Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Dec 02, 2008
Malev Hungarian Airlines took delivery of the first of four former SAS Group Q400s. It plans to introduce four new Q400s beginning in 2012, replacing its F70s and CRJ200s.
Dec 02, 2008
China's ARJ21-700 made its first flight on Nov. 28, GE Aviation announced (ATWOnline, Oct. 10). The GE CF34-10A-powered regional jet reached an altitude of 9,000 ft. during the 1-hr. flight, which took place approximately 11 months after rollout. The aircraft is produced by Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China. A second flight is planned for this month, "followed by engineering flight tests in early 2009," GE stated.
Dec 01, 2008
A PASSENGER-TO-FREIGHTER AIRCRAFT conversion is not a simple matter. It's not the actual conversion process that is particularly complicated; there are a number of companies with the capability to do modifications. Rather, it is the process before the conversion takes place that is among the most tangled in the aviation business. An airline needs to ground an aging passenger aircraft and then determine a price at which to sell it. A lessor or another airline needs to be seeking to add a freighter and agree to pay that price.
Dec 01, 2008
There won't be any significant breakthrough [in engine emissions] for at least three decades. There's no technical fix. All we can do is reduce the amount we fly." So says Joss Garman, founder of the anti-airline PlaneStupid.com environmentalist website. But talk to Mike Benzakein, Wright Brothers Institute professor and chair of the Aerospace Engineering Dept. at Ohio State University, or Alan Epstein, former R. C. MacLaurin professor of aeronautics and astronautics, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and you get a starkly different story.
Nov 26, 2008
Russia's Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Co. is pressing ahead with the type certification schedule for its Superjet 100 ahead of launching serial production next year. On Nov. 5, a specially chartered An-124-10 flight operated by Volga-Dnepr Airlines transported fuselage, wings and empennage to the Siberian Chaplygin aviation research center in Novosibirsk for assembly of a second prototype for full-scale static tests.
Jun 16, 2015
Cebu Pacific Air has ordered 16 ATR 72-600, with 10 options, at the Paris Air Show.
Jun 16, 2015
SMBC Aviation Capital ordered 10 Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft at the Paris Air Show.
Jun 16, 2015
AerCap Holdings ordered 100 Boeing 737 MAX 8s at the Paris Air Show.
Jun 15, 2015
Paris Air Show Engine News-June 15, 2015
Jun 15, 2015
Embraer announced a raft of firm orders on Day 1 of the Paris Air Show, including seven E-190s for Western China startup Colorful Guizhou Airlines, eight E-175s for Utah-based regional SkyWest Airlines, 10 E-175s for United Express, as well as 15 E-190-E2s and 10 E-195-E2s for lessor Aircastle.
Jun 15, 2015
Airbus continues to promote the need for the A380 to support projected air traffic growth over the next 20 years, arguing that only very large aircraft (VLA) can deliver the numbers of people expected to travel between the world’s mega-city hubs.
Jun 15, 2015
Bombardier finally flew a CSeries aircraft at a major air show when a CS300 took part in the flying display on the first day of the Paris Air Show Monday, part of a big push by the Canadian manufacturer to reboot the narrowbody airliner program following a string of disappointments.
Jun 15, 2015
Russia’s Yakutia Airline signed an order with Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Co. for three additional Sukhoi Superjet SSJ100s at the Paris Air Show. Deliveries are scheduled to begin in 2017.