The WTO released the public version of its report on the illegal subsidies for Boeing. There are plenty of stories on the Internet to choose from, so we won’t recap it all here. We have said and still… Read More
Indigo Airlines of India selected the PW P1000G Geared Turbo Fan for its order of 150 Airbus A320neos. We’re at the PW Media Day and will be filing additional reports today. Up to this point, most of the… Read More
This is an abbreviated Odds and Ends; we are traveling this week and next and we’re not sure if we’ll have the chance to update while we are on the road. Meantime: Orient Aviation magazine has a cover… Read More
1. Airbus wants to advance NEO EIS six months Airbus wants to advance the entry-into-service of the A320neo by six months, to October 2015, we have learned. Airbus plans to introduce the neo in six month increments (A320neo… Read More
Update, March 11: Dominic Gates of The Seattle Times has an excellent article about the new Boeing airplane and its production site. Original Post: In a short article we did for Aviation Technology magazine, Boeing sees a long… Read More
The feud between Rolls-Royce and Pratt & Whitney over patent infringements is nasty and in court, and the Rolls-Royce view that it doesn’t think much of the PW Geared Turbo Fan technology is well known, but speculation that… Read More
With plans to assemble the KC-45 in Mobile (AL) in shreds, what’s next for EADS and Airbus in the US? EADS and Airbus said creating a final assembly line (FAL) for the KC-X would lead to assembling A330-200Fs… Read More
Odds and Ends begins below the photo. We’re not big on photos but every once in a while we find one that we’ve very impressed with–like this (via Airliners.net) at LAX: