Farnborough 2012 Dag 3

Boeing to Market Elbit’s Hermes Systems in USA

Posted on July 11, 2012 by The Editor

The Boeing Company and Elbit Systems signed a Memorandum of Understanding at the Farnborough Airshow to collaborate on the marketing and sales of Elbit Systems’ Hermes 450 and 900 product lines in the United States and select international countries.

“This partnership further expands and enhances Boeing’s longstanding relationship with Elbit Systems to include unmanned products,” said Debbie Rub, Boeing Missiles and Unmanned Airborne Systems Vice-President and General Manager. “The Hermes product line provides a medium-altitude, long-endurance capability that complements the Boeing unmanned portfolio while addressing an important need for U.S. warfighters and allies on today’s ever-changing battlefields.”

Lessors Now Question The Wisdom Of Mega Airliner Orders

Farnborough Air Show » July 11, 2012

by Gregory Polek

Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Ray Conner and GECAS chief executive Norman Liu seal a deal for 100 Boeing 737s at Farnborough 2012. (Photo: Gregory Polek)

July 11, 2012, 2:00 AM

The trend over the last few years in which customers have placed extremely large orders for airliners has raised questions about the underlying reasons and its potential effect on OEMs that continue to raise production rates in response. The practice seems most prevalent among customers for narrowbodies, prompting both Boeing and Airbus to project rate increases to well beyond 40 in the coming years and raising concerns within some circles of a so-called bubble in the sector. Udvar-Hazy called this past January’s Norwegian Airlines order for 100 B-737MAX 8s, 22 B-737-800NGs and 100 A320neos a mission to “be both offensive and defensive,” and follow a strategy designed to react to a possible implosion at SAS. Finally, he explained, both Lion Air, which in February placed an order for 201 B-737 MAX 9s and 29 B-737-900ERs, and Air Asia, which holds orders for 200 A320neos, plan a pan-Asian expansion beyond their predominant markets of Indonesia and Malaysia. “So each of these mega orders has its own flavor of ice cream,” said Udvar-Hazy.

FARNBOROUGH: Kuwait's ALAFCO commits to 20 Boeing 737 Max 8s

Kuwaiti lessor ALAFCO has committed to order 20 Boeing 737 Max 8s.
The order, announced today during the Farnborough air show, is worth $1.9 billion at list prices.
ALAFCO has 85 Airbus A320neos on order and operates six 737-800s as of June 2012. It also holds an order for eight 787-8s.

Andre nyheter:

ROLLS-ROYCE

finalized AviancaTaca order for Trent 700s for four A330-200Fs in deal that includes TotalCare support.

CFM INTL

has $450m Aviation Capital Group order to supply LEAP engines for 18 of 30 A320neos on order for delivery from 1Q18, and $100m Juneyao Airlines order to supply CFM56-5B PIPs for five A321s for delivery starting in 2013.

PRATT & WHITNEY

has JetBlue order to supply PurePower PW1100G-JMs for 40 A320neos for delivery

starting in 2018; deal includes long-term PureSolution maintenance service agreement.

PRATT & WHITNEY

plans to offer its PW4170 Advantage70 engine for 240-tonne A330.

JEPPESEN

has IRKUT contract to provide EFB, flight planning, charting, navigation data and mobile

delivery solutions for MC-21.

IAE

booked V2500 order from Jetstar for 32 more A320s (now 104) in deal that includes V-Services

maintenance agreement.

GE

is studying advanced technologies for 100,000 lb thrust GE9X engine for 777X, offering 10% fuel improvement vs GE90; key features include 128” fan diameter, 4th generation composite fan blades/fan case, TAPS III combustor, and enhanced titanium aluminide (TiAl) LPT airfoils. BOEING issued RFP that is due at end of August, and PRATT & WHITNEY also says it will respond.

BOEING

announced 5-year TUI Travel contract to provide 787 flight, maintenance and cabin safety training out of Gatwick, which is getting a second 787 full-flight simulator. It will also provide additional training for Thomson Airways for 737NG, the 757, 767 and A320.

ATR

CEO Filippo Bagnato said he is “pushing like hell” to get annual production rate up to 70 in 2012.

FARNBOROUGH: Thales future cockpit concept integrates smart ATM

By: Dan Thisdell Farnborough

           

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Thales (chalet S1) could be set to revolutionise the pilot-aircraft interface with a concept cockpit that integrates Single European Sky ATM Research and NextGen air traffic management functions to give pilots true gate-to-gate control.
The single-panel glass touchscreen can be reconfigured on the move to show whatever information is most appropriate, in a size and position that suits the flight phase.
Thales's ATM systems division has been helping integrated next-generation ATM systems, including 4-D flight planning and management.
And, new concepts being developed include a "spacing and merging" function called airborne separation assistance system - ASAS - which helps pilots manage following distance.
A digital taxiing system gives pilots the equivalent of a motorist's satnav, to ensure they never make a wrong turn on the ground, especially at an unfamiliar airport. The system also indicates other aircraft, and gives a warning when, for example, the aircraft is about to cross a runway or taxiway.
According Richard Perrot, marketing director for commercial avionics, the system can be configured for any aircraft type, civil or military and fixed- or rotary wing. Thales is working with several airframers including Airbus, especially on ATM integration, and the system could be flying in 2015 or 2016, says Perrot.

Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic to launch small satellites

Sir Richard has been mulling the idea of a satellite launcher for a number of years

Virgin Galactic is pushing ahead with its small satellite launch system.

The company started by UK billionaire Sir Richard Branson is primarily focused on taking fare-paying passengers into space.

But the technology being developed to take up people could also be adapted to send aloft smaller Earth observation and communications spacecraft.

Sir Richard confirmed details of his LauncherOne concept at the Farnborough International Airshow.

Escalating row over Europe's new emissions tax

11 July 2012 Last updated at 09:11 GMT Help

Sixteen countries including the United States and India are meeting in Washington at the end of July to decide their next step in the increasingly bitter row with Europe over new emissions trading taxes for airlines.
Carriers in China and India are refusing to provide required data to Brussels so their liabilities can be calculated.
Many are pressing for a compromise to be bartered by the UN's international civil aviation organisation.
Nigel Cassidy has been hearing from carriers at the Farnborough airshow.