Log-in here if you’re already a subscriber Release DateJuly 21, 2022Airbus advances A220-500 strategy around transcon and possible second enginePurchase...
FARNBOROUGH — A pair of paper airplanes. A pair of divergent strategies. The fight for the nascent middle of the...
There is no all-new single-aisle airplane coming from Boeing -- at least not anytime soon, despite reports to the contrary. Yet, the company earlier this year started looking at major revamp of the 737 Max to compete with the Airbus A321XLR.
With receding regional aviation competitors, Embraer studies a return to a market that hasn’t had the choice of an all-new product in decades. Unique quirks of the turboprop market and Embraer technology planning will pressure E3 market potential. Big leaps in efficiency of single-aisle jets compresses the list of small markets that need a big turboprop.
Away from the supply chain frustrations and missing engines in Renton, the final assembly of the company’s new flagship in Everett, its...
The western civil & defense aerospace business has long believed that Russia could be its customer, supplier and adversary to its patron governments – all at the same time.
Log-in here if you’re already a subscriber Release DateJune 21, 2023Boeing will test CFM’s advanced open fan architecture with a...
Log-in here if you’re already a subscriber Release DateDecember 24, 2020China’s civil aircraft projects face derailment with new U.S. restrictionsPurchase...
You can only blame so much on a pandemic. Like a pre-existing condition that can make a case of COVID-19 deadly versus asymptomatic, the business model governing engine makers and their relationship to aircraft manufacturers made them exceptionally vulnerable. The collapse of global commercial aviation merely revealed the fundamental weakness baked into the relationship.
The first in a two-part series on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the business of building commercial aircraft...
Denial of aviation is a weapon that predates the 21st century battlefield. Yet, with the return of war to Europe, it is also aviation’s Achilles’ heel. With it comes a cascading series of immediate and longer term consequences in the skies as commercial and industrial links are quickly broken after decades of cultivation following the fall of the Soviet Union.
In an extended interview, Arjan Meijer, Embraer's new Commercial Aviation CEO sat down with The Air Current to discuss what it wants in a partner and its path to a new turboprop.
