June 19, 2023

June 19, 2023

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COMMERCIAL AVIATION

In Shopping Mode

By Jens Flottau,Lori Ranson,Helen Massy-Beresford13 min

PARIS 2023

BIG BETS

By Jens Flottau12 min

PARIS 2023

Boeing Hopes To Build on MQ-28 for USAF CCA Contest

By Brian Everstine4 min

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COMMERCIAL AVIATION

In Shopping Mode

> MANY AIRLINE FLEET CAMPAIGNS ARE EMERGING > LESSORS AND CARRIERS AIM TO SECURE 2030s PRODUCTION SLOTS > AIRLINES EXPECT STRONG DEMAND TO HELP THEM DOUBLE 2023 PROFITS

By Jens Flottau,Lori Ranson,Helen Massy-Beresford13 min

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BIG BETS

Airbus targets both new conventional and hydrogen platforms for 2035 even as supply chain constraints will limit its growth for years.

By Jens Flottau12 min

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Boeing Hopes To Build on MQ-28 for USAF CCA Contest

> THE OEM IS IN TALKS WITH THE UK ABOUT AUTONOMOUS PLATFORMS > THE U.S. IS SEEKING 1,000 COLLABORATIVE COMBAT AIRCRAFT

By Brian Everstine4 min

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POWER FORWARD

AW&ST: For the CFM Leap engine that powers the Airbus A320neo and Boeing 737 MAX, is your objective still to deliver 1,700 this year? We are still planning on that number—1,700 Leap engine deliveries this year. We talked to our CFM partner GE Aerospace, and we see no reason to change our plan.
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Europe’s Suppliers Strive To Adapt in Post-Pandemic World

> AS PRODUCTION RAMPS UP, HIRING BECOMES A MAJOR CONCERN > IMPROVED PRODUCTION TECHNIQUES COULD HELP ON-TIME DELIVERY AND QUALITY

By Thierry Dubois9 min

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‘We Need a New Generation of Planes’

AW&ST: Airbus has been very public about its plans for a hydrogen aircraft. But to get to the net-zero emissions target by 2050, you will need a new, more efficient conventional aircraft at some point. What are your plans in this space? The net-zero road map relies on a number of necessary steps.
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Man With a Plan

AW&ST: When you were hired as CEO four years ago, your mandate was to carve out Embraer’s commercial aircraft business and hand it over to Boeing. Then COVID-19 hit and the Boeing deal fell apart. Your job today is not the one you signed up for.
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LAUNCHER LOGJAM

Ariane 6 delays and Vega C problems leave European launch industry mostly grounded

By Irene Klotz,Thierry Dubois,Garrett Reim9 min

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Boeing’s Long Game

AW&ST: There is a lot of confusion about what “nothing before 2035” means. When is the earliest Boeing could launch a new clean-sheet airplane development and when is the earliest it could enter service? Everybody would like a timetable, but that’s not really how major airplane programs can or should be developed.
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AIR WAR

> HOW UKRAINE’S TWO-YEAR CAMPAIGN FOR FIGHTERS FINALLY SUCCEEDED > FIGHTERS COMING TOO LATE TO SUPPORT PLANNED OFFENSIVE

By Steve Trimble9 min

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