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WEDNESDAY 7.16.14 Farnborough
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Thales Evolves To Connected Aircraft Coordinating avionics, air traffic control and cabin entertainment with satellite navigation data, Thales’s Avionics 2020 system moves toward what the company calls a “connected aircraft.” Page 16
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Airbus E-Fan Advances Electric Flight Malaysia Airlines 777 Report Due
Airbus Placing Bets on New Power
Piaggio Notches 50-ship EVO Deal
Using a pair of electric motors powered by lithium ion batteries, Airbus’s E-Fan experimental test bed can carry two people aloft for up to an hour. The next step is to build a four seater hybrid. Page 22
The concepts may appear to be science fiction, but Airbus is hoping its “distributed propulsion” concept will yield 10 percent fuel savings and reduce noise emissions at the same time. Page 33
Piaggio landed at Farnborough with its new-design EVO variant of the popular Avanti twin turboprop pusher. The market responded with an impressive order for 50 copies. Page 37
Within the next few weeks, aviation authorities will deliver a report on flight MH370 that will be the first step toward establishing improved aircraft tracking technology. Page 32
E-SCAN UNLEASHED MARK WAGNER
Eurofighter Typhoon operators have gotten one step closer to being equipped with a Euroradar Captor-E AESA radar. For the full story, turn to Page 4.
Britain and France launch UCAV feasibility study by Chris Pocock In his last act as British Defence Secretary, Philip Hammond and his French counterpart, Jean-Yves le Drian, signed an agreement at the Farnborough Airshow yesterday to launch a two-year co-operative feasibility study for an unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV). The Future Combat Air System (FCAS) deal is worth £120 million (more than $180 million) for six industry partners: BAE Systems, Dassault Aviation, Rolls-Royce, Safran, Selex and Thales.
The outline plan for the FCAS co-operation was announced by the two countries last January, following a “pre-study” by airframers BAE Systems and Dassault, which was launched in mid-2012. The new study will additionally involve teaming by Rolls-Royce and Safran subsidiary Snecma on the powerplant and by Selex ES and Thales on a multifunction sensor suite and communications.
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Lessors Drive Another $50 Billion Day At Farnborough More orders for the just-launched Airbus A330neo helped deliver another $50 billion day at the Farnborough International Airshow. AirAsiaX topped the sales ledger with a $13.8 billion memorandum of understanding for 50 of the Rolls-Royce Trent 7000-powered A330900neos–it will take delivery of its first aircraft in 2018. Leasing groups Avolon and CIT Group signed $7.7 billion worth of MoUs that could see each of them take 15 A330neos. CIT also ordered five A321neos. SMBC Capital spent big in the narrowbody segment of the Airbus portfolio with $11.8 billion worth of firm orders for 110 A320neos and five A320ceos. BOC Aviation, the Singapore-based and Chinese-owned lessor, is to spend around $4.1 billion on 36 A320ceos and seven A320neos. Boeing also was boosted by a pair of $1.9 billion leasing group orders, each for six 777-300ERs–the first from
Intrepid Aviation and the second from Air Lease Corporation. The latter also reconfirmed an order for 20 737 Max 8s. The U.S. airframer’s biggest deal of Tuesday was valued at $2.5 billion and will see CIT Aerospace take 10 of the new 787-9 Dreamliner. The lessor now holds orders for 20 787s, including 16 of the -9s. Regional airliner makers also had a busy day here at Farnborough. Embraer did four separate deals for a mix of its new E-Jet E2s and the E175 and E190 (see page 4). Air Lease Corp signed an agreement to purchase seven more ATR72-600s. Bombardier logged six more Q400 sales (see page 37). CFM International won the largest engine contract of the day with a $2.9 billion agreement for Mexican low-cost carrier Interjet to buy Leap-1A engines for its new fleet of 40 A320neos. Air Lease Corp also selected the same engine for 20 A320neos, as well n as 40 Leap-1Bs for 20 737 Max8s.