Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Aug 01, 2019
Spirit AeroSystems plans to continue producing Boeing 737 fuselages at a 52/month rate for the foreseeable future, storing extra inventory now and burning it off once Boeing ramps production up sometime in 2020.
Jul 31, 2019
Senior officials from the FAA defended the US agency’s certification of the Boeing 737 MAX as “fundamentally sound” during a US Senate Appropriations Committee hearing July 31.
Jul 31, 2019
American Airlines’ fleet of 28 MD-80s is nearing its final flying days.
Jul 31, 2019
Airbus reported a considerable jump in first-half net profit, which more than doubled to almost €1.2 billion ($1.36 billion), compared to €496 million a year ago.
Jul 30, 2019
Air France-KLM confirmed its transformation plans for the Air France fleet July 30 by signing an MOU for at least 60 Airbus A220s while also announcing it will retire the airline’s 10 A380s by 2022.
Jul 07, 2023
The widebody LCC trend is still growing in the Asia-Pacific region, but has declined somewhat in Europe and the Americas.
Jul 06, 2023
French company Flying Whales plans to develop and operate the LCA60T, a 200-m-long (660-ft.) rigid airship with a payload capacity of 60 metric tons.
Jul 06, 2023
French company Haffner Energy has introduced a process designed to enable SAF production from almost any kind of biomass and organic waste.
Jul 06, 2023
Joby Aviation and Lilium have both marked new progress toward meeting key goals on their paths to type certification and commercialization.
Jul 06, 2023
Cranfield Aerospace Solutions and Britten-Norman outline a multiphase plan to develop clean-sheet aircraft with up to 100 seats using fuel-cell propulsion.
Jul 06, 2023
Two companies—Channel Infrastructure and Fortescue Future Industries—intend to start eSAF production at the Marsden Point refinery in New Zealand.
Jul 06, 2023
How do first half deliveries for the two largest airframers stack up in the last few years?
Jul 05, 2023
Under the SkyFuelH2 project, the companies plan to build a first-of-its-kind plant for SAF production at Langsele in Solleftea, Sweden.