As the picture shows, this is not a big engine as far as aircraft engines go. But this particular engine’s impact has been huge. This is the engine that powered the regional jet revolution created by Bombardier. The engine is…
The latest round in a decade long procurement came to a close today when the Pentagon announced that Boeing has won. Well this round at least. Richard Aboulafia from Teal Group thinks that even if EADS does not want to…
Today Skymark made it official. As the Airbus PR states: Views: 50
This morning P&W sent out an update PR. Here is an excerpt. “Pratt & Whitney successfully completed initial ground testing on its first PurePower® PW1000G series engine, the PW1524G engine for the Bombardier* CSeries* aircraft. The engine completed nearly 200…
This morning we got to speak with MIT’s Bill Swelbar after he gave his presentation to the conference. Provocative as always, you may disagree with Bill, but he will make you think. We talk about the changes over the past…
Panasonic Avionics Corporation (Panasonic) last week announced that it signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) to provide communications systems for COMAC’s C919. While final terms are still being negotiated, the LoI allows the…