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Jan. 04, 2019 10:16AM EST

The F-35 Lightining II Joint strike fighter has led a protracted, troubled - and expensive - development.

Removing F-35 Engine Takes At Least 36 Hours! 60 Minutes on a CF-18

10:17 (15:17 UTC) - January 4, 2019 - Quebec, Canada - by Sylvain Faust for Fliegerfaust

According to an official document, removing an engine on the new high-tech F-35 takes in excess of 36 working hours as reported by Staff Sgt. Peter Thompson, 33rd Fighter Wing on the website www.af.mil. As for a comparison, removing one Canadian CF-18 engine takes 60 minutes and another 60 minutes to install it back according Canadian Air Force maintenance individuals I contacted.

Another comparison, the French Rafale takes three (3) hours to have a "complete swap", removing and installing an engine as stated French Navy Cmdr. Henri Mahe, the chief maintenance officer for Charles de Gaulle.

A @usairforce story reveals a nice pearl: it takes 36 hours just to remove an #F35A engine on the ground. https://t.co/05W5qoraQa
A French Navy team on USS Truman swapped a Rafale-M engine in 3 hours. https://t.co/wKL6l0geq1
That's 3 hours compared to 36.
— Giovanni de Briganti (@JoedeBrig) January 4, 2019

It is important to know that when selecting a Jet Fighter, one of the very important consideration is how quick it is to fix. It is easy to imagine what would happen during a combat situation to have your fleet of aircraft grounded each for days just to replace an engine when this is a trivial task for your enemy.

The Canadian government is currently evaluating its choices for a fighter aircraft to replace its old CF-18 (F-18) aircraft Canada started to acquire in the late 80s.

Currently there are two (2) American and two (2) European fighter jets in the race.

The Lockheed-Martin's F-35
Boeing's SuperHornet
Eurofighter Typhoon made by a group that includes Airbus
Gripen made by Saab

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did say already that Canada would never purchase the F-35. This might actually be the right thing to do...

Sylvain Faust, Fliegerfaust

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Boeing and Airbus Log Another Month of Anemic Aircraft Orders

May 19, 2019 - by Adam Levine-Weinberg for fool.com

In the first three months of 2019, Boeing (NYSE:BA) reported decent -- but hardly impressive -- order activity, while Airbus (NASDAQOTH:EADSY)experienced more cancellations than new orders.

Aircraft demand remained ice cold in April. In fact, not only did Airbus' year-to-date order total stay in negative territory, but Boeing joined its European rival there after removing more than 200 orders from its backlog due to the impending demise of a key airline customer.

Another slow month for Airbus

Airbus received orders for just five commercial jets during April. The good news is that they were all widebodies, which have higher selling prices and shorter order backlogs than Airbus' popular A320neo-family planes. An arm of Lufthansa bought three A350-900s for the German government, while Uganda Airlines firmed up an order for two A330-800neos that was first announced as a commitment last year.

Unfortunately, Airbus also recorded an order cancellation for five older-generation A330-200 widebodies during April. That put its net order activity for the month at zero. Through the first four months of 2019, Airbus brought in just 67 new orders, offset by 125 cancellations, giving it a net order total of negative 58...

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Airbus A330 confused and failing computers

'I’ve become very isolated': the aftermath of near-doomed QF72 Airbus A330

A Qantas captain's near-death experience on the flight deck of an Airbus A330 left psychological scars and deep concern about the role of automation at 37,000 feet.

May 19, 2019 - by Kevin Sullivan for smh.com.au

It's me against the confused and failing computers of this Airbus A330

On the flight deck of the Qantas Airbus A330, the confused computers have completed their second psychotic takeover of the controls. I'm in the recovery phase again, probing the sidestick with small nose-up inputs until the aircraft responds. Qantas Flight 72 is descending in a nose-low altitude for just over 15 seconds, so I must again try to recover as smoothly as I can. We lose 400 feet of altitude in levelling off and commence climbing back to 37,000 feet above the Indian Ocean on the flight from Singapore to Perth. It is October 7, 2008.

By this time, my cage has been rattled. I've been sucker-punched twice, powerless to stop the aircraft's illogical and violent behaviour. How many more times will this happen?

