All articles by Murdo Morrison – Page 30
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Daher looks to expand US and digital footprint
TBM owner Daher has notched up its second best year for deliveries of the single-engined turboprop, and a record since it acquired the Tarbes-based airframer in 2009. The French group shipped a combined 57 TBM 910s and TBM 930s in the 12 months to December, three more than the previous ...
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Airbus chief Enders condemns protectionism and Brexit
Airbus chief executive Tom Enders last night launched a blistering attack on "protectionism" in the aerospace and aviation industries, linking the election of US president Donald Trump and the 2016 UK vote to leave the European Union as moves that could damage free trade and aircraft manufacturing on both sides ...
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ANALYSIS: Airbus powers up its other assets in Romania
Its helicopters division is not the only Airbus unit to have set up shop in Romania. In 2011, Premium Aerotec, the group’s wholly owned but autonomous aerostructures subsidiary, opened its first factory outside Germany next to the Airbus Helicopters facility in Brasov. The plant has since almost doubled in size ...
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ANALYSIS: Airbus's big plan to revive the Romanian rotorcraft sector
If you build it, they will come. Airbus Helicopters might have been following the famous advice of the film Field of Dreams when it invested almost €52 million ($62 million) in a factory in Romania in November 2015. Two years on, the Brasov plant is ready to produce its first ...
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IAI to decide imminently on whether to launch business jet
Israel Aerospace Industries will take a decision imminently on whether to relaunch its own business jet. It comes 17 years after the Israeli defence giant divested its two aircraft programmes and their marketing and completions arm, Galaxy Aerospace to Gulfstream parent General Dynamics, and as Yosef Melamed, head of IAI’s ...
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ANALYSIS: The reinvention of Romania's Aerostar
On first appearance, Aerostar’s sprawling complex of buildings next to Bacau airport may reflect its heritage as a state-run enterprise focused on supporting the Romanian defence forces.
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ANALYSIS: Airlines ponder how to capitalise on big data
Every hour, via a host of onboard sensors, a new-generation airliner will record and stream a vast amount of data that would have been unthinkable a few years ago. But how do operators process and exploit this firehose of information on the aircraft’s real-time performance? In the past 12 months, ...
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ANALYSIS: Inside Brooklands Museum's new old aircraft factory
Many countries have renowned air museums. Few if any – until now – have set out to explain the history of aircraft design and manufacturing. The new Brooklands Aircraft Factory – part of a £10.7 million facelift of the aviation and motor racing heritage centre in Weybridge, just outside London ...
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ANALYSIS: Can a deflated HAV rise again with Airlander?
With its “substantially damaged” prototype back in the hangar for the second time in 15 months, a feeling of deflation once again pervades the Bedford base of Hybrid Air Vehicles, developer of the lighter-than-air Airlander 10 experimental aircraft. However, the developers of the world’s largest flying structure insist the latest ...
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ANALYSIS: Investment a family value for Italy's Secondo Mona
Secondo Mona’s directors believe the €40 million ($48 million) that the family-run aerospace manufacturer has invested in technology in the past decade has paid off. An array of new equipment and the addition of specialist competencies have helped the engineering firm double revenues over that period and shift up a ...
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DUBAI: The shifting sands of Middle East MRO
The rapid growth of the airliner fleet in the Arabian Gulf has been mirrored by an expansion of the maintenance, repair and overhaul sector, with several North American and European manufacturers investing in facilities to support their products, and specialist aftermarket companies also establishing a presence. However, the past few ...
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DUBAI: Mubadala moves to a new phase of investment
A decade after making its first forays into the sector, Mubadala – the $8.6 billion-turnover state investment vehicle through which Abu Dhabi is using its oil revenues to diversify its economy – is moving to a new stage in terms of its aerospace portfolio.
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DUBAI: Emirates opens flight academy
They do not do things by half in Dubai, and Emirates’ new pilot academy is no exception. The centre, in the emerging “airport city” of Dubai South, has just admitted its first students and will be formally opened on day two of the air show. Designed to meet the fast-growing ...
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DUBAI: What next for the UAE's two low-cost airlines?
For the past eight years Flydubai and Air Arabia have appeared to enjoy formidable growth by sticking to their own trajectories. Despite the rival carriers being based just a hop from each other at Dubai International and Sharjah airports, their business models and route networks have been sufficiently distinct to ...
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DUBAI: Six months that took DAE back to the big league
Two years ago, a somewhat chastened Dubai Aerospace Enterprise found itself ready to enter the ring again, having slimmed down from the would-be heavyweight that had strutted out to become a big name in the industry back in 2006. After divesting US maintenance, repair and overhaul house Standard Aero for ...
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ANALYSIS: The Gulf's breakneck airport development
Drive for a little over an hour and a half along the UAE’s highway E311 and you will pass no fewer than four international airports, each at a very different stage of development. Starting at Sharjah – base of one of the Middle East’s leading low-cost airlines, Air Arabia – ...
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NBAA: Pilatus shows PC-24 again as it prepares for first delivery
After its blink-and-you’ll-miss-it one-day appearance at NBAA last year – two years into its flight campaign – Pilatus has again brought the PC-24 to the convention, this time with expected certification and entry into service with launch operator PlaneSense just weeks away. The Swiss manufacturer is in the final stages ...
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NBAA: The campaign steps up against ATC privatisation
The biggest threat to the future of our industry we have ever seen: that is how NBAA chief Ed Bolen this morning described airline-backed moves to privatise the US air traffic control system.
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NBAA: Gulfstream announces range extensions for G500 and G600
Gulfstream is showing off its latest types – the G500 and G600 – with full interiors at the static this week, as it completes the final stages of the G500’s flight test campaign, ahead of entry into service early next year. It has also announced range extensions for the two ...
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NBAA: VistaJet plans to double US fleet
Three years after launching in the USA, VistaJet – one of the world’s largest charter operators – plans to increase its N-registered fleet of 11 to at least 16 in the “next few months” to reflect demand in the booming Stateside market.