All articles by Murdo Morrison – Page 42
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Plenty life left in the Caravan after 30 years
Cessna’s 208 Caravan has fulfilled many roles over its 30-year lifetime – from commuter airliner to feeder freighter, and from military transport to sightseeing aircraft – notching up 13 million flying hours in 100 countries along the way.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Diversification pays off for Latecoere
As Airbus ramps up output, it is first-tier suppliers such as Latecoere that must get the balance right between capital investment and meeting the tight delivery demands of its biggest customer. This dilemma can be seen at Latecoere’s main facility in Toulouse, where two giant riveting machines have been newly ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: How TBM brand has created a halo effect for Daher
Since buying the Tarbes-based Socata business from EADS in 2008, Daher might be best known – in the aerospace world at least – as the brand behind the TBM high-speed single-engine turboprop. But the French firm, whose roots go back to cargo shipping in the 19th century, is also an ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Revamped production line allows ATR to ramp up
It is possibly not a problem ATR thought it would ever have to face when its annual output languished in single figures a decade ago. But buoyant demand for the Toulouse-based airframer’s twin turboprops – it took a record 160 orders in 2014 – meant it has had to find ...
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PARIS: ITP to produce LPT for Trent 7000
ITP is to produce the low pressure turbine (LPT) for the Trent 7000 engine for the Airbus A330neo, as a risk and revenue sharing partner through the entire life of the programme. The Spanish company will be responsible for the design, manufacture and assembly of the LPT module. In addition, ...
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PARIS: CAE announces slew of airline training and simulator contracts
CAE has announced a slew of more than 30 airline contracts at Paris. They include cadet training programmes with EasyJet, Air China and Eva Air for the supply of 120 cadets and pilot type-rating solutions for carriers including West Atlantic, AeroContractors of Nigeria, Hong Kong Airlines and Braathens Regional Airlines. ...
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NewsPARIS: New Chinese air show launched
A new air show is to be launched in China in 2017 in an attempt to tap into the country's burgeoning commercial aviation market.
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PARIS: P&W evaluates options for T-X requirement
Pratt & Whitney is evaluating engine options in the 10,000lb-thrust to 15,000lb-thrust range for the US Air Force’s next-generation T-X training requirement, says P&W military engines president Bennett Croswell.
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PARIS: Esterline CMC shows off new former Barco range
There are some unfamiliar avionics products on the Esterline CMC stand at Paris. It follows the acquisition by Esterline of the aerospace and defence division of Belgium-based Barco. The former Barco avionics displays activities, as well as the training and simulation business, are being intergrated within CMC, and the Canadian ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Gardner invests in France to be closer to the customer
The Airbus supply chain may span the globe, but pure logistics mean many of the companies producing large sections or components of Airbus aircraft are near its factories. Airia makes the forward structure of the A350’s pylon in Mazeres in the south west of France. “The section is six to ...
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NewsPARIS: Superjet International confident of securing further Western customers
Superjet International is again at Paris in its quest to secure a second Western customer for the Sukhoi Superjet.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Airbus's bid to get widebody strategy back on track
A year ago, as the Farnborough air show approached, Airbus's long-haul strategy looked to be in disarray.
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PARIS: Qatar to display record five aircraft
Qatar Airways is to showcase five aircraft at Paris – a record for one airline and two more than it had on display at Farnborough last year, which was itself unprecedented.
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ANALYSIS: Airbus prepares to take narrowbody production to beyond 50
The law of supply and demand is one of the most fundamental in economics. Record demand for its narrowbodies means Airbus – like its counterpart in Seattle – faces one of the biggest manufacturing challenges in the history of civil aerospace as it ramps up production from a current 42 ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Small steps to success for A380
Ten years after the A380’s quietly impressive airborne choreography wowed the crowds at its Le Bourget debut, Airbus continues to insist that a commercial breakthrough for the world’s largest airliner is on the horizon, even if it now concedes its flagship is not going to transform long-haul flying in the ...
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DAE sells StandardAero
Dubai Aerospace Enterprise’s ambition to become a global giant with businesses in several expanding industry sectors has effectively ended with the sale of its only overseas subsidiary, StandardAero, one of the biggest and oldest names in the maintenance, repair and overhaul of business jets and their engines.
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NewsEBACE: Niki Lauda in a hurry for his Global 7000
When Enzo Ferrari offered Niki Lauda the car in which he won his first Formula 1 championship in 1975, Lauda was thrilled...until he saw the version Ferrari had developed for the 1976 season.
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EBACE: First flight of G500 nears
Gulfstream is on track to operate the first test flight of its new G500 clean-sheet business jet in the coming weeks, and the manufacturer has seen a “strong reaction” to the aircraft from the marketplace.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: What you will and won't see at 2015 Paris air show
Paris is the undisputed queen of the air shows. The most venerable – the first was staged in 1909 – it is also by far the largest, with over 2,200 exhibitors and almost 140,000 professional visitors turning up to the 2013 event. The week-long bonanza – with four trade days ...
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OBITUARY: Maurice Flanagan, the expat who helped Emirates take over the world
Maurice Flanagan, who has died aged 86, caught the Dubai bug when he arrived on a two-year secondment to run the city’s airport and travel operator Dnata in the late-1970s. “Everything looked so promising that I decided to stay,” he recalled two decades later. By taking up the royal family’s ...