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Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc, the enginemaker known for powering Airbus SE and Boeing Co. workhorse jets, expects a fully-electric small aircraft in three to five years, a top executive said. The first commercial application of P-Volt, a battery electric system developed by Rolls-Royce, will have about 600 kilowatt hours of power,…
Airbus SE is confident its global supplier base can overcome pressures induced by the COVID-19 pandemic and boost output for the company’s workhorse A320 aircraft family, despite the “unprecedented” labor and materials strains complicating that effort, CEO Guillaume Faury said.
Faury reaffirmed the company’s plan to boost A320 output from 40 per month currently to 64 a month in 2023, and said Airbus remains interested in reaching 75 per month around mid-decade.
It is essential the planemaker’s vast supply chain have those ambitious, longer-term targets in mind as it manages through the current turmoil, he said.
“We’re in an unprecedented situation in
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