Airbus A320 Family Engine Selections
Selecting engines for an Airbus single aisle aircraft is highly competitive. Both engine OEMs fight hard for each sale. So what does the score look like? First let’s look at in service aircraft. Views: 133
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Aging Airplanes
Over the past two years we have seen a remarkable surge in orders for single aisle airplanes. Much of this has been driven by fuel prices. But there has also been an issue bubbling under – airplanes in many fleets…
Pratt & Whitney’s David Hess Gives Upbeat Briefing
At today’s PW Media Day, PW’s President gave an upbeat briefing to the press. Views: 24
First new-build Sharklet-equipped A320 completed
Airbus produced its first new-build A320 with Sharklets. Seen here at its roll-out in Toulouse, MSN 5098 will is one of several A320 aircraft in the certification flight-test campaign starting in May and lasting around 600 flight hours. The Sharklet…
A350 XWB aft fuselage delivered to FAL
Airbus delivered the aft fuselage for the A350 XWB static test (MSN 0) airframe to the final assembly line in Toulouse. This final section of the fuselage will be assembled with the front and center fuselage sections which were joined…
CFM makes an important win
CFM just announced an important win for their LEAP engine. The Qantas Group today announced that it has selected CFM International’s advanced LEAP-1A engine to power 78 A320neo currently on order. The engine order is valued at $2 billion list…