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CFM rakes in $2 billion with another $200 million due today

CFM International is having a bumper airshow, announcing more than $2 billion of contracts by the end of Tuesday and with more deals worth potentially anot

Sikorsky aims for a late ’08 first flight for the new S-76D

Sikorsky is confident its upgraded medium-twin helicopter, the S-76D, will make its first flight in the fourth quarter of next year, vice president Europe
Aircraft

UAV paraglider could replace current drones

French-based Flying Robots is here showing an unusual unmanned air vehicle (UAV) that looks like a paraglider with a powered payload.
Aircraft

Boeing sees need for 28,600 new jetliners over next 20 years

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Engines

PWC is going green on PW-10X

Pratt & Whitney Canada is showcasing its latest green engine technologies at Paris centered on the 10,000-pound-thrust-class PW-10X engine it is develo

Boeing guided bomb business is on the move

Boeing’s guided bomb business is moving forward with the conclusion of a successful test program, a new contract and a growing SDB II program.

Embraer cautions about pax treatment

Could Embraer have become the first voice in aviation to commit to the notion that passengers aren’t necessarily all enthralled with the “no frills” concep

Crane to check tires, brakes and weight on Boeing 777s

Boeing has selected Crane Aerospace & Electronics (Hall 5, Stand A20) to supply tire- and brake-monitoring (TBMS) and AirWeighs onboard weight-and-balance

Iridium signs reseller pact with Astrium

Iridium, the Bethesda, Maryland-based satellite communications provider, has signed an agreement with Astrium Services that will see the latter, an EADS, s
Aircraft

Northrop Grumman Thwarts Missile

Northrop Grumman’s laser directional infrared countermeasure (DIRCM) system has successfully thwarted simulated heat-seeking missile attacks on an AH-64D A
ATC

Park Air To Improve East Europe ATC

Northrop Grumman’s UK subsidiary, Park Air Systems, has been selected to supply air traffic control upgrades in Central and Eastern Europe worth approximat

Goodrich Wins ATA Gear Maintenance

Goodrich has been selected by ATA to provide landing gear maintenance services in support of the Indianapolis, Indiana-based airline’s operations, covering

Carbon Emissions Can Be Calculated

Airlines and other aviation bodies can now assess their carbon output using a new online Carbon Emissions Calculator developed by U.S.-based consultants Ba
Aircraft

Embraer Cuts Legacy Maintenance Costs

Embraer has completed a new revision of the Legacy 600 business jet’s maintenance planning guide.

Saab Avitronics to monitor health of Airbus A400Ms

Saab Avitronics has succeeded in an intense competition to supply the Airbus A400M military transport with its lifetime monitoring system, the first of whi
Aircraft

Grumman testing new E-2D Hawkeye

As the final E-2C Hawkeye 2000 proceeds down the Northrop Grumman production line at St.
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Aircraft

Thales unveils UK Watchkeeper, joins Dassault on French UAV

The final configuration of the Thales Watchkeeper UAV for the British Army is unveiled here, outside the Thales pavilion.
Aircraft

Sukhoi set to defend itself in the global export market

Sukhoi plans to supply 30-odd combat aircraft this year and sell more than $1.5 billion worth of its products, said Mikhail Pogosyan, the company’s general

Bombardier will invest in China’s AVIC

The relationship between the world’s third-largest aircraft maker and China grew closer with the announcement here yesterday of a long-term investment comm
Aircraft

P&W, Honeywell team on engine for Army helos

Pratt & Whitney and Honeywell announced yesterday here at Le Bourget that they have agreed to work together to develop a new, 3,000-shp turboshaft engine f
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Airbus sales boost confidence

Airbus looked intent on making up for two years of persistent hits to its credibility virtually all at once yesterday with a nearly uninterrupted string of
Aircraft

Lion Air Is THE Customer for Earlier 737-900 order

Jakarta-based Lion Air is the previously unnamed customer for a listed order for 40 Boeing 737-900ER airliners–nominally valued at more than $3 billion–tha
Aircraft

Volga-Dnepr signs for upgraded Il-76

Volga-Dnepr (Hall 4 Stand E16) and Ilyushin Interstate Aviation signed a general agreement here Monday for three firm orders and 10 options for IL-76TD-90V
Aircraft

All-modern MiG fighter could pack even more punch

The MiG-29M flying here with its Klimov RD-33 OVT thrust vectoring engines is a testbed for the technology, which is available as an option on the company’
Aircraft

Rolls gets on the sales power curve

Rolls-Royce is celebrating its biggest ever civil engines order, a $5.6 billion deal for Trent XWBs to power Qatar Airways’ 80 Airbus A350 XWBs, and it is

AIN staffers walk off with writer trophies

Two respected members of the Aviation International News team of journalists collected trophies at a ceremony organized by the UK’s World
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Fuel Safety Paper To Be Presented Here

“A guide to aircraft fuel contents testing” is the title of a paper to be delivered by Tony Moore, technical director of Cirencester, UK-based BCF Designs,

Snecma, Airfoil Form Engine Repair Unit

French-based Snecma Services and U.S.-based Airfoil Technologies International have formed an engine repair joint venture, Propulsion Technologies Internat