The World of Aviation

Vietnam Airlines has switched an order for 16 Boeing 787-8s to the larger -9 model, citing the unexpected performance limitations of the -8. “The -8 doesn’t meet the performance guarantee as they told me,” Vietnam Airlines CEO Pham Ngoc Minh told Flightglobal during a meeting of the SkyTeam alliance in New York. “We found the

Passenger and freight traffic continued its strong upward trend through May, according to statistics released by the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA). Passenger numbers for the month increased by 17.6 per cent compared to the same time last year, pushing revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs) up by 14.6 per cent. Capacity growth of 3.3 per

Northrop Grumman has gone on the front foot in promoting its Global Hawk program following recent criticism of the program by USAF acquisitions head, David Van Buren. With the program due to go before the US Defense Acquisitions Board (DAB) review this week, Northrop Grumman has released a statement outlining the program’s successes in recent

Australian company Micreo has produced its 500th component for Raytheon’s ALR-67(V)3 radar warning receiver. Micreo was inducted into the supply chain in early 2008 and has been supplying radio frequency modules for all ALR-67(V)3s including those being retrofitted to RAAF F/A-18 ‘classic’ Hornets and those delivered with the F/A-18F Super Hornets. “I am delighted to

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin declared the Sukhoi T-50 PAK-FA to be better than the Lockheed Martin F-22 during a demonstration of the aircraft on June 17. Putin watched on as the PAK-FA demonstrator was put through a handling display at the Zhukovsky Test Centre near Moscow, before taking a close up tour of the

Lockheed Martin successfully tested its Scorpion GPS guided glide munition from a C-130 Hercules on June 17 at the Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona. The lightweight Scorpion is designed to be employed from multiple platforms from AC-130 gunships to UAVs against structures, personnel, lightly armored vehicles, trucks, cars, missile launchers, and artillery or gun positions