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…
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…
Russian news source TASS has this story. Meanwhile another Russian source describes the deal rather differently. The SSJ has been in play with this airline for some time. Russia and Egypt had their relationship ruffled by the bombing of the…
IRKUT reported today that the right composite wing panel of the MC-21 was delivered to its plant (IRKUT is a member of UAC ). In a world first, aviation specialists from AeroComposite used innovative vacuum infusion technology and the automatic…
Reports over the weekend suggest Iran is ready to sign for deals with Airbus for up to 114 aircraft. We have been looking at the Iranian market frequently (Aug 2015, Nov 2015, Dec 2015). As we suggested in earlier stories,…