Boeing

Readers write about the Check 6 podcast, Boeing 787 fuselage barrel problems, airline emission offsets and late Aviation Week editor David Bond.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

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

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

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

Freighter conversions and new joint ventures dominate this month’s Contracts and Briefs.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Christian Albertson
Aviation Week’s latest forecast projects Airbus and Boeing narrowbody aircraft will make up the majority of MRO visits in Europe over the next decade.
Aircraft & Propulsion

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

By Jens Flottau
As airlines scramble for capacity, lessors enjoy much higher rates and predict the good times are here to stay.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
The developments come less than two months ahead of the latest edition of the UN climate chance conference, COP28, which will be held in Dubai.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
A market survey released by the Air Force calls for higher engine thrust than what candidates for the Collaborative Combat Aircraft have flown so far.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Kurt Hofmann
SunExpress, a joint venture between Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines, says it had a strong summer season despite aircraft delivery shortfalls.
Airlines & Lessors

Salil Gupte, president of Boeing India, discusses the country's aviation growth and the importance of ramping up MRO to support the expanding Indian fleet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lori Ranson
United Airlines’ latest order for 110 aircraft—50 Boeing 787-9s and 60 Airbus A321neos—fills out the carrier’s order book for the latter part of the decade.
Airlines & Lessors

By Ron Epstein
A clean-sheet design could shake off dust gathering on the 737 and offer significant profit and fuel savings.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Alan Dron
Freight specialist DHL is expanding its fleet with the acquisition of five Airbus A330-200 converted freighters.
Airlines & Lessors

By Kevin Michaels
For too long, OEMs assumed that compliant aerostructures suppliers were a given. That era is over, and aerospace stakeholders must plan for a new reality.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Jens Flottau
Sales and strategy expert Christian Scherer to run Airbus Commercial Aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick
The previous 53 editions broke aggregate data into U.S. and Canada, and the rest of the world; the 54th edition subdivides data into seven regions.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Irish ULCC Ryanair says it will now receive just 14 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft between September and December, instead of the 27 previously expected.
Airlines & Lessors

By Matthew Fulco
China is learning the science of airliners, but politics remains an issue, experts say.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain