Boeing Awards Contract To Texton For Its 777X Simulators

Texton Inc. wins a contract from Boeing to build flight simulators for its 777X.

Boeing Corporation awards a contract to Texton Inc. to build flight simulators for its product, 777X, according to the announcement on Tuesday. The airplane maker deal is expected to last for ten years with the first training suites expected to be in full operation by 2019.This deal is also going to help both the parties build better relationships with one another. 

This is the second contract the aerospace company has awarded to Texton; the first one was to build simulators for its 737 MAX back in 2014. The recent deal is also of great significance as the 777X is one of the company's signature airplanes, whose flight training in the past was attained by many rivals such as CAE Inc. The financial details of this recent contract have not been revealed as yet by either party. However, Texton is ecstatic about this contract and even said that such major manufacturers are hard to get and even tougher to win. 

Boeing Co. now has four training simulators that are operational including TRU. The fuselage and other products for the 777X are manufactured and supplied by Spirit AeroSystems Inc. This jet is expected to be on sale and service by 2019, which is when the simulators will be all set. For now, the training is going to take place in 777 simulators. The aerospace giant has already managed to get approximately 320 orders from countries including the US, Singapore and many others for the 777X, according to the data in its books. The production and development of these full class simulators for the 777X are going to be done by TRU, which is also going to give the company an engineering simulator for use. 

In the past, TRU has also sold FFS to Boeing's biggest rival in the market, Airbus, for its A320NEO. It even installed an A320 simulator at Asia's training center in Taiwan. According to Boeing, the 777X is going to be the largest two-engine airplane around the globe once it is complete. 

In news regarding the aircraft manufacturer, it is crossing all innovative boundaries by making efforts to manufacture 3D printed artificial ice. The company is doing this so that approval from the FAA and certifications, verifying that the jet can travel in tough icy weather conditions, is made cheaper and easier to attain without causing any damages to the plane. It has filed a patent to achieve this and  might be successful in doing so, making tests much less time-consuming and inexpensive in the future. Airbus is trying to come up with new way to make certification attainment easier too.