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May 20, 2016
Certification criteria for new aircraft include protecting against the ice crystal phenomena, the culprit in a significant number of incidents and accidents, but what about legacy aircraft?
May 20, 2016
The delivery of the Trent XWB engine brings Rolls-Royce a step nearer to realizing its long-cherished dream of exclusivity across a widebody family.
May 20, 2016
As GE readies for a series of new campaigns culminating in flights of the GE9X in 2017, it is feeling the operational benefit of changes made to cope with a set of simultaneous test efforts, which hit an all-time record in 2015.
May 20, 2016
GE and Boeing plan to put the behemoth engine—GE9-X—through the rigors of flight testing on the wing of an aircraft for which it was not designed.
May 20, 2016
The Berlin ILA air show is trying to promote its new focus on innovation, but A400M issues threaten to dominate instead.
May 20, 2016
Rolls-Royce’s Trent 1000 TEN is designed to improve fuel burn by 2% over the current Package C production standard and is therefore crucial to the company’s long-term competitiveness battle against GE’s GEnx-1B, the alternate engine for the 787.
May 20, 2016
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May 19, 2016
Russian-made SSJ100s are operating most passenger-kilometers in Russia, prompting MROs to add it to their capabilities list.