Morning Call – Thursday 5 December 2019

A Summary of Industry News in Commercial Aviation, Business Aviation, Airlines, Urban Air Mobility, and Social Media

Commercial Aviation

• Boeing has 1500 employees with power to self-certify and FAA has 45 (only 25 of which are engineers) – Bloomberg

• Boeing Chief Engineer out – SeattleTimes

• Boeing Chief Engineer in – BizJournal

• The GE90 comeback story – GE

Business Aviation

• SkyNRG Encourages Business Aviation To ‘Board Now’ – AIN

Airlines

• The trade wars and air cargo – IATA

• Bamboo Airways expects profits in 1Q20; adds Hainan B787s – ch-Aviation

• Norwegian axes Argentinian subsidiary – Aerotime

Social

• These seed-firing drones plant thousands of trees each day – WEF

• What is it with Argentina and Exocets…? – Twitter

Urban Air Mobility

• eHang: Getting Close to Commercial Applications in Drone Taxis – DroneLife
• Airbus shares glimpse of CityAirbus progress – eVTOL.com
• Airbus Vahana eVTOL wraps up flight testing – eVTOL.com
• Boeing and Kitty Hawk to develop Cora eVTOL under Wisk joint venture- eVTOL.com

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Addison Schonland

Co-Founder AirInsight. My previous life includes stints at Shell South Africa, CIC Research, and PA Consulting. Got bitten by the aviation bug and ended up an Avgeek. Then the data bug got me, making me a curious Avgeek seeking data-driven logic. Also, I appreciate conversations with smart people from whom I learn so much. Summary: I am very fortunate to work with and converse with great people.

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