The World of Aviation

Rolls-Royce has found a fix to its troubled Trent 900 engine in the wake of last week’s uncontained failure of one of the engines on a Qantas A380, Airbus chief operating officer – customers, John Leahy, previewed media in Sydney on November 12. “Rolls knows they’ve found the solution to what caused the problem,” Leahy,

A US Presidential commission set up to study ways of reducing that country’s massive deficit has identified several potential targets within the defence budget, including the F-35B STOVL version of the JSF. The commission has suggested that cancelling the F-35B would save US$17.6 billion, while also slowing the acquisition of early build F-35A and F-35C

The Indonesian Ministry of Defence has selected the Embraer Super Tucano to replace the TNI-AU’s Rockwell OV-10 Bronco light attack aircraft in service. The order for eight aircraft also includes ground support equipment and an integrated logistics package, and is the first for the Super Tucano in the Asia Pacific region. Deliveries are scheduled to

A group of British flag officers has written an open letter to the UK MoD urging them to reconsider the recent decision to retire the UK’s fleet of Harrier strike fighters, a move which they say will leave the UK without a carrier borne fighter for almost a decade and leave the UK’s few remaining

The USAF has awarded Boeing a US$106 million contract to deliver 2700 Small Diameter Bombs (SDBs) from January 2012. The order takes total USAF orders to 12,379 of the 120kg SDB Increment I, of which about 7000 have been delivered to date.

Boeing says it is to early to tell the impact the onboard electrical fire on and subsequent emergency landing by 787 test aircraft ZA002 made on November 9 will have on the 787 flight test program. Boeing said in a December 10 statement that it “cannot determine the impact of this event on the overall