All Europe articles – Page 37
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NewsPrototype SJ-100 flown at maximum cruise altitude during flight tests
Yakovlev’s SJ-100 testbed has carried out a flight at its service ceiling of 12,200m (40,000ft) as part of the development programme. The testbed, aircraft 97001, is the first experimental import-substituted airframe – although it still flies with PowerJet SaM146 engines rather than the Russian-built Aviadvigatel PD-8. It conducted the sortie ...
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NewsA350-900 with enhanced-performance Trent XWB engine obtains EASA approval
Airbus has obtained European certification for the A350-900 fitted with enhanced-performance Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engines. The baseline XWB-84EP powerplant was separately certified by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency in December last year, along with the derated XWB-75EP and XWB-79EP. Airbus says the EP engine will provide a 1% reduction ...
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NewsWorkload and inaccurate airport ‘mental model’ led to A320 wrong-intersection take-off
Investigators have attributed an EasyJet Airbus A320’s wrong-intersection take-off at Toulouse to the crew’s limited attention capacity – a consequence of high workload – and confirmation bias. The aircraft (G-EJCI) had arrived 90min late into Toulouse on 30 July 2023, putting pressure on the crew during the return service to ...
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NewsTurkish manufacturers press ahead with UAV capabilities
Baykar Technologies’ TB2 unmanned air vehicle (UAV) has demonstrated the ability to recover from a spin, while Turkish Aerospace has increased the weapons capability of the Aksungur system.
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NewsA320 captain unwittingly initiated go-around after first officer engaged reverse-thrust
UK investigators have found that an Airbus A320 captain, having initiated a go-around on touchdown at Corfu, cycled the thrust levers forward and back after realising reverse-thrust had already been selected. Although the first officer had been flying the night approach, to runway 34 at Kerkira airport, an early and ...
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NewsCondor prepares to introduce A330neo with enhanced low-speed performance
Airbus has secured European certification for an A330-900 performance-enhancement package which includes new take-off configurations and faster landing-gear retraction. German leisure carrier Condor is set to introduce aircraft with the modification, following the approval from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency. Airbus says the package – which is designated ‘Step-4’ ...
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NewsSenior UK government figures back £30m fund to re-open Doncaster Sheffield airport
Senior UK government figures, including the country’s deputy leader, are backing a £30 million ($39 million) investment plan to re-open Doncaster Sheffield airport and support the creation of a sustainable aviation hub in the area. Efforts to re-open the South Yorkshire airport – which closed in 2022 after 17 years, ...
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NewsThales to provide new helmet display for USAF F-16s
Thales Visionix has won a contract to supply Scorpion helmet-mounted display retrofit kits for Lockheed Martin F-16s of the US Air Force (USAF).
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NewsAirbus adds large A350 and A320neo-family orders while Go First backlog is struck off
Airbus has revealed an order for 12 A350s and 30 A320neo-family jets, attributed to an undisclosed customer, in its latest backlog figures. The widebody part of the 6 March order is split between six A350-1000s and six -900s. Airbus has also listed a second, separate undisclosed order for 40 A321neos. ...
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NewsLufthansa City brings first new A320neo into its fleet
Lufthansa City Airlines, the most recent of the German group’s carriers, has taken delivery of its first new Airbus A320neo. The twinjet (D-AIJP) is powered by Pratt & Whitney PW1100G engines. It takes the carrier’s fleet to eight aircraft – four A320neos and four A319s – and another seven A320neos ...
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NewsWideroe to upgrade older Dash 8 cockpits with Universal display system
Norwegian regional carrier Wideroe is to be the first to fit older De Havilland Dash 8s with a new digital cockpit display system. The upgrade of the displays – intended for Dash 8-100s and -200s – will enable the airline to keep the aircraft operating “well into the next decade”, ...
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NewsSuperjet fitted with PD-8 engines tests performance at cruise speeds and altitudes
United Aircraft’s re-engined Yakovlev Superjet 100 has carried out flight at cruise altitude as part of the test programme for its Aviadvigatel PD-8 powerplant. The aircraft is serving as a PD-8 testbed to support development of the SJ-100, a version of the Superjet which features a higher proportion of domestically-sourced ...
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NewsAeroflot chief aims to wet-lease capacity from international market
Aeroflot chief executive Sergei Aleksandrovsky has told Russian president Vladimir Putin that the carrier is aiming to capitalise further on new wet-lease rules. The carrier was quick to take advantage of a change to the Russian Air Code which enabled it to lease Airbus A330s in the domestic market – ...
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NewsLong-term Air Baltic chief Gauss forced to step down after no-confidence vote
Air Baltic’s long-term chief executive, Martin Gauss, is stepping down from his post after a no-confidence vote, as the Latvian carrier edges towards a planned initial public offering. Chief operations officer Pauls Calitis will temporarily take over as the head of the airline. The carrier says the supervisory board “decided ...
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NewsTurkish Airlines to take A320neo-family jets from Saudi’s AviLease
Saudi Arabian lessor AviLease has reached an agreement to provide eight Airbus A320neo-family jets to Turkish Airlines. The carrier has already taken delivery of two of the twinjets, and the other six are set to arrive over the course of this year. “This partnership supports Turkish Airlines’ growth plans and ...
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NewsThales offers ‘navigation resilience’ in new compact inertial management unit
French aerospace firm Thales is introducing an inertial management unit next year, based on new accelerometer technology, intended to offer navigation resilience in regions where jamming or spoofing of satellites is prevalent. Thales says it has evolved from its TopAxyz inertial management unit, providing the same performance while being 20% ...
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NewsSuperjet facility supports fuselage panel optimisation for MC-21 serial production
United Aircraft’s aircraft plant at Komsomolsk is supporting serial production of the Yakovlev MC-21 by optimising control processes for fuselage panels. The Komsomolsk facility – which develops the Superjet and SJ-100 twinjets – has been working on processes for 16 panels which were originally manufactured by the Aviastar plant in ...
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NewsCircumstances of Swiftair 737 crash appear to parallel previous anti-ice switch errors
While Lithuanian investigators have yet to reach conclusions on last November’s fatal Boeing 737-400 freighter crash near Vilnius, they are likely to consider a possible switch mix-up that has previously occurred on other 737 flights. Preliminary indications point to the Swiftair jet’s losing height and descending beneath the glideslope after ...
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AnalysisLeonardo pitches M-346 as GCAP trainer, as Block 20 update advances
Leonardo has outlined its ambition for the M-346 to evolve into a common training platform for Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) partners Italy, Japan and the UK, as it advances work on a major Block 20 upgrade for the in-service type.
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NewsGlobal A380 ‘nearly ready’ for services following Hi Fly tests
Portuguese operator Hi Fly has carried out a test flight of the Airbus A380 intended for Global Airlines services, following a cabin refurbishment.