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Chronicles 7 November 2014

The Franco-British combat drone officially launched – 07-11-2014

Now known as combat air systems rather than combat aircraft, there will clearly be only one future system to replace Rafale and Eurofighter, which will just as obviously be piloted…

Chronicles, News 22 September 2014

Aircraft maintenance flying high

Autumn is a time of aircraft revision and maintenance. For years, it has been the moment chosen by the organisers to hold the highest ranking MRO event in Europe. This…

Chronicles 31 July 2014

Civil aviation hit by 3 disasters in 8 days

This is certainly not the first lethal summer in the history of civil aviation, but three air accidents in just eight days have marred this summer season. Three, not two,…

Chronicles 15 July 2014

Airbus brightens up the first day of the Farnborough air show

Ah, if only the world economy were as healthy as the aircraft industry, we French would not be so despondent! The WTO, the World Bank and the IMF would all…

Chronicles 27 March 2014

Russian alert for the Western supply-chain

No politics, I said in my chronicle of March 13, although some will say that I am going back on my word this week. Not so. It is more a…

Chronicles 28 February 2014

Airbus Group revamping its defence and space operations to take on markets

New governance = new practices, or is all this purely circumstantial? The fact remains that Tom Enders, CEO of the brand new Airbus Group, which he has headed under the…

Chronicles 18 November 2013

Heavy toll for the partners of the C919

The battle of figures is in full swing. While the Dubai Airshow opened on record orders from the two major global players Boeing and Airbus (the latter finally receiving its…

Chronicles 31 October 2013

Space propulsion: Soon an “all electric” satellite in orbit

Have you heard of the Electra project? A project born of a partnership between ESA and the satellite operator SES, Electra is expected to be launched in 2018. If everything…

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Chronicles 17 July 2012

After Farnborough – Are Airbus and Boeing heading towards a dangerous “bubble”?

If international air shows were organised purely for the media’s behalf, they would probably be better off renting a few hundred square metres in the city centre. We would all…

Chronicles 1 June 2012

Flying in 2050 – Traffic statistics are not going to reach the sky.

How to predict the future of air transport by 2050? The ID Aéro consultancy are not the only ones to take up the challenge: last week, it’s was the turn…

Chronicles 6 January 2012

The Concorde in Versailles – Within 3 months, judgment in appeal of the July 2000 accident.

Dura lex sed lex. In exactly three months, the Concorde will come again in front of the judges. Or more precisely Continental Airlines, which became in the meantime United-Continental: the…

Chronicles 31 March 2011

Sustainable mobility – The European Commission has a dream: “competitive” transports.

There is no point of making a knowing look and to act as if everything was understood… Convened in Madrid for a conclave, the thinking reeds of the European Commission…

Chronicles 22 March 2011

China, always China – Is Avic group exaggerating?

One can wonder: by constantly getting ahead of schedule, wanting to be on the top level as fast as possible, isn’t the Chinese aerospace industry going to upset us a…

Chronicles 18 November 2010

A New World – This time, the Chinese have really entered the race

The China air show in Zhuhai has provided a launch platform for the C919, the declared competitor of the A320 and 737. The Chinese, naturally, kept the scoop a secret…

Chronicles 29 September 2010

Montaudran, La Roseraie, Wichita – Spirit AeroSystems is interested in Latécoère. Should we worry?

It is rather unlikely that Spirit Aerosystems CEO Jeff Turner reads the French regional press – fortunately. Otherwise he might be offended to see his company equated here or there…

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