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....).

Senior correspondent

Ian Goold

Jumbo-sized airliner orders came back into fashion on the first day of the 2010 Farnborough airshow as Boeing and Airbus led the charge to seal new deals. Other leading airframers, including Embraer, Sukhoi and Bombardier, followed suit in a wave of new business reported throughout today’s edition of Farnborough Airshow News.
Emirates Airline got the ball rolling when it gave Boeing a $9.1 billion contract for 30 more 777-300ERs. Later in the day, Norwegian Air Shuttle chipped in with a $1.15 billion order for 15 narrowbody 737-800s. Leasing group GECAS also ordered 40 Boeing 737-700s, -800s and -900s valued at $3 billion.
Never willingly outdone in the airshow orders stakes, Airbus GECAS committed to 60 firm orders for A320s. At list prices, this business is nominally worth just over $13 billion. On top of this, Russia’s Aeroflot signed a contract for 11 A330-300 twinjets, fitted with the new Sharklet winglets, in a deal worth approximately $1.7 billion.
Following in the wake of the aircraft transactions were billions more dollars’ worth of engine orders. The Emirates 777-300ERs are to be powered by General Electric GE90-115 turbofans worth about $2 billion. The GECAS 737s will carry CFM56-7BE engines worth $560 million, and CFM56 powerplant will also drive its new A320s. Aeroflot is sticking with the Rolls-Royce Trent 700 for its latest A330s.
CFM International also won new business yesterday from Air China and China Eastern. The Asian carriers have ordered CFM56-5B engines for, respectively, 20 and 30 A320s that they have on order.
Engine Alliance secured a $4.8 billion contract (also covering support) for engines to be supplied for the 32 A380s that Emirates ordered last month. And, finally, Pratt &amp; Whitney logged a $100 million deal when Brazil’s TAM Linhas Aereas chose its PW4000 engines to power two new A330-200s.

Airlines boost backlogs by the billion

Jumbo-sized airliner orders came back into fashion on the first day of the 2010 Farnborough airshow as Boeing and Airbus led the charge to seal new deals.

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