Air Transport

News and issues relating to international air transport and cargo carriers, national airlines and regional airlines, including aircraft, engines, personnel, acquisitions, accidents, safety, security and training.

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RNP services soon available

Starting next month, Airbus subsidiary Quovadis will begin offering required navigation performance (RNP) services to airlines, airports and authorities.

ATC

June 9, 2009

GEnx engine program off to a flying start

Less than three months ago, on March 24, General Electric’s newest engine, the GEnx-2B, took to the air on the company’s Boeing 747 flying test bed, markin

ATC

June 9, 2009

Financing outlooks point to white tails for Boeing, Airbus

Notwithstanding Boeing’s announcement in April that it will cut 777 production from seven to five per month starting next June, the world’s two big airline

June 9, 2009

Curtiss-Wright at home on military, commercial aircraft

The Curtiss-Wright Corporation can trace its lineage back to the very dawn of aviation.

June 9, 2009

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French startup company to offer flight testing of Galileo receiver

Helileo (Hall 4 Stand E66), a Galileo test bed and expert company located in Aerospace Valley of southwest France, is offering flight testing services to m

ATC

June 9, 2009

Airbus expects minor mods to keep A320 flying for years

Despite the fact that final assembly of the 4,000th example is now under way, the A320 single-aisle twinjet may be only at the midpoint of its production l

Aircraft

June 9, 2009

LHT undertakes restoration of Super Star Constellation

The Lockheed L-1649A Super Star was the queen of the skies in the late 1950s and it might again become a familiar sight aloft, according to Lufthansa Techn

Aircraft

June 9, 2009

Airbus engages all of Europe in A350 project

To the casual observer, it looked like just another chunk of concrete apron on Airbus’s sprawling production complex at Blagnac Airport outside Toulouse.

Aircraft

June 9, 2009

Air France announces photo contest]

To celebrate the adoption of its latest livery, Air France is conducting an international photography contest with the theme of “Air France Livery: Yesterd

June 8, 2009

Bombardier considers stretch variant for Q400

Bombardier Aerospace is continuing to define a further stretch of its 78-passenger Dash 8 Q-400 regional turboprop to create a possible 90-seat variant tha

Aircraft

June 8, 2009

Firm order vindicates Bombardier’s C series

The firm order placed by Deutsche Lufthansa late this past winter for 30 Bombardier CS100 airliners not only gave the much-maligned C Series its first conf

Aircraft

June 8, 2009

Airbus, Boeing mull options for next narrowbody models

Bombardier has already thrown its hat into the more-than-100-seats jetliner ring with its C Series design and Embraer is considering its response to percei

Aircraft

June 8, 2009

Embraer Thinks Big

Embraer continues to consider its product strategy.

Aircraft

June 8, 2009

BEA Confirms Conflicting Airspeed Indications from Air France A330

France’s Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) has issued a statement confirming that sensors aboard the Air France A330-200 that

June 5, 2009

P&W freezes design of geared turbofan engines

Pratt & Whitney has (Hall 5 B20-B30) frozen the design configuration of the PW1000G geared turbofans for both the Mitsubishi Regional Jet and Bombardie

Engines

June 5, 2009

Airbus ramps up work on A350 family

With the A380 very-large airliner firmly established in production and airline operation, Airbus is now hard at work on its next project: the three-model A

Aircraft

June 5, 2009

A380 ‘delivers’ on promises

After little more than 18 months’ service, the Airbus A380 very large airliner is delivering on the manufacturer’s commitments, including lowest fuel burn

Aircraft

June 5, 2009

Boeing dismisses doubt over 787 approval target

If Boeing manages to get the 787 certified in eight to nine months as planned, it will doubtless enjoy proving the long line of skeptics wrong.

