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Rolls Royce throws Cold Water on Re-Engining – It is Sour Grapes?

by admin | Jul 21, 2010 | Aerospace, Airbus, Boeing, CFM International, Engines, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce

An article in Aviation International News quotes Robert Nuttal, Rolls Royce head of strategic marketing, as stating that "the numbers do not stack...

Ryanair – fascinating insight

by admin | Jul 21, 2010 | Aerospace, Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Embraer, Engines, Ryanair, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines, West Jet

We highly recommend you read this link. What caught our eye is at the bottom of the article. "Anyone concerned with Ryanair’s growth coming to a...

Farnborough Day 2

by admin | Jul 20, 2010 | Aerospace, Airbus, Airshow, Boeing, Bombardier, Embraer, General Category, Superjet

A second day and even more orders. The table above shows the score of orders only, not options. Scott Hamilton describes the day's shopping by...

Farnborough Day 1 – its a narrowbody story so far

by admin | Jul 20, 2010 | Aerospace, Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Embraer, Superjet

After the first day's splashy news, the important takeaway is that narrow bodies are the hottest segment. On day one 150 narrow bodies were...

Why the GTF Will be a Winner for Pratt & Whitney – Proprietary Technology

by admin | Jul 14, 2010 | Aerospace, Engines

Ernie Arvai posted this article on the Pratt & Whitney GTF engine earlier today at GLGNews. For convenience, this article is also reproduced...

Sukhoi Superjet to Win Western Order?

by admin | Jul 13, 2010 | Aerospace, Airshow, Superjet

An interesting article by Jon Ostrower in Flight Global predicts a North American order for the Sukhoi Superjet with a fresh letter of intent from a leasing company for 65 aircraft to be announced at Farnborough. With a 25% program ownership by Italy’s Alenia, and a 51%/49% Alenia ownership in the marketing and support venture, […]

Farnborough 2010 – Expectations too high?

by admin | Jul 12, 2010 | Aerospace, Airshow

As we head into air show week, it might be worthwhile to consider that perhaps expectations for the show are too high. While airlines are doing...

Pre-Farnborough-1: Bombardier likely to disappoint

by Addison Schonland | Jul 12, 2010 | Aerospace, Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier

Expectations are high that Bombardier will breath new life into its stalled CSeries program at the Farnborough Air Show. But based on what we are...

Podcast – Boeing submits its Tanker bid

by admin | Jul 9, 2010 | Aerospace, Airbus, Boeing, EADS, Tanker

Today Boeing submitted its own 8,000 page proposal tome to for the tanker RFP. Boeing spokesperson Bill Barksdale explains how important this deal...

Airbus on WTO and Tanker

by admin | Jul 8, 2010 | Aerospace, Airbus

Today we have a call with Airbus Americas Chairman, Allan McArtor. Earlier today Mr McArtor an his colleagues held a briefing on their tanker...

WTO part 2 delayed – Airbus response

by admin | Jul 8, 2010 | Airbus, Boeing, WTO

In a PR piece just received, Airbus quotes its CEO Tom Enders responding to the WTO announcement of a further delay of the report in the Boeing...

A Swiss solar powered truimph

by admin | Jul 8, 2010 | Aerospace, Power, Solar

What a wonderful aerospace success for the Swiss! A single seat plane powered by the sun completed a successful test flight and it shows that (in...

Quick Polls – Farnborough 2010

by admin | Jul 6, 2010 | Aerospace

How do you see the major OEMs coming out of Farnborough this year? [polldaddy poll=3435881] [polldaddy poll=3435863] [polldaddy poll=3435892]...

The Quiet Confidence at SuperJet

by admin | Jul 2, 2010 | Superjet

At the Milwaukee RAA conference, we met with SuperJet VP Business Development John Buckley. He shared with us a sense of quiet confidence about the...