Paris Air Show

Boeing released its annual Boeing Market Outlook in concert with the Paris Air Show during the week of June 17. The report summarizes the current state of the global aviation market and projects anticipated growth 20 years into the future, broken down by region and aircraft size. The Boeing Market Outlook punctuated an event that […]

Airbus Helicopters unveiled a model of the high-speed demonstrator it is developing as part of the Clean Sky 2 European research program at the Paris Air Show. “Today we unveil our bold vision for the future of high-speed rotorcraft,” Airbus Helicopters CEO Guillaume Faury said in a press release. “This new project, pulling together the […]

What’s in a name? It turns out, quite a lot. Boeing released an artist’s rendering of its next-generation twin-aisle commercial jetliner at the Paris Air Show this week, giving the world an early look at the planemaker’s “middle-market airplane” – what everybody is justifiably already referring to as the Boeing 797. Boeing doesn’t launch new […]

While Boeing, Airbus and Lockheed are making huge splashes (and sales) and stealing all the headlines in the opening days of the 2017 Paris Air Show, some smaller companies and aircraft are still getting their share of the spotlight. One such aircraft is the cool and very simple SureFly personal helicopter and VTOL aircraft, which […]

This year’s Paris Air Show is brimming with technological innovations from a variety of startups that dream of disrupting the traditional aviation travel paradigm. One of the more interesting ideas comes from Eviation Aircraft, a first-time Paris exhibitor that just launched an all-electric airplane designed to fly for 600 or so nautical miles at a […]

The 2017 International Paris Air Show kicked off in style on Monday, as French President Emmanuel Macron flew in aboard Airbus’ A400M military transporter. His arrival was followed by the always-exciting Patrouille de France aerial display team, as well as Airbus’ massive A380. It was a necessary spectacle for Airbus, which is using the event […]