Last week, Boeing’s Marketing VP Randy Tinseth said that Boeing expects China to become a market worth a trillion dollars as it requires 6,810 aircraft over the next 20 years. Driving this breath taking number is the expectation that passenger…
Generally in the west, we tend to view China’s aerospace efforts somewhat dismissively. After some Chinese aircraft bear uncanny resemblances to designs from Airbus, Antonov or Sukhoi. Perhaps we might want to revisit that thinking. China’s Shaanxi Aircraft Corporation, part…
After two back to back bungled flights to ferry their test aircraft to the Moses Lake facility, Mitsubishi seems to have started to wring out the issues that plagued their ferry flights. The test aircraft is flying again. A test…
News this week about Singapore Airlines not renewing the lease on its first A380 has caused a flutter. The considered opinion is that this is another piece of bad news for the Airbus program. The Wall Street Journal has this…
Two weeks ago your correspondent experienced a second significant operational delay within a year because of a technical aircraft problem. Same airline, similar aircraft, same EU departure airport. The first time was annoying; the aircraft had to have an engine…
Airbus has reported its O&D through August. (Boeing only has data through July for download as of today) Taking a look a the Airbus numbers highlights some important issues. Views: 62