Gregory Polek has spent his entire career in aviation journalism with AIN, starting as a proofreader and assistant to then-managing editor Mary Mahoney in 1995 after serving an internship with&nbsp;New Jersey Monthly&nbsp;magazine and completing his B.A. degree in English/Writing at New Jersey’s William Paterson College. By 1997 Polek accepted a position as an associate editor, covering the regional airline beat for&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;in place of retiring industry veteran Don Anderson. The assignment took Polek across North America and Europe to profile regional airlines varying in size and mission from the likes of floatplane operators Kenmore Air and Chalk’s Ocean Airways to regional jet operators such as SkyWest and American Eagle. Today, in his dual role as Air Transport Editor and International Airshow Editor, Polek writes, edits, and manages AIN’s commercial aviation content while overseeing each of the company’s daily international air show publications in Paris, Farnborough, Singapore, and Dubai. Most recently Polek has assumed oversight of daily coverage of the Helicopter Association International’s annual Heli-Expo convention.

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Embraer has started the parts production process for the second variant of its new E2 line of narrowbodies, the E195-E2, the company announced Tuesday. Workers have fabricated the lateral rib of the stub on the E195-E2 prototype’s central fuselage II section. Made of aeronautical aluminum, the structure took shape at one of the Embraer’s high-speed machining centers in São José dos Campos, Brazil. 
 
	“Just as the roll out and the maiden flight are milestones in any aeronautical program, so is the first metal cut,” said Embraer Commercial Aviation CEO Paulo Cesar Silva. “And it is no different with Embraer. It’s the moment when the aircraft begins to take shape, validating the thousands of hours of engineering development and the virtual drawings made in computers.”

 


The milestone comes roughly a month before the expected rollout of the 106-seat E190-E2, assembly of which Embraer finished in December. The company expects to fly that model by the second half of this year, possibly as early as July.

 


Meawhile, plans call for the E195-E2 fly next year, in time for scheduled first deliveries in the first of 2019.

 


While the E190-E2’s design calls for the same fuselage length now used in the current version of the E195, the E195-E2 will carry three more rows of seats, increasing standard two-class capacity from 108 to 120. Its 2,000 nm range will allow the aircraft to fly from Bangkok to virtually any point in Southeast Asia or virtually the whole African continent from Nairobi and all of South America from Brasilia. 
 
	 
 
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