I can't and don't dwell on this question, but it's a critical situation when I, the captain of the plane, become an ineffective observer. I feel betrayed by the automation, which has twice taken control of the plane away from me. How can it fail in such a complex and aggressive way? I don't feel safe at all.

Something is moving on my chest above my left shirt pocket. I look down and am at first shocked, then wryly amused to see my shirt fluttering. The fabric above my company wings is pulsating rapidly in synch with my pounding heart, and there's a drumming in my ears. I've never experienced this extreme heart rate before; I estimate it's at least 200 beats-per-minute. My life is at risk, so my body is responding...

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Boeing Loses Veteran Jetliner Salesmen at Crucial Time

May 19, 2019 - by Julie Johnsson for bloomberg.com

Retirements come as Max groundings test customer relationships
Orders have slowed this year for U.S. company and rival Airbus

Three prominent sales executives are retiring from Boeing Co., leaving key vacancies on the planemaker's global commercial-marketing team ahead of next month's Paris Air Show, the aerospace industry's largest trade expo.

With the turnover, Boeing loses executives with deep customer relationships in some of its most critical markets as the company tries to rebuild confidence in the 737 Max after two fatal crashes. Boeing, which like Airbus is off to a slow start on jetliner sales this year, must also navigate U.S.-China trade tensions.

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The CEO of Delta Air Lines Was Asked What He Worries About Most. His Answer Will Truly Frighten Customers

The people that are trying to attack are using technology to cause real harm to our business

May 19, 2019 - by By Chris MatyszczykOwner, Howard Raucous LLC for inc.com

Never imagine an airline CEO is worried about the things you're worried about.

You're the CEO of a major, respected airline.

You're watching your main compeititors struggle after their biggest, newest plane -- the Boeing 737 MAX -- has been grounded due to safety concerns.

You didn't invest in the MAX, preferring to take other avenues to please your customers.

You don't really have too many worries, do you?

Well, Delta Air Lines Ed Bastian was asked by Marketplace's Kai Ryssdal about what keeps him up at night.

Would he say the price of oil? No.

Would he reveal his concerns about the strains placed on Air Traffic Controllers? He would not.

Surely, then, he'd rail against the specter of his Flight Attendants and other employees deciding to join a union, something Delta has been trying to prevent in desperate, insulting ways?

Sadly not.

Instead, his answer was simple and poignant:

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Boeing 737 Max Simulators Are in High Demand. They Are Flawed.

Boeing said on Thursday that it had completed its fix to the 737 Max. The updates are not expected to include training on simulators.

May 18, 2019 - by Natalie Kitroeff for nytimes.com

Boeing said on Thursday that it had completed its fix to the 737 Max. The updates are not expected to include training on simulators.

Since the two fatal crashes of the Boeing 737 Max, airlines around the world have moved to buy flight simulators to train their pilots.

They don't always work.

Boeing recently discovered that the simulators could not accurately replicate the difficult conditions created by a malfunctioning anti-stall system, which played a role in both disasters. The simulators did not reflect the immense force that it would take for pilots to regain control of the aircraft once the system activated on a plane traveling at a high speed.

The mistake is likely to intensify concerns about Boeing, as it tries to regain credibility following the crashes of Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines flights. In the months since the disasters, Boeing has faced criticism for serious oversights in the Max's design. The anti-stall system was designed with a single point of failure. A warning light that Boeing thought was standard turned out to be part of a premium add-on.

"Every day, there is new news about something not being disclosed or something was done in error or was not complete," said Dennis Tajer, a spokesman for the American Airlines pilots union and a 737 pilot.

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Airbus seeks to 'land' its A220 in Mexico

May 17, 2019 - by elfinanciero.com.mx

Airbus, the French aircraft manufacturer, is looking for its A220 model to land in the Mexican market, where it controls 60 percent of the fleet in operation.

Although there are still no concrete plans for this aircraft to nourish the Mexican line fleet, the aircraft manufacturer led by Ricardo Capilla in Mexico has the country as one of its priorities.

"We are in negotiations with the three airlines with which we work in Mexico so that the A220 arrives in the country," revealed Capilla.

The A220 is the new name of the Bombardier C Serie team, designed by the Canadian company of the same name, which after the merger with Airbus received the new name.

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