Air travel
The 99 planes from Farnborough
The biggest air show of the year starts on Monday in England. The focus is clearly witnesses on Airliners. In addition to the old rivals Boeing and Airbus, Bombardier and Embraer will show exciting new products.
The Mecca of international air travel is starting on Monday (11.07.2016), approximately 65 kilometres South-West of London to the airport in the small town of Farnborough. Since 1948, is held here every two years, an international aerospace exhibition, 2018, the 70th anniversary of the Show. She has developed, in the annual exchange with the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, one of the largest and most important aviation fairs in the world. At the last Farnborough Air Show 2014 alone 152 billion for aircraft orders have been completed contracts to the value of 200 billion US dollars. The focus in Farnborough is clearly on civilian transport aircraft, although this Time the American Lockheed Martin F-35B Joint Strike Fighter, and the vertical start celebrating the end of the Version, its Premiere in England. A total of 99 aircraft will be on display until next Sunday in Farnborough, from the two-seater Airbus electric plane E-Fan up to the A380 for about 500 passengers. The air show is open this coming weekend, for the Public, previously only for trade visitors.
Hope for Airbus A 320 neo
Boeing in focus
In the center of the American aircraft manufacturer Boeing, which this year will be 100. Celebrates, since the son of a German immigrant in 1916 his company as “Pacific Aero Products Co.” in Seattle register. In addition to a jubilee pavilion, Boeing will introduce in Farnborough also the first Jet that the company brings in the second century of its history on the market. The Boeing 737 MAX-8, the fourth test aircraft is flown in England, is a Re-incarnation of the Boeing 737, which was originally used in 1968 at Lufthansa its Premiere. The latest model features the innovative geared Turbofan engines and many of the features of the technologically advanced Boeing 787. In July 2017, the first copy will be delivered earlier than planned on Southwest Airlines.
The only real new development: C Series by Bombardier of Canada
Airbus, too, shows New
Airbus, too, brings its latest addition to England, also a revised Version of the best-selling A320, which is now equipped with the latest generation of Engines as the Airbus A320neo (for “new engine option”, a new engine variant) at the Start. However, Airbus has recently had serious problems with the engines, of the type PW1100G, which led to the dozens of non-delivered orders for the A320neo were parked in Toulouse. Lufthansa flies the type as the first operator already since January, but the delivery is delayed plan. “We have built a glider pilot,” Tom Williams contrite; he manages the operational side of the business at Airbus. Both manufacturers – Boeing and Airbus – can not take to ascend in Farnborough is your tried-and-tested models for demonstration flights: Airbus, the A350 and the A380, Boeing demonstrated the 787-9, on the ground, the freighter is 747-8F. The very large aircraft, both the 747-8 and the A380, have appeared however, in recent years, as a shop Keeper.
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Sell well do, however, innovative small aircraft. The Brazilian manufacturer Embraer will show in Farnborough is expected to also be a modified success model E190-E2. It is on 23. May for the first time ever flown, with a new wing and new engines, and will fly as part of test programme, all the way from Brazil to England. The real eye-catcher but also comes from Canada: unlike Airbus, Boeing or Embraer, Bombardier, has launched after seven years of development, now the first completely newly designed passenger aircraft since decades on the market.
The C-Series for 125-145 passengers is considered to be the most modern Jet in the sky, the halving of the perceived aircraft noise as well as CO2 emissions, at the same time, only two litres of fuel per 100 km and passenger consumed, which is less than a small car. And passengers with greater comfort and huge Windows excited, which is 50 percent larger than the Airbus A320. And appropriately enough, the C Series celebrates this week their line of flight Premiere: On Friday, the first flight with a number of guests from Zurich to Paris, when first-time customers of Swiss, the Lufthansa subsidiary. On the opening day of the Farnborough Air Show, the first production machine made in Zurich will make a flying visit to England, in the Cockpit of the C Series, chief pilot Peter Koch. “Our plane will clearly be the Star of Farnborough, if not the C Series, what then?” cook is looking forward to his appearance.