Having won the US Air Force tanker award, keeping the Boeing 767 production line active for the foreseeable future, should Boeing introduce an updated commercial version of their venerable (and highly successful) small wide-body aircraft? We believe that the time…
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Update, April 10: Aircraft Technology’s April issue is now published with a feature on Boeing’s prospective new airplane. There is a sidebar transcript with Boeing’s Mike Bair, who talks about the GTF and the competing engines. The report is here;…
Scott Hamilton speaks with Pratt & Whitney’s Bob Saia about the PurePower (AKA GTF). They talk about scalability, engine variants, materials, MRO/costs, and he mentions the Goodrich nacelle technologies. This last item is something not often discussed. Then they talk…
John Leahy, Airbus COO Customers, April 5 showed just how confident Airbus is in its single aisle family. He said: “We see an open market of 12,000 Single Aisle aircraft by 2030. I expect to sell at least 6,000 neo…
After the Airbus neo Technical Briefing in Toulouse, France, today, AirInsight had a chance to speak with Mr Leahy in his office. We had a few questions we wanted to hear his views on. The 100-149 seat market. Boeing seems…