UK long-haul specialist Virgin Atlantic is to acquire 14 Airbus A330-900s, with a further six on option, in a move that CEO Shai Weiss said positioned the London-based carrier for future growth. But he called on changes to slot allocation at Virgin’s London Heathrow base to make it possible for the carrier to achieve its ambition of being the UK’s second flag-carrier, alongside British Airways.
Spirit AeroSystems, the Wichita aerostructures giant, on June 17 unveiled new production methods for carbon fiber composite materials that the Tier 1 said will enable lower costs and higher production volumes for future aircraft components.
The aircraft will be capable for flying up to 4,700 nm in a configuration for around 200 passengers. That is around 700 nm more than what the A321LR offers.
Since leaving the German motor glider company that continues to bear his name, Dr. Reiner Stemme has devoted his energies to utility air systems for surveillance and monitoring, generating several designs based on the sailplane formula for two related firms.
Boeing is leaning towards offering the larger of the two proposed new midmarket airplane variants first for delivery in 2025 as it nears closing the business case and obtaining board permission for formal authority to offer later this year.
With the grand reveal of a mockup of the Next Generation Fighter in the presence of President Emmanuel Macron on the first day of the Paris Air Show, France, Germany and Spain have now agreed on a plan for a series of demonstrator programs for the wider FCAS.
Since it was set up as a more public-facing wing of the signals-intelligence agency GCHQ in October 2016, the UK’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) has succeeded in quietly but decisively changing the country’s approach to digital defense.
Boeing’s return-to-service plan for the 737 MAX will focus on treating each aircraft as if it’s just been delivered, with the manufacturer reiterating that the model’s safe return is its top priority.
Airbus’ decision, announced in February, to terminate the A380 after the 274th production example leaves a large hole in the Paris Air Show static display. But, while down, the superjumbo is not quite yet out.
Plenty of multinational businesses understand the nature of the cyber threat. Many of them say that their focus is on ensuring that they can respond to and recover from an incident once it has happened. A few admit that they have been breached. Only a tiny subset are willing to discuss what they learned.
The Luftwaffe is committed to operating the Tornado until at least 2030 – with any further delay in selecting a replacement inevitably extending the type’s in-service life.
Despite continuing U.S.-China trade tensions and other underlying macro threats to the global economy, Boeing is taking the occasion of the 2019 Paris Air Show to issue its most positive commercial market outlook yet – a forecast that calls for the delivery of 44,040 new aircraft valued at more than $6.8 trillion over the next 20 years.
Attacks progress faster than most humans can think so it is easy to understand why technologies based on machine learning and artificial intelligence have taken hold in the cybersecurity marketplace.
CAE has set itself to turn around and though there was never any expectation that the process would be swift, Gene Colabatistto, argues that the process is proceeding apace.
Collins Aerospace executives are confident they can increase the capacity of their commercial engine nacelle operations here to meet future demands without growing their footprint or workforce, now that they have achieved delivery of the 1,000th nacelle for the A320neo program out of Foley, Alabama.
Emirates airline is in talks with Boeing to spread out deliveries of the Boeing 777X over a longer period of time and will likely switch to the 787-9 from the larger -10.
