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Rolls-Royce sets sights on providing fuel-efficient engine for Airbus A380

Celebrations at MTU: Clean Sky engine demonstrator running in the test cell

Clean Sky is the most ambitious EU funded aeronautical research program ever launched in Europe: More than 600 partners have joined forces to develop new, greener technologies for tomorrow’s aviation. MTU Aero Engines, Germany’s leading engine manufacturer, is a partner in the...

Dassault Design Philosophy Evident in 5X, 8X

Dassault has never been one to follow the pack when it comes to business jets: it has been at the forefront of innovation when it comes to the use of three-engine designs, 3-D design software, metal bonding blended with composites to lighten weight, advanced wing geometry, fly-by-wire flight control...

Falcon 8X Completion Work Underway

Dassault Aviation has begun completion work on the first customer-bound Falcon 8X long-range trijet as the company progresses toward certification and deliveries next year. The aircraft, S/N 04, arrived in the Dassault Falcon Jet completion facility in Little Rock, Ark., on October 9, the company announced Thursday. S/N 04 was the second of Dassault’s new 8X family to be sent to Litt...

Rockwell Collins to provide EP-8100 visual system for Turkish Airlines full flight simulators

Rockwell Collins has been selected by Turkish Airlines to provide its EP-8100 visual system for the airline’s Boeing Next Generation 737, Airbus A320 and Airbus A330 full flight simulators. The agreement includes the option for additional visual system upgrades for legacy platforms. “This agreement marks a first for Turkish Airlines, as it brings the highly realistic capab...

A “smart” wing was tested in a wind-tunnel in Zhukovsky

Consortium of European companies, which includes 64 enterprises, has completed a research project for development of a “smart” (or “morphing”) wing, which is able to adjust its aerodynamic configuration and generate reports about its technical condition, Interfax reports with reference to Aviation Week. It took €51 million and four years to implement the projec...

Russia's ILS signs contract with Intelsat on five Proton-M launches until 2023

International Launch Services (ILS), a subsidiary of the Russian Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Centre, has signed a contract with the international satellite communications organisation Intelsat on five launches of the Proton-M carrier rockets until 2023 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Khrunichev Centre’s press service reported on Wednesday. "International Launch Servi...

Russian Helicopters plans to sell 230-280 helicopters a year in coming years

Russian Helicopters expect to keep the portfolio of orders at the current level in two coming years and to sell 230-280 helicopters a year, deputy CEO of the company Alexander Scherbinin told TASS on Thursday. Current production and sales of Russian Helicopters are aligned with the global market situation and production capacity of the company, Scherbinin added. "It [the capacity] is ab...

ANALYSIS: British spaceplane engine concept gets cash boost

British newspaper readers last week could be excused for believing that humankind is poised on the cusp of a new Concorde era – indeed, an era of Concorde on steroids. As the Daily Mail put it with typically breathless excitement: “Could we soon fly London to Sydney in FOUR HOURS? BAE invests in 4,000mph hybrid rocket jet engine firm”. And, the Mail went on: “Flights fro...

GE and its Joint Ventures garnered more than $17 billion in agreements at 2015 Dubai Air Show

At the 2015 Dubai Air Show this week, GE Aviation and CFM International, its partner company with Snecma (Safran), secured and finalized several engine orders and long-term contracts valued at more than $17 billion (USD) with the region’s leading carriers. At the same time, GE Aviation also forged new relationships with the Middle East’s growing aviation industry players....

Mercedes-Benz + Lufthansa = business jet

Mercedes-Benz Style and Lufthansa Technik AG are presenting their new VIP cabin design to initial customers at the Dubai Air Show. Driven by the large interest of the VIP market for a Mercedes-Benz Style VIP Cabin design in the recent months, the two companies are now presenting the first impressions of this unique conceptual floorplan. The two German companies have been working on the design o...

Honeywell Signs Engine Contract With Marenco Swisshelicopter

Honeywell Aerospace has signed a contract to supply its next-generation HTS900 engine to Marenco Swisshelicopter. The HTS900, which generates strong performance at high altitudes and in hot temperatures while reducing emissions and pilot workload, is to be installed in the new Marenco SKYe SH09 helicopter in the first production aircraft agreement for the new Honeywell engine. "The...

Boeing, Ryanair Celebrate Milestone 375th Next-Generation 737-800 Delivery

Boeing and Ryanair celebrated the Irish low-cost carrier’s 375th direct delivery of a Next-Generation 737-800 today. Ryanair is the largest Next Generation 737-800 customer in the world having ordered more than 530 of the airplane type. “As Europe’s largest airline, the reliability and customer appeal of the Boeing 737-800 aircraft has been the cornerstone of our successf...

Bell Helicopter and Horizon International Flight Academy signs LOI

Bell Helicopter has signed a Letter of Intent with Horizon International Flight Academy to become the first Bell Helicopter authorised training centre in the Middle East. The signing took place at the Dubai Airshow. Horizon International Flight Academy is based at Al Ain International Airport. It is purpose-built for flight training. “We are looking forward to becoming a member of th...

Airbus Helicopters begins flight testing high-compression engine demonstrator

Airbus Helicopters has completed the first flight of a lightweight, high-compression engine (HCE) on an H120 Colibri helicopter technology demonstrator. The 6 November sortie of the light-single, modified with a 4.6 litre V8 high-compression piston engine, is part of the “green rotorcraft” component of European Clean Sky initiative. The powerplant is designed to lower noise and emis...

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Gulfstream announced new on-site customer support in Singapore strengthening Asia-Pacific service network

Gulfstream Aerospace announced new on-site Gulfstream Customer Support in Singapore, further strengthening the company’s service capabilities across the Asia-Pacific region and reinfor...

Do228 NXT launch customer announced - NGO acquires versatile turboprop aircraft for humanitarian and special mission operations

Following the successful first flight and Roll-Out of the demonstrator aircraft of the Do228 NXT series, German aircraft manufacturer General Atomics AeroTec Systems announced the sale of the first Do...