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QUESTION OF THE WEEK

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THE WEEK IN NUMBERS

Flightglobal.com This week, we ask: Who will buy Sikorsky?

❑ Boeing ❑ Textron ❑ Someone else

❑ Spun off as standalone company ❑ UTC will keep it

Last week, we asked: By 2019, how many Airbus and Boeing

narrowbodies will be made monthly? You said:

Alcoa

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Adding ARJ21-700s to an order for 45 C919s makes

lessor ICBC the largest customer for China’s Comac

30

Virgin Atlantic’s pre-tax profit for 2014 – equivalent of

$21.7 million – was its first positive result since 2011

£14. 4 m

The proforma growth in Alcoa aerospace revenue, to

$5.6bn, from its acquisition of RTI International Metals

13%

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IMAGE OF

THE WEEK

Recently transferred to the

UK Royal Navy’s Commando

Helicopter Force from the

Royal Air Force’s inventory,

an AgustaWestland Merlin

HC3 of 846 NAS touches down

at Bardufoss in Norway, during

Arctic training. Flightglobal’s

Ascend Fleets database

records the RN as now having

seven Merlin HC3/3As

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31%

23%

32%

14%

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than 80

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