Together with Pratt & Whitney Canada, the company expects to have 100,000 engines in service by 2020 by when revenues will have grown to roughly US$22 billion
The Indian Air Force, India’s Defence Research and Development Organization and Israel Aerospace Industries have recently tested the latest medium-range surface-air missile air and missile defense system, a member of the Barak 8 air defense weapon system.
The British Government needs to be “relatively bold” in order to attract investment from business and stabilize the uncertainty cause by the country’s decision to “Brexit” according to UK aerospace trade organization ADS.
It’s been a unique and remarkable decade for aerospace, says GE Aviation president and CEO David Joyce. Unprecedented investment and transformational advances in technology, materials and manufacturing have resulted in new aircraft, new engines, record backlogs and a new supply chain.
If the Typhoon BAE Systems test pilot Nat Makepeace is flying at the Airshow this week seems a little different than before, there's good reason. The aircraft's weapons fit represents the latest evolution of the Eurofighter capability set.
Two years later than planned, the F-35 has made its UK debut and appears to have brightened a mood dimmed by Britain’s decision to exit the European Union.
Of all the announcements made in the Conservative Government's Strategic Defense and Security Review of 2015, none had been more widely anticipated and extensively analyzed as the reconstitution of a British maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare capability.
A collapse in oil and gas prices that has choked off demand for commercial helicopters has been harsher than anticipated, says Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson, but she stands behind the company’s $9-billion acquisition of Sikorsky last year from United Technologies.
Kallman’s purpose is to maximize the value of time spent at the show and to trumpet the U.S.’s global advantages in international trade, technical innovation and possession of a capable workforce.
Still in the thick of flight tests, Embraer’s KC-390 multi-mission transport aircraft is flying internationally for the first time on a summer tour of Europe and the Middle East, and making its maiden stop at the Farnborough Airshow.
The importance of the F-35 to Britain's aerospace industry is unarguable. The UK is the program's only Tier One partner, granting some British companies sole-source/OEM status on the program.
Starting 3Q 2016, Rockwell Collins’ latest-generation Venue CMS will be standard aboard Bombardier Global 5000 and 6000. Designed to be paired with Bombardier’s WAVE [wireless access virtually everywhere] Ka-band satcom system, Venue will provide broadband Wi-Fi connectivity and video streaming, plus it links up with a large variety of peripherals, including Apple TV and other HDMI entertainment devices.
Pratt & Whitney Canada shipped initial PW800 engines to Gulfstream for the G600, the second variant in the company’s new ultra-long range business jet family now under final assembly in Savannah, Georgia.
Mergers and acquisitions in the management, charter and FBO sector will continue, according to Mark Johnstone, managing director EMEA for BBA Signature Flight Support.
Luxury global aviation services Jetex has been awarded the International Standard for Business Aircraft Handling certification for its FBO at Dubai’s Al Maktoum International VIP terminal.
Signed with Rolls-Royce at the show on Wednesday, an ASC/authorized service center agreement for the BR710A2-20 turbofan reconfirmed RUAG Aviation’s participation in the RR global network and gave the green light for the company to further expand.
The African Business Aviation Association is a thriving organization of 106 members with a presence at EBACE, but that buoyancy is reduced by its members’ firsthand knowledge of the daunting challenges that continue to face aviation in the African continent.
The slow evolution of Aerion Corp.’s supersonic business jet will gain speed sometime this summer or fall as the 14-year-old company finally selects an engine. Co-chairman Brian Barents describes making that decision as the pacing item of the project, and exhibits a certain resignation to the choices near at hand.
About half the customers for Embraer’s Legacy 500 midsize business jet will equip their aircraft with the optional Rockwell Collins HGS-3500 Heads Up Display (HUD) when deliveries of the situational awareness aid begin in the middle of this year.
