RUAG has already completed and sold the start-up batch of eight “ex-228NGs” from its relaunched production of the modernized Dornier turboprop-twins and is expecting to fly the first of the follow-ons before the end of this year
Russian engineering company Progresstech has partnered with U.S. software specialist Altair to promote and distribute Altair’s software technology and methods in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
The RAF’s senior intelligence and surveillance officer launched a passionate defense of the Sentinel program yesterday, as the perennially overworked yet permanently under-threat system faces yet another period of uncertainty about its future.
Technologies designed to reduce costs of major public building programs may offer terrorists an unprecedented reconnaissance capability, the Security Service has warned.
Boeing will source composite materials for its 777X aircraft from a new joint venture formed by United Arab Emirates-based Mubadala Development and Belgian composite materials and adhesives manufacturer Solvay, Boeing Commercial Airplanes president and CEO Ray Conner said at Farnborough.
Israel Aerospace Industries is developing a supplemental type certificate for a 737-700BDSF cargo conversion. A first prototype aircraft is under conversion from passenger to full freighter configurations at IAI’s facility.
There is a subset of the Airshow demographic – British, of a certain age, invariably male – who will find a new concept being touted by the Volga-Dnepr Group to be oddly yet excitingly familiar.
In an effort to overcome different approaches of the company’s shareholders, ATR CEO Patrick de Castelbajac is proposing a sequence of initiatives that includes re-engining of the ATR 72 and ultimately a new 100-seater.
The Italian Air Force has begun acceptance trials of a new fleet of maritime patrol aircraft based on the ATR-72 regional airliner. It has ordered four P-72As from Leonardo-Finmeccanica’s aircraft division.
One of Britain’s most senior cyber warriors has a message for Farnborough’s SME community. You’ve got a problem, but there’s help available from the government and from some of the biggest names in the defense industry – and it’s free.
Getting the F-35 flying in Britain is vitally important to the public image of a program that has endured more than its fair share of negative coverage. Just as critical is the progress of the Autonomic Logistic Information System, the jet’s next-generation support network.
GE Aviation’s win of a US$1 billion contract to develop a sixth-generation variable-cycle fighter engine is seen as a crucial next step in the future of its $3.7 billion military engines business.
As well as the current and soon-to-enter-service technologies on view all over the air show site, there are a few glimpses of possible futures to be found. One of the most intriguing is buried deep in a sub-menu on a touchscreen installation on the future unmanned systems stand in BAE Systems’ exhibition hall.
Qatar Executive on the first day of the Farnborough Airshow announced a firm order for a further three Gulfstream G650ERs, as part of a 2015 memorandum of understanding with the airframer.
Regional airliner manufacturer ATR is projecting a need for as many as 2,800 regional turboprops as the aircraft are used to open more routes across the globe.
As Nick Jankunas, production manager and principal industrial engineer on the Leonardo-Selex ES Britecloud expendable active decoy ushers ShowNews through the double bank vault-style doors of his team's small, sealed aluminum manufacturing and test center, deep in the bowels of the company's Luton facility, he explains the name staff have given it.
A month before the opening of Farnborough Airshow 2016 Russia made a significant effort to return to the narrowbody market with the rollout on June 8 at Irkutsk, East Siberia, of its new MC-21 airliner prototype.
Elbit Systems debuts the Spectro-XR multi-spectral sensor electro-optical at Farnborough, which features advanced image fusion and augmented reality to deliver unprecedented intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance.
