Boeing’s 737-8 MAX is making its airshow debut at Farnborough this week. The re-engined airframe, with CFM Leap 1B engines, has undergone 800 hours in its flight-test program.
The big battle at this year’s Farnborough Airshow is not aircraft sales, but engine competition.
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Boeing chairman and CEO Dennis Muilenberg says the company is getting “a lot of customer feedback” on the so-called middle-of-the-market aircraft, but believes the company still has “time to decide.”
Sukhoi has begun development on a stretched version of the Superjet 100, but neither of the two customers who agreed to help promote the SSJ100 are interested in the stretched version.
AirAsia has signed a firm order for 100 Airbus A321neos, in a bid to cope with slot scarcity in Asia, and at a time when exuberant group CEO Tony Fernandes believes the carrier has weathered a period of uncertainty.
In an effort to overcome different approaches of the company’s shareholders, ATR CEO Patrick de Castelbajac is proposing a sequence of initiatives that includes re-engining the ATR 72, and could ultimately result in a new 100-seater.
Lockheed Martin flew its new armed UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter from Poland to the Farnborough International Air Show here this week in the hope of selling the versatile technology to militaries around the world.
GE Aviation’s win of a US$1 billion contract to develop a sixth-generation variable-cycle fighter engine is seen as a crucial next step in the future of its $3.7 billion military engines business.
Both Airbus and Boeing released bullish forecasts for the global commercial aircraft market on the opening day of the Farnborough Airshow, with Boeing projecting slightly stronger demand.
The nEUROn unmanned combat air vehicle demonstrator took flight on June 4 at the Dassault Aviation flight test center at Istres in what is claimed to have been first time a stealth aircraft controlled from the ground has flown in public.
As well as the current and soon-to-enter-service technologies on view all over the air show site, there are a few glimpses of possible futures to be found.
The European Aviation Safety Agency has finally certified the full icing protection system of Leonardo Helicopters AW189 super-medium helicopter.
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