iscoverDassault has launched its first all-new business jet in over a decade in announcing plans to build the US$45 million Falcon 5X, a large-cabin 16 passenger, 5,200nm range competitor to the Gulfstream 450 and Bombardier Global 5000. The Falcon 5X features a wider fuselage cross-section than any previous Falconjet, new Safran Snecma Silvercrest turbofans, a
Bombardier has confirmed that CDB Leasing (CLC), one of China’s top leasing companies, is the previously-announced undisclosed customer that signed a conditional purchase agreement for five CS100 and 10 CS300 aircraft. The purchase agreement also includes options on an additional five CS100 and 10 CS300 aircraft, for a total of up to 30 CSeries aircraft.
Despite the promise of double-digit improvements in fuel efficiency, operating costs and emissions, Boeing has been forced to commit to a marginally lower production rate for the 747-8 program from 1.75 aircraft to 1.5 a month due to what the company describes as “lower market demand for large passenger and freighter airplanes”. “This production adjustment
The second A350 to fly, MSN3, has completed its first flight, in a sortie that lasted around five hours. Like MSN1, which flew for the first time in June and has since accumulated 330 flight test hours over 70 flights, the second A350 has no cabin fitout, but is equipped with heavy flight test installation.
According to Airbus’s new Cargo Global Market Forecast, worldwide airfreight traffic will grow by an average of 4.8 per cent annually over the next 20 years, almost doubling the required global freighter fleet to nearly 3,000 aircraft. The forecast shows the overall worldwide air cargo demand by the year 2032 will require around 2,700 new
AgustaWestland has flown the first production AW189 eight-tonne class twin-engine helicopter. The aircraft is expected to be delivered to Bristow Helicopters by the end of the year to carry out offshore transport missions in the North Sea, with operational readiness planned for early 2014. An additional two AW189s are currently under assembly, while the two
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