Industry speculation remains rampant as to how Boeing will respond to the forthcoming Airbus NEO and CSeries. The pendulum has swung from a re-engining of the 737NG to an all new airplane to counter the new, high-technology Bombardier CSeries, and…
Yesterday Boeing announced another milestone – it started assembly of the 1,000th 767. The airplane is destined for ANA in Japan. ANA ordered its first of 89 767s in 1979 – 31 years ago. That the 767 is a great…
As the aviation world waits for Airbus to decide whether it will re-engine the Airbus A320 family with (as expected) the Pratt & Whitney Geared Turbo Fan and the CFM International Leap-X, little thought has been given to the advantage…
The all-electric Cri-Cri, jointly developed by EADS Innovation Works, Aero Composites Saintonge and the Green Cri-Cri Association made its official maiden flight at Le Bourget airport on Thursday. This Cri-Cri is the first-ever four-engined all electric aerobatic plane, which was…
SuperJet International – a joint venture between Alenia Aeronautica (a Finmeccanica company) and Sukhoi Holding – and the US leasing company Willis Lease Finance Corporation signed today a Memorandum of Understanding for the purchase of 6 Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100)…
Flight International has this story taking a detailed look at the Pratt & Whitney P1000G PurePower engine. Flight has this report about the Bombardier CSeries having the first telemetry for flight data recorders. The comments this week by Boeing Chief…