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FARNBOROUGH: Lord looks to future with French fly-by-wire acquisition
It has been a year of mixed fortunes in aerospace for Lord. Like most suppliers to commercial airliner manufacturers, the US corporation headed into Farnborough with the “nice problem” of having to ramp up fast to deliver on a large backlog of contracts for Airbus and Boeing aircraft. It has ...
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FARNBOROUGH: Bionic design emerges from Airbus 3D printers
Machining aircraft parts out of giant metal billets is time-consuming, wasteful of material and very expensive – but still, for the most part, necessary. Despite significant advances in the past two decades, autoclave-cured composite parts remain usually more expensive to build than metallic equivalents. Additive manufacturing – so-called 3D printing ...
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FARNBOROUGH: Airbus sets stage for A350-2000 launch decision
Only one piece remains missing in the long-term portfolios of Airbus and Boeing widebody products as the two companies enter the Farnborough air show – and it could remain purposefully obscure for at least a while longer.
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FARNBOROUGH: 787 - Rolls-Royce bang on the money with Trent plans
Boeing first flew the 787-8 in December 2009, but the first run of the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engine came almost four years before in February 2006. Now more than a decade old, the engine competition between R-R and the GE Aviation GEnx-1B is as intense as ever, with still unpredictable ...
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FARNBOROUGH: Proposed stretch of 737 Max 9 possible, but challenging
The nearly 50-year-old 737 airframe may have one more stretch left to give, but it will not be easy.
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ANALYSIS: Automation leap on 777 hits growing pains
When Boeing executives decided to re-invent a critical element of the 777 production process two years ago, they knew it was going to be hard. Memories of the costly, three-and-a-half-year delayed entry of the 787 were still fresh around Everett, Washington.
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ANALYSIS: Middle of the Market is 'when', not 'if' at Boeing
Mike Delaney was named as head of Boeing’s four-year-old aircraft development organisation in April. The veteran Boeing executive immediately inherited a conceptual puzzle often called the “middle of the market (MoM)” study, a proposed aircraft family with widebody payload and range performance and, somehow, narrowbody economics.
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NewsBoeing selects iPad-like touch screens for 777X flightdeck
Future Boeing 777X airline pilots that will be able to interact with their flight information displays in the same way that they use their smart phones and tablets.
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Farnborough International Airshow renews media partnership with FlightGlobal
Farnborough International Airshow will once again enter a media partnership with leading aviation data and insight company, FlightGlobal. The deal will see Farnborough being granted Official Airshow Partner status by FlightGlobal, while FlightGlobal has become an Official Media Partner of the Airshow.
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PICTURE: Mitsubishi starts final assembly of first delivery jet
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is set to begin final assembly of the first customer aircraft for the MRJ regional jet programme, with various sections of the fuselage having been delivered to the MRJ final assembly hangar.
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Bombardier caps 18-month turnaround with CS100 delivery
Completing a 12-year-old goal with many twists and even moments of despair, Bombardier formally delivered the first CS100 airliner to launch customer Swiss in an emotional celebration on 29 June at Mirabel airport in front of suppliers and government officials.
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FARNBOROUGH: Breakthrough CSeries gets ready for a 'flawless' EIS
Developing the Bombardier CSeries family from a paper concept to a certificated aircraft eight years later proved to be a typically dramatic experience for an innovative, technologically ambitious airliner, punctuated by moments of soaring achievement but also many painful and costly setbacks.
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UK special: Strength of Northern Ireland consortium greater than sum of the parts
Five aerospace SMEs in Northern Ireland are tackling the problem of being squeezed down the supply chain by coming together as a consortium to compete for complex work packages
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Air Canada finalises deal for up to 75 CS300s
Five days after the Canadian parliament cleared a legal obstacle, Air Canada has finalised a firm order with Bombardier for 45 CS300s, including options to buy 30 more.
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Rolls-Royce leaves first-half outlook unchanged
Rolls-Royce’s outlook for the first half of the year remains unchanged, and the company is expecting overall underlying profit before tax to be close to break-even.
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Original A320 test airframe emerges as flight laboratory
Airbus has found a new role for its veteran A320 prototype, having converted the airframe into an airborne laboratory.
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PICTURE: ARJ21 starts operations with Chengdu Airlines
The Comac ARJ21-700 regional jet has commenced operations with launch customer Chengdu Airlines.
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NewsBoeing 737 Max set for flying debut at Farnborough
A Boeing 737 Max 8 test aircraft will appear at the Farnborough airshow and perform in the flying display, marking the re-engined type’s debut at a public event.
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Lufthansa starts A320 wi-fi installation
Lufthansa has equipped the first aircraft of its Airbus A320-family fleet with broadband internet access.
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Airbus: UK's exit decision is 'wake-up call' for Europe
Airbus Group is referring to the UK decision to leave the European Union as a “wake-up call”, but has yet to assess the competitive impact of the result.