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Air Canada announces acquisition of two Boeing 777 freighter planes

Canadian Manufacturing

Air Canada plans to increase its full year 2022 ASM capacity by about 150 per cent from 2021 ASM levels (or about 74 per cent of 2019 ASM levels). Capacity in the second quarter was 73 per cent of the second quarter of 2019, in line with projections in Air Canada’s first quarter 2022 earnings release dated April 26, 2022.

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View from India: Green flight hope for the future

E&T

We focus on sustainable aerospace for safe travel. Airbus, a pioneer in the aerospace industry, operating in the commercial aircraft, helicopters, defence and space sectors, is on a green route. Chetak is the oldest helicopter in the Indian Air Force (IAF) and has been used for transporting cargo and rescue operations.

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Innovation on a Larger Scale

Fabricating & Metal Work

Those tools are making large-scale mold production, part machining, and process automation accessible to the broader aerospace, marine, and other industry sectors. Engineers from aerospace and other large-part sectors come to Ingersoll Machine Tools to collaborate on breakthroughs in additive and subtractive manufacturing.

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Rotor Technologies propels advances in autonomous helicopters

Robotics Business Review

In late 2019, after years of studying aviation and aerospace engineering, Hector (Haofeng) Xu decided to learn to fly helicopters. Autonomous helicopters take off Using small aircraft to do things like fight fires and deliver cargo to offshore sites is not only dangerous, it’s also inefficient.

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Looking back at 2022 Endeavour Awards

Manufacturer's Monthly

Hypersonix launched in 2019 under the guidance of David Waterhouse and Michael Smart and the company has gone from strength to strength ever since culminating in its awards at last year’s Endeavour Awards. Hypersonix is using scramjet technology and clean energy to form the basis for the manufacture of hypersonic vehicles.

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Is hydrogen the fuel of the future?

E&T

As the global aviation industry reeled from the impact of Covid-19, with thousands of jets grounded and passenger numbers down by 60 per cent, a bold initiative began at the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) in Cranfield, England. Evaluation of this initial finding is ongoing. “We

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K. Soundhar Rajhan, Chief Strategy Officer,  Lakshmi Machine Works Limited, shares highlights and insights from his more than five-decade journey with the iconic company

Dinesh Mishra

Beyond textiles, LMW also manufactures CNC Machines, high-precision Foundry Castings, and components for the aerospace and defense sectors. Returning in 2015-16, I headed the Machine Tool, Foundry, and Aerospace divisions. October, 2019 Link Q4. Image 1: source: DMG Mori.