All Opinion articles – Page 40

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    Comment: Champagne on ice tastes all the sweeter

    2011-09-25T10:00:00Z

    You might wonder what Boeing has to do to catch a break. Just as its 787 widebody finally rolls toward commercial service, the high-power beams lighting up Everett turn out not to be theatrical spotlights, but ­rather the headlamps of an oncoming express that ­carried a late delivery of trouble.

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    Comment: A high-profile tragedy yields opportunities

    2011-09-18T12:00:00Z

    Maybe the Paris air show distracted attention from the Tupolev Tu-134 crash at Petrozavodsk in June. Maybe there was a collective weary shrug, a resigned attitude of "this is Russia", or perhaps the loss of 40-odd people on a chartered Soviet jet did not meet some notional threshold for a ...

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    Comment: Governments be gone

    2011-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Europe's aerospace giant has been an undeniable success story since its creation a decade ago from national champions. It is long past time for the politicians to get out of the way

  • Boeing C-17A Globemaster
    Opinion

    Comment: How to escape from development hell

    2011-09-09T07:00:00Z

    What lessons does the Boeing C-17A Globemaster III hold for the Lockheed Martin F-35B? ...

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    Comment: Aviation is safer since 9/11

    2011-09-05T10:00:00Z

    A decade on from the cataclysmic impact of 9/11, aviation is statistically more secure, but suicide bombers still kill on the ground and terrorists remain an unpredictable opponent

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    Comment: Does Boeing's new 737 have the Max factor?

    2011-09-05T09:00:00Z

    When Boeing launched the last iteration of its ubiquitous 737 back in 1993, the head of its Renton plant declared it had "built and delivered more than 2,500 and we expect to deliver another 2,500".

  • Tom Enders and John Leahy
    Opinion

    Comment: Art of war masterclass

    2011-07-24T12:00:00Z

    Every battle is won before it is even fought, an ancient treatise on conflict says. Airbus seems to have demonstrated this by swooping on Boeing's sacred turf with military precision

  • Opinion

    Comment: Safety's bad guys persistently offend

    2011-07-23T12:00:00Z

    Safety is in a rut, it seems. Mostly it is stuck there because the bad guys are not getting any better, despite pressure - and assistance - from the outside and, occasionally, attempts at self-improvement.

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    Comment: Cosy down under

    2011-07-22T00:00:00Z

    There is a frenzy of activity among Asia-Pacific airlines to form alliances and strategic partnerships, and more could be in the offing.

  • Opinion

    Comment: Singapore spring at IATA agm

    2011-06-24T09:25:00Z

    A week, so the saying goes, is a long time in politics. And for outgoing IATA chief Giovanni Bisignani, it took just two days in Singapore, where airline...

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    Comment: To Mars and back – or a bust-up?

    2011-06-21T10:00:00Z

    Five hundred days locked in a windowless container outside Moscow sounds like some sort of Soviet-era re-education scheme. It would certainly be enough to...

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    Comment: Powerful promises

    2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

    CFM's endorsement from Virgin America for the Leap engine was won by besting Pratt & Whitney on guaranteed performance. So, the deal is a result more of talking than technology

  • Opinion

    Comment:AF447's new puzzles

    2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

    We now know how an Air France Airbus A330 vanished two years ago, but two new questions arise - one related to icing awareness, the other to man-machine harmony and flying skills

  • Opinion

    Comment: A dusty trail to super-smart innovations

    2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

    To look into the future and see dust sounds like a prediction for pessimists. But we're not talking ground dirt - listen carefully and there's a growing buzz around a nanotechnology idea known as "smart dust".

  • Opinion

    Comment: Turboprops can be life savers too

    2011-05-31T14:00:00Z

    For most of us, an aircraft like the ATR 42 makes pleasant work of short-hop holiday or business trips. Such turboprops fly lower than jets, so the view reminds us that flying can still be a joy.

  • Opinion

    Comment: A clash over ash

    2011-05-31T10:00:00Z

    Opinion may be divided on how to cope with volcanic eruptions. But caution is the only option until Europe has scaled a steep learning curve - which it must, given rising seismic activity

  • Opinion

    Comment: Giovanni's decade

    2011-05-24T14:39:00Z

    In an IATA career spanning a decade, Giovanni Bisignani has dragged this venerable air transport industry institution kicking and screaming into the 21st...

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    Comment: We can beat your offer – with state help

    2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

    That interminable World Trade Organisation dispute between Airbus and Boeing over government subsidies to large airliner programmes flared up again last...

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    Comment: Money loves Russia?

    2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

    Forced to abandon plans for a London share listing, the maker of Mil and Kamov helicopters was disappointed - but not too ruffled. And Oboronprom's sangfroid is well justified

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    Comment: The future is big

    2011-05-17T11:00:00Z

    Emirates is making serious money while EasyJet has its major shareholder worried. The difference between the two may have more to do with hardware than strategy