The Necessity of Options
Commercial aviation is a very high stakes game. Get it wrong and you’re lucky to get a second chance. In order to reduce risk the players hedge bets. For example, in the case of OEMs, a typical solution is to…
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Rolls-Royce faces shrinking single-aisle airplane market-share
Rolls-Royce is facing major challenges in the future, including being shut out of the single-aisle engine market. In a syndicated article picked up today by the India Times (the original ran about two weeks ago out of London), the dilemma…
Nixing NEO?
(image: FlightGlobal) In a strange turn of events, it seems Airbus is backing away from or at least delaying its much awaited A320-family NEO. There was an expectation that this week we would hear all about the new airplane update.…
Old Planes, Good Planes
It was tough thinking of a pithy title for this post. Old Planes is not exactly attention grabbing, but there you are. This post is about old planes – specifically some special old ones that serve in the USAF. Views:…
FAA and Separation
This week saw an interesting reversal by the FAA. Take a look at this story by the WSJ. Within a week the FAA went from posting new rules about wake turbulence on the 787 and 747-8 to removing them because…
Boeing confirms new 747-8 delay, but is another likely?
Boeing today confirmed another long-expected delay of the 747-8, to mid-2011, but aerospace analysts think yet another 3-6 months might be coming. A fifth 747-8 will be added to the flight test program, and customers tell us Boeing is preparing…