All Analysis articles – Page 94
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Piaggio moves from transformation to consolidation
It has been a busy 30 months for Piaggio Aerospace. Since breaking into the defence market with the unveiling of its unmanned P.1HH HammerHead surveillance platform at the 2013 Paris Air Show, the Italian airframer has opened a plush new factory and switched chief executives. It has severed its remaining ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Next phase of Army engine battle begins
In Afghanistan, the Boeing AH-64 and the Sikorsky UH-60 encountered a problem their designers never anticipated. Hovering at 4,000ft in 35°C (95°F) conditions had always seemed sufficient performance for a helicopter. But Afghanistan’s mountains and hot summer raised the bar for hot-weather hovering by 2,000ft.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Dream Chaser spaceplane not just wishful thinking
When NASA chose seven-seat capsule concepts from Boeing and SpaceX for full development funding in 2015 – in its bid to restore a US manned spaceflight capability lost with the 2011 retirement of the Space Shuttle fleet – it looked like the end of the runway for the Dream Chaser, ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: European legacy carriers' hard labour continues
While labour issues are never far away from legacy carriers, the sight of Air France executives being manhandled and having the shirts ripped from their backs shows the intensity around the subject at European airlines right now.
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ANALYSIS: Airlines welcome tentative European moves on MRO
Airlines have welcomed the tentative inquiry by the European Commission into potentially anti-competitive terms in maintenance contracts for certain engines and components.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Why Avolon still sees aircraft as an 'inflation hedge'
Aircraft assets still offer a good inflation hedge for lessors but nowhere near as good as in decades gone by, argues a major lessor's chief.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Boeing and Airbus up the ante in China
Boeing and Airbus have both moved to increase their industrial footprint in China
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AnalysisANALYSIS: One year on, Virgin Galactic forging ahead with SpaceShipTwo endeavour
One year ago this month, Virgin Galactic’s pursuit of suborbital space tourism was put in jeopardy when its Scaled Composites-built SpaceShipTwo broke apart over the Mojave Desert just 13 seconds into its fourth powered flight.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Has American-US Airways lived up to its promises?
American Airlines and US Airways announced their merger with much fanfare at Dallas/Fort Worth International airport on Valentines Day 2013.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: T-50 steadily accumulates export orders
South Korea’s indigenously developed trainer is steadily racking up export wins
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Eva Air gives 787-10 boost in Asia-Pacific
Eva Air’s planned order for 24 Boeing 787-10 aircraft is an important boost for the variant in the Asia-Pacific region.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Etihad and Alitalia undaunted by rebuilding task
Few would have underestimated the task Etihad boss James Hogan took on by adding Alitalia to the Gulf carrier's expanding fold of equity partners.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: A network US Airways built through mergers
US Airways was an airline with ambition, growing through five separate mergers to become the fourth largest US carrier when its flight lands this Saturday.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Airlines in bloom despite mixed market messages
Global airlines should consider themselves extremely lucky right now, as their feelings of general good health and optimism, do not span all industries, particularly those in the emerging markets.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Asia-Pacific MROs weigh options amid changing landscape
Third-party MRO players in the Asia-Pacific region see a number of challenges in the coming years, ranging from increased OEM involvement in the industry to more assertive customers. Still, they are optimistic about the opportunities available to them, and are taking steps to create new lines of profitability. Most ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: The complicated conception of KFX
South Korea’s indigenous fighter programme has always been ambitious, but a failure to gain US technology export licences makes the project that much more formidable
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Africa's aviation market remains on the fringes
A common theme across the African air transport sector over the past two decades has been calls to unlock the continent's growth potential through opening up its skies.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Orbital ATK still looks like marriage made in heaven
Back in April 2014, when Orbital Sciences and ATK announced plans for an all-stock merger, the move looked like the proverbial marriage made in heaven – or at least a tie-up destined for the stars.
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ANALYSIS: Korean Air eyes MRO opportunities
Korean Air’s Tech Center lies west of runway 16L at Busan’s Gimhae International airport. A sprawling array of hangars, warehouses, and production facilities, it is home to the flag-carrier’s low-profile aerospace division, KAL-ASD. It is here where the company performs the majority of its MRO work, and where it also ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: A Chinese white knight for CSeries?
Having been snubbed by Airbus, Bombardier all but certainly sees an urgent need to accelerate talks with other potential investors, including Comac, about its CSeries programme.