About 40% of the titanium for Boeing jets is currently sourced from Russia and VSMPO. VSMPO (???????????????? ???????????????? ???????????????? ???????????) is the largest titanium producer in the world, and has extensive relationships with Boeing and other aerospace manufacturers, as outlined…
The Boeing 787 is one of two aircraft (the other being the Airbus A380) that attracts media attention every time there is an “event”, be it positive or negative. Should anything unusual happen during a flight by a 787, it…
Reuters reported today that Rolls-Royce announced two new engines; the “Advance” which is expected to be 6% more fuel efficient than the Trent XWB (Rolls’ latest engine) and the “UltaFan” which is expected to be 10% more fuel efficient than…
There is an increasing amount of news flow on the question of the replacement for the 757. Aviation Week’s Guy Norris put out a good story on the challenges this process has to go through. Of course the decision on…
Airbus is the European aerospace success story. Quietly, the company met a requirement for a medium range twin when Boeing and Douglas were uninterested. There is a story that American’s CEO CR Smith had asked Douglas for a twin DC-10,…
The Singapore Airshow seems elegantly understated when compared with the brashness of Dubai, the bustle of Paris, or the more stoic nature of Farnborough. If Paris 2011 was the year of the neo, Farnborough 2012 the year of the MAX,…