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News and developments about airplanes, helicopters and unmanned air vehicles used in all varieties of operations, including airlines, military, business, commercial, general aviation and private.
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Gallois claims full recovery for Airbus
Airbus chief executive Louis Gallois declared yesterday that the European consortium “is back, fully back,” from an odyssey through one of the most trying
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Boeing ready to negotiate any 787 roadblocks
Boeing has made plans to accommodate any delays in the first-flight schedule for its new Model 787 twin-aisle twinjet now in final assembly at Everett, Was
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Airbus continues to roll with firm orders for 35 A330s
Airbus followed Monday’s spectacular order flourish with a strategically important pair of contracts for members of its A330 family.
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ILFC backs booming 787 sales and finds new lessees
An International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC) order for 50 Boeing 787s, plus conversion of two previously unannounced options (booked earlier this year
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Tame Confirms Two Embraer 190 Options
Tame Línea Aérea del Ecuador has converted two options on Embraer 190 regional jets into firm orders, Embraer announced here at the Paris Air Show.
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Rafale comes battle hardened
In the fighter aircraft business, there’s no substitute for combat experience, if you want to impress potential customers.
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Israelis launch spy satellite
Israel launched another reconnaissance satellite last week as military tensions increase in the Middle East.
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New turkish trainer
Turkey’s indigenous primary/basic trainer program now has a name–Huˇrkus¸.
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Embraer increases production
Embraer is here at Le Bourget exhibiting a 170/175 regional airliner, its super-midsize Legacy 600 executive jet and scale models of its new four-seat Phen
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Viking cuts metal on its Twin Otter
Some two months after announcing the relaunch of 19-seat Twin Otter production, Canada’s Viking Aerospace has begun cutting metal on the first unit at its
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ITT burnishing reputation in electronic jamming
ITT, for many years a key player in the electronic warfare (EW) sector, continues to reinforce its position by continual developments.
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Thales upgrades combat aircraft
As well as providing the avionics equipment for France’s high-profile Rafale program, Thales is active in the fighter upgrade business.
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MBDA tests Meteor on multiple airframes
MBDA, the missile manufacturer owned by BAE Systems, EADS and Finmeccanica, has appointed Antoine Bouvier as its new chief executive.
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Boeing Half Way with 777F Design Definition
Boeing has released half of the defined design for the 777F cargo aircraft to its factories and suppliers to begin manufacture of tools, parts and assembli
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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
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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’
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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
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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
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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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JCA win boosts C-27J team’s fortunes
The L-3 Communications Integrated Systems-led C-27J team, including partners Alenia Aeronautica, GMAS (a joint L-3/Alenia company) and Boeing Integrated De
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Embraer studies medium-size military airlifter
Embraer, the world’s fourth-ranking aircraft maker, which started largely as a defense company, is seeking to enhance its defense business by studying the
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EADS elbows into tanker fray
EADS Military Transport Aircraft (MTA) has set its sights on half of the aerial-refueling-tanker market estimated at 600 aircraft for 30 countries over the
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French Tigers to get Hellfire II
France is buying the Lockheed Martin Hellfire II missile system to give its 40 Tiger HAD (Hélicoptère d’Appui Destruction) helicopters a versatile precisio
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Airbus offers frax ownership of A400M airlifter to NATO
Airbus Military is offering to supply some A400M tactical airlifters to NATO on a “fractional ownership” basis.
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Irkut sends first two Flankers to Malaysia
The Irkut aviation plant on Sunday delivered the first two Su-30MKM multirole fighters to Malaysia, where they will be reassembled.
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Dassault picks Rolls-Royce to power new bizjet
Rolls-Royce is the surprise winner of the all-out competition to power Dassault’s projected super-midsize business jet, securing the UK company’s long-term
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EADS eager to enter the space tourism market
EADS Astrium’s plans to move into the space tourism market, revealed last week to a VIP audience and represented here by a full-scale mockup of a hybrid sp
