PurePower® Geared Turbofan™ Engine Training Underway

In preparation for the PW1100G-JM PurePower® Geared Turbofan™ (GTF) engine’s customer delivery, Pratt & Whitney is now offering operators, airframers and MRO partners, classroom instruction and hands-on training with this new engine. Gerald Howell (pictured here), lead technical instructor, PW1100G-JM, conducted the first of these training sessions, providing students valuable experience with the engine’s advanced, … Dowiedz się więcej

Lufthansa Technik installs split scimitar winglets on a BBJ

Lufthansa Technik AG is the first MRO provider in Europe to install split scimitar winglets on a Boeing Business Jet (BBJ). With this modification, the aircraft is the third BBJ in the world to be equipped with these new, aerodynamically optimized winglets from Aviation Partners Boeing. The modification took place over a period of ten … Dowiedz się więcej

Rockwell Collins selected for AC312E/C platforms

Harbin Aircraft Industry Group (HAIG) has selected Rockwell Collins to provide avionics for Avicopter’s new AC312E/C helicopters, which will perform search and rescue, emergency medical service and general purpose transport missions. Rockwell Collins’ avionics consists of its latest helicopter cockpit display system and Pro Line 21TM communication, navigation and surveillance equipment. The cockpit display system … Dowiedz się więcej

Lufthansa now flying much quieter

Experts from Lufthansa Technik will be equipping the 100th aircraft of the Lufthansa A320 fleet with sound-reducing vortex generators in the next few weeks. The Lufthansa Group and German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, DLR) project is part of the research group “Quieter Transport” (“Leiser Verkehr”), has thus reached an important milestone. … Dowiedz się więcej