Yesterday in Toulouse, at Airbus’ Delivery Center, India’s IndiGo took delivery of its first A320neo. The aircraft arrives in India today. The initial delays in deliveries means the remainder of the airline’s orders will come rapidly. Its second A320neo delivery …
Yesterday Airbus’ A321neo with the GTF took to the skies. This is the most complex flight test program underway at present. Each of the neo aircraft has to test both engine types. The table below provides an idea of where…
Airbus is pre-marketing a new concept, a 400 seat stretched version of the A350, tentatively dubbed the A350-8000. This new model would compete directly with the 406 seat 777-9. According to John Leahy, the new model would have similar capacity…
The MoM issue spiked again at last week’s ISTAT Americas. We spoke with Teal Group’s Richard Aboulafia to get his thoughts. Assuming Game Theory, it sounds like Airbus has the upper hand. For now. The options Boeing faces are not…
In 2014, Boeing signed an agreement with South Africa’s Paramount Group. The focus of the agreement was on military related projects. At the time there were various Paramount items that attracted attention, but it seemed Boeing was looking at the…
Irkut announced today that the second composite wing panel for MC-21 airliner manufactured by AeroComposite (a UAC member) was delivered to the plant of Irkut Corporation (also part of UAC). The image below is of the first wing panel delivered…