The Society of British Aerospace Companies is conducting two summit sessions here at Farnborough to promote ethical business practices in the defense secto
Northrop Grumman’s defensive systems division has delivered the first of a new generation of Plug and Play II video datalinks for use with the Litening AT
Bell Helicopter here on Monday announced an order for 14 helicopters–12 Bell 407s and two Bell 206B3s–from Australia-based sales representative Hawker Paci
Powering the A400M was always going to be a challenge, requiring the development of the Western world’s biggest turboprop, the 11,000-shp TP400-D6, and int
Boeing Commercial Airplanes forecasts a $3.2 trillion requirement for some 29,400 commercial jetliners with capacity for more than 29 passengers from 2008
Simulation and training specialist CAE is about to embark on a full-scale beta test of the new multi-crew pilot’s license (MPL) curriculum it developed to
Crossair, Europe’s largest regional airline, spreads its wings next month when it formally takes over Swissair routes following the national carrier’s bank
Mesaba Airlines has served notice that it no longer wants to play second fiddle to Express Airlines I when Northwest Airlines orchestrates the distribution
A major research program launched three years ago by the European Union has identified open rotors and natural laminar flow as key technologies to be taken
Industria Controls, a French subsidiary of California-based Circor Aerospace, has been selected by Claverham Ltd to provide an integrated pressure switch f
The Yak-130 advanced jet trainer is not cavorting about the skies over Farnborough, but company executives are on hand at the Irkut stand (Hall 1 E8) to di
The hundreds of billions of dollars worth of airliner orders now on the books will help insulate aerospace manufacturing companies from the industry crisis
That a bomber which first entered service in the late 1950s should still excite attention whenever it appears in the skies is obvious to those fortunate en
Canada’s CAE announced last week that a Boeing 777 full-flight simulator (FFS) built for Delta Air Lines is the first to achieve level-D qualification unde
Last week Marshall Specialist Vehicles delivered a second ground control station shelter to BAE Systems Integrated Systems Technologies (Insyte) for use wi
Alenia Aermacchi’s first pre-production M-346 lead-in fighter trainer made its official maiden flight on July 7 with Aermacchi chief test pilot Olinto Cecc
Snecma Services has signed a three-year maintenance contract with privately-owned Bahrain Air to support the CFM56-5A engines that power the carrier’s flee
Although the name Embraer is known throughout the world, Brazil’s aviation industry consists of much more than the manufacture of regional airliners, a gro