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☆ Airbus develops fuel-cell engine for hydrogen plane
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Airbus has started developing a fuel-cell engine, it said on Wednesday, sticking with plans to introduce a hydrogen-powered commercial aircraft by 2035. The system is one of several options being considered for a potential zero-emission aircaft based on hydrogen, Airbus said. Jet engine makers Rolls-Royce , General Electric , Safran and Pratt & Whitney are among its biggest suppliers. An alternative approach based on combusting liquid hydrogen in more conventional jet engines depends on heavy cooling in larger and heavier tanks. Airbus will start ground and flight testing fuel-cell architecture towards the middle of the decade, the company said during a two-day sustainability event.

☆ Airbus faces growing end-year jet delivery crunch
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Tim Hepher | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Airbus has told investors it plans to deliver "around 700" commercial aircraft in 2022. That figure is increasingly under pressure, barring what would be a record and essentially glitch-free performance in the busy month of December, industry sources said on Monday. According to latest available data from aircraft analyst Cirium, Airbus has delivered 536 aircraft so far this year, implying 39 to 41 deliveries so far in November. Between January and October, Airbus delivered 497 planes or a net total of 495 after adjusting for the cancellation of two planes stranded by Western sanctions against Russia. That could intensify the traditional crunch which often sees some planes delivered in the closing hours of the year.

The vintage aircraft in Saturday's deadly collision at a Dallas air show, as expected, lacked flight data recorders, making social media crucial to the investigation, a federal official indicated Sunday. "Neither aircraft was equipped with a flight data recorder or a cockpit data recorder," National Transportation Safety Board member Michael Graham said during a news conference Sunday. Photos and videos of the Wings Over Dallas Airshow collision, which killed all six on board the aircraft, could be “very critical, since we don't have any flight data recorders," he said. LM Otero / APStill, even under the NTSB's wish list for improved crash data, such vintage aircraft were not singled out. A cockpit voice recorder "records the flight crew’s voices, as well as other sounds inside the cockpit," the NTSB website says.

☆ COMAC, Boeing agree to step up research co-operation
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

BEIJING, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Chinese planemaker Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) and Boeing signed an agreement to expand co-operation on their joint research centre, state media Shanghai Securities News said on Wednesday. The pact, signed at the Zhuhai airshow, aims to further support sustanable development of aviation, it added. Reporting by Beijing newsroom; Editing by Clarence FernandezOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

China Development Bank Leasing, ICBC Leasing, CMB Financial Leasing, BOCOM Leasing, CCB Financial Leasing, SPDB Financial Leasing and Jiangsu Financial Leasing on Tuesday signed orders for a combined 300 C919s and 30 ARJ21s at Airshow China in the southern city of Zhuhai, COMAC said in a statement on Wednesday. As with previous announcements, it was not immediately clear how many were firm orders or expressions of interest, and no delivery dates were provided. Before the latest deals, there had been 815 orders for the C919 from 28 customers, according to COMAC's website. COMAC said on Tuesday that China would need 9,284 new aircraft over the next 20 years to meet market demand, 200 more than in its forecast last year. The U.S manufacturer forecast China would need 6,370 single-aisle airplanes to support its growing network of international and domestic routes in that time, while COMAC said that 6,896 such planes would be needed.

☆ China stages historic air show under cloud of zero-COVID
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Sophie Yu | Norihiko Shirouzu | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

China’s zero-COVID policy has hampered its domestic aviation industry and kept international traffic at a tiny fraction of pre-pandemic levels as Western carriers rebound sharply. Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) reported orders from leasing firms for 300 C919s and 30 ARJ21 regional jets. By contrast, the sun was setting in China on Tuesday on one of Europe’s most visible global symbols, the double-decker A380. Tracking website FlightRadar24 said China Southern Airlines operated its last A380 flight from Los Angeles on Tuesday. China is also showing off a FH-97A “Loyal Wingman” drone model designed to coordinate with crewed aircraft, the newspaper reported.

