Jim Anderson, left, and Tim Kingsley are displaying their combined model collection of military vehicles during Friday morning’s Veterans Day Breakfast at the Nebraska Prairie Museum in Holdrege. Both men hope their models will enhance the public’s experience during the breakfast.
Posted: Wednesday, November 4, 2015 12:11 pm
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Airbus is pushing to churn out single-aisle jets at an unprecedented pace — 60 airplanes every month — and Boeing seems determined to match it.
Many analysts and suppliers, concerned at the potential for a downturn ahead in the booming aviation market, doubt that either manufacturer will actually achieve such a rate four or five years from now.
Yet Boeing cannot afford to ease off the gas pedal for fear of losing orders. The jet maker is in a fiercely competitive race to stay more or less even with Airbus in supplying the world’s growing fleet of single-aisle airliners.
It’s a game of chicken that might lead to unsustainable rates of production.
But as long as Boeing continues to accelerate, its 737 final assembly plant in Renton — which today employs some 12,000 people — should see hundreds more jobs added in the next few years.
Both manufacturers today roll out 42 single-aisle jets per month, and Boeing had previously announced plans to boost its 737 rate to 52 per month in 2018.
Airbus last week leapt past that figure with a plan to increase production of A320 single-aisle aircraft to 60 jets per month in mid-2019. Its chief financial officer said the rate could potentially go as high as 63 jets per month in 2020.
Commercial Airplanes chief Ray Conner in May said that Boeing can match
Article source: http://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-races-to-keep-up-with-airbus-on-single-aisle-jet-production/
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If it is harder to get into an airline seat, does that mean it is harder to get out of the plane in an emergency?
Probably not, researchers say. But it turns out no one knows for sure yet. Airline regulators haven’t formally studied evacuations under the tighter space conditions that now exist on many airplanes.
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Article source: http://www.wsj.com/articles/regulators-examine-tight-airline-seating-in-an-evacuation-1446662545
Taking a private aircraft can be a surprisingly cheap way of travelling.
The flight I took from the small aerodrome of Benavente, near the Portuguese capital Lisbon, to Braga, a city 300km further north, took around one hour and twenty minutes. The cost for a single passenger in the tiny two person airplane: €35 (£25) return.
That was a demo flight arranged by Skyuber. The Portuguese company has developed a mobile application to allow private pilots to find passengers for their flights and share costs with them. It works in much the same way as carpooling websites.
Despite its name, Skyuber has no connection to the popular taxi-hailing Uber app that allows users to book a car and driver. And the founders say they don’t want to compete with private jet companies and low cost airlines.
“It’s a booking service, matching pilots with empty seats to people wanting to fly,” explains co-founder Carlos Oliveira, a 38 year old entrepreneur and investor, who sold his first start-up to Microsoft. His business partner is Joao Paulo Girbal, a 53 year old former Microsoft manager, who now owns a pilot school.
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Article source: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34544208
Sitting in his garage, surrounded by fuselages and wings of model airplanes, a small, four-prop drone on his workbench, Ed Couch is a guy in a four-foot hover.
Couch can’t believe what the federal government recently announced: That it wants to start registering the untold thousands of drones across the country.
“They [the federal government] haven’t been able to register secondhand guns. I don’t see how this is going to work,” Couch, a 69-year-old model airplane enthusiast and pilot, said from behind his workbench.
U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and FAA Administrator Michael Huerta announced the creation of a task force last month to look into the registration of unmanned aircraft systems, commonly referred to as drones.
Concerned that one of these remote-controlled aircraft will crash while flying over a crowded football stadium, or damage an airliner by getting sucked into one of its engines, the task force, which is meeting this week, is supposed to file a report by Nov. 20. They will look at the registration process and the minimum requirements for drones that need to be identified.
Smaller drones that don’t represent a threat will likely be exempt from registration since their lightweight frames and inability to fly very high make them less of a risk. But the bigger drones, which can fly thousands of feet into the air, pose what some say is a significant problem.
By the end of the holiday season, drones could far outnumber manned aircraft operating in the nation’s airspace.
Article source: http://www.star-telegram.com/news/business/article42981072.html
Sailors perform maintenance on an F/A-18C Hornet from the Romans of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 106 on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush in April 2013. US Navy photo.
The Navy’s aviation depots have seen a 40-percent increase in fighter jet throughput since they changed how to approach repairing the legacy F/A-18C Hornets a year ago, the Navy’s director of air warfare told the House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday.
Rear Adm. Michael Manazir said in a hearing on aircraft carrier presence that the depots moved from a lean manufacturing model, which emphasizes rigid scheduling, to a critical chain process management emphasizes having the correct resources and allows for flexible scheduling.
“When we brought the initial bunch of airplanes into the depot, we applied a lean manufacturing model to the depot, and that means when you bring an airplane in you have a kit, you’re going to replace parts on the airplane – and the mechanic, the artisan takes the new part, replaces the old part, moves the airplane along,” Manazir explained.
“When we opened up these F-18Cs, given that we extended them past 6,000 [flight hours of service life], we found that there was so much corrosion and too much engineering work to be done.
Article source: http://news.usni.org/2015/11/04/fa-18-depots-see-40-percent-increase-in-productivity-after-adapting-new-work-model
General Electric, the multinational, multi-industry conglomerate that creates everything from aircraft parts to MRIs, has made enormous strides in native content and advertising. Not satisfied with being just a gigantic manufacturer, GE’s diverse suite of content marketing initiatives highlight the inventive, unexpected, and human sides of the fourth-largest company in the world.
We got the chance to speak with Andy Goldberg, Global Creative Director and General Manager of GE’s Creative Lab, about the company’s approach to – and goals for – their marketing. While there are few organizations as large, Andy stressed that, with the right approach, brands of all sizes can pursue their own creative, innovative, and partnership-driven marketing campaigns.
“We don’t actually talk about native advertising anymore,” says Andy. The focus has gone beyond camouflaging sponsored marketing content within a publisher’s feed to become something much more holistic.
“A few years ago, we were talking about going from banner ads to in-feed ads, Buzzfeed style. That was the entry point into native advertising. Now we’ve evolved beyond that.”
“Brands are really creating the content now. The truth is, a consumer is more apt to learn something if the content is interesting. They don’t feel like the brand is hiding behind it, they feel the brand is giving them something of value. That’s the true essence of native advertising. Is there a value exchange happening? Is the brand bringing something to the table that the consumer wants? And does it fit naturally in the flow of what they’re already engaging with?”
One of GE’s
Article source: http://www.thedrum.com/industryinsights/2015/11/03/ge-creative-director-andy-goldberg-fallonventions-and-going-beyond
