Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Sep 19, 2017
Four Chinese government lessors have ordered 70 COMAC C919s and taken options on 60 more, the manufacturer and the customers said, indicating strengthened government backing for the project.
Sep 19, 2017
Airbus expects to have 2,000 aircraft operating in China before the end of 2020 as demand continues to rise. In addition, Airbus projects Chinese airlines will need 60-100 A380s over the next five to seven years.
Sep 18, 2017
China Southern subsidiary XiamenAir plans to grow its fleet to more than 200 aircraft—and expand its widebody aircraft to 18—in 2018 to keep up with international market demand.
Sep 18, 2017
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Sep 18, 2017
Emirates president Tim Clark believes the Hyperloop, a vacuum-tube mass-transportation concept, could be used for aviation applications such as baggage transit.
Jan 13, 2022
LanzaJet has secured financing to complete construction of the world’s first alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant with a $50 million investment from the Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund.
Jan 13, 2022
Airlines, MROs and OEMs share lessons learned from parking aircraft during the pandemic.
Jan 12, 2022
Determining annual winners and losers based on commercial aircraft order or delivery totals is only slightly less subjective than picking a favorite airplane design, and arguably just as productive.
Jan 12, 2022
Embraer has agreed to sell its Evora site in Portugal to Spanish aerostructures specialist Aernnova for $172 million in the hope that the facility can attract business from other aircraft manufacturers while reducing Embraer’s exposure in aircraft components.
Jan 11, 2022
European LCC easyJet plans to support the development of hydrogen fuel-cell propulsion by the UK’s Cranfield Aerospace Solutions, providing its perspective on how the zero-emissions technology could integrate with future airline operations.
Jan 11, 2022
Boeing’s December Commercial Airplane activity pointed to positive new-order momentum while deliveries on two key programs, the 737 MAX and 737, continue to struggle.
Jan 11, 2022
As Eve Urban Air Mobility prepares to go public as an independent entity, it is leaning heavily on its parent company Embraer and that includes access to its customer base.
Jan 11, 2022
Boom has been awarded a three-year U.S. Air Force contract to expand studies of its Mach 1.7 Overture aircraft beyond that of an executive transport to include surveillance, reconnaissance, special forces deployment and other military transport roles.