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…
The narrow-body aircraft market will undergo a major revolution in this decade, with new aircraft competition from the Bombardier CSeries, Comac C919, Irkut MS-21, a re-engining of the A320 family from Airbus, and an anticipated new offering from Brazil’s Embraer.…
In the wake of the Continental-United merger, the Continental regional affiliate Express Jet has been acquired by SkyWest, which operates United Express and Delta Connection services. The value of the transaction was $133 million. Views: 77
The Farnborough Air Show largely exceeded expectations, with Airbus and Boeing announcing more orders than anticipated. As always, there were a number of orders announced that had been previously booked but unidentified. Still, the Big Two OEMs came away with…
I published an analysis on the lack of CSeries orders at Farnborough on GLGNews today, and have added graphical data to that article for our Air Insight blog readers. As posted before the show on this blog, Air Insight did…
The show closed today and a clearly exhausted Scott Hamilton shares his assessment of the show’s news. The orders were a lot bigger than anyone expected. Airbus’ John Leahy declared the recession over – and he has good reason to…