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HELI-EXPO: Bell unveils FCX concept helicopter
Bell Helicopter has taken the wraps off a new concept rotorcraft at this year’s Heli-Expo, designed to showcase the manufacturer’s renewed focus on innovation under the direction of chief executive Mitch Snyder.
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Boeing unveils first image of 737 Max 10X
Boeing’s marketing chief unveiled on 6 March the first image of the proposed 737 Max 10X amidst the first of likely a series of rhetorical duels with his Airbus counterpart at the ISTAT Americas convention in San Diego.
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OpinionOPINION: Can commercial engine suppliers deliver on innovation?
For all the challenges within its own production system and the wider supply chain, it is engines that are producing the biggest headaches for Airbus.
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Boeing CEO highlights global approach in Trump era
In public remarks a couple miles away from the White House on 2 March, Boeing chief executive Dennis Muilenburg re-issued a call for re-empowering the Ex-Im Bank and elaborated on the company’s approach to globalisation in an era of the Trump administration in the USA and Brexit in the UK.
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AW139 bid for Huey replacement kicks off with a glitch
Boeing and Leonardo’s joint bid for the US Air Force’s UH-1N Huey helicopter recapitalisation did not take off last week after a system aboard the AW139 failed.
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Domestic warhead switch to delay Hero 30 demonstration
A live-fire demonstration of the UVision Hero 30 loitering munition for the US Army is likely to be postponed, after the Department of Defense mandated that the service should acquire a system equipped with a US-produced warhead.
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Boeing sets roll-out date for 737 Max 9
Two months before the anticipated entry into service of the 737 Max 8, Boeing has scheduled the official roll-out of the first 737 Max 9 for 7 March in Renton, Washington.
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US think-tank calls for stealthy, carrier-based UCAV
An influential think-tank has unveiled a vision of a future US Navy strike group composed of two aircraft carriers and supporting ships with 110 aircraft, including new requirements for a stealthy attack unmanned air system (UAS) and a manned fighter optimised for the air-to-air mission.
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ANALYSIS: Snyder charts course for innovation at Bell
As one employee of Bell Helicopter puts it: “Having the right leader at the right time is what makes a business successful. We really think with Mitch that he’s the right person for the next stage of our development.”
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USAF picks Elta for counter-UAS deal
Israel Aerospace Industries’ (IAI) Elta North America subsidiary has been awarded a $15.5 million, fixed-price contract to provide the US Air Force with counter-unmanned air system equipment.
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HELI-EXPO: Universal vision for integrated avionics may be in sight
Deep within the cavernous Dallas Convention Center during Heli-Expo in early March, Universal Avionics will display the mock-up of its InSight integrated avionics suite in an exhibit booth adjacent to MD Helicopters, the aircraft manufacturer that lined up four years ago to be the first customer for the avionics vendor’s ...
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ANALYSIS: Airbus hits stride in Mobile as political winds turn in its favour
Four years and four months before Donald Trump rode a wave of industrial nationalism to the White House, Airbus decided to plant a factory in Mobile, Alabama, to deliver A320-family aircraft to US customers. In retrospect, that fateful announcement looks, well, prescient.
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Avionics supplier warns of stagnant business aviation market
A major avionics and systems suppler has bad news for a business aviation industry hoping to recover to peak production levels from a decade ago.
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P&W develops plan to exceed GTF 2017 delivery targets
Pratt & Whitney has an internal plan to exceed delivery targets for the geared turbofan GTF) engine family this year after falling short of the objective in 2016, says chief executive Greg Hayes of P&W parent United Technologies.
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VIDEO: A320 family first flights
When an Airbus flight test crew took the A320 to the sky for the first time, they must have known they were flying a special aircraft. For sure, as this video shows, that 1987 sortie was a sight to behold. But what must have surprised even its flight crew and ...
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Interview
INTERVIEW: Greg Principato. President of the National Aeronautic Association
Greg Principato became the 32nd president and chief executive of the National Aeronautic Association on 20 October 2016. The NAA is a non-profit organisation and a founding member of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. Founded in 1905, it is the oldest national aviation club in the USA.
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InterviewINTERVIEW: John Plueger, chief executive, Air Lease
Sitting in the conference room of Air Lease’s satellite office in Dublin, John Plueger flashes a casual California grin, having recently taken over as the chief executive of a company he has spent the past six years building with industry veteran Steven Udvar-Hazy. They have spent the better part of ...
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Boeing rolls out 787-10 in politically charged ceremony
Boeing formally introduced the first 787-10 on 17 February in North Charleston, South Carolina, in a strikingly political ceremony led by US president Donald Trump.
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Opinion
OPINION: 737 Max 10 could be lucky 13 for Boeing
A 13th passenger-carrying version of the Boeing 737 is now being seriously pursued in Seattle. If launched later this year, the 230-passenger 737 Max 10 would be 1.68m (66in) longer than the 737 Max 9 and 15.1m longer than the 737-100 that first flew 50 years ago in April.
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Interview
INTERVIEW: Air Combat Command chief prepares for departure
After nearly 40 years in the US Air Force, Gen Herbert “Hawk” Carlisle will hand over the reins of Air Combat Command on 10 March to his successor, Lt Gen Mike Holmes.