Sentences with phrase «us aircraft manufacturers»

That's because Fokker, the Dutch aircraft manufacturer that made the planes KLM first flew when the airline was formed 97 years ago, has always had been a staple of the airline.

The CEO called his massive aircraft manufacturer a «big growth engine for the economy,» in which passenger traffic growth is currently outpacing the growth of the U.S. GDP.

It also signed partnerships with aircraft manufacturers and real estate companies to figure out where the take off and landing sites for the flying cars could be.

The rise of a Chinese aircraft manufacturer is «a real plus» for Honeywell, which makes everything from jet engines to software systems used in planes, a company executive told CNBC Thursday.

The aircraft manufacturer said on Twitter that it had made «well over 100 changes» to the original US ship since taking over the project.

The aircraft manufacturer's order book gives the company visibility 20 years into the future and the opportunities with consumers are bountiful.

The emergence of new aircraft manufacturers, such as China's Comac, is «a real plus» for Honeywell, said Briand Greer, the company's president for Southeast Asia.

The announcement Tuesday follows several recent setbacks for Bombardier, which is the world's third - largest aircraft manufacturer after Boeing and Airbus.

The company also announced that it will order 14 new 747 jumbo jets from Boeing for added capacity on top of the 14 it purchased from the aircraft manufacturer last September.

But it was Lockheed, then an aircraft manufacturer that coined the term and perfected the art.

In addition to prestige, China wants to reduce its reliance on foreign aircraft manufacturers, primarily Boeing and Airbus.

This isn't the first time an aircraft manufacturer has gotten creative on a test flight.

Bombardier (J.R. André Bombardier pictured) is now the global leader in passenger rail technology and the world's third - largest civil aircraft manufacturer.

Fourth in line was aircraft manufacturer Boeing, which repurchased $ 3 billion of its shares in the first quarter.

Born from an aircraft manufacturer's postwar diversification, the one - time national icon is now sputtering into oblivion.

Conceived as a military aircraft manufacturer a dozen years earlier, Sweden's Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget suffered a cataclysmic but unsurprising postwar plunge in product demand.

Other aircraft manufacturers like Airbus also have 3 - D plane parts almost ready for commercial use.

On July 2, 2012, Airbus, one of the largest aircraft manufacturers in the world, announced that it would build an aircraft assembly line on Brookley AeroPlex in Mobile, Ala., which will employ 1,000 people at full production.

On a final note, Boeing — the world's largest aircraft manufacturer — hit fresh new highs last week after the company crushed Wall Street expectations, reporting record operating cash flow of $ 13.4 billion for 2017, up more than a quarter percent from $ 10.5 billion in 2016.

Instead of focusing just on carriers, it also invests in aircraft manufacturers and airport operators from all over the world.

Improving operating results have helped to underpin the increases, profits have nearly doubled since 2011, and the aircraft manufacturer appears poised for solid bottom - line gains again this year.

The case, which centers on a small aircraft that Bombardier plans to sell to American customers, could affect the livelihood of thousands of workers whose jobs traverse the sprawling supply chains of both aircraft manufacturers.

They should have been mad at the aircraft manufacturer for designing such an inaccessible washroom on the plane.

[22] Gardiner, as spokesman for the Labour Party, seized on this information and accused Boeing of hypocrisy, insisting that all aircraft manufacturers require government subsidies; he labelled the company «the king of corporate welfare» and a «subsidy junkie».

Ahead of the President's visit, Nigerian officials will be meeting with Boeing, the largest aircraft manufacturer in the world to discuss Nigeria's National Carrier Project, while on agriculture, they will meet with large equipment manufacturers with focus on harvesting and post harvesting equipment, spokesman Femi Adesina said in a statement on Friday.

Airbus, the European aircraft manufacturer, suggests that by midcentury aircraft skin could alternate between transparent and opaque, somewhat like today's light - sensitive eyeglasses, giving passengers a wide - angle view of the clouds.

Aircraft manufacturers, including Boeing and Airbus, have already investigated using onboard fuel cells.

But only one engineer from the aircraft manufacturer, travelled to California to set up the model in the tunnel.

It resembles the Ushakov design, but has telescoping wings and art deco lines more in keeping with the flying boats produced at that time by German aircraft manufacturer Dornier.

The research has been done in close collaboration with the aircraft manufacturer GKN Aerospace and Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery who make gas turbines.

But so far, airlines and aircraft manufacturers have been reluctant to consider funding research into whether they should change their flight paths to protect the environment.

That pic's fictional aircraft manufacturer, Piccolo, was widely noted to be based on the real Italian aviation pioneer Giovanni Caproni, who appears in «The Wind Rises» as a kind of spirit guide, visiting Horikoshi in his dreams and uttering the Paul Valery quotation from which pic takes its allusive title: «The wind is rising!

The backdrop of war, and the Japanese aircraft manufacturer's uneasy relationship with Germany is hinted at, but never truly becomes the focus.

A number of metal roof systems were developed post war by aircraft manufacturers, specifically for schools and consisted of flat aluminium sheets riveted to aluminum spars.

Messerschmitt, no, not the metal band but the name of the cute three - wheeled bubble car, was developed and sold by the German aircraft manufacturer of the same name in the wake of restrictions placed on the company after World War II.

Originally an aircraft manufacturer, Saab got into the car business in 1946.

The Aerospace Systems segment produces products for aircraft manufacturers, including aircraft subsystems like propellers, engine nacelles, actuation systems and landing gear.

We've reported before about a Colorado - based aircraft manufacturer called Boom, which is developing a next - generation supersonic passenger plane.

Pilots, aircraft mechanics, aircraft manufacturers, secret service, caterers... the list goes on and on!

I am an EE recently retired from Engineering Flight Test with a major aircraft manufacturer; an engineer by interest, education, and temperament.

Dummies like myself, Governments, hedge funds, aircraft manufacturers and so on, can only make assumptions and guesses — darn!

I hope you don't wish to imply that aircraft manufacturers are just like fortune tellers.

Or possibly, an aircraft manufacturer looks into the future, and does something it knows will bring misfortune on it?

Even an inexperienced fortune teller, such as I, can occasionally do better than aircraft manufacturers in many areas.

In other words these models have now become a virtual wind tunnel, no major aircraft manufacturer designs an aircraft without substantial input from CFD, the difference being that in the 80's we used main - frames Crays and the like, then minis and now it can done on laptops.

With New Zealand's government declaring itself to actively become the world's first carbon neutral nation with sustainability underpinning the «four pillars of the economy, society, the environment, and nationhood,» Air New Zealand is planning to launch the first test of a commercial 747 airliner flying partially on biofuels, as part of a deal between the airline, engine maker Rolls - Royce and aircraft manufacturer Boeing to study greener flying, with the first flight slated to take off late 2008 or early 2009 (without passengers).

Aircraft manufacturer Boeing has estimated that aviation biofuels could be used commercially in a few years.

Whether you assume half the fuel load divided by the passengers (for a full flight) is the cost or use the aircraft manufacturer's seat burn numbers you came up with about the same figure.

Senior executives from Airlines, Aircraft Manufacturers, and Financial Institutions will converge to discuss innovative strategies

Lightfoot attorneys defended an aircraft manufacturer in a product liability case arising from an allegedly defectively designed aircraft.