With news of Airbus creating a JV with Bombardier, a seismic industry event has occurred. Recall that Bombardier has previously tried (2015) to enjoin Airbus in the program, only to be rebuffed. With the impact still creating reverberations around the…
IRKUT announced their first MC-21-300 flew from the Irkutsk Aviation Plant to Ramenskoye Airport (Zhukovsky, Moscow), to continue flight tests. Here is an image of its landing. The aircraft flew 4,500 km (6 hours nonstop) at 10,000 meters (~33,000 feet).…
Airbus will be the white knight to rescue the C Series through a joint venture with Bombardier, announced earlier today. The agreement will include a second assembly line in Mobile, Alabama to produce C Series aircraft for the US market.…
EASA issued a Notification of a Proposal to issue an Airworthiness Directive focused on the CFM LEAP 1A, October 13. EASA states: “It was identified that a batch of high-pressure turbine (HPT) rotor stage 2 disks are possibly affected by…
If one limits the active airline passenger fleet In the United States to between 100-150 seats, then as of 2Q17 there were 1,671 aircraft. Of these, 699 were Airbus, 794 were Boeing and 178 were Douglas. Please bear in mind…
Airbus reported that Aircalin, the Noumea based carrier in the French territory of New Caledonia has firmed up its order for two A320neos single-aisle and two A330-900 wide-body aircraft. The A320neo powered by Pratt & WhitneyGTFs, and seat 168. The…