Slow ATR 42/72 turboprop sales last year are the result of combining adverse market forces that put the airframer in a position its executives could have thought a thing of the past – competing against jets.
ATR is ready to offer a package enhancing short takeoff and landing capabilities of the ATR 42. What CEO Christian Scherer describes as “a substantial piece of work” will allow the STOL version to land on and take off from runways as short as 2,625 ft.
The increased security measures in place at Le Bourget reflect some bleak realities. The terrorist attacks on the Bataclan concert venue and the Stade de France in Paris, and the massacre in Nice, all took place since the last Air Show.
Unveiled by Textron Systems at the Paris Air Show, the NightWarden is a new Group 3 tactical unmanned aircraft system designed to offer capabilities found in larger, more expensive Group 4 medium-altitude, long-endurance UAS.
Imagine the calm in the center of a whirlwind. There sits David Joyce, president and CEO of GE Aviation and vice-chair of GE, as future technologies, new materials and the developing world of digital flash by at blurring speed.
Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies in a wide range of diversified industrial and aerospace markets, with revenues last year of US$11.4 billion. Getting there wasn’t an easy road.
Start-up supersonic airliner developer Boom Technology has completed the preliminary design review for the XB-1 “Baby Boom” demonstrator, clearing a key hurdle on the path to flight tests of the Mach 2-plus aircraft late next year.
Pratt & Whitney has unveiled “EngineWise” as a new approach to aftermarket service designed to provide more predictive and responsive solutions to customers.
Six years ago, Gaël Méheust landed the second launch order for CFM International’s Leap engine, with an order to power 30 Airbus A320 neo aircraft for Scandinavian airline SAS.
Airlines not only want the aircraft, they want it fast—around two-thirds would ideally like to take delivery by 2021, years before the earliest realistic entry-into-service dates the manufacturers can offer.
For the first time in 16 years, Robert H. Wells, isn’t at EBACE. Two years ago, he retired as the high-profile head of TAG Aviation, his employer for 16 years, and also resigned as an EBAA board director, a position he held for 8 years. Rob and wife Edie uprooted from Geneva and transplanted to Seattle, hoping to cultivate old connections in the Pacific Northwest. Then, in January, he was named CEO of Quest Aircraft, which manufactures the rugged Kodiak bush plane.
Inmarsat’s Jet ConneX Ka-band satcom service is soaring, with this week’s announcements by Bombardier, Dassault and Embraer about equipping their aircraft with the high-speed satcom systems.
Claude Vuichard has an idea that he is convinced will save lives and dramatically improve safety for helicopter users: the problem is, he has to convince the world to reject 70 years of received wisdom.
Promoting itself as “a key gateway to London,” TAG Farnborough Airport (Booth W36) has the numbers to prove it: a 3.2% increase in air traffic movements (ATMs) in the first four months of this year and a 5.5% rise in large aircraft movements (ACJs, BBJs and their like) during 2016.
Boeing Business Jets is showing a $200,000 model of the new BBJ Max 7 at EBACE. Paris-based Cabinet Alberto Pinto’s design takes full advantage of the extra 6 ft 4 in length of the Max 7 compared to the original BBJ.
Victor, the London-based international internet jet charter marketplace, has been named Europe’s fastest-growing aviation business in the FT1000, a new Financial Times poll of the continent’s most dynamic, fast-moving businesses.
The world’s most “printed engine,” GE’s new Advanced Turboprop in which additive manufacturing replaces 855 normally made parts with just 12 “printed” components, is on track to run for the first time this year. It will power Cessna’s new Denali aircraft.
Operators say they’re reluctant to trade up because they don’t need more capable aircraft, the gap between new aircraft prices and residual values of their aircraft is too great, and they’re unsure about the economy or regulatory environment, among other factors.
Associated Air Center, a Dallas, Texas-based cabin completion and refurbishment center, is sharing an exhibit at EBACE with parent company StandardAero. AAC is here to announce two recent narrowbody VIP maintenance and upgrade projects, both delivered in April.
