Boeing Forecasts Demand in the Middle East for 3,180 New Airplanes Over the Next 20 Years

Boeing [NYSE: BA] forecasts airlines in the Middle East will require 3,180 new airplanes over the next 20 years, valued at an estimated $730 billion. 70 percent of the demand is expected to be driven by rapid fleet expansion in the region. According to the Boeing Current Market Outlook (CMO), single-aisle airplanes such as the … Dowiedz się więcej

​Pratt & Whitney PurePower® Engine for Embraer E-Jets E2 Begins Flight Test Program

The Pratt & Whitney PW1900G PurePower® Geared Turbofan™ (GTF) engine for the Embraer E190-E2 and E195-E2 aircraft, successfully completed its first flight initiating the engine’s flight test program. The PW1900G engine model, which was assembled at Pratt & Whitney’s Middletown Engine Center in Connecticut, flew on Pratt & Whitney’s 747SP flying test bed at the … Dowiedz się więcej

Chopin Airport ready for winter

Warsaw Chopin Airport is ready to start The Winter Campaign. Technical services of Warsaw airport have the most modern winter maintenance machinery and are able to provide continuity of aircraft movements even during severe precipitations. For clearing of runway and taxiway surfaces sets consisting of snowplough, tug and brush cleaner are used. Those sets having … Dowiedz się więcej

PGI Intelligence: Ethiopia’s planned mega airport to boost aviation and manufacturing sectors

The planned airport is set to be one of Ethiopia’s most ambitious projects, surpassed only by the USD 4.8 bn Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and demonstrates the government’s ongoing commitment to state-led development through investment in huge infrastructure projects. The new airport is planned in addition to an ongoing USD 350 mn expansion of the … Dowiedz się więcej

Alaska Air Cargo ships 4,000 ornaments to District of Columbia

Alaska Air Cargo is shipping more than 4,000 ornaments from the state of Alaska to the District of Columbia today, in support of the 2015 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree program, in conjunction with the U.S. Forest Service-Chugach National Forest and Choose Outdoors. The colorful hand-decorated ornaments will be used to decorate the Capitol Christmas Tree … Dowiedz się więcej

White House, NASA Administrator Statements on 15 Years of Human Habitation Aboard International Space Station

The following is a statement from Dr. John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy: “The International Space Station is a unique laboratory that has enabled groundbreaking research in the life and physical sciences and has provided a test bed for the technologies that will allow NASA to once again … Dowiedz się więcej