Against a background of moderate international economic development, Liebherr recorded a slight change in turnover for the 2014 business year, with a total of €8,823m, 1.6% (€141m) below the previous year’s figure. Liebherr’s construction machinery and mining division achieved a turnover of €5,294m, €336m or 6.0% below the previous year’s figure. The result was positive,
Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, (MHI) started low speed taxiing tests with the first flight test aircraft of the MRJ (Mitsubishi Regional Jet), their next-generation regional jet, at the Nagoya Airport (Toyoyama-cho, Aichi Prefecture). Taxiing is the movement of an aircraft on the ground under its own power. An airplane uses taxiways to
Aviation Partners announced that as of June 5th, 2015, its unique Blended Winglet Technology has saved the worlds commercial and business jet operators an estimated five billion gallons of jet fuel. This represents a global reduction in CO2 emissions of over 107 billion lbs (or almost 54 million tons.) Aviation Partners’ designed Winglets are now
The forthcoming International Air Transport Association (IATA) meeting is likely to get off to a heated start this Sunday as the row over accusations of Gulf airlines benefitting from unfair subsidies rolls on. However it is not now just the three main US carriers who started the row (Delta, United and American Airlines) who are
Avolon, the international aircraft leasing company, announced the delivery of one Boeing 737-800 aircraft to Malindo Air. This is Avolon’s first aircraft on lease to Malindo Air.
Cessna Aircraft Company reported that the Citation Latitude business jet has achieved type certification from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Deliveries are scheduled to begin in the third quarter of this year. FAA certification follows the aircraft’s first Atlantic crossing and European debut at the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition in May. Customer
Indonesia’s Lion Group, ATR’s largest customer, took delivery of its 50th ATR 72-600 of the 100 aircraft ordered to date. The ATR 72-600 will enter service this month with Lion Group’s regional subsidiary company, Wings Air, which already operates a fleet of 40 ATR aircraft in Indonesia. The remaining 50 ATR 72-600s will be delivered
On the 17th May it was revealed that the Portuguese government had received three offers for their share of Transportes Aéreos Portugueses, SGPS, S.A (TAP). The government’s 66% stake in the airline is to be split as 61% available to investors and 5% to airline staff. However the 5% has already been a bone of
Cathay Pacific Airways has selected Rockwell Collins’ new visual system that combines the JVC Kenwood VS2500 laser-hybrid projector with Rockwell Collins’ industry-leading EP-8000 image generator. The new visual system will be installed on the airline’s first Airbus A350 XWB full flight simulator this month in Hong Kong. The VS2500 projector brings together the new extended
Honeywell Aerospace is supplying its advanced Primus Epic cockpit technologies to Dassault’s newly unveiled Falcon 5X. Primus Epic’s latest enhanced features have been customized for Dassault’s EASy III cockpit. The new plane combines safety, performance and new capabilities while achieving the lowest fuel consumption in its category. “Dassault wanted to create one of the most
