It was another “Last Bolt” ceremony for P&W today. P&W completed assembly on the first PW1217G engine for the Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ). The engine, rated at 17,000 pounds of thrust, is the third PurePower series engine to complete assembly. …
Lufthansa recently ordered the A320neo, joining ILFC as a major customer in the first quarter. ILFC ordered 60 of their 100 aircraft with the Pratt & Whitney GTF, with 40 options, providing a boost to the GTF program. The focus…
We reached Boeing’s Director of Sustainable Biofuel Strategy, Darrin Morgan, in Europe today to get his take on the emergence of the this new group. Industry followers have noted that biofuels are a hot new area of research. The commercial…
Yesterday Continental announced it is going to install Ka-band connectivity from LiveTV. This means about 200 US domestic airplanes (737 and 757) are going to be able to offer Internet connectivity as this process gets rolled out. The story is…
Airbus and TAROM Romanian Air Transport together with a consortium of key stakeholders have established one of Europe’s first project aiming to establish a sustainable bio-kerosene jet-fuel processing and production capability. The Romanian based project aims to provide a bio-fuel…
Alex Wilcox is CEO of Jetsuite, a rapidly growing charter jet company which intends to utilize ideas proven successful by LCCs. Meaning applying standards like one airplane type (Phenom 100) and one cabin layout. The consequence is the ability to…