Chronicles 23 November 2015

The C-17: a page is turned

It is always with a hint of nostalgia that production of an aircraft is halted, even a military plane. This was the case on November 29 at Long Beach when…

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Chronicles 28 September 2015

ExIm Bank: the hunt is on for export credits – 28-09-2015

The tension has been mounting for months and US groups are finding it hard to get their heads above water: the US Government has chosen not to prolong the existence…

Chronicles 16 July 2015

Business & private aviation : still a flourishing market

I am not sure that everyone will agree with me on this one, because private planes have not been selling well for some years. Not least in Europe where flaunting…

Chronicles 8 July 2015

Airbus Group on all fronts

A few years ago we could have chosen the same heading for Boeing. Now it’s Airbus’s turn. But there would seem to be one crucial difference between the Airbus strategy…

Chronicles 12 June 2015

Aircraft manufacturing valued at 5,600 billion dollars over 20 years

Forecasts issued by experts from the two main world airframe manufacturers, Airbus and Boeing, are always eagerly awaited by the supply chain players. This is because the latter, especially subcontractors,…

Chronicles 2 May 2015

Latécoère, still in Toulouse, but not quite French any more

Latécoère, still in Toulouse, but not quite French any more – and incidentally therefore the capital – of the Toulouse aeronautics group Latécoère. Vulture funds, as revealed by Guy Dutheil…

Chronicles 12 December 2014

The “Piste des géants” is on its way.

As evoked a few years ago by Pierre Sparaco, in one of his chronicles for AeroMorning, there was an urgent need for action to preserve the aeronautic heritage of the…

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…