Morning Call – Tuesday 21 January 2020
Summary of industry news in commercial aviation, business aviation, airlines, and social media
Category Aerospace
New A321neo production moves into A380 complex
Airbus Toulouse will get an extra production and final assembly line for the A321neo, the company has announced on January 21. The additional capacity should relieve the current assembly facilities in Hamburg, which face great difficulty in coping with demand…
Insight Monday 20 January 2020: More Software Delays for MAX?
Boeing announced last week that the latest software review with the FAA resulted in additional minor glitches that need to be addressed before the MAX can return to service. Industry speculation is that the new error, which impacts screens at…
Renaming MAX?
An interesting piece of advice from Steven Udvar-Hazy: “We’ve asked Boeing to get rid of that word Max,” Udvar-Hazy said. “I think that word Max should go down in the history books as a bad name for an aircraft.” What…
Morning Call – Monday 20 January 2020
Summary of industry news in commercial aviation, business aviation, airlines, and social media
Insight Friday 17 January 2020: Systems Integration the Key Future Skill for Aircraft OEMs
Airbus is testing automatic take-off and landing capabilities with A350-1000. These first steps, along with the auto-landing capabilities for general aviation aircraft to be certified early this year, indicates that the age of automation assisted operations is slowly but surely…