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Iran airshow is an opportunity for the West

Western aerospace executives may be wary about attending the Iran airshow, but will be missing out on a great future business opportunity if they don’t go,

Doncasters to fly on U.S. Marine One

Doncasters (Hall 4 Stand G10) has been selected by AgustaWestland to produce exhaust kits for the US101 helicopter.
Aircraft

Athena leading UAVs into ATC

Athena Technologies’ CEO Dr.
ATC

Textron Unit Providing Flight Control System

HR Textron (Hall 3 Stand A8) will develop and deliver the integrated flight control actuation system (FCAS) for the Bell 429 light-twin helicopter.

Relocated Asian Aerospace Adds Exhibitors

Just over a year before the renamed and relocated Asian Aerospace International Expo & Congress opens its doors for the first time at Hong Kong’s AsiaWorld

Safety Surveillance For Airbus A400M

Honeywell’s avionics gurus in Redmond, Washington, are developing what the company touts as being the world’s first integrated surveillance system (ISS) fo

Europe designs radars autonomously from U.S.

“Even though you can still buy VHS videotape movies almost everyone buys DVDs instead,” Steve Martin, head of campaigns UK and naval radar systems for Sele
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Embraer offers Super Tucano in Turkish RFP

Embraer last week formally responded to Turkey’s request for proposals for a new military trainer, offering its Super Tucano for a requirement expected to
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First Dassault Falcon 7X will go to Serge himself

The first Dassault Falcon 7X is earmarked for delivery to the French group’s patriach Serge Dassault at the beginning of April 2007 in time for his 82nd bi

Canucks hope Chinook will do

The Canadian government would like to acquire 16 more military helicopters for troop and cargo transport, but has so far determined that only the Boeing CH
ATC

FAA boss lauds UPS use of ADS-B

Marion Blakey, administrator of the U.S.
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T-6 dons battlegear for new armed roles

With 319 Beechcraft-built T-6 trainers delivered to date and almost 500,000 flight hours to their credit, Raytheon has concluded that the time is ripe to l
Engines

A350 engine questions loom

Airbus’ confirmation that it is to go ahead with the A350 XWB, requiring much higher thrust engines than the original A350, has put the cat among the pigeo
Aircraft

Libya enters new jet age

Airbus placed itself in a position to land the first significant civil aircraft order from a Libyan airline in 30 years when it signed a memorandum of unde

Airbus gets to grips with wire woes

Regardless of how massive the project, there’s no escaping the devil in the detail, as Airbus knows all too well since it announced the second major delay

Diesel in demand in fuel squeeze

Record high fuel prices have served to concentrate minds on how to keep operational costs from spiraling.

EADS boss is sick of nationalism

EADS plans to appoint a British board member in the event BAE Systems goes forward with its sale of its 20-percent stake in the European conglomerate, comp
Aircraft

Bombardier logs new jet sales

Highlighting the rising demand for business jets in Europe, Bombardier Aerospace yesterday announced sales for its two newest models, the Challenger 605 an
Aircraft

JSF Briefing Soothes the Nerves of Partner Nations

Program officials provided some assurance that the international partners won’t be burdened by U.S. restrictions on technology transfer.
Engines

It may be ‘back to the future’ in next-generation jet engines

CFM International is including a contrarotating ducted fan engine in studies of concepts that might provide the quantum leap in fuel efficiency, noise redu
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Emirates signs for son of 747 as Boeing gets on sales roll

Boeing has made a start here at Farnborough International toward fulfilling its recent prophecy of airlines spending $2,600 billion, over the next 20 years
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Indian airline GoAir takes 10 Airbus A320s

Indian low-fare airline GoAir inked a deal yesterday with Airbus for 10 CFM-powered A320-family jets and an option for another 10.

Meteor AAM aims to avoid late penalties

The MBDA Meteor ramjet, active radar homing air-to-air missile (AAM) program is still alive and kicking, but has had to focus its efforts on meeting the de

Marshall takes control of RAF Hercules support

Marshall Aerospace (Hall 4 Stand A12) comes to the Farnborough airshow fresh from winning a £1.52 billion ($2.87 billion) contract to maintain 24 Lockheed

In-flight entertainment system is targeted toward regional airlines

Thales is demonstrating its “world first” regional aircraft in-flight entertainment (IFE) system for the first time here at Farnborough International on th

U.S. aerospace industry head promotes ethics

A global ethics code is among the topics that John Douglass, president and CEO of the U.S.
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Ukraine, Russia cooperate on Antonov

At a time when relations between Russia and Ukraine are at an all time low, an aircraft program may be the key to finding new opportunities for the two nat

Schenker and BAX Global Merging

Deutsche Bahn-owned supply-chain management organizations Schenker and BAX Global (Hall 2 Stand C1), which are being prepared for future operation under th
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Saab 340B Leased to Australia’s Rex

Saab Aircraft Leasing (Chalet C24-26) here on Monday announced that Australian regional airline Regional Express (Rex) has taken an additional Saab 340B on

Engine need to hit 30,000 over 20 years

CFM International predicts a huge demand over the next 20 years for up to 30,000 engines to power single-aisle aircraft as China, India, Latin America and