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…
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…
As posted earlier, today P&W’s president David Hess spoke at their media day in Florida at the West Palm Beach company facility. Regular readers know that we have stated that P&W seems to be increasingly confident – their two decade…