All articles by Murdo Morrison – Page 8
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InterviewJet Aviation president David Paddock on riding out the pandemic
Few companies in private air travel can take the temperature of the market as quickly and effectively as Jet Aviation. The Swiss-based service provider, part of Gulfstream parent General Dynamics since 2008, has operations on four continents, and across four distinct activities: maintenance, aircraft management and charter, fixed-base operations, and large-jet completions. Its 2018 acquisition of Hawker Pacific added a fifth: air force sustainment.
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NewsRolls-Royce sees faster than expected rebound in business aircraft sector
Almost all Rolls-Royce-powered business aircraft are back operating to pre-pandemic levels after what the engine manufacturer describes as a faster than expected recovery in the sector.
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InterviewNBAA chief executive Ed Bolen’s excitement at return of in-person event
After steering its way through the crisis, NBAA chief executive Ed Bolen says the business aviation community cannot wait to reconnect in person for the first time in two years
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NewsCovid-19 and Brexit a double hit for jobless UK flightcrew
The country’s job-seeking pilots have arguably been impacted greater by the crisis than their cross-Channel counterparts, a combination of tough travel rules putting a brake on recovery, and their licences no longer being recognised within the EU.
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AnalysisBetting on BACE
Despite worries about the pandemic’s effect on attendance, this year’s business aviation event in Las Vegas will cater for a booming sector awaiting a number of potentially disruptive developments.
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AnalysisCabin suppliers look to life after Covid
The past 18 months has been miserable for the interiors industry. But, with traffic and airline orders picking up, can the sector look to 2022 with confidence?
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ReportTop 100 aerospace companies ranked by revenue
This year’s Top 100 reflects an aviation industry hit by nine months or more of crisis – but also one where fortunes differ hugely depending on whether a business’s focus is defence or commercial.
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AnalysisOperating margins table highlights industry squeeze
We may have been through the worst crisis in aviation history, but this year’s table of best performers in operating margin has a familiar ring to it. The companies that are the best at squeezing profits from their revenues pretty much stay consistent year after year. TransDigm may have become ...
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AnalysisRaytheon Technologies tops sales growth list
Raytheon Technologies’ year-on-year sales growth of over 121% is a result of the merger with the Collins Aerospace and Pratt & Whitney units of United Technologies.
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AnalysisHow defence companies rose to the top during pandemic
Further evidence of how far behind the defence aviation market commercial aviation fell during the worst of the Covid-19 crisis comes from the sales totals of the biggest 10 players in each segment.
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AnalysisCommercial downturn marks Boeing’s nadir
It was another awful year for Boeing’s commercial sales fortunes, with an almost 50% drop in revenues to just $16.2 billion. To put it in context, the company made just twice as much revenue from its range of single- and twin-aisle airliners as Gulfstream did in 2020 with a family of specialist business jets.
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AnalysisPredators seeking rich pickings in aerospace
The past 18 months have seen little consolidation among the industry’s biggest businesses. But fresh bids for two of the UK’s key players are raising concerns over foreign ownership of the country’s industrial and security assets.
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NewsRolls-Royce delivers 100th Pearl to Bombardier
Engine launched in 2018 powers Canadian airframer’s Global 5500 and Global 6500 long-range business jets.
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NewsHybrid airship developer HAV to float in IPO
Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV), the designer of the Airlander 10 hybrid airship, is to seek a US public listing backed by a $200 million stake from investment firm Global Emerging Markets (GEM).
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NewsStrong defence sales offset Leonardo’s flagging civil aerostructures business
Civil aerostructures was the only brake on growth in a strong first half for Italian aerospace and defence champion Leonardo.
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NewsBritten-Norman to sell on former UK military Islanders
Rolls-Royce-powered turboprop BN2T-4S has been in service with armed forces since 2004, and nine examples will be refurbished and offered to export market by manufacturer.
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NewsSafran cautions on Airbus production targets
French group’s chief executive believes airframer’s aspiration to be building more than 70 single-aisle aircraft a month by the middle of the decade may be over-ambitious.
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NewsProspects pick up for Safran’s interiors business after low point
French aerospace company believes first half of the year was a trough for its cabin products division.
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NewsSamad completes hover tests on second eStarling prototype
Start-up Samad Aerospace has completed hover tests on its second prototype eStarling electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.
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NewsJet pack pioneer pitches Speeder at first responder market
Californian start-up completes initial flight trials of innovative platform.