Manufacturers

Sikorsky Aircraft Launches Twitter Page

February 18, 2010

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. today launched its own page on the Twitter social media Web site, reaching out to a broader audience to provide information on company news, products and services. Sikorsky’s new Twitter page can be found by visiting http://twitter.com/SikorskyAircrft. The page also can be accessed via the Sikorsky Web site at www.Sikorsky.com. “The age [...]

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787 and the economy

December 28, 2009

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Since finally the new dreamliner is on the way to the customers, the spike that Boeing gives to the US economy can’t be ignored. Those 73000 people who work in Boeing pay the tax money to the state and to the whole country. It is that even enough when [...]

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Delta TechOps to be Provider for LAN Airlines Boeing 767 Winglet Installations

September 19, 2009

Image by Getty Images via Daylife ATLANTA, Sept. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Delta Air Lines’ maintenance division, Delta TechOps, today announced it has penned a one-year contract with Latin American leading airline, LAN Airlines to install winglets and provide airframe maintenance services on some of LAN’s Boeing 767 fleet. Winglets, which are wing-tip extensions designed to [...]

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Finnair: No Need to Change Speed Sensors

August 3, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Finnair says it has already changed the speed sensors on its Airbus A330 and A340 planes. Leading aircraft manufacturer Airbus recently called for airlines to switch most speed sensors to U.S.-made parts on its jetliners in the wake of the jet disaster in June. Finnair spokesman Taneli Hassinen says the company switched [...]

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Boeing Joins the Wing to Body for First 747-8 Freighter

June 30, 2009

Image by StarvingFox via Flickr EVERETT, Wash., June 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Boeing (NYSE:BA) has completed another milestone in the assembly of its first 747-8 Freighter by joining the wing to the fuselage. Workers attached the 40-foot (12 m) fuselage section to the center wing box in the final assembly bay at the factory in Everett, [...]

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Boeing Postpones 787 First Flight

June 24, 2009

Image via Wikipedia EVERETT, Wash., June 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Boeing today announced that first flight of the 787 Dreamliner will be postponed due to a need to reinforce an area within the side-of-body section of the aircraft. The need was identified during the recent regularly scheduled tests on the full-scale static test airplane.  Preliminary analysis [...]

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Pratt & Whitney Establishes Engineering University Partnership with The Ohio State University

June 23, 2009

Image via Wikipedia EAST HARTFORD, Conn., June 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Pratt & Whitney has established a strategic university partnership with The Ohio State University focused on world-class engineering research in the field of power transmission and gear technology for aviation engines.  Pratt & Whitney is a United Technologies Corp. company. Pratt & Whitney will work [...]

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Finnair’s fourth Airbus A330 enters service

June 23, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Finnair’s fourth Airbus A330 aircraft, registration OH-LTP, makes its first commercial flight to Delhi today, after which it will make regular scheduled flights on Finnair’s long-haul network. With the addition of the fourth aircraft, Osaka will be served with the A330 as of 6 July. The arrival of the new A330 aircraft [...]

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