Recently added articles from Interavia Business & Technology:
GE celebrates CF34 milestone.(BUSINESS BRIEFING)(GE Aircraft Engines)
Dec 22, 2007 ... GE's CF34 engine family has celebrated its fifteenth birthday. The 3,600 CF34 engines in service have accumulated more than 40 million engine hours. The first member of the family was the CF343 engine, launched on the Bombardier CRJ 100 aircraft in 1992. The CF34-8 engine is the ...
Snecma starts Silvercrest core test campaign.(BUSINESS BRIEFING)(Societe Nationale d'Etude et de Construction de Moteurs d'Aviation)(Brief article)
Dec 22, 2007 ... Snecma has started the test campaign of the Silvercrest core engine demonstrator in the Villaroche test facility in France. The core demonstrator is fully instrumented with temperature, pressure and vibration sensors to validate the full range of core capability and performance. This core ...
During the course of a state visit to China by French President Nicolas Sarkozy on 24-27 November.(BUSINESS BRIEFING)
Dec 22, 2007 ... * During the course of a state visit to China by French President Nicolas Sarkozy on 24-27 November, Airbus signed an MoU with the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) to formalise the commitment of allocating five per cent of the A350XWB airframe to the Chinese aviation ...
Aerojet.(BUSINESS BRIEFING)(Aerojet General Corp.)(Brief article)
Dec 22, 2007 ... * Aerojet has completed testing of its Advanced Combined Cycle Integrated Inlet (ACCII). The test campaign, performed at the NASA Langley Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel (UPWT) test facility, represents the latest in a long history of combined-cycle approaches to manufacture everfaster aircraft ....
A new body--the Joint Government/Industry Space Cost Analysis and Estimating Improvement Council.(BUSINESS BRIEFING)(Brief article)
Dec 22, 2007 ... * A new body--the Joint Government/Industry Space Cost Analysis and Estimating Improvement Council--has been formed in an effort to bridge huge differences in the estimated costs of military space programmes. The new body is expected to bring government and industry cost ...