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Winglets help refine flow and increase efficiency

Conventional winglets have come to be widely used on airliners, whether in the form of the Airbus A320’s wingtip fence or the up-swept devices characterist

Aircraft-weapons interface more complex than ever

In the era of “smart weapons” a lot can still go wrong, not the least at the interface between the combat aircraft and the missile or bomb.
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Smiths, Eaton picked for F-35 PBL testing

Last month Lockheed Martin chose Smiths Aerospace and Eaton Aerospace to participate in testing the F-35 JSF program’s approach to performance-based logist

Fuel costs finally ringing alarm bells

Airliners now entering revenue service will be around for the next few decades, over which time forecasters expect the cost of kerosene to rise significant

What Winglets Do

Winglets increase efficiency by reducing lift-induced drag.

Aviation Partners wins STC for 757 winglets

Aviation Partners Boeing, the U.S.
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Elbit Streamlines MiG-29 Cockpit

One set of options for MiG-29 operators involves the cockpit modernization packages offered by Israel’s Elbit Systems.
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Mother MiG Gives Birth to New 29s

Russia’s RSK MiG continues to offer new members of the MiG-29 family of multifunctional fighters, including the MiG-29K/KUB, the-29M/M2 and the -29SMT.
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Foreigners hold edge in MiG-29 upgrade race

The Mikoyan MiG-29 carries a reputation as one of the most capable fighter aircraft ever designed, but to keep the revered Russian warplane on the cutting

North America fails to join Europe’s airline recovery

For many of the world’s airlines, the long and tiresome road to recovery has taken them through dips and valleys, hairpin bends and in some cases complete
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Average Values of New Airliner Sales Give Conflicting Signals

Airbus statistics appear to support Boeing’s contentions that the average size of airliners is going to shrink.
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Production planners sweat ballooning backlogs

Here at this week’s Paris show, Airbus is introducing the A350, a larger variant of the A330 being presented at a global show for the first time.
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A final farewell to the Boeing 757

The 1,050th and last 757 airliner took off from Boeing’s Renton, Washington assembly plant for delivery to Shanghai Airlines on April 28, some 23 years aft

EU far from united on China embargo

“When China wakes, it will shake the world.” French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte’s assessment now lies at the heart of a major polemic between the U.S.

Barco glass graces A380, PC-21

Airbus and Pilatus have selected Barco’s latest glass cockpit for their respective A380 superjumbo and PC-21 training aircraft.

Liebherr keeps on riding

Air systems specialist Liebherr Aerospace Toulouse (Hall 2B Stand I6) is betting on regional jet production growth.

Big orders setting stage for turboprop encore

The so-called regional jet revolution has in the minds of many rendered turboprops a quaint throwback to the days of “commuter” airlines.

French group helps SMEs with strategy

Adour Compétitivité (AC), a French association of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), is helping its members in an original way.

Aerospace holds key to Lisbon Strategy success

The air transport industry in Europe employs about 3.1 million people, and if air traffic doubles in 15 years as expected, the sector will contribute up to
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787 Will Be First All-composite Airliner

Boeing made the apparently radical decision two years ago to use composites for most of the primary structure of its new 787 jetliner, resulting in a need

Airbus UK drives composites research

Tests currently under way at the Airbus UK facility in Filton are exploring technologies aimed at extending the use of advanced composite materials on the
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747SF gets ready for prime time

Marco Cavazzoni says to mark his words: “We’ll deliver the first 747-400 Special Freighter on December 13.
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RJ builders flirting with the big boys

The chasm separating the realm of full-size airliners and regional airplanes has claimed another victim, swallowing the Boeing 717 as surely as it did the

Onex to breathe fresh life into Boeing subassembly plants

As Canadian conglomerate Onex prepared for its historic buy of Boeing’s commercial subassembly plants in the midwestern U.S., 9,300 employees at Boeing sit

AFI’s new repair digs to cut turn times, cost

Last month Air France Industries opened an €84 million ($103 million) maintenance facility adjacent to Paris Orly Airport with a new work organization syst

Eurocopter cool on civil NH90

NH Industries (NHI) has put project studies for a commercial version of the NH90 helicopter on the back burner.

BAE North America Is Big and Getting Bigger

BAE already derives 34 percent of its revenues from North America, where 27,000 employees produce an annual turnover of $5.6 billion.

The Active Stick

The Rochester, UK facility of BAE Systems has developed the world’s first control stick that tells a pilot, through feel, that the airplane is exceeding th

All Is Revealed Through Image Fusion

BAE Systems Platform Solutions claims leadership in developing a multispectral enhanced vision system that allows pilots to land in zero-zero visibility.