Pratt & Whitney and Irkut Corporation have signed a definitive agreement to offer the Pratt & Whitney PurePower® PW1400G (GTF) engine on Irkut’s MC-21 aircraft family. This secures the GTF engine as the only western powerplant offered on the program.…
Airbus, unlike Boeing, must also manage to exchange rates as an integral element of its business.It sells aircraft in US Dollars, but at least half the content is priced in Euros, including all of its employees in France and Germany. …
If you find flying unpleasant these days, you are in the majority. But as you will see below, there is a hive of activity going on thinking about what one can do with the confined space that is an airplane…
Airbus seems to be finding new ways to expand the role of the A380 without working on the long rumored -900 model. At Innovation Days last week the OEM showed the following slides. Views: 32
A lot has been said about Air Asia’s CEO. Here he is speaking at Airbus when he took delivery of the airline’s 100th A320. He is obviously a very compelling man. It is clear that he loves what he does,…
As part of the Innovation Days 2012 event, Airbus EVP Strategy & Future Programmes offered a view on how the company is thinking about emerging technologies. Airbus is investing in numerous new technologies to improve commercial aviation. The range of…