iscoverBoeing has signed an agreement with PetroChina to evaluate establishing a sustainable biofuels industry in China. Boeing says that the project will look at all phases of sustainable aviation biofuel development including agronomy, energy inputs and outputs, life cycle emissions analysis, infrastructure and government policy support. An assessment of the economic and technical feasibility is
South African Airways has ordered five additional Airbus A320s, which will be delivered from 2013. The order brings up SAA’s commitment for A320s to 20, with all to be powered by IAE V2500 engines. Want to see more stories from trusted news sources? Make Australian Aviation a preferred news source on Google. Click here to
Bombardier says that the CSeries will still be more efficient than an Airbus A320 or Boeing 737NG with new generation engines. Speaking at the US Regional Airline Association conference in Milwaukee, Bombardier’s VP marketing for commercial aircraft Phillippe Poutissou said that even if Boeing and Airbus adopted the PW1000G or CFM LEAP-X engines for their
ATR says that it has entered advanced discussions with Pratt & Whitney and General Electric on engines to power a larger turboprop airliner, which it could launch over the next year. “You know we are discussing with two to three engine manufacturers but not just general discussions, but in a very detailed way, and namely
Boeing has used the delivery of Qatar Airways’s first 777 Freighter to highlight that the 777F’s despatch reliability since entering service in February 2009 is running at 99.1 per cent. Qatar Airways’s first of three 777Fs, the 23rd 777 Freighter to be delivered so far, was handed over on May 17 at Boeing’s Delivery Center
Lufthansa took delivery of its first of 15 Airbus A380s in a ceremony at Airbus’s Hamburg facilities on May 19. More than 700 guests were on hand to witness the official handover ceremony for Rolls-Royce Trent 900 powered A380 MSN038 D-AIMA, which has been named Frankfurt am Main, at Airbus’s Hamburg-Finkenwerder plant. This content is
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