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&nbsp;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&nbsp; 50 of the major biennial&nbsp;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....).

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For the third day running, Airbus and Boeing defied pessimistic predictions of softening demand for airliners with new contracts collectively worth almost $6 billion. Airbus notched up another order for the A350, with South Korea’s Asiana Airlines placing almost $5 billion worth of firm orders for 30 of the new widebody aircraft and optioning 10 more. Deliveries will begin in 2016 and will include all three versions of the A350. The carrier plans to operate the aircraft on regional and long-haul routes. Orders for the new Airbus now total more than 350 units, from 20 customers. U.S. lessor Aviation Capital Group announced an order for 15 Boeing 737-700s that by the end of the 2013-15 delivery period will take its fleet to 91. The $934 million total includes 15 jets previously earmarked for Delta Air Lines, from which ACG obtained the delivery positions. 
Chief executive Stephen Hannahs plans to take 737 orders to 100 “in the near future.” ACG has received seven jets to date, including one this month, and will take three more this year, plus 10 in 2009 among its regular receipt of about 25 per year. Hannahs is also “very keen” to acquire more 787s beyond the five already booked. 
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) was identified yesterday as the customer for 35 Boeing 737-800s ordered from the U.S. manufacturer in June. The Kuala Lumpur-based operator also has taken purchase rights covering 20 more such aircraft. The new equipment, to be delivered from September 2010, will replace the carrier’s current 37-strong fleet of 737-400s as MAS expands its core network in the ASEAN economic region through new services (to previously unviable destinations) and increased frequencies.
“Provided the economy stays good and we don’t get [a lot of] cancellations, we’d like to bridge the gap to the [top of] the next cycle,” said Boeing Commercial Airplanes chief executive Scott Carson. “We’re essentially sold out to 2014.”

Boeing and Airbus continue to defy gloomy predictions

For the third day running, Airbus and Boeing defied pessimistic predictions of softening demand for airliners with new contracts collectively worth almost 

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