Boeing

By Daniel Williams
This weeks’ #FlightFriday looks at current in-production passenger widebody aircraft, amid a recent run of orders for the type.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jens Flottau
Delays have led Emirates to extend operations of the 777-300ER fleet.
Dubai Airshow

By Guy Norris
Boeing has begun certification testing of an upgraded high pressure (HP) turbine blade configuration on the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 TEN version.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
“We arrived at strategic business decisions regarding our spectrum allocation,” Michelle Parker, vice president, Boeing Space Mission Systems, wrote.
Commercial Space

By Guy Norris, Sean Broderick, Michael Bruno
Boeing is preaching calm as it works toward its middecade production and financial targets, but recent missteps underscore challenges of the next two years.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace

By Michael Bruno, Sean Broderick
Boeing’s dual challenges—commercial aircraft supply, and defense and space program execution—continued to haunt the company in the third quarter.
Supply Chain

By Guy Norris, Sean Broderick
Boeing is close to getting FAA certification approval on the 737-7s and the go-ahead to start formal flight-testing of the 737-10.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Chen Chuanren
Boeing and Brisbane-based Ferra Engineering have agreed to extend their JDAM wing kit partnership through 2028.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Richard Aboulafia
New aircraft concepts offer hope for airlines struggling with high fuel prices—and for Boeing in its quest to remain commercially relevant.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Carbon cycle benefits of SAF are known, but will it help reduce the formation of persistent contrails? A Boeing and NASA flight test looks to find out.
Emerging Technologies

By Tony Osborne
German lawmakers have approved the final and largest tranche of spending for the country’s purchase of the Israeli Arrow 3 anti-ballistic missile system.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Sean Broderick
The memorandum of understanding boosts 787 shipset prices for 421 units starting with line no. 1164 and reduces 737 pricing from 2026 through 2033.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Jens Flottau
Emirates plans to reveal further orders taking fleet plans into the 2030s, but new players like Riyadh Air and a revived Indian aviation sector are emerging.
Dubai Airshow

By Guy Norris
The Select system is designed to expedite installation, while lowering the aircraft’s total purchase price.
NBAA

By Lee Ann Shay
The Inside MRO archives show both change and continuity in the European MRO industry since 1999.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick
The agency has given Boeing seven years to ensure new nacelle design is installed on the 737 Next Generation fleet.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
The aftermarket’s interest in artificial intelligence has recently exploded, but will the hype drive its implementation in MRO?
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace

By Guy Norris
A flight-test program launched by Boeing, NASA and United Airlines aims to discover whether burning SAF could reduce the formation of persistent contrails.
Sustainable Aviation Fuel

By Graham Warwick
Use of the technology readiness level model for production is being reexamined.
Emerging Technologies

By Steve Trimble
A Boeing/Saab team is on track to deliver the first Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb and a new launcher to the Ukrainian military, a company official said on Oct. 9.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Sean Broderick
September’s 10 787 deliveries are the most in any month in 2023 and matched December 2022’s total.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Matthew Fulco
Deeply intertwined supply chains mean that breaking up is not just hard to do—in some cases, it is impossible.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Steve Trimble
Two competing hypervelocity projectiles have achieved record-setting distance flights from different types of long-range artillery systems.
Missile Defense & Weapons