Boeing is revising the 777X test plan to maximize ground evaluations as it attempts to compensate for a lengthy delay to first flight following the recent discovery of a durability issue on the aircraft’s General Electric GE9X engines.
Marking her first month as Pratt & Whitney Canada president, Maria Della Posta assumes her role at a buoyant time for the company across virtually every propulsion sector.
As part of the definition phase of the Future Combat Air System (FCAS), the French Ministry of Armed Forces is here with a demonstration movie of a “new-generation collaborative combat” mission in 2040.
Since it was set up as a more public-facing wing of the signals-intelligence agency GCHQ in October 2016, the UK’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) has succeeded in quietly but decisively changing the country’s approach to digital defense.
Spirit AeroSystems, the Wichita aerostructures giant, on June 17 unveiled new production methods for carbon fiber composite materials that the Tier 1 said will enable lower costs and higher production volumes for future aircraft components.
UK long-haul specialist Virgin Atlantic is to acquire 14 Airbus A330-900s, with a further six on option, in a move that CEO Shai Weiss said positioned the London-based carrier for future growth. But he called on changes to slot allocation at Virgin’s London Heathrow base to make it possible for the carrier to achieve its ambition of being the UK’s second flag-carrier, alongside British Airways.
Plenty of multinational businesses understand the nature of the cyber threat. Many of them say that their focus is on ensuring that they can respond to and recover from an incident once it has happened. A few admit that they have been breached. Only a tiny subset are willing to discuss what they learned.
The aircraft will be capable for flying up to 4,700 nm in a configuration for around 200 passengers. That is around 700 nm more than what the A321LR offers.
Despite continuing U.S.-China trade tensions and other underlying macro threats to the global economy, Boeing is taking the occasion of the 2019 Paris Air Show to issue its most positive commercial market outlook yet – a forecast that calls for the delivery of 44,040 new aircraft valued at more than $6.8 trillion over the next 20 years.
Boeing is leaning towards offering the larger of the two proposed new midmarket airplane variants first for delivery in 2025 as it nears closing the business case and obtaining board permission for formal authority to offer later this year.
Since leaving the German motor glider company that continues to bear his name, Dr. Reiner Stemme has devoted his energies to utility air systems for surveillance and monitoring, generating several designs based on the sailplane formula for two related firms.
The cloudy aerospace crystal ball indicates Airbus will potentially launch the A321XLR. Boeing, however, will not launch the NMA, but will set out the reentry program of the 737 MAX in more detail.
Emirates airline is in talks with Boeing to spread out deliveries of the Boeing 777X over a longer period of time and will likely switch to the 787-9 from the larger -10.
Already positioned as Israel’s largest aerospace company, Israel Aerospace Industries is maintaining momentum as it strives to achieve solid profitability and efficiency.
The new Tactical Heron (T-Heron) can operate with multiple payloads and remain on station for 24 hours. Flight testing of the new UAS is expected to begin in 2019 and continue through the next year.
Saab is looking for a high-level of cooperation with British industry should Sweden decide to join the UK’s Tempest next-generation combat aircraft work, company CEO Hakan Bushke has suggested.
