Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company and SuperJet International (a joint venture between Leonardo-Finmeccanica Company and Sukhoi Holding) celebrated the delivery of the first Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) to CityJet, which becomes the first European SSJ100 customer. The Irish airline will lease…
In a quiet affair (no media) Embraer undertook its first flight for the E-190 E2 yesterday. The flight was originally scheduled to take place during the second half of this year. The first flight took 3 hours and 20 minutes.…
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Gogo announced it has partnered with aerospace software specialist PACE to connect PACEs’ Pacelab Flight Profile Optimizer – a leading flight optimization application. Pacelab Flight Profile Optimizer is a decision support tool developed for electronic flight bags (EFB) designed to…
It appears the commercial aerospace world has coalesced into two camps. We have called these the big and small duopolies. However the line between these two is growing blurry. This was something we first heard from Embraer’s John Slattery in…
The huge backlogs Airbus and Boeing have for single aisle aircraft are well known. Both firms have backlogs of about seven years at current production levels. Both firms are talking about and planning to increase their production rates to bring…