The Dubai Air Show the week of November 13 will have a fair number of orders to announce by the Middle Eastern carriers and a small number of non-Gulf customers. Some of these orders have been widely leaked already: Emirates…
This morning Embraer made an interesting announcement, “The Brazilian company AEL Sistemas, based in Porto Alegre, was selected by Embraer Defense and Security to supply three more components to the KC-390 military airlifter and tanker jet: the Self-Protection System (SPS);…
There has been talk about this for some time. Today Boeing announced it is going to accelerate 737 production from 31.5 planes per month to 35 per month. It may not sound like much, but that is over 11% faster…
The association is not what you first think of; this news is much more banal. Bombardier in September announced John Travolta was to be its “brand ambassador” for the company’s business jets. This week Embraer announced they were going to…
Possibly the airplane most qualified to go by this moniker is the Boeing 717. It started life as the MD95 – and with it went much of the hopes of McDonnell Douglas. It made an early and crucial win at…
Reading various reports on the retirement of Gary Scott would have you believe it was he alone that kept the CSeries program alive. Yesterday Bombardier announced his retirement for personal reasons. It came as a surprise for many, including us.…