While most of us focus, day to day, on airplanes that are flying, there is another group of aircraft that are idle, parked and waiting to hopefully, someday, fly again. Many of these aircraft are older models, but surprisingly, there…
At the Russian Zhukovsky test center, the new PD-14 engine has been placed on their IL-78 test bed for flight tests. This is the engine to be used on the IRKUT MC-21. The test bed records 1,066 flight parameters of…
As Dassault is discovering, doing business in India is very tough. The company was thrilled to win an order for 126 Rafales in 2012 after a long drawn out competition. Here we are in 2016, and not one aircraft has…
As if military life in Ukraine isn’t enough fun….notice the edginess among the ground crew who are not quite sure how the prank might turn out. Views: 28
Q&A with Ilyushin Finance Company. Views: 39
With data now available through the 2nd quarter of 2015, we took a look at the Russian civil aviation market, our third in a series of market surveys. This market is facing challenges and are there any trends one can discern?…