Airbus is the European aerospace success story. Quietly, the company met a requirement for a medium range twin when Boeing and Douglas were uninterested. There is a story that American’s CEO CR Smith had asked Douglas for a twin DC-10,…
The Singapore Airshow seems elegantly understated when compared with the brashness of Dubai, the bustle of Paris, or the more stoic nature of Farnborough. If Paris 2011 was the year of the neo, Farnborough 2012 the year of the MAX,…
Commercial aerospace is a long run business. The gestation of new programs takes years. Of late, add a few more years to the newer and vastly more complex aircraft programs. In studying the following chart, note how Boeing has started…
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As of the third quarter 2013 there were 28,525 commercial aircraft in service. The table below illustrates the breakdown of this number. The shaded rows are OEMs that are no longer in the business of making commercial airliners. Views: 64
Airbus and Boeing are pushing their supply chain hard to increase production. Boeing manages to produce two new 737s at its Renton plant every day, which is impressive and amazing to watch. But there was a time when Ford was…