With just over 12 hours before the Farnborough air show
kicks off in earnest - the Flightglobal team has already been working hard to
produce tomorrow's show daily - I thought it would be good to outline the Asian
presence at the show this year.
The most visible Asian presence is the Malaysia Airlines
A380, which dominates the static line. There is also a CRJ in China Express
Airlines livery, and an AW139 in the livery of Malaysia's Weststar, which will
use the type to ferry oil workers to and from offshore rigs.
Walked all over the place and could not find the Korea
Aerospace Industries T-50, but KAI has
asked me to meet them at it tomorrow at 4pm. Perhaps it just has not arrived
yet. The biggest disappointment was the
no-show of the JF-17 and CATIC - this after I wrote a big feature
about China's fighter escort
prospects.
COMAC, meanwhile, has a big stand. My colleague Mavis has
written an excellent feature about China's commercial aerospace ambitions that
is available in the FG Club - which is free to join. India's HAL has a huge
chalet, but when I swung by earlier it was largely empty. Not sure what they are flogging here. With luck I'll be able to get
a meeting with the company's new chairman. Several big Japanese companies are
also present.
Look forward to seeing how much Asian carriers swell the
order books of the big airframers over the next few days.
kicks off in earnest - the Flightglobal team has already been working hard to
produce tomorrow's show daily - I thought it would be good to outline the Asian
presence at the show this year.
The most visible Asian presence is the Malaysia Airlines
A380, which dominates the static line. There is also a CRJ in China Express
Airlines livery, and an AW139 in the livery of Malaysia's Weststar, which will
use the type to ferry oil workers to and from offshore rigs.
Walked all over the place and could not find the Korea
Aerospace Industries T-50, but KAI has
asked me to meet them at it tomorrow at 4pm. Perhaps it just has not arrived
yet. The biggest disappointment was the
no-show of the JF-17 and CATIC - this after I wrote a big feature
about China's fighter escort
prospects.
COMAC, meanwhile, has a big stand. My colleague Mavis has
written an excellent feature about China's commercial aerospace ambitions that
is available in the FG Club - which is free to join. India's HAL has a huge
chalet, but when I swung by earlier it was largely empty. Not sure what they are flogging here. With luck I'll be able to get
a meeting with the company's new chairman. Several big Japanese companies are
also present.
Look forward to seeing how much Asian carriers swell the
order books of the big airframers over the next few days.
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