We’re goofy, we’re tired, we’re over caffeinated and we’re at the Paris Air Show. Mary Kirby and I bring you the second exciting installment of our (slightly off the wall) wrap up on the 2nd day the show. We discuss the big Air Asia order, MD-80s and the themes we are seeing this week.
By the end of this week, the outtake reel is going to be ridiculous.
Here’s Tuesday’s rundown:
- Qatar Airways issues stern warning to Boeing to quickly resolve 787 delay issues
- GEnx-2B for 747-8 close to completing testing
- Finmeccanica confident of M-346 contract ‘this week’
- Boeing eyes further growth in India’s defence market
- Low-cost mini UAV launches at Paris
- ATR boosts its -600 backlog
- Susi Air receives third PC-6
- Pratt urges single suppler strategy for JSF
- AirAsia X orders up to 15 A350s
- EADS chief engineer champions green technologies
- IAE wins new engine business from Air China
- Taiwan’s AIDC invited to participate in Chinese aircraft programme
- Boeing mulls long-haul options
- ACG to partner on new Egyptian lessor joint venture
- Bell Boeing awarded $11 million to improve V-22 reliability
- ATR’s new corporate focus
- CAE to help build virtual CSeries for total testing
- Bombardier eyes 2012 CSeries first flight as development picks up
- Airbus tests vegetable oils
- Air Nostrum orders up to 20 ATR 72-600s
- GE and ST Aerospace gear up for GEnx support
- Alenia doubles C-27J fleet to meet FAA cert schedule
- GEnx strip tease worth the wait
- F136 revs up thrust setting
- Antonov looking for An-70 revival
- Face the facts with Superjet International’s Franzoni
- Can open rotor deliver?
- Pratt to begin detailed design of geared turbofan in July
- Raytheon demonstrates surface-launched AIM-9X
- Astrium restates commitment to suborbital flights
- Titanium nuts could save Airbus A350 XWB 100kg plus mass
- Hawker Beechcraft committed to playing it safe
- Boeing and GE partner on Bondtracer
- Aeronautics’ Orbiter-3 to make first flight in August
- Dubai air show continues to grow
- How ‘fusion man’ flies like a bird
- Korean picks Advantage70 for A330s
- GE and NASA to evaluate open rotor fan-blade systems
- Airbus creates IMAX-style cinema inside A350 fuselage mock-up
- Visit the Flightglobal media lounge
- Top gongs for Flightglobal scribes
- Northrop/EADS rules out A330-200F for KC-X
- Face the facts with Giorgio Zappa
- One small step for unmanned aircraft, one giant leap for the Paris air show
- Atlantic Airways signs up for CFM56s
- Maritime, SAR markets face Viking invasion
- Society of British Aerospace Companies sounds industry warning
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