AirInsight attended Pratt & Whitney’s media day. Here’s what’s new regarding the GTF and their commercial engine business given the initial ramp-up and entry into service difficulties. The company is making positive progress, but not as fast as Airbus and…
Pratt & Whitney and its OEM partners announced today the Type Certification for the GTF engine for the Mitsubishi Regional Jet, the PW1200G, as well as the GTF engine for the Embraer E2-190 and E2-195, the PW1900G. The PW1200G will…
Embraer’s E2 flight test program has been a rather quiet affair. The OEM announces milestones but there is scant third-party program tracking. Embraer reported that the flight test fleet accumulated more than 650 flight hours after its first flight in…
In a fascinating story on AIN, we read that now China has to make changes to its pilot rules, raising the mandatory retirement age because they are also feeling a pilot shortage. China’s growth in air travel is probably…
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Now that UAC has accomplished the first flight of the MC-21, what can we project for the program’s prospects? After all, the MC-21 is entering a segment of the market that is going to be tough, even merciless. The MC-21…