Airbus is preparing the A340 Blade aircraft for its first flights to test a breakthrough new wing with a laminar profile to help reduce fuel usage and increase efficiency. The Blade (Breakthrough Laminar Aircraft Demonstrator in Europe) is no stranger to testing as it is the 25-year-old A340-300 prototype MSN0001, registered as F-WWAI. [read more]
It has been a day of mixed news for North Wales with Raytheon UK opening a new hangar and Marshall Aviation considering closing its Broughton site. Raytheon UK, who currently employ 145 people at their site in Broughton, Flintshire, have officially opened a new hangar as part of a £130m deal to [read more]
GE Aviation Wales has been awarded a contract worth £20m at its plant in South Wales securing not only the future of the site but hundreds of existing jobs as well as creating new ones. GE Aviation Wales plant in Nantgarw repairs and overhauls GE’s range of turbofan jet engines [read more]
British engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce has posted record losses totalling £4.6bn. Rolls-Royce, who make jet engines for aircraft including the Trent series used on Boeing 777, 787 and A380, blamed the weak pound and the settlement following the bribery and corruption case brought against them by the US and the UK. [read more]
GE Aviation Wales has once again topped the list of the top 100 Welsh manufacturers. Caerphilly based GE Aviation Wales’ turnover of £1.9bn almost doubled that of its nearest competitor Calasonic Kansei Europe of Llanelli in the Wales Business Insider chart. A new managing director was put in place at [read more]
Teams of budding construction technicians and aircraft engineers from schools across Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan have been put through their paces at special Aero and Design & Construction challenges at Cardiff and Vale College. Eighteen teams from 15 schools took part in the challenges. Held to mark National [read more]
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