A future without fuel?
The world is seeing radical series of tests in flight to find alternatives to fossil fuels. So much of an airline’s costs are fuel driven, you can expect to see these tests monitored closely. The USAF is deep into its…
Category Airbus
Farnborough-post mortem
The Farnborough Air Show largely exceeded expectations, with Airbus and Boeing announcing more orders than anticipated. As always, there were a number of orders announced that had been previously booked but unidentified. Still, the Big Two OEMs came away with…
The Future by Airbus
For those of you who haven’t yet seen The Future by Airbus, a download of their 14 page PDF presentation is available here: The Future by Airbus. One example future concept, with a U-Shaped tail, is shown below. Looking ahead…
No CSeries Orders at Farnborough – No Need for Panic
I published an analysis on the lack of CSeries orders at Farnborough on GLGNews today, and have added graphical data to that article for our Air Insight blog readers. As posted before the show on this blog, Air Insight did…
Farnborough – Day Four
The show closed today and a clearly exhausted Scott Hamilton shares his assessment of the show’s news. The orders were a lot bigger than anyone expected. Airbus’ John Leahy declared the recession over – and he has good reason to…
Rolls Royce throws Cold Water on Re-Engining – It is Sour Grapes?
An article in Aviation International News quotes Robert Nuttal, Rolls Royce head of strategic marketing, as stating that “the numbers do not stack up” for re-engining programs on either the 737 or A320 families. Of course, since Airbus rejected Rolls…