Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Mar 06, 2014
Boeing and Hainan Airlines announced a five-year pilot training agreement to support Hainan’s recent introduction of the 787 to its fleet.
Mar 05, 2014
Russia’s UTair has taken delivery of first Airbus A321 equipped with sharklets.
Mar 04, 2014
Rolls-Royce is researching the potential of permanently installing extremely small cameras in its engines and, separately, using a laser probe to perform minor repairs.
Mar 04, 2014
Bombardier has signed a deal for 10 Dash 8 Q400 aircraft with the Kazakhstan government to help set up regional airline Air Kazakhstan, which is scheduled to start services in early 2015.
Mar 04, 2014
Kenya Airways will take delivery of its first Boeing 787 on April 4, marking the first of six of the type to join its fleet in 2014.
Jul 16, 2018
Outpacing the vaunted CFM56, CFM International expects to be delivering more than delivering more than 2,000 Leap engines annually by 2020.
Jul 16, 2018
Airbus chief test pilot Peter Chandler's daily displays in the A350-1000 will mark the end of a 43-year career as a professional aviator.
Jul 16, 2018
As Global 7500 and Comac C919 programs progress, Nexcelle moves to production phase.
Jul 16, 2018
Type certification of Rolls-Royce’s newest widebody powerplant, the Trent 7000, is “imminent” as the engine makes its first appearance at this year’s Farnborough Airshow beneath the wings of the Airbus A330-900neo.
Jul 16, 2018
Rolls-Royce also has run the new core for the future family at full power in its Advance3 demonstrator.
Jul 15, 2018
Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer is forecasting 10,550 new aircraft deliveries in the 30- to 150-seat segment over the next 20 years, valued at $600 billion.
Jul 15, 2018
While nothing can be taken for granted, it appears a front-running position to power Boeing’s New Midsize Airplane (NMA) is CFM’s to lose as Boeing begins to evaluate proposals that engine makers submitted in late June.
Jul 14, 2018
CFM International expects to be back on schedule with production of its LEAP engines by the end of 2018, the engine-maker said July 14.