Content Archive: June 2007

Airbus takes need for job cuts to its workers

Desperately keen to present a positive image here at Le Bourget following the past two years’ industrial troubles, Airbus is working to ensure the support

L-3 throws its hat into EFB ring

L-3 Communications said here at the show Monday that it would produce an electronic flight bag (EFB) portable cockpit computer, adding yet another player t

EMS Satcom to equip Boeing 747-8s

EMS Satcom’s eNfusion SwiftBroadband communications system has been subject to more than 300 hours of trials aboard two Boeing Business Jets, and Rockwell
Aircraft

Hawker Beechcraft signs with Indian software firm

Hawker Beechcraft has signed a multi-year contract with Satyam Computer Services, India’s fourth-largest software exporter, to provide design and other ser
Aircraft

Sukhoi draws first Western Superjet buy

Sukhoi has secured its first Western customer for the Superjet 100 regional jet with a $283 million order for 10 firm aircraft from Italian low-cost carrie

Chinook gets better missile protection

Newly acquired Boeing Chinook CH-47F heavy-lift helicopters supplied to the royal Netherlands air force are to be fitted with a state-of-the-art modular po

Despite doubling 2007 revenues, Eaton Aerospace looking to buy

Irvine, California-based Eaton Aerospace (Hall 3, Stand D5) admits to still being on the acquisition trail despite having doubled its revenues to $1.6 bill
Aircraft

Bombardier: NextGen RJ will have lower costs

Bombardier Aerospace is showing its CRJ900 NextGen regional-jet here in 76-seat guise and the uniform of Northwest Airlines subsidiary Mesaba Airlines less
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Boeing sows Abu Dhabi seed

Mubadala Development Co.
ATC

Issues abound in expansion of UAV missions

The number of unmanned air vehicles in our skies is growing fast, but there are many regulatory and doctrinal issues to resolve, before UAVs and their grou