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Training and Workforce

FlightSafety ramps up UK capacity

With seven full-flight simulators already in place at its new Farnborough flight training center in the UK, FlightSafety International expects to have an a
Aircraft

Pilatus PC-12 world’s best selling business turboprop

Swiss airframer Pilatus last year achieved a sales record for its PC-12 single turboprop aircraft, logging 80 orders.
Charter & Fractional

Leggier jets from Bombardier key to Gold Air’s growth plans

Gold Air International has ordered two new Bombardier Global 5000s in a deal valued at close to $80 million.
Safety

Aviation Internet domain touts security, exclusivity

Appropriately enough, the .aero Worldwide Web domain is sponsoring the Internet café here at EBACE.
Training and Workforce

AirData to launch flight-planning software package

AirData, the flight planning specialist, is preparing to launch its new SwiftOps.com online flight planning and crew briefing system this fall.
FBOs

Private handlers break logjam at Italy’s airports

This past year independent Italian business aviation service companies made inroads against government-backed airport handling providers that have long blo
Maintenance and Modifications

Revue Thommen outlines plans for business aviation

Following a management buyout of its avionics division last year, Swiss manufacturer Revue Thommen decided to seek business in new markets more aggressivel
Airports

France is more than just Le Bourget

When thinking of the French business aviation scene, most people would probably immediately call to mind Paris Le Bourget.
FBOs

Lufthansa Technik expands with Abu Dhabi FBO

Lufthansa Technik (Booth No.
Charter & Fractional

Gestair’s 100 pilots keep very, very busy

Gestair makes a fair claim to being Spain’s leading business aviation group, with about 60 percent of the national executive charter market.
Charter & Fractional

Spain’s second-largest charter firm expanding

Executive Airlines, Spain’s second-ranking executive charter operator, has increased its fleet from four aircraft to seven and expects to add five more in
Charter & Fractional

Jet Personales offers a personal touch

Jet Personales (Booth No.
Regulations and Government

EBAA France realigns its agenda

The French chapter of the European Business Aviation Association (EBAA France) is preparing for a restructuring under the leadership of its new president,
Charter & Fractional

Unique charter program debuts

UK operator Club328 (Booth No.
Engines

Snecma chief says time is right for SM-X turbofan

Snecma’s announcement in January that it is to develop the new SM-X turbofan for small regional airliners and mid-sized/large business jets took many by su
Aircraft

China regional jet market remains on slow simmer

Last month’s order for five ERJ 145s placed by China Eastern Airlines no doubt came as welcome news to the management of the Brazilian-Chinese joint manufa
Aircraft

Asia/Pacific Forms Bedrock of ATR’s Good Year

Customers from the Asia/Pacific region played a big part in the banner year European airframer Avions de Transport Regional posted in 2005.
Aircraft

Raptor in the running for Japan’s next fighter

Japan’s Air Self Defence Force (JASDF), which is accustomed to having the most modern variants of U.S.
Aircraft

UAVs bring their own set of stealth challenges

Four decades after the first truly stealthy air vehicles were secretly flown in the U.S., the technology has matured and proliferated.
Aircraft

USAF Counts the True Cost of B-2 Stealth

Brian Kilburn of the Boeing B-2 System Program Office presented insights into the true cost of a stealth operation at the Stealth Conference conducted rece
Aircraft

Boeing speeds into AA06 on a road to redemption

Boeing employees who remember the sorry state of the airline industry and, frankly, their company during the last Asian Aerospace exposition in 2004 should
ATC

Netcentric ops a test of wills and miracles

It would take a miracle–in fact, two miracles–for network-centric operations (NCO) to become a reality.
Engines

Safran’s Bechat lays out strategy for small engine battle with GE

Since Snecma dropped the idea of taking a share in General Electric’s GEnx turbofan program the two long-time partners now find themselves competing in
Aircraft

India’s airlines confident but wary

Remember the days not too long ago, when any aspiring young computer whiz with a domain name and a smile could convince a venture capitalist to invest six
Aircraft

Kingfisher Airlines brews up ‘value-added’ recipe for flying

Aviation International News traveled from Delhi to Mumbai for the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA) conference on Kingfisher Airlines, because
ATC

RNP gains signal FANS breakthrough

The vision of a future air navigation system developed by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) at the beginning of the 1990s has taken a lo
ATC

Modern Jets Can Leapfrog ATC Technology

Dramatic reductions in approach minimums at terrain-challenged airports are among the more spectacular results of applying RNP-Rnav.
ATC

ATM planners wary of Chinese vulnerabilities

China has been emerging lately as a truly global player in commerce and tourism, but as the Beijing Olympic Games approach in 2008, followed by the Shangha
Engines

Safran profits from spirit of Sino-French cooperation

Sichuan Snecma Aero-engine Maintenance Co.
Engines

Snecma develops new bizav engine

French engine maker Snecma is here at Asian Aerospace 2006 courting prospective partners and applications for its proposed new SM-X engine.