Airbus

Big plane buyer sees tough times for Boeing, Airbus

February 9, 2009

Two aviation-industry billionaires had tough messages for Boeing workers at a reception before an airplane delivery at Boeing Field in Seattle Friday morning. Steven Udvar-Hazy, chief executive of Boeing’s largest customer, predicted that both Boeing and Airbus will sharply reduce their output in the coming months. Udvar-Hazy said jet production could drop by a third [...]

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Airbus signs wing deal with Xi’an Aircraft

February 3, 2009

Airbus and Xi’an Aircraft Industry Company (XAC) signed on Monday an agreement that will see XAC finish and test wings destined for A320 aircraft at plant in China. According to this fourth phase of the agreement, the wing equipping and testing will be done in Tianjin in a facility to be newly built close to the [...]

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Kidde Aerospace & Defense Awarded Airbus A350XWB Overheat Detection System

January 22, 2009

Honeywell has selected Hamilton Sundstrand‘s Kidde Aerospace & Defense business unit to supply the overheat detection system for the Airbus A350XWB (Extra Wide Body) family of aircraft. Hamilton Sundstrand is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX) . The A350XWB overheat detection system monitors the aircraft environmental control system’s bleed air ducts for overheat conditions [...]

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Flight Sim Developer “Just Flight” Assists Media

January 17, 2009

Just Flight was approached by BBC and ITN news agencies to replicate the US Airways A320 flight that “terminated” as a cruise on the Hudson River. Scott Phillips of Just Flight reports, “BBC News contacted us to assist them with their report on the LaGuardia plane crash and so our team stepped up to the [...]

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Tom Enders recognises the Airbus team for “delivering” on his A380 delivery promise

January 13, 2009

President and Chief Executive Officer Tom Enders personally thanked Airbus employees at the A380 Final Assembly Line in Toulouse, France today for achieving the company’s goal of delivering 12 A380s during 2008. This milestone was particularly important to Enders, who made a personal commitment to journalists last September that Airbus would meet its 12-aircraft delivery [...]

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Airbus delivers 12 A380s in 2008

January 2, 2009

Image by webprato via Flickr Airbus today reached its target of delivering 12 A380 aircraft in 2008, bringing the total number of A380s delivered to date to 13. The first A380 was delivered to Singapore Airlines on 15th October 2007, with five more delivered to the airline in 2008. Qantas received three A380s in 2008, [...]

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Fuselages for Airbus, made in Romania

December 20, 2008

Image via Wikipedia A factory to make extruded profiles for plane fuselage is being built in Dumbravita village, 15 km away from Baia Mare (north-west). The investment of 30 million dollars is being made by US company Universal Alloy Corporation, which also has two factories in the USA and one in Switzerland. Universal Alloy Corporation [...]

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December 8, 2008

David Learmount reported very well in Flightglobal.com about the future shortage of pilot when the economy will rise again. He said in the blog that “As soon as economic recovery delivers the prospect of airline growth, struggling carriers will collide almost immediately with a barrier to expansion, according to analysis by the International Air Transport [...]

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