Five Must-See Stories From Last Week (W/C January 20)
Twelve percent of airline respondents see a blended wing body like JetZero's (right) as the most promising option for a new airliner, while just 2% favor the truss-braced wing concept Boeing is studying.
Five must-see stories from the Aviation Week Network for the week of January 20, 2025. Rolls-Royce completed durability enhancement testing for its Trent 1000 engine, SpaceX returned to the drawing board for Starship's upper stage, and a survey by Aviation Week and Bank of America showed interest in a potential Embraer narrow-body aircraft.
Rolls-Royce Confirms Trent 1000 Durability Enhancement Test Completion
Rolls-Royce says it has completed certification testing of a major upgrade to the Trent 1000 to address durability problems and is now looking to secure the delayed certification of the so-called Durability Enhancement.
SpaceX Heads Back To The Drawing Board For Starship’s Upper Stage
SpaceX is giving its “damn the torpedoes” development philosophy a workout as it plans to return the Starship to flight within weeks after suffering a spectacular inflight breakup during the heavy-lift system’s seventh flight test.
Aviation Week/BofA Survey Shows Great Interest In Potential Embraer Narrowbody
Twelve percent of airline respondents see a blended wing body like JetZero's (right) as the most promising option for a new airliner, while just 2% favor the truss-braced wing concept Boeing is studying.
Analysis: How A U.S. Judge Brought Down America’s True Low-Fares Sector
"To those dedicated customers of Spirit, this one’s for you,” U.S. federal judge William Young wrote in his January 2024 decision that ended the proposed Spirit Airlines-JetBlue Airways merger.
Last MC-130J Delivery Marks End Of USAF’s Specialized Hercules Orders
The U.S. Air Force in mid-January received the last Lockheed Martin MC-130J Commando II special operations variant of the Hercules, marking the final delivery of the service’s specialized version of the aircraft.
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