☆ Boeing's aircraft deliveries slipped in October on 737 fuselage flaw
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Leslie Josephs | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

A Boeing 737 MAX 8 sits outside the hangar during a media tour of the Boeing 737 MAX at the Boeing plant in Renton, Washington. Boeing 's aircraft deliveries in October fell from a month earlier after a fuselage flaw in its bestselling 737 Maxes delayed handovers of new planes. The Virginia-based manufacturer's commercial aircraft unit had told investors that the flaw would impact its delivery numbers for the month. "We'll recover on that quickly," Stan Deal, chief executive of Boeing's commercial airplane unit, said during an investor event last week. The company logged orders for 122 of its 737 Max planes in October from carriers including Alaska Airlines and British Airways' parent International Consolidated Airlines Group.

☆ Comac C919: Covid restrictions cloud airshow debut of China's showpiece jet
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

China’s zero-Covid policy has hampered its domestic aviation industry and kept international traffic at a tiny fraction of pre-pandemic levels as Western carriers rebound sharply. Tuesday’s opening marked the first time Western plane giants Airbus and Boeing have shared the stage with China’s new COMAC C919 single-aisle jet at the showpiece event. Chinese J-20 stealth fighter jets at Airshow China, in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, on November 8. Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) reported orders from leasing firms for 300 C919s and 30 ARJ21 regional jets. Production of the world’s largest jetliner ended last year after weak sales including a near-failure to conquer China’s market.

☆ Chinese planemaker COMAC received new orders for 330 planes
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

BEIJING, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Chinese planemaker Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) secured orders from multiple leasing firms to supply a total of 330 planes, according to local news service Yicai. COMAC said at China's biggest airshow in Zhuhai on Tuesday that 300 of the planes are narrowbody jetliner C919s and 30 are ARJ21 regional jets. COMAC will deliver its first C919 aircraft in December to launch customer China Eastern. Reporting by Sophie Yu, Brenda Goh, Editing by Louise HeavensOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Brazil's Embraer delivers 33 jets in Q3, reaffirms full-year forecast
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

SAO PAULO, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA (EMBR3.SA) on Monday said it has delivered a total 33 jets in the third quarter, up from 30 in the year-ago period, and reaffirmed its full-year forecast even with supply chain constraints hitting the industry recently. Embraer said that quarterly deliveries included 10 commercial aircraft and 23 executive jets, up from nine and 21 respectively in the same period of 2021. The latest backlog data included a firm order for six E195-E2 jets signed with Oman's low-cost carrier SalamAir in October. Embraer had also agreed on a deal with Canada's Porter Airlines for 20 aircraft earlier this year. The Brazilian company reaffirmed its full-year deliveries forecast set at 100 to 110 executive jets and 60 to 70 commercial jets.

CNN —Several passengers on board a commercial flight operated by Precision Air which crashed into Lake Victoria in Tanzania on Sunday have been rescued, the airline and local officials said. Boats with emergency response personnel were deployed to the crash site at Africa’s largest lake near Bukoba airport. The flight had taken off from Tanzania’s commercial capital of Dar es Salaam but was “involved in an accident as it was approaching Bukoba airport and crash landed in Lake Victoria,” the carrier said. Video circulating on social media taken by onlookers on the shores of Lake Victoria showed the aircraft submerged in the water with emergency responders coordinating rescue efforts from nearby boats. “I have received with sadness the information of the crash of the Precision Air flight at Lake Victoria, in the Kagera region,” President Samoa Suluhu wrote on Twitter Sunday.

☆ C919 narrowbody jet to make its first public appearance at China air show
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] The fifth prototype of China's home-built C919 passenger plane takes off for its first test flight from Shanghai Pudong International Airport in Shanghai, China October 24, 2019. REUTERS/StringerSHENZHEN, China, Nov 5 (Reuters) - The C919 narrowbody jet will join the opening flight display in China's biggest air show in the southern city of Zhuhai on Tuesday, according to a schedule posted by the organisers, in what will be its first public flight or display. The C919, made by Commercial Aircraft Corp of China (COMAC) (CMAFC.UL), is designed to rival single-aisle jets made by Airbus SE (AIR.PA) and Boeing Co (BA.N) has never been displayed or publicly flown. China will show off its home-grown civil and military aviation technology at the air show, where 740 businesses are expected to take part both online and offline. The C919's presence was confirmed on the schedule on the organiser's official WeChat social media account.

