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Boeing’s 737 ramp up shows confidence in economy, ‘skyline’ and the unions

The announcement last week that Boeing once again is planning to ramp up production of its venerable 737 line show confidence on a number of levels:

The global economy continues to recover;
The strength of the backlog, aka “skyline,’ is strong;
The efficiency of the Lean production line only gets better; and
The confidence in the labor unions (notably IAM 751) appears to be gaining strength compared with the depths of anger following the 2008 57-day strike and the October 2009 decision to put the second assembly line for the 787 in Charleston (SC).

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Posted on September 20, 2010 by Scott Hamilton

Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Comac, CSeries, Embraer

737, 787, Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, Embraer, IAM 751

737 production rate hike, PW’s GTF, Airbus’ A320 NEO

We talk about the prospect of a production rate hike at AirInsight this morning.

Here’s a story from Flight Global taking a detailed, focused look at the Pratt & Whitney P1000G Geared Turbo Fan, which will power the Bombardier CSeries, Irkut MC-21 and Mitsubishi MRJ; and will likely be chosen by Airbus to power the A320 family New Engine Option.
Speaking of the A320 NEO, look for an announcement on September 30 or shortly thereafter giving the green light for this program.
Embraer is also considering whether to reengine its E-Jet series with the GTF.
Flight International has this detailed report on the Bombardier CSeries to be the first airplane to have telemetry for the black box flight data recorder.

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Posted on September 2, 2010 by Scott Hamilton

Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, Embraer, Pratt & Whitney

Airbus, Airbus A320, Airbus A320 NEO, Boeing, Boeing 737, Bombardier, Irkut, MC-21, Mitsubishi, MRJ

PW’s GTF, Boeing’s culture, China’s C919 and ARJ21, CSeries

Jon Ostrower of FlightGlobal has this piece about the “bolt-on” of Pratt & Whitney’s P1524G PurePower Geared Turbo Fan. The PurePower, also known as the Geared Turbo Fan, is the engine designed for Bombardier’s CSeries, with larger versions anticipated for development to re-engine the Airbus A320 family and potentially for application to the replacement airplane for the Boeing 737.

PW’s PurePower website is here.

Airbus said at the Farnborough Air Show that it has made the business case to re-engine the family, and it will conclude the study by the end of September whether engineering resources will be freed up to proceed with the project. We believe Airbus will green-light the program, with an announcement at the end of next month or in October.

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Posted on August 26, 2010 by Scott Hamilton

Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, Embraer, Pratt & Whitney

Airbus, Airbus A320, Airbus A320 re-engining, Boeing, Boeing 737, Bombardier, CSeries, Pratt & Whitney

Farnborough/Monday

Updates throughout the post, 415PM BST.

Here is a look ahead for Monday at the Farnborough Air Show and what might be expected for news and orders in the coming week. We’ll update this post at the end of the day.

Airbus

John Leahy on Saturday predicted at least 130 orders will be announced this week. Boeing thinks that if Leahy is predicting 130, he’s got a lot more up his sleeve. Leahy also predicted orders from leasing companies, signaling improving economies. See individual companies below.

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Posted on July 18, 2010 by Scott Hamilton

Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Comac, Embraer

Farnborough Air Show

The Coming Aerospace Squeeze: Emerging Competitors

AirInsight has released a report entitled “The Coming Aerospace Squeeze – a review of commercial aircraft programs in Brazil, Canada, China, Japan and Russia.” This report summarizes current and planned aircraft programs in each of these countries and the potential impact of those programs on the commercial aerospace market.

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Posted on October 5, 2009 by Scott Hamilton

Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Embraer

Airbus, ARJ21, AVIC, Boeing, Bombardier, Brazil, C919, Canada, China, Comac, Embraer, Japan, Kawasaki YPX, Mitsubishi MRJ, MS-21, Russia, Sukhoi, Superjet

Embraer fires warning over CSeries launch aid

Here we go, the first fall-out of the Airbus-Boeing trade Interim Report. Brazil (Embraer) complained to the European Union about launch aid by Canada to Bombardier for the CSeries and asked the EU to force Canada to cancel the package. Predictably, Canada invited Brazil to…do…something.

Here is the story.

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Posted on September 9, 2009 by Scott Hamilton

Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Embraer, Embrarer

Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Embrarer, launch aid

China’s Western aviation recuitment alarming

The news that China’s AVIC is recruiting Western executive talent for its aerospace subsidiaries is alarming.

Long-time readers of this column and our main website know that we’re concerned about Western technology transfer by Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier and Embraer to China, Japan and Russia as the Big Four pursue outsourcing. We’ve seen each of these countries produce regional airliners and China and Japan announce plans for a 150-seat jet.

None of the regional airliners are likely to be commercial successes, but we think China’s ARJ-21 and Japan’s MRJ are probably proving grounds for the larger jets. Japan’s Heavy Industry that are industrial partners to Boeing’s 787 program openly said they are using 787 wing technology they developed for the MRJ and the planned 150-seat jet.

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Posted on February 26, 2009 by Scott Hamilton

Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Embraer

150-seat airliner, Airbus, ARJ-21, Boeing, Bombardier, Embraer, MRJ

Embraer ponders new turbo-prop

In a sign of just how bad things are getting with fuel prices, Embraer is evaluating whether to launch a new 50-seat turbo-prop by 2015. This would challenge the derivatives offered by Bombardier on the Q400 and ATR’s new revamped series.

The AirInsight team of Addison Schonland and Scott Hamilton talk with Flight International’s Mary Kirby in this 13 minute podcast. (Subscription required.) We also discuss the P&W GTF and UDF potential.

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Boeing’s 737 ramp up shows confidence in economy, ‘skyline’ and the unions

737 production rate hike, PW’s GTF, Airbus’ A320 NEO

PW’s GTF, Boeing’s culture, China’s C919 and ARJ21, CSeries

Farnborough/Monday

The Coming Aerospace Squeeze: Emerging Competitors

Embraer fires warning over CSeries launch aid

China’s Western aviation recuitment alarming

Embraer ponders new turbo-prop

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