Ian Goold
Senior correspondent

Aviation International News senior correspondent Ian Goold has been involved in aerospace since 1964 and in aviation media for more than 40 years. He enjoyed a 20-year career at Flight International magazine, where he was latterly air-transport editor before turning freelance in 1993. A winner of the European Regions Airline Association Hank McGonagle award for excellence in aerospace journalism and a Royal Aeronautical Society Aerospace Journalist of the Year global award, he has edited or contributed to aerospace and aviation magazines, special publications, and websites in Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America. Ian entered aerospace as an apprentice at the British Aircraft Corporation at Brooklands (Weybridge), where he worked on production and final assembly lines of the Vickers Super VC10, and BAC One-Eleven , and manufacture of Concorde major sub-assemblies. He subsequently graduated from the BAC Design Training School to work in the airframe structures drawing office (including design of international future projects, such as the Panavia Tornado multi-role combat aircraft) before joining Flight International in 1973. Apart from years of reading aircraft magazines and books, his first direct contact with aviation media had come during the early 1970s when he was involved at Brooklands with the Weybridge Man-powered Aircraft Group, which designed and built the tenth aircraft to fly under purely human power. As an aviation journalist, he has worked at more than  50 of the major biennial global and regional international aerospace industry shows at Le Bourget, Farnborough, Singapore, and Dubai (having missed attending only one "Farnborough" since 1960), plus innumerable NBAA, HAI, (U.S.) AOPA, and EBACE Conventions and ERA Assemblies. His favourite aircraft is the Hawker Hunter, of which – as a schoolboy – he heard hundreds make their first flights from Dunsfold, where also on September 24, 2013, he saw the penultimate landing of the VC10 (happily involving an example of which he had witnessed the maiden takeoff in 1970) a day before the last example made the design's final flight (unless, of course....).

Latest from Ian Goold

Aircraft

Airbus Presents Updated Airliners to Middle East Carriers

A range of updates to its product range should mean follow-on orders from Middle East airlines.
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Boeing Forges Ahead with Flight-test Campaigns

Although little information is available on Boeing flight-test campaigns, AIN has summarized the latest state of affairs.
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Lord Says European Growth Strategy is Working

The U.S. company is continuing its path to become more active in the European aerospace supply chain.
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Airbus Adjusts A380 Maintenance Plan to Take Account of Aging

Airbus has found some slow-forming cracks in the A380 after fatigue testing.
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Aircraft

GKN Wages War On Waste With Additive Manufacturing

GKN Aerospace is partnering with the U.S. Department of Energy.
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Airbus Outlines A350-1000 Flight Test Plans

Three prototypes to fly 1,600 test hours
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Final Flight: Joe Sutter

He led the 747 design team.
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Aircraft

Lord’s European Push Pays Off

Lord of the U.S. continues to grow its range of technology offerings in aerospace, with several successes in Europe and further afield.
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Airbus Approaches Delivery Crunch

Airbus faces heavy year-end delivery rate, warns Bregier.
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Aircraft

Engine Delays Hold Back Neo Deliveries

Pratt & Whitney’s geared turbofans are still not ready for prime time.
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Aircraft

Emirates Closes on A350/787 Decision

Gulf carrier is expected to decide if it will still go for A350 after cancelling its original order in 2014.
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Engines

Rolls-Royce Says Progress Good With New Trent for A350-1000

Feeding back technology into the Trent XWB-84 model will also create an improved “EP variant of that for future A350-900s.
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Engines

Rolls-Royce Trent-1000 TEN Development On Track

For the new longer, shorter-range 787, the UK engine maker will provide the TEN engine, a Trent 1000 using XWB tech.
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Engines

Vision Strategy Conceives Engines For The 2030s

Under its Vision program, Rolls-Royce is working on its future Advance and UltraFan engine technologies.
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Aircraft

Airbus Considers Larger 330neo

Competing With Boeing’s 787 is one reason Airbus is looking at a larger A330neo, which it launched at the last Farnborough show in 2014.
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Aircraft

Rolls-Royce “pretty active” with Trent 7000

The Trent 7000 powerplant for the Airbus A330 Neo represents “a pretty active program,” says Rolls-Royce customer marketing head Peter Johnston.
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Aircraft

Airbus Adds More Economy Seats

Going conservative on the neo option for the A380, Airbus has cabin-revenue enhancements up its sleeve
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Aircraft

Airbus Focused on ‘Protecting’ A350, Speeding A320 Ramp Up

Other projects include A330-900neo with higher takeoff weight capability
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Aircraft

Airbus Commercial Boosts Revenue, Plans A330 Rate Hike

Targets ‘Rate 7’ for legacy widebody in 2017
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Finance, Taxes, Insurance

Airbus Group Reports Strong Results for 2015

Revenues from commercial aircraft deliveries increased 8 percent
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GKN Expands Globally with a Mix of Services

The UK's GKN is becoming a force to be reckoned with in aerospace manufacturing, and continues to expand including through acquisitions.
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Aircraft

Rolls-Royce Expands Asian Trent 1000 Parts Manufacturing

UK engine-maker teams with Malaysia
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Mitsubishi Details Delays to MRJ

Japan’s new regional jet has been set back a fourth time with some major reworking and a six-month longer flight test period planned.
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Engines

Trent 7000 for neo Makes First Runs

The engine for the A330neo will follow extensive development efforts on the Trent XWB-97
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Aircraft

Manufacturers Look to Asia as Engine of Growth

Over the next 20 years or so, all the aircraft OEMs see the Asia Pacific as a market for large numbers of aircraft–growing faster than any other region
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Aircraft

AAPA Says Investment is Needed in Infrastructure

AIN spoke to Andrew Herdman, director general of the Asia Pacific Airlines Association, ahead of the Singapore Airshow.
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Engines

Rolls-Royce Puts Singapore at Centre of Regional Services Initiative

With the UK engine maker assembling Trent engines in Singapore it makes sense that for services too, the country is key for Rolls.
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Aircraft

Mitsubishi Resumes MRJ Testing

Reinforcement plates installed on first flight test aircraft
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Engines

Rolls-Royce Completes Overhaul of Aftermarket Network

Opens three customer service centers for Americas, China and Europe/Middle East
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Aircraft

Porter “Assessing” Rejected Toronto City CSeries Proposal

Order for 12 of the new Bombardier jets imperiled
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