The last time the aviation industry saw tremendous growth and evolution in aero engines was the 1980s. This was the time when GE joined forces with SNECMA to create CFM. P&W joined with Rolls-Royce, MTU and other to create IAE. …
Airbus has released a new report, The Future by Airbus that talks about innovations it views as possible over the next 40 years. This is a thoughtful and innovative piece, with topics ranging from transparent floors for viewing the sites…
Airbus’ Bob Lange shares news of a radical new concept in in-flight galleys. He goes on to discus connectivity and then provides an A380 and A350 update. We tried to get him to talk about a re-engine program for the…
Airbus sent us some PR today about their tests on the A350 panel. “The 15m² structure (pictured) is fitted in place of an existing A340 aluminium fuselage section. The trials, conducted by Airbus’ flight-test aircraft A340 MSN001, are part of…
As the aviation world waits for Airbus to decide whether it will re-engine the Airbus A320 family with (as expected) the Pratt & Whitney Geared Turbo Fan and the CFM International Leap-X, little thought has been given to the advantage…
Flight International has this story taking a detailed look at the Pratt & Whitney P1000G PurePower engine. Flight has this report about the Bombardier CSeries having the first telemetry for flight data recorders. The comments this week by Boeing Chief…