Aircraft

June 5, 2009

R-R forges ahead on open rotors

Rolls-Royce’s development of an open-rotor engine for the next generation of midsize airliners has taken a giant leap forward after wind-tunnel tests revea

Engines

June 5, 2009

Meeting the Operational Challenge

In both engineering and visual terms, the open rotor is a huge departure from the turbofans that power today’s aircraft.

Engines

June 5, 2009

Air Transport

News and issues relating to international air transport and cargo carriers, national airlines and regional airlines, including aircraft, engines, personnel, acquisitions, accidents, safety, security and training.

Latest

RNP services soon available

Starting next month, Airbus subsidiary Quovadis will begin offering required navigation performance (RNP) services to airlines, airports and authorities.

GEnx engine program off to a flying start

Less than three months ago, on March 24, General Electric’s newest engine, the GEnx-2B, took to the air on the company’s Boeing 747 flying test bed, markin

Financing outlooks point to white tails for Boeing, Airbus

Notwithstanding Boeing’s announcement in April that it will cut 777 production from seven to five per month starting next June, the world’s two big airline

Curtiss-Wright at home on military, commercial aircraft

The Curtiss-Wright Corporation can trace its lineage back to the very dawn of aviation.

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French startup company to offer flight testing of Galileo receiver

Helileo (Hall 4 Stand E66), a Galileo test bed and expert company located in Aerospace Valley of southwest France, is offering flight testing services to m

Airbus expects minor mods to keep A320 flying for years

Despite the fact that final assembly of the 4,000th example is now under way, the A320 single-aisle twinjet may be only at the midpoint of its production l

LHT undertakes restoration of Super Star Constellation

The Lockheed L-1649A Super Star was the queen of the skies in the late 1950s and it might again become a familiar sight aloft, according to Lufthansa Techn

Airbus engages all of Europe in A350 project

To the casual observer, it looked like just another chunk of concrete apron on Airbus’s sprawling production complex at Blagnac Airport outside Toulouse.

Air France announces photo contest]

To celebrate the adoption of its latest livery, Air France is conducting an international photography contest with the theme of “Air France Livery: Yesterd

Bombardier considers stretch variant for Q400

Bombardier Aerospace is continuing to define a further stretch of its 78-passenger Dash 8 Q-400 regional turboprop to create a possible 90-seat variant tha

Firm order vindicates Bombardier’s C series

The firm order placed by Deutsche Lufthansa late this past winter for 30 Bombardier CS100 airliners not only gave the much-maligned C Series its first conf

Airbus, Boeing mull options for next narrowbody models

Bombardier has already thrown its hat into the more-than-100-seats jetliner ring with its C Series design and Embraer is considering its response to percei

Embraer Thinks Big

Embraer continues to consider its product strategy.

BEA Confirms Conflicting Airspeed Indications from Air France A330

France’s Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) has issued a statement confirming that sensors aboard the Air France A330-200 that

P&W freezes design of geared turbofan engines

Pratt &amp; Whitney has (Hall 5 B20-B30) frozen the design configuration of the PW1000G geared turbofans for both the Mitsubishi Regional Jet and Bombardie

Airbus ramps up work on A350 family

With the A380 very-large airliner firmly established in production and airline operation, Airbus is now hard at work on its next project: the three-model A

A380 ‘delivers’ on promises

After little more than 18 months’ service, the Airbus A380 very large airliner is delivering on the manufacturer’s commitments, including lowest fuel burn

Boeing dismisses doubt over 787 approval target

If Boeing manages to get the 787 certified in eight to nine months as planned, it will doubtless enjoy proving the long line of skeptics wrong.

R-R forges ahead on open rotors

Rolls-Royce’s development of an open-rotor engine for the next generation of midsize airliners has taken a giant leap forward after wind-tunnel tests revea

Meeting the Operational Challenge

In both engineering and visual terms, the open rotor is a huge departure from the turbofans that power today’s aircraft.

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Pratt & Whitney has (Hall 5 B20-B30) frozen the design configuration of the PW1000G geared turbofans for both the Mitsubishi Regional Jet and Bombardie