CSeries Update
This week AirInsight visited Montreal and Mirabel along with other media and analysts. The unedited videos below provide readers with some of the briefings. Views: 31
Category Boeing
Vampires Beware – Electric Window Shades on the 787 Aren’t Dark Enough!
The launch customer for the Boeing 787, All Nippon Airlines, has approached Boeing to fix an emerging problem with the electric dimming windows on the 787, which apparently are not dark enough for it’s passengers to sleep comfortably. Those windows…
Price matters in Airbus vs Boeing comparisons
The Airbus A330-300 has an economic advantage over the Boeing 787-9 of $113,000 per month, or $1.36m per year, claimed John Leahy, COO-Customers, at the recent Airbus Innovation Days. Views: 222
Aircraft noise
Airports are often surrounded by the communities they serve. An airport that used to be far away from homes thirty years ago now has neighbors. Great examples (Heathrow and Gatwick) exist in London. LAX is also surrounded by homes. Views:…
Remarkable CFM performance
Today Germany’s TUIfly and CFM celebrated a new first-run time-on-wing world record set by a CFM56-7B engine powering one of the airline’s Boeing 737-800s. This engine logged more than 50,000 hours without a shop visit. That’s equivalent to 2,083 days…
The Euro Crisis Will Benefit Airbus on costs
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. …