Watch highlights from the 2016 Farnborough Airshow air display where Boeing's 737 MAX and Lockheed Martin's F-35 made their airshow debuts. | Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter finally made its Farnborough Airshow debut this week, impressing visitors to the trade show with its hovering capabilities. | | Advertisement Bodycote operates an international network of quality accredited facilities, in support of prime aerospace manufacturers and their supply chains. We provide heat treating, coating solutions and hot isostatic pressing services across a wide range of applications which include commercial, business and military aviation. http://go.bodycote.com/farnborough-international-air-show |
| | Our editors are at the Farnborough Airshow this week. Listen in as they discuss key developments including the F-35, the future of the A380 and what a middle-of-the-market airplane will look like. | Jens Flottau Airbus CEO Fabrice Bregier believes this week’s decision to reduce production of the Airbus A380 bought the company about 2–3 years to find new orders and to continue producing its largest aircraft for a longer overall run. | | Jens Flottau To make up for a capacity shortfall caused by delays in the Airbus A350 delivery stream, Qatar Airways is considering an additional order for Boeing 777-300ERs, CEO Akbar Al Baker told Aviation Week. | Lara Seligman A KC-46 equipped with a reworked boom has successfully refueled a C-17 heavy cargo aircraft, a sign that Boeing’s tanker troubles may finally be coming to an end. | | Guy Norris Eight years after launching the Leap engine to succeed the CFM56, CFM is poised for service entry of the first Leap-1A-powered Airbus A320neo, with six operators expected to take the new engine-airframe combination in the first 100 days. | Guy Norris European low-cost carrier Wizz Air has placed orders and options for up to 432 Pratt & Whitney PW1100G geared turbofans worth US$2.5 billion for its future fleet of Airbus A321neos. | | A 64-year old historic Auster originally restored by the editor of Aviation Week ShowNews is appearing over the public weekend in the static display at Farnborough Airshow. | Guy Norris Lockheed Martin is marketing its LM-100J civil Hercules variant in tandem with the newly unveiled LMH-1 cargo carrying hybrid airship as part of the company’s broader strategic initiative to grow its commercial aerospace business. | | John Morris General Electric has set out to become the world's Digital Industrial Company, transforming itself by using Big Data to shape everything from the way it makes things to supporting customers in the field. | Paul Jackson RUAG has already completed and sold the start-up batch of eight “ex-228NGs” from its relaunched production of the modernized Dornier turboprop-twins and is expecting to fly the first of the follow-ons before the end of this year. | | Advertisement The world’s most important aircraft platforms rely on our high performance electronic and structural products. Ducommun excels at tough technical challenges and specializes in delivering innovative, value-added manufacturing solutions. • Electronic, electromechanical and interconnect systems • Contoured aerostructure components • Titanium, aluminum and composite technologies • Electronics and structural integration http://www.ducommun.com/ |
| | Maxim Pyadushkin Russian engineering company Progresstech has partnered with U.S. software specialist Altair to promote and distribute Altair’s software technology and methods in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. | Embraer is at Farnborough promoting its Sisfron border surveillance system, which includes electronic warfare, UAVs, radars and communications to work in conjunction with the A-29 Super Tucano turboprop for close air support. | | Thierry Dubois Saab CEO Håkan Buskhe is betting on reactivity at development and production levels to keep its Gripen C/D and Gripen E fighters attractive to foreign buyers. | Tony Osborne MBDA and Boeing have completed a series of launch trials of MBDA’s Brimstone missile from Boeing’s AH-64E Apache attack helicopter. | | |
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