☆ Goldman Sachs says Boeing can soar more than 80% after earnings
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Sarah Min | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Goldman Sachs said Boeing can soar more than 80% after its latest quarterly report. "We continue to believe Boeing has substantial deep value upside as financial inputs and valuation both remain at trough while long-term fundamentals are strong. Several inputs are now improving, including aircraft demand, 787 deliveries, services, and total cash flow," wrote analyst Noah Poponak, who has a buy rating on the stock. Still, the aircraft manufacturer generated nearly $3 billion in free cash flow, and said it expects it will reach positive free cash flow this year. Goldman Sachs lowered its 12-month price target to $242 from $265.

☆ Boeing reports quarterly loss on problems in Air Force One, tanker programs
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Leslie Josephs | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

A Boeing 737 MAX 10 airliner pauses while taxiing on the flight line before its first flight at Renton Municipal Airport on June 18, 2021 in Renton, Washington. Boeing reported a $3.3 billion quarterly loss Wednesday as problems in its defense unit countered strides in its commercial aircraft business. Revenue: $15.96 billion vs. $17.76 billion expected. Boeing reported losses of $2.8 billion in its defense unit on programs including the KC-46 tanker and Air Force One. Alaska Airlines on Wednesday said it would exercise options to buy 52 Boeing 737 Max planes to its fleet and rights for 105 more of them through 2030.

☆ China's biggest air show could take off again without C919 narrowbody jet
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A display of VT5 light main battle tank is seen at the China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, or Airshow China, in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, China September 29, 2021. REUTERS/Aly SongBEIJING/SYDNEY, Sept 27 (Reuters) - China will show off its homegrown civil and military aviation technology at the country's biggest air show in November, the mayor of host city Zhuhai said on Tuesday, though there was no confirmation that would include the C919 narrowbody jet. Western suppliers are behind some of the key technology in the C919, including the avionics and engines. Two C919 jets arrived in Beijing on Sept. 13, in a move widely viewed as preparation for certification by the aviation regulator on Sept. 19, a symbolic date given the model number. But that did not happen and the two jets remain parked in Beijing, according to flight tracking websites.

☆ X-59: NASA’s ‘quiet’ supersonic plane revealed
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-25 | by ( Jacopo Prisco | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —If you’ve heard a sonic boom recently, you probably remember it. Now, NASA is working to change those regulations by transforming the boom into a “thump,” paving the way for a new generation of quieter supersonic aircraft. It’s set to take off for the first time later this year, ahead of its first quiet supersonic flight. “It will be significantly quieter than Concorde or any other supersonic aircraft that exist today,” Craig Nickol, senior adviser at NASA Headquarters, told CNN in 2022. However, it’s doubtful that any of them will be able to take advantage of the findings of the Quesst program, which will likely inform the next generation of supersonic aircraft.

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☆ There's a shortage of truckers, but TuSimple thinks it has a solution: no driver needed
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-14 | by ( Jacopo Prisco | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

One solution to the problem is autonomous trucks, and several companies are in a race to be the first to launch one. The journey was completed in 14 hours versus the usual 24 with a human driver, mostly because a truck doesn't need to sleep. Its plans are dependent on state legislation, however, because currently some states do not allow for testing of autonomous trucks on public roads. According to Lu, that's still cheaper than paying for a human driver. But you're saving the cost of a human driver, which based on average US wages is about $80,000 to $120,000 per year -- or 80 cents to $1.20 per mile.

☆ 59 de companii chineze puse pe lista neagra a administrației SUA
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-04 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +2 min

Administrația Biden extinde domeniul de acțiune al unui decret prezidențial al fostului președinte Donald Trump, prin care se interziceau investițiile americane în companii din China care sprijină armata chineză inclusiv prin vânzarea de tehnologie de urmărire, relatează The Washington Post, citează digi24.ro. Un decret al președintelui Biden, care va intra în vigoare de joi, urmează să lărgească domeniul de acțiune al interdicțiilor și va transfera autoritatea în acest caz laDepartamentul Trezoriei de la Departamentul Apărării. Prin această mutare, decretul va fi mai „stabil din punct de vedere legal”, spun oficiali din administrație. Oficiali ai guvernului SUA spun că mutarea la alt departament este importantă, în contextul în care compania chinezească Xiaomi a reușit să evite interdicția prin atacarea ei în justiție. Departamentul Trezoriei are mai multă experiență în redactarea de programe de sancțiuni „într-un fel care respectă standardele legale și juridice al Statelor Unite”, a spus un oficial din administrația americană.

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