Airbus has sent another signal that there are some plastic limits to its enthusiasm for advanced composites in new airliners after all.
Following John Leahy’s answers to Plane Talking’s inquiries in Sydney on Wednesday, November 4, this item is being carried by Bloomberg:
By Sabine Pirone
Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) — Airbus SAS, the world’s largest maker
of passenger jets, [...]
Tag Archives: A320
More talk from Airbus about plastic limits on new jets
November 6, 2009 – 5:54 am
Air NZ chooses Airbuses to replace old Boeing 737s
November 3, 2009 – 11:38 am
Boeing can console itself with the near certainty of a large order for new jets from Virgin Blue in the coming weeks or months after this morning losing the contest to replace Air New Zealand’s aged fleet of Boeing 737-300s.
Air NZ has ordered 14 A320s to replace the 15 Boeings involved, and taken options on [...]
The shape of jets to come, maybe?
September 18, 2009 – 2:06 pm
This design (above) graces the overnight update to the Airbus Global Market Forecast to 2028.
Is it a successor to the A380, already? Or intended perhaps to fill the size gap between it and the A350-1000? Or is it just a fantasy, like the original shark fin concept of how the Boeing 787 Dreamliner was (never) [...]
Boeing CEO McNerney says 787 ‘hurts like hell’
September 6, 2009 – 9:43 am
Some more clues as to the state of the 787 project are to be found in a current Flight International story on the evolution or eventual replacement of the Boeing 737 family and its Airbus equivalent, the A320 line up.
On the question, who might decide to offer an all-new rather than re-engined upgrade to the [...]
Not just ‘another’ A320 takes off in Tianjin
May 19, 2009 – 11:40 am
The flight of the first Airbus A320 assembled in China yesterday slots another section of Beijing’s aerospace strategy into place.
Some commentary has labelled the event ‘ceremonial’ in that it was the final assembly of components largely imported from Europe.
But China has around 700 Airbuses on order, most of them single aisle jets from the A320 [...]
Air NZ versus the French investigation
February 26, 2009 – 2:12 pm
Air New Zealand’s CEO, Rob Fyfe, is indignant that the French accident investigation bureau, the BEA, did not take the airline’s input into its preliminary findings concerning the crash of one of its A320s into the sea near Perpignan, on 27 November last year.
But why should it have done so? The purpose of the report [...]
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