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Subscribe nowChina, along with many US and global aviation firms, in recent weeks raised alarm with the US Department of Commerce, warning that new aerospace-specific import taxes would negatively disrupt a global industry.
A senior Pentagon official tells FlightGlobal the Trump Administration will focus resources on developing a sixth-generation fighter on the US Air Force’s F-47 programme, with the US Navy’s new carrier-based equivalent in a holding pattern.
Safran Aircraft Engines is confident the initial durability issues affecting CFM International Leap-series engines will not be repeated on future generations of powerplants thanks to “key learnings” taken from the development of a fix being rolled out on Leap-1As .
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