Category: Commercial Aircraft

Boeing close to finalising design for Project Sunrise contender 777-8X
Airlines

Boeing says it is close to finalising the design work on the 777-8X long range widebody that will be the contender for Qantas’s Project Sunrise challenge. Qantas is seeking an aircraft capable of operating nonstop from Australia’s east coast to London and New York and has indicated previously it would look to issue a request

New details emerge on proposed China-Russia widebody
Civil Aviation

China and Russia’s candidate to challenge the Airbus and Boeing duopoly in the widebody passenger market will be an aircraft of similar length and slightly wider than the size of an Airbus A330-900, media reports suggest. The China-Russia Commercial Aircraft International Corporation (CRAIC) joint-venture recently unveiled further details of its proposed CR929 widebody. This content

Making a sausage – Boeing’s plans for a tasty ‘new mid-market airplane’
Commercial Aircraft

Randy Tinseth remembers the first time he visited Tokyo Narita Airport. It was 1989 and there were Boeing 747s lined up as far as the eye could see. Fast forward a few years and those 747s had given way to Boeing’s latest widebody workhorse, the 777. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members.

Airbus says it has plenty to do to reach 800 deliveries target
Civil Aviation

Airbus has reaffirmed its full year guidance of 800 aircraft deliveries in calendar 2018 as it works to overcome engine production issues that have hampered its A320neo narrowbody program so far in the current year. The global aerospace giant said on Friday (European time) it had delivered 121 aircraft in the three months to March

Boeing aircraft deliveries and profits lift as work on 777X, NMA continues
Civil Aviation

Boeing says commercial aircraft deliveries rose nine per cent in the first three months of calendar 2018 as healthy market conditions and a robust backlog offered a “solid foundation” for its plans to increase production over the next year. The commercial aircraft delivery numbers were part of Boeing’s calendar 2018 first quarter earnings announced on

A350-900ULR takes flight as Airbus looks towards Project Sunrise
Civil Aviation

The Airbus A350-900ULR (Ultra Long Range), a contender for Qantas’s demanding Project Sunrise mission, has taken to the skies for the first time to kick off a short flight test program ahead of certification and entry into service with Singapore Airlines in the second half of 2018. While the aircraft, MSN216, is yet to be

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