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Textron chairman Lewis Campbell says demand for Cessna CitationJets fuelled...

ABU DHABI INVESTOR IN MAJOR GE LINK REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT Abu Dhabi investment house Mubadala is partnering General Electric on a diverse range of business...

Engine manufacturer Pratt Whitney is confident of the market for Bombardier’s CSeries and the Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ), saying it has already recieved dozens of expressions of interest. The two aircraft are to be solely powered by Pratt Whitney’s geared turbofan engine, which was recently rebranded as the PurePower PW1000G. Pratt Whitney Commercial Engines marketing VP Mary Ellen Jones says it has received “dozens” of strong expressions of interest in both new aircraft, partly spurred by spiralling fuel costs. She adds: “There is a lot of interest in the aircraft and the engine. Both companies had a mock up at the [Farnborough air] show and the traffic has been very heavy. It seems to be very strong in both areas. We are quite optimistic that we will secure additional orders by the end of the year.” Several leasing companies are among the interested parties, says Jones. She adds that the airframers see this as a v

Video images have emerged showing the aftermath of an incident at Malaga Airport during which a Sterling Airlines Boeing 737-800 was tipped onto its rear fuselage while parked at a gate.

Lockheed Martin has reported new cost and production problems with the US Air Force's $15.2 billion C-5 Galaxy modernisation programme. In April, Lockheed...

Indian GA MRO firm expands into commercial aviation sphere

The US government and Pratt & Whitney have acknowledged new cost pressures facing development of the F135 engine that will require a proposal to restructure...

Court hearings begin for captain of crashed Garuda 737

The UK Royal Air Force plans to upgrade its entire fleet of 48 Boeing CH-47 transport helicopters to a standard configuration from late 2009 ...

Strong widebody market lifts Rolls-Royce's confidence

Northrop Grumman has accused Boeing's supporters of "rank hypocrisy" after its opponent in the US Air Force's renewed KC-X tanker competition again acknowledged...

EC blocks part of DHL's Leipzig deal after state aid probe

Pratt Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR) president Jim Maser intends to change the way his company works to liberate what he sees is the untapped potential that small entreprenurial companies he has worked for before have been able to capitalise on. In an interview with Flightglobal.com on 24 July at the 44th AIAA joint propulsion conference held in Hartford, Connecticut Maser explained his ideas about what needs to be done to, make the most of his employees, bring about change for a less risk averse culture and the timetable he envisages for bringing to market products that are driven by this new process. Click here to download the podcast

Two jets nearly collide in Chicago

Turkey is ramping up its pilot recurrent and type rating training capability with a view to becoming the training centre for a region that has habitually...

United posts heavy 2Q loss, jobs cuts reach 7,000

AAI Acquisition, the US subsidiary of Russian private investment firms Kaskol and Industrial Investors, has completed its purchase of the former Adam Aircraft...

EasyJet slows winter growth plans

The Australian government has combined the General Aviation Action Agenda, which was designed to address the problems...

British Airways hopes to complete its alternative fuel study by early next year and has pledged to make the results public in a bid to speed up the industry's...