2023-06-20 07:13:53
9:28
Qantas orders 9 Airbus A220s
Airbus announces an additional order from Australian airline Qantas for 9 A220 aircraft.
The European manufacturer formalized a historic order for 500 planes with the Indian Indigo on Monday, the opening day of the Paris Air Show.
9:13
Eric Trappier (Dassault Aviation) on the Scaf: “The more partners, the more difficult it is”
Building a combat aircraft with several partners complicates the task, said Eric trappier, CEO of Dassault Aviation, at the microphone of BFM Business. France, Germany and Spain are partners in the construction of Scaf, the air combat system of the future.
“Unfortunately, Europe wants to continue to make the ‘fair return’, that is to say, depending on what each country gives in terms of budget, it wants a return to its territory,” he criticizes. .
This is not how the best devices are produced, he says.
“The more partners we have, the more difficult it is […] We prefer a leader and behind to distribute the load with those who have the competence,” he said.
8:39
The CEO of Boeing France believes in hydrogen, but not for long-haul planes
A hydrogen-powered plane might see the light of day in 2035 but it will be small, 15 or 20 passengers, explained Jean-Marc Fron, the general manager of Boeing in France.
“On the other hand, we know that this cannot meet the long-term needs of all that is long-haul,” he continued at the microphone of BFM Business.
For Jean-Marc Fron, sustainable fuels offer the best opportunities for decarbonization in the sector by 2035.
8:26
Dassault Aviation CEO “welcomes” Belgium to the Scaf program
Dassault Aviation CEO Eric Trappier said he welcomed Belgium’s entry into the Scaf program.
“It’s a political decision, we respect it, but observer status suits me well,” he said.
Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday that Brussels would have an observer role in the air combat system program of the future.
“It may give the idea that one day Belgium buys a non-American plane,” said Eric Trappier on BFM Business.
8:18
Eric Trappier (Dassault Aviation): “I don’t believe in hydrogen”
“I don’t believe in hydrogen because hydrogen is very dangerous,” Dassault Aviation boss Eric Trappier told BFM Business.
Hydrogen planes are being studied to decarbonize the skies. But Eric Trappier is skeptical and favors, for the moment, sustainable fuels.
“We studied [les avions à hydrogène] and we concluded that it was not possible in the future for decades,” he said.
8:08
“We are going to go from 250 to 500 Mistral missiles per year”, assures the CEO of MBDA
MBDA wants to step up the pace. The European leader in missile systems, which recorded record orders in 2023, wants to accelerate the pace of production on one of its flagship products: the Mistral missile.
“On the Mistral system, we are in the process of increasing the rate from 250 to 500 missiles per year”, confided Eric Beranger, CEO of the French group on BFM Business.
The boss of the missile manufacturer welcomes France’s ambitions in terms of Defense which should allow him to finance this expansion.
“The military programming law represents a 40% increase in terms of budget over 7 years, he recalls. We can always want things to be clarified and detailed, but it is important to guide our decisions.”
7:32
Present at Le Bourget, the French company Share My Space monitors space in real time
Share My Space is part of the French Tech present at the Paris Air Show. The company, which will have 32 employees at the end of the year and has raised 1 million euros, scans the debris in space.
“We have developed an optical technology that allows us to permanently scan the sky” indicates Romain Lucken, President of Share My Space.
7:08
At the Paris Air Show, these technologies to fight once morest airsickness and fear of flying
Anti-turbulence aircraft wings, smart seats, ejection cabins… At the Paris Air Show, technologies help you fight once morest air travel sickness.
6:40
Belgium joins the Scaf program
Emmanuel Macron, who visited the Paris Air Show on Monday, announced that Belgium is joining the complex Future Air Combat System program.
It is, for the moment, admitted as an observer while Spain, Italy and Germany are the engineers.
6:37
Record order: has Airbus already won the match once morest Boeing?
The European manufacturer formalized on Monday, during the Paris Air Show, a record order for 500 single-aisle A320 family aircraft from the Indian airline IndiGo.
Is the match once morest its American competitor Boeing already folded?
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