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Farnborough Air Show, July 15: WA State and Mitsubishi; PW GTF issue revealed, finally;

The news that Mitsubishi will stage flight testing for its new MRJ 90-seat jet program at Moses Lake (WA) is, parochially, good news. And it is exactly the type of non-industrial aerospace business that we’ve been advocating for… Read More

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 Posted on July 15, 2014 by

 Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, Embraer, Farnborough Air Show, Mitsubishi, Pratt & Whitney

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Farnborough Air Show, July 14: Orders Summary

Here are orders that were announced on the first official day of the Farnborough Air Show (at least the ones we’ve seen from Seattle–feel free to add to the list if we’ve missed any): Airbus: from Air Lease… Read More

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 Posted on July 14, 2014 by

 Airbus, American Airlines, ATR, Boeing, Bombardier, CFM, CSeries, Embraer, GE Aviation, Mitsubishi, Pratt & Whitney

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Farnborough Air Show, July 13: CSeries program analysis

The unexpected pre-Farnborough Air Show announcement by Bombardier for letters of intent for up to 24 CS100s is welcome news for the company and the program. Although an announcement by Falko Regional Aircraft Leasing of a firm order… Read More

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 Posted on July 13, 2014 by

 Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, Embraer, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce

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Farnborough Air Show preview

The Farnborough Air Show is just around the corner, and we don’t expect the event to be especially newsworthy. Here are our expectations for the show: Airbus Market expectations are that Airbus will launch the A330neo at the… Read More

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 Posted on July 7, 2014 by

 Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CFM, Comac, Embraer, GE Aviation, Irkut, Mitsubishi, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce

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American easing away from continuous hubbing, returning to peak banking

American Airlines will ease away from the continuous hubbing that smooths operations at key airports, increases aircraft utilization and cuts costs as it returns to the peak-and-valley hub-and-spoke system adopted decades ago under former CEO Robert Crandall. Although… Read More

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 Posted on June 19, 2014 by

 American Airlines, CFM, Pratt & Whitney

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PW works toward 10% fuel efficiency gain for 2020’s GTF

With the Airbus A320neo expected to enter flight testing this fall, equipped with the Pratt & Whitney P1000G Geared Turbo Fan and the Bombardier CSeries, also with the GTF, already in testing, PW is already engaged in research… Read More

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 Posted on June 16, 2014 by

 Airbus, Bombardier, CSeries, Pratt & Whitney

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Airbus Innovation Days, Part 3: the A320neo

Klaus Roewe, SVP of the A320neo Family: There are 2,700 A320neos in the backlog. Roewe provided a program update during the Airbus Innovation Days. Here is a paraphrased synopsis. The first flight remains on target for 3Q2014. Final… Read More

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 Posted on June 12, 2014 by

 Airbus, CFM, Pratt & Whitney

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Low pressure turbine failed in CSeries incident: UBS, citing Bombardier

The low pressure turbine failed in the Pratt & Whitney Geared Turbo Fan engine on Bombardier’s CSeries, reports investment bank UBS, citing Bombardier. Writes UBS: BBD confirmed that recent GTF engine failure was in the low-pressure turbine and… Read More

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 Posted on June 6, 2014 by

 Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, GE Aviation, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce

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PW Media Day: Real-time monitoring, combining IAE/PW service

This is the next in our series of reports from the Pratt & Whitney Media Days, May 19-20. This interview with Robert Saia, VP Next Generation Product Family, occurred before the Bombardier CSeries-PW GTF engine issue occurred. Real… Read More

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 Posted on June 2, 2014 by

 Airbus, Bombardier

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CSeries setback as PW GTF has reported uncontained failure

Exclusive interview with Robert Saia, vice president of the Next Generation Product Family at Pratt & Whitney. PW believes it has a “good understanding” of what happened. Flight testing might resume quickly, reducing risk of program delay. Customers… Read More

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 Posted on June 1, 2014 by

 Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, GE Aviation, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce

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