Boeing sends troubleshooter to Rolls-Royce amid 787 woes
BOEING Co has dispatched a prominent executive to help Rolls-Royce Holdings plc work through escalating engine problems that have grounded dozens of 787 Dreamliners. Keith Leverkuhn is serving as Boeing’s eyes and ears at Rolls factories in Singapore and Derby, England, where the Trent 1000 engine is manufactured and being repaired. Mr Leverkuhn, an engineer […]
Airbus Could Decide By Mid-Year Whether to Introduce Larger A350 Model
Airbus Group SE could decide by mid-year whether to introduce a new, larger model of its A350 long-range aircraft to better challenge Boeing Co.’s biggest, planned twin-engine jetliner. Airbus currently builds the A350-900, which seats around 325 passengers, and this year hopes to fly for the first time the slightly larger -1000 version, with around […]
