next big challenge: fleet replacement.
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ANALYSIS: Heli-One pioneers rotorcraft MTO in Aviation Valley
Heli-One’s maintenance, repair and overhaul operation at Rzeszow airport is an example of how Aviation Valley has been expanding its appeal into the services sector and beyond its traditional base of engine components manufacturing and helicopter assembly. Opened in 2014, the facility is the CHC Helicopters subsidiary’s fourth and newest ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: How F-16I loss will reshape Israel's offensive strategy
A sequence of events that began with the shooting down of an Iranian copy of the Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel stealth unmanned air vehicle led to an Israeli air force Lockheed F-16I being shot down, and a massive aerial attack being launched against at least a dozen targets inside Syria.
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ANALYSIS: UK aerospace investors head to Aviation Valley
The relatively little-known name McBraida is up in lights for anyone arriving at Rzeszow airport in southern Poland. Facing the terminal, the neon logo of the British engineering company adorns the side of the 3,100m2 (33,400ft2) factory it opened in 2013. Privately-owned McBraida’s first overseas facility manufactures mainly build-to-print, high-precision ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Pessimism dogs airline safety despite low accident rate
Last year was yet another "safest year ever" for airlines, with a fatal accident rate of one per 4.83 million flights. There were so few passenger fatalities that the revenue passenger fatality rate, of one per 900 million passengers carried, becomes meaningless in isolation.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: US carriers plan for growth after healthy Q4 earnings
The US airline industry's profitable streak continued in the fourth quarter of 2017, with the nation's carriers – low-fare and network alike – earning billions in profits even as costs crept higher.
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ANALYSIS: Fifteen years on, Poland's Aviation Valley continues to power on
Once home to some of the most important aero engine, military trainer, and helicopter factories in the Eastern bloc, post-communist Poland has powered its way back to the top ranks of European aerospace, after a painful transition to a market economy. It is thanks largely to the success of one ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: How Israel gave birth to a plethora of aerospace innovations
Seventy years ago, just after the surviving architects of the Holocaust faced grim justice at Nuremberg, a few hundred thousand idealists – many refugees from post-war Europe’s ruins and committed to creating a Jewish homeland in the Holy Land – established the state of Israel. At first, the new nation ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Are small regional jets making a comeback in the USA?
Analysts and investors sounded alarm bells last month after United Airlines announced plans to grow by up to 6% annually until 2020. That reaction focused largely on the headline capacity number and its implications for yields, and less on how the airline planned to achieve that growth.