All Opinion articles – Page 14
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OpinionAirbus in control of interiors with own cabin centre
The opening by Airbus – on the eve of the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg – of an expanded cabin customisation facility at its local production plant is a clear signal to airlines, suppliers and competitors that the airframer wants to be in control of the interior completion process.
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E-7 purchase is good news for UK
Confirming one of the worst-kept secrets in UK defence procurement, late March’s £1.5 billion ($1.96 billion) order for five Boeing 737NG-based E-7 airborne early warning and control system aircraft was nevertheless a welcome development for the Royal Air Force (RAF).
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OPINION: UTC's electric dreams are achievable
United Technologies (UTC) has become the latest major aerospace supplier to unveil its strategy for a more-electric powertrain, pursuing the goal under its Project 804 initiative.
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OPINION: Hard work for Safran in making Zodiac's stars align
When it announced it was in talks to buy fellow French company Zodiac Aerospace back in January 2017, Safran probably did not have a complete picture of its target's woes.
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OPINION: Response to Max crashes will define Boeing's reputation
Bilateral arrangements in aviation safety rely on the assumption that the rules and practices across different jurisdictions are largely interchangeable.
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OPINION: The F-15's unlikely renaissance
Not too long ago, the Boeing F-15’s days looked numbered.
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OpinionOPINION: Confidence threatened by polarised Max response
Partial suspension of Boeing 737 Max operations exposed an extraordinary regulatory disparity, with European and US authorities – normally fixated on procedural harmonisation and alignment – entrenched in opposing positions on the matter.
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OPINION: Forget the FAA, the Regulator in Chief has spoken
In an unprecedented move today, the President Trump issued the order to ground the USA's Boeing Max fleet.
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OPINION: Bidding a fond farewell to RAF's mighty Tonka
Out with the old, as the saying goes. This week, we mark the Royal Air Force’s retirement of its last Tornado strike aircraft, a half-century after it was conceived by the three-nation Panavia consortium, and 40 years after it entered UK service.
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OpinionOPINION: Industry should seize on end of Farnborough public days
Many in the industry recall the first time they visited an air show as a formative experience that stirred their passion for aviation and set them on course for a career as a pilot, engineer, or even aerospace journalist.
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OpinionOPINION: Concorde still sets the pace, 50 years from first flight
"From the beginning of time until about 1840, the distance a man could travel between getting up and going to bed was about 75 miles… then technology produced the aeroplane, and today a man can travel 7,000 miles in his waking hours. When the supersonic era is inaugurated this 12h ...
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OPINION: Only luck saved lives in Durango's unqualified disaster
On an August day in the Alps last year, a teenage enthusiast on a pleasure flight aboard a single-engined Piper was offered the opportunity to take the controls, even though he had no experience and the pilot had no instructor qualification.
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OpinionOPINION: Lockheed's F-21 reveal: marketing or masterstroke?
What’s in a name – particularly when your product seemingly already has more than enough of them to choose from?
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OpinionOPINION: Boeing's Poseidon adventure pays off
In these days of huge order backlogs and soaring assembly rates for the air travel industry's narrowbody favourites, it could be hard to understand why the sector's giants would bother with adapting their jets to meet niche military requirements.
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OPINION: Airbus lets head rule heart with A380 cancellation
Of all the days to be dumped, St Valentine's Day is probably the most painful. But prompted by Emirates cancelling most of its remaining orders, Airbus on 14 February finally let its head rule its heart, and said au revoir to commercial aerospace's biggest vanity project – an airliner more ...
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OpinionOPINION: Firms must ignore procurement chaos to tap Indian riches
India, says Teal Group analyst Richard Aboulafia, “is seen as a very big, but very difficult market”.
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OpinionOPINION: Bombardier answers regional riddle with CRJ550
For quite some time, there has seemed to be no question for which the appropriate answer is "more CRJs".
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OpinionOPINION: How Boeing's jumbo bet paid off
Half a century ago this month, the cheers went up across Everett as the first Boeing 747 took to the air. Those celebrations were recognising not only the impressive engineering feat, but a commercial one too.
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OpinionOPINION: Urban air taxis are coming, but challenges abound
Urban air taxis, eVTOL aircraft, call them what you will – there seem to be hundreds of different designs currently in development.
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OpinionOPINION: Going Mobile may be start of A220's rebirth
Bombardier launched the CSeries on 31 July 2008, but the most notable date in the troubled history of the aircraft now known as the A220 may prove to be 16 January 2019.