Sentences with phrase «a320 jetliner»

MONTREAL / PARIS, May 2 - Bombardier Inc and Airbus SE named new leaders for the CSeries jetliner program on Wednesday, in a further step towards finalizing a deal for the European planemaker to take control of the Canadian project, according to memos seen by Reuters.

Makers of electric cars, jetliners, helicopters and drones, Beijing plans to move even faster will see changes even earlier, as foreign ownership limits will be lifted by end - 2018.

MONTREAL, April 25 - Airbus SE and Bombardier aim to close a deal giving the European planemaker a majority stake in the Canadian company's CSeries jetliner program by the end of May, ahead of an initial timetable, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters this week.

The industry's been using composites in a significant way since 1988, when Airbus delivered the first A320 jetliner with a primary structure featuring 17 % composites.

Bombardier built his invention into an international company that now makes a diverse range of products, including Ski - Doos, subway trains and jetliners.

Today, the world is a year into the mystifying disappearance of the enormous jetliner that was Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 without any sort of resolution.

Boeing alleges that Bombardier benefited from illegal government subsidies and sold jetliners below cost.

Boeing (ba) and Bombardier (bombf) traded barbs on Monday over the U.S. planemaker's claim that its Canadian rival benefited from billions of dollars in illegal government subsidies and dumped its newest jetliner in the United States at below cost.

The world's largest commercial jetliner, the Boeing 747 makes its first takeoff on February 9th, 1969.

The People's Daily Online said Tuesday that test results confirm «that the framework of the jetliner is strong enough to support future navigation.»

Technicians build LEAP engines for jetliners at a new, highly automated General Electric (GE) factory.

A private jet pioneer, Abercrombie & Kent originally launched its trailblazing around - the - world journeys in 1989 aboard a luxuriously refitted Lockheed L - 1011 Tristar jetliner.

Airbus is drawing up contingency plans to phase out production of the world's largest jetliner, the A380 superjumbo, if it fails to win a key order from Dubai's Emirates, three people familiar with the matter said.

Boeing is looking ahead to a brave new world where jetliners fly without pilots and aims to test some of the technology next year, the world's biggest plane maker said in a briefing ahead of the Paris Airshow.

Jetliners can already take off, cruise and land using their onboard flight computers and the number of pilots on a standard passenger plane has dropped to two from three over the years.

The NTSB is sending a team with expertise in power plants, airworthiness, and operations to investigate the Southwest Airlines jetliner, Sumwalt said, adding that specialists from NTSB's office of Transportation Disaster Assistance will help those affected by the event.

The Southwest Airlines jetliner, a Boeing 737 - 700, was en route from LaGuardia Airport in New York to Dallas when it suffered an apparent in - flight engine failure of the left engine, National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt said during a briefing Tuesday.

At its sprawling plant in Everett, Washington, Boeing has installed robotic arms to drill and rivet together fuselages for the 777 jetliner.

That excludes high - end Boeing Co. jetliners such as the 747 and 777, leaving Beijing additional high - profile targets for possible future rounds of the conflict.

Take Boeing, which says that one out of every four of its jetliners is bought by the Chinese.

Boeing's recent success in obtaining duties of nearly 300 percent against a new jetliner made outside Montreal by Bombardier dominated Canadian news reports and parliamentary debate.

In August 2016, the company unveiled its first branded cargo plane, one of 40 jetliners that were expected to make up its own air transportation network.

Chinese farmers need American soybeans to feed their livestock, and the country's rapidly growing aviation industry is ordering a lot of Boeing jetliners to help meet demand.

The company reports that «more than 10,000 Boeing - built commercial jetliners are in service worldwide, which is almost half the world fleet.»

Biomechanics expert John Long believes that someday soon «we may well see every single jetliner with the bumps of humpback whale flippers.»

They'll still be able to behead and stone each other, or cut off each other's hands and tongues, but at least they won't have the means to fly jetliners into towers (or even board jetliners at all), or attain nukes and other WMDs, the way Ahmadinejad and the «Ayatollahs» in Iran are doing.

Rufus T. Firefly They're more like primitive tribesmen throwing their spears at the passing jetliners.

Funny, I don't recall «Irish, Jews, Catholics» blowing up marketplaces, using mentally handicapped children as explosives «mules», nor killing 3,000 people with four hijacked jetliners.

A struggle against groups that fly jetliners into buildings requires the steely resolve that hard just war theory contributes.

How distressing to see those four - color laminated placemats of the Rapture, complete with wrecked cars and crashed jetliners!

Henderson may appear to opposing infielders as a 5» 10», 180 - pound human jetliner, but in person he's a sweet - tempered, boyish young man who gabs with spectators during a game and who kept his mother, Bobbie, and his fiancée, Pamela Palmer, at his side during the last trying days of his run for the record.

Their Ukrainian allies shot down a Malaysian civilian jetliner killing hundreds of people, and Putin and Russia showed a complete lack of concern or contrition about the tragedy.

Trump said the projected cost of new Air Force One aircraft was too high, so the U.S. Air Force found a way to lower it: by buying a pair of Boeing 747 jetliners abandoned by a bankrupt Russian airline.

Birds took the blame for bringing down the jetliner that «Sully» Sullenberger landed on the Hudson River eight years ago this weekend.

Airport sources said the jetliner was heading from the capital to the -LSB-...]

A U.S. Airways jetliner that took off from LaGuardia Airport Thursday afternoon made an emergency landing in the frigid Hudson River minutes after liftoff, and it appears all 155 people...

As the city hailed the flight crew involved in the near - miraculous water landing of a jetliner and lauded the rescuers of its passengers from the frigid Hudson River, state officials...

This year, he'll put his life on the line to test his design by piloting a hot air balloon by himself to about 50,000 feet, far above the altitude of commercial jetliners.

A jetliner is far more robust than the world's first airplane, the 1903 Wright Flyer.

Solar planes are not quite ready to displace jetliners, though.

«In 10 years we may well see every single jetliner with the bumps of humpback whale flippers.»

In another incident just three months later, an Air Tahiti wide - body jetliner flying out of Los Angeles nearly crashed into a small private plane flying two miles above the ocean.

Helium balloons want to rise, but launching a balloon big enough to hold a 747 jetliner with room to spare at the nose and tail and both wingtips isn't as easy as just letting it go.

As Japan suffered the worst earthquake in the country's recorded history, tsunami waves fanned out across the Pacific Ocean at the speed of a jetliner

(At the time of my visit last spring, the technology didn't exist yet, and DeLong was working to develop it with manufacturers of scales that weigh jetliners.)

By TARA PATEL Aerospace manufacturers are pressing ahead with their plans to develop the next generation of supersonic jetliners despite renewed uncertainty about the environmental impact of exhaust emissions that could ground the high - speed aircraft.

All this talk about astrophysics momentarily distracts Still from the jetliner's precarious position above the Atlantic, but it doesn't take long for him to remember that he's but a short fall from the ocean.

A little less than an hour after the first jetliner flew into the north tower of the World Trade Center, a Boeing 757 struck the Pentagon.

In sum, the crash of one jetliner killed fewer than 140 people in the Pentagon and put approximately 2.5 million square feet of office space out of service, whereas at the World Trade Center towers, the crash of two jetliners killed more than 2,200 civilians and 421 rescuers and wreaked so much collateral damage that it put about 30 million square feet of office space out of service.

Even so, as surely as every modern jetliner runs primarily on autopilot, tomorrow's military robots will increasingly operate on their own initiative.