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Delta Air Lines said it has agreed to order 100 Boeing 737 Max aircraft, with an option for 30 more, as part of a long-term plan to update its fleet and improve its overall fuel efficiency. The announcement came during the 2022 Farnborough International Airshow in the U.K., and included a signing ceremony. The airline […]

General Electric (NYSE:GE) saw revenues decline 3 percent in the fourth quarter from the same period in 2020, the company said during its earnings call Tuesday. The company also reported a 2 percent drop for all of 2021. Despite beating expected earning predictions for the quarter, revenue fell slightly from $21 billion in 2020 to […]

Transcend Air has tapped GE Aviation and Kaman Aerospace Group as partners in its development of a high-speed, tilt-wing VTOL aircraft. Kaman Aerospace, a subsidiary of helicopter maker Kaman, will manufacture the Vy 400 aircraft. GE will develop and certify a custom variant of GE’s CT7-8 turboshaft helicopter engine to power it. The Vy 400, […]

GE Aviation’s Catalyst engine will be the company’s first, all-new clean sheet turboprop engine in 50 years, according to the company’s website. It borrows many technologies from GE’s big engine business to create a full-authority digital engine control (FADEC) turboprop that—if it lives up to expectations—is certain to give Pratt & Whitney Canada’s venerable PT6 […]

Textron Aviation last week told audiences at the European Aviation Business Convention and Exhibition in Geneva that the prototype for Cessna’s Denali single-engine turboprop is nearing completion, as are the first two flight and ground test aircraft. The prototype and the first two production conforming aircraft will be used in the flight test program set […]

GE Aviation has a name for its new Advanced Turboprop engine that its engineers began development work on in 2012. The ATP engine is now the GE Catalyst Advanced Turboprop, a name that “represents GE Aviation’s commitment to moving the turboprop market forward through innovation.” Hallmarks of the new 900- to 1,700-shp engine include better […]

GE Aviation completed the first test run of its new Advanced Turboprop engine, a clean-sheet design that will power Cessna’s forthcoming Denali business turboprop and go head to head with Pratt & Whitney’s venerable PT6A engine family. GE says the Advanced Turboprop incorporates more 3-D-printed components than any production engine in aviation history, comprising 35 […]

Joseph Sorota, who died last week in Singer Island, Florida, was a guy few people might recognize when they first hear his name. But Sorota’s role within a secret GE engineering team known as the “Hush-Hush Boys” helped the Allies win World War II. More people might remember Royal Air Force officer Frank Whittle, the […]

The two-hour and 27-minute maiden flight of Canadian aircraft builder Bombardier’s new Global 7000 went off on Monday without a hitch. The first of the Global 7000 test aircraft departed Bombardier’s Toronto test facility with two pilots and one test engineer and allowed ample time for the crew to evaluate the airplane’s flight controls and […]

Bombardier is busy making preparations for the first flight of its Global 7000 ultra-long-range business jet, which is expected to be completed by year’s end. The manufacturer is wrapping up ground taxi tests on a completed test airplane at its factory complex in Toronto, where initial flight tests will be made. The engines and APU […]