Farnborough Air Show 2014

The company is showing a King Air 350ER, a Grand Caravan EX, an AT-6 turboprop, T-6C Texan trainer and the new Textron AirLand Scorpion tactical jet.

Bombardier’s commercial and business aircraft forecast projects a healthy number of deliveries during the next 20 years, although down from last year.

Advantages of the small-diameter bomb include its ability to attack moving targets and its enhanced performance in adverse weather.

Japan-based Kobe is to provide titanium landing gear forgings for the new Airbus twin-jet.

Four contracts for simulator services and upgrades worth more than $100 million.

Company will provide hydraulic system components for the E-Jets E2 program, and also appoints Authorized Repair provider in Europe and AME

With the Bauhaus Luftfahrt, Rolls-Royce and MTU, two projects are targeting distributed thrust. The Quadcruiser combines rotary- and fixed-wing.

Show-goers can find F-35 models, parts and simulators on display, but the four F-35Bs slated to fly to the UK remain grounded at NAS Patuxent River.

Lycoming’s first UAS project dates to World War II and an unmanned twin-engine aircraft.

The Extended Range Avanti II adds a permanent additional fuel tank in the closet in the lavatory, increasing the twin turboprop’s range to 1,720 nm.