Awash in oil
Crude oil exports to Asia from the US, Brazil and the North Sea have jumped 55% in the first four months of 2017, according to the latest figures from Vortexa, the oil markets analytics platform. Vortexa is an analytics platform…
Addison Schonland
Co-Founder AirInsight. My previous life includes stints at Shell South Africa, CIC Research, and PA Consulting. Got bitten by the aviation bug and ended up an Avgeek. Then the data bug got me, making me a curious Avgeek seeking data-driven logic. Also, I appreciate conversations with smart people from whom I learn so much. Summary: I am very fortunate to work with and converse with great people.
Limits to a Bombardier CS500
The fracas between Boeing and Bombardier seems focused on a fear at Boeing that Bombardier could become another Airbus. That is highly amusing. In the ITC documents Boeing talks up a CS500 as the outcome they anticipate being the growing…
Embraer’s E2 Flight Test progress
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…
Pilot shortage starts to bite beyond the USA
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…
Premium #330 – a review of Boeing’s ITC testimony
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MC-21 prospects
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…