AgustaWestland is accessing the Internet and the cloud to support the latest addition to its product line. Internet-based tools for flight planning and manipulation of health and usage monitoring systems (HUMS) data will be launched when the new AW189 intermediate-heavy helicopter begins operations early next year.

As expected, Boeing launched the long-range 777X family in grand style at the recent Dubai Airshow. But behind the scenes, the company says engineering work to ready the new derivative for launch has gone better than ever, proving that the Airplane Development organization created in last year's radical shake-up, is working.

When the European Commission set out its first proposals to bring aviation into the existing European Union's Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) for stationary sectors in September 2005, airlines warned it would be difficult and contentious, and advised against the noble ambitions. Almost a decade later, airlines can safely say: “We told you so.”

Bombardier Aerospace has appointed Raymond Jones as senior vice president for sales, marketing and asset management for Bombardier Commercial Aircraft, effective immediately. He succeeds Chet Fuller, who will leave the company at the end of the year. Jones has been vice president for worldwide strategic accounts for Bombardier Business Aircraft.

This week's National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) hearing on Asiana Airlines Flight 214 is more than a deep dive into why a Boeing 777 crash-landed at a major U.S. hub on a near-perfect summer morning. It is the continuation of an escalating discussion on—as the NTSB puts it so well in its press advisory on the hearing—“pilot awareness in highly automated aircraft.”

The world's strongest carbon fiber is Toray Industries' T100G, says the Japanese manufacturer. Now China, denied access even to lower grades from foreign suppliers, is working on matching it.

First unveiled publically in May 2012, the advanced 737 MAX winglet, which Boeing first described as a ‘dual feather,” was designed to provide up to an additional 1.5% fuel burn improvement on long flights with the promise of even more if a proposed laminar flow surface treatment worked as planned. The MAX wingtip is an all-Boeing design which extends divergently both above and below the wingtip - but its roots go back far further than most know - in fact deep into the company's Douglas heritage.

Give Airbus credit. The OEM isn't just talking about a rosy picture for the A340 secondary market--it is doing its best to help paint one.