Their challenge is to grow margins from an incredibly high level to a zone where no one of their size has gone in aerospace, said Kevin Michaels, managing director of AeroDynamic Advisory, a consulting company based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. At the same time they have issues to fix with customer sa
Date: Oct 10, 2017
Category: Business
Source: Google
United Tech, Rockwell deal faces bumpy road to approval, especially in the EU
The combined company could make more than 50 percent of the content on a Boeing 787 aircraft, by dollar value, noted Kevin Michaels, president of consulting firm AeroDynamic Advisory. This, he said, could be a bigger issue than the fact that both companies make actuators which move wing flaps.
Date: Sep 05, 2017
Category: Business
Source: Google
Bombardier reports loss; Russian C Series order scaled back
The fundamental question for the program is: How much value will customers attach to the many innovations the airplane brings, ICF International aerospace industry consultant Kevin Michaels wrote in a recent opinion piece on the C Series. Among those innovations are an aluminum-lithium fuselage, whi
Date: Aug 05, 2016
Source: Google
World War II-Era Planes to Perform Historic Flyover of National Mall
Kevin Michaels, who volunteers for the Commemorative Air Force as a loadmaster for the army green B-17G named Texas Raiders, said more than 12,700 Flying Fortresses were built during the 1940s, yet only about a dozen or so are flying today.