It has been reported that Bombardier Aerospace has entered an agreement with the Island Air, a Hawaiian island airline. The agreement will be a transfer of components to be able to supply them with a great deal of support towards their Q400 aircraft fleet. This exchanging of components has been named the Smart Parts programme.
Pratt & Whitney, a division of UTC (United Technologies Corp.) has announced they have obtained joint-type certification for the Airbus 321neo from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The Airbus A321neo is powered by Pratt & Whitney’s PurePower Geared Turbofan engine and marks a significant milestone for the A320neo program and the entire PurePower engine family as a whole.
Eurowings is continuing its move to get away from their past as a regional airline. They are retiring the last Bombardier CRJ-900 jet. The move comes as Eurowings unifies its fleet around the Airbus A320.
Another move taken towards backing the F-137 engine with new overhaul and repairing capabilities, which was a part of workload in joint operations with Rolls Royce for the first time.
Refueling is very important if an airplane need to stay in the air longer and this has been done for many years, however, how efficient this process is can make a difference. Lockheed Martin has stated that they are working on a new concept that of a wing-body tanker aircraft for refueling fighter jets such as the F-22 and the F-35. This concept was displayed at the AIAA SciTech forum. Wind-tunnel testing has already started by Lockheed martin on a much smaller model to test for more aerodynamic solutions, also engineers are using this data for the actual design of the Hybrid Wing Body (HWB). Data is also going to be used for a potential tanker program with a similar body design. Having a stealth refueling jet is very important because without having one it might give away the position of a stealthy aircraft.
Airbus Helicopter are well known around the world well at least for people that are in the aerospace industry. They are the US affiliate and the largest helicopter manufacturer in the world. They market and sell the broadest range of civil and Para public helicopters offered in the U.S. they are the most cost effective which is a key to their development and their market strategies. I mean They recently announced that they are going to be exhibiting the most efficient helicopters especially for air medical transport solutions. This exhibit will be at the Charlette convention center in N.C. the date of this convention is Dec 13 through Dec 15. This convention will be very interesting and informing. On display they will have an H135 series aircraft that will be operated by STST MedEvac. There will also be an H130 High performance single engine helicopter operated by Jet stat. Which is the medical transportation service.
Garmin International Inc finally granted the installation approval for all their newest “all in one” ADS-B transponder that can be equipped in helicopters. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted Garmin with the Supplemental Type Certification which for the installation of both transponders. The GTX 345/335 transponders are the models Garmin has been successful in adding to the (FAA) Approved Model List (AML) which is of part of 27 helicopters. The GTX 345/355 models are both equipped with built- in Wide Area Augmentation System(WAAS).