The 2019 Dubai Air Show has seen some significant news from local and regional players in maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO). For instance from Sanad Aerotech, which announced deals with General Electric/CFM and Emirates. Sanad Aerotech, until this May known…
What has caused the fan hub and fan case to detach from engine 4 on Air France A380 F-HPJE over Greenland on September 30, 2017? French and Danish accident investigators have been going at length to identify the cause and…
Commercial engine manufacturers can look back on an exciting Paris Air Show, earning some good money. Where the airframers agreed on deals that in most cases need further negotiating, the engine OEM’s received orders sometimes placed with airframers a couple…
The days of nuts and bolts in aircraft manufacturing are unlikely to disappear completely but the way airliners are built is certainly going to change in the very near future. At least at Airbus, where at last week’s Innovation Days…
Engine maker CFM International, owned by General Electric and Safran, expects deliveries of its LEAP engine family to be back on schedule by the middle of the year, GE said at the company’s Q4 presentation. CFM delivered 1.118 LEAPs to…
Airbus has confirmed it is ‘in discussions’ with Emirates ‘in relation to its A380 contract’, responding to reports from Reuters that the airline wants to swap some double-deckers on order for A350s. If confirmed, this casts serious doubt over the…