Model Airplanes

Airbus SE cleaned up on the first day of the 2019 Paris Air Show, locking in $13 billion in orders for new jets versus zero for Boeing Co., and introducing a long-range narrow-body meant to deflate enthusiasm for its U.S. rival’s potential new midsize jet.

The Monday haul for Airbus featured major orders from Air Lease Corp., the influential U.S. leasing company that agreed to buy planes worth $11 billion before customary discounts, including the new A321XLR. Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. bought eight A330 wide-bodies with options for six more. Delta Air Lines booked an order for five additional Airbus A220 aircraft.

The Airbus assembly plant in Mobile produces the A320 family of airplanes and has produced planes for Air Lease before. A new plant to produce the A220 line of airplanes is under construction in Mobile.

Bloomberg talks with Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury at the Paris Air Show from Alabama NewsCenter on Vimeo.

There’s room to run up the score, said Airbus Chief Executive Officer Guillaume Faury. While Boeing’s workhorse 737 Max, idled in March after two deadly crashes, languishes on the tarmac, Faury said the European planemaker is seeing “very strong demand” for its rival A320 family of single-aisle jets.

A year ago, the tables were turned. Airbus, going through a jarring management transition – fallout from a multi-year bribery investigation – announced 431 orders valued at $62 billion at the alternating Farnborough air show in the U.K. That

Article source: https://alabamanewscenter.com/2019/06/18/airbus-racks-up-orders-for-planes-in-paris-including-models-produced-in-alabama/

Seventy-five years ago this month, the D-Day invasion to liberate France was kicked off by almost 1,000 C-47 Dakota planes — the military version of the two-engine DC-3 commercial airliner — dropping 23,400 soldiers in parachutes and gliders behind the German-held beaches.

For two months before that, 12,000 B-17, B-24 and Lancaster heavy bombers had been preparing the way by dropping bombs on the railroad bridges, yards and tracks on which the beaches’ defenders would rely to bring them reinforcements and ammunition.

If you go

What: Windy City Warbirds Classics radio-controlled model air show, sponsored by Fox Valley Aero Club

When: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 20-22.

Where: Fox Valley Aero Club Field, 3821 Karl Madsen Drive (South side of Route 38 just west of Kane County Justice Center), St. Charles

Admission: $5 adults; free for children under 12

Details: Special one-hour air shows at noon Friday and Saturday. Visitors may mix with pilots at the flight line after the air shows. Food vendors on site. Some grandstand seating, but visitors should bring lawn chairs.

Information: www.foxvalleyaero.com

That history-changing June 6, 1944 invasion of Normandy will be the theme of the sixth annual Windy City Warbirds Classics show held by the Fox Valley Aero Club Thursday-Saturday, June 20-22, in St. Charles. Visitors of all ages will be able to watch “Giant Scale” authentic-looking, radio-controlled replicas of those World War II planes — and some fighter planes from the German Luftwaffe that came

Article source: https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20190619/giant-radio-controlled-models-celebrate-planes-of-d-day

So much for the 737 MAX hangover.

After a quiet Day 1 at the Paris Air Show, Boeing announced a trio of deals Wednesday that stunned the aviation sector. The aircraft manufacturer has new orders lined up from airline customers on three continents for its widebody 787 Dreamliner and its beleaguered narrowbody 737 MAX.

The deal haul carries a potential value of $31.8 billion if you go by list prices. (There are always discounts). Analysts had been voicing concern about the poor early showing for Boeing at the biennial show, the most prestigious in the industry, chalking up the slow deal flow to the woes of its workhorse model, the 737 MAX. On the eve of the show, CEO Dennis Muilenburg told the press Boeing had no timetable for the 737 MAX to take to the skies again. The global fleet of roughly 400 has been grounded since the fatal March crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302.

The announcement of yesterday’s deal with International Airlines Group couldn’t have come at a more opportune moment. IAG, the sixth largest airline group in the world with carriers such as Aer Lingus, British Airways, Iberia and Vueling, signed a letter of intent to buy 200 737 MAX planes, carrying a list price of $24 billion. Boeing shares skyrocketed more than 5 percent on Tuesday.

At a press conference, IAG CEO Willie Walsh, shrugged off the plane’s uncertain future. “We’re partnering with the Boeing brand,” he said. “That’s the brand that I’m doing business

Article source: http://fortune.com/2019/06/19/boeing-737-max-planes-iag/

India Is an Ache

Landing in Mumbai feels like releasing a breath I didn’t know I had been holding. My husband remembers India as dirt, poverty, noise. I remember aromas of masala-fried pomfret, generosity of gruff cabbies saying, “No madam, you keep the change,” daylong cries of crows, hawkers, doorbells. In America, I play music to curb silences. For me, India is no longer a country; it’s an ache. I left the place I love for the man I love. It’s not a complaint. I’m only saying, sometimes, the most unconditional of loves are also the most inconvenient. — Kanika Punwani Sharma

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/style/tiny-love-stories-our-families-couldnt-know.html

A computer rendering of the SES 03b mPOWER satellite constellation. Photo: SES

SAN DIEGO — SES wants to use its next generation satellite constellation, O3b mPOWER, to provide increased capacity to airlines for in-flight connectivity, while also considering how to establish a new end-to-end business model that partners aviation and ground-based internet service providers.

The satellite service provider is in the midst of launching seven satellites for 03b mPOWER by 2021 in a medium earth orbit (MEO) constellation. Aditya Chatterjee, senior vice president of the aero market at SES, said the new constellation will have 30,000 fully-shapeable and steerable beams that can be maneuvered in real time to adjust to changing bandwidth needs.

“We’re launching seven satellites that will be dedicated to mobility services, and the aero market has become one of our biggest users,” Chatterjee said at the Global Connected Aircraft Summit hosted by Avionics International. “Recently, we have provided satellite capacity to the biggest aviation service providers including Panasonic, Gogo, Global Eagle and Thales. Now we’re providing them even more because of growing demand for connectivity from airlines.”

O3b mPOWER will cover 80 percent of the earth’s surface and all of the busiest airline routes in the world with satellites capable of digital beam forming. Boeing is the first partner signed up to employ the new constellation, providing phased array technology that will deliver more than 5,000 beams per satellite.

According to Chatterjee, rather than focusing on a Ku or Ka-band, SES is

Article source: https://www.aviationtoday.com/2019/06/18/80750/

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