Hans Weber

Airbus A350’s Paint Job Points to Paris-Show Blow for Boeing

Airbus SAS engineers are working 13- hour days to get the company’s latest A350 plane off the ground in time to scoop the headlines at next month’s Paris air show.

Boeing Dreamliner GE Engine Probed After Jet Spews Debris

Boeing Co. is pulling an engine off a new 787 Dreamliner and trucking it this week to General Electric Co.’s facility in Cincinnati, where it will be dismantled to find out why it spewed debris over the weekend.

Airbus’s Iron Bird Seeks to Avoid 787’s Ruffled Feathers

Each night when the lights go out at Airbus SAS in southern France, a nocturnal creature stirs.

NTSB’s 787 Findings May Lead to Boeing Battery Redesign

Evidence is mounting that Boeing Co. may have to redesign the battery on its grounded 787 Dreamliner as U.S. National Transportation Safety Board experts pursue the cause of a Boston jet fire last month.

Boeing 787 Groundings Traced to One-of-a-Kind Technology

Boeing Co.’s 787 Dreamliner, the planemaker’s most advanced jet ever, is in trouble because of the technology that sets the aircraft apart from its peers.

Daredevil Enders Woos Governments He Wants Out of EADS-BAE

Tom Enders, a swashbuckling one- time German paratrooper, was planning to join German Chancellor Angela Merkel on a state visit to China Aug. 29 when he decided to take an end-of-summer outing and go hang-gliding.

GE Jet-Engine Failures Spur FAA Directive for Inspections

U.S. airlines using General Electric Co. GEnx jet engines will be required to inspect their planes for signs of the type of flaws that led to a July explosion, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

Boeing Dreamliner Engine Probe by Finds Fractured Shaft

Damage to a spinning shaft inside a General Electric Co. jet engine was uncovered by U.S. investigators probing a malfunction that spewed hot shards of metal during a test run of a Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliner.

Boeing Fire Spotlights Hazard of Plug-in Cars, Laptops

Firefighters at Boston’s Logan International Airport opened the hatch of a burning Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliner this week to encounter a hazard from something almost ubiquitous in modern life: lithium-based batteries.

FAA Requires Boeing 737 Checks After Southwest’s Midair Split

U.S. aviation regulators will require carriers to inspect about 175 older Boeing Co. 737s, the world’s most widely flown jet, for fuselage cracks after a Southwest Airlines Co. plane split open in flight.

"Software glitches are one of the biggest worries in these systems."

- Hans Weber on May 13, 2013

Washington

Federal Aviation Administration

Japan

HSBC Signals 14,000 Jobs Cuts in $3 Billion Savings Plan

U.S. Stocks Rise on Stimulus Bets as Manufacturing Falls

Shell Targeted With BP in EU Price Fixing Probe for Oil: Energy

Gold Futures Tumble Below $1,400 as Dollar Extends Gains

Singapore Police Accessed Todd’s Hard Drive, FBI Says