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IAE Establishes Fix for V2500 Turbofan

International Aero Engines (IAE) has identified a problem area with some of its <link news/single-news-page/article/20-years-on-iae-marks-milestones-on-v25

Engines

August 20, 2010

NTSB Team Assisting Investigation of Aires Boeing 737 Crash on San Andrés Island

The NTSB has dispatched a team of investigators to assist the government of Colombia with its investigation of yesterday's airplane accident on the Caribbe

Aircraft

August 17, 2010

787 Dreamliner Training Program Gains FAA Nod

The FAA has granted provisional approval to Boeing Training &amp; Flight Services for its 787 Dreamliner pilot training courses, according to the company

August 17, 2010

Korea Aerospace Industries Considering 90-Seat Turboprop

Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) could enter the regional turboprop segment as early as next year, if it proceeds with the launch of a 90-seat aircraft it

August 14, 2010

Qatar's C Series 'Issues' Hit Sour Note for Pratt

Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker's surprise revelation at the Farnborough airshow that &quot;issues”&nbsp;with the Pratt &amp; Whitney PW1000G geared turbo

August 13, 2010

McNerney: Boeing 747-8 at More Risk of Schedule Slippage than 787 Dreamliner

Citing “a couple of workmanship issues, and a design issue or two,” Boeing CEO Jim McNerney planted another seed of doubt about the company's chances of de

August 13, 2010

EADS Bullish on Airbus, Raises Order Projection to More Than 400

EADS has raised its order projection for its Airbus unit this year to more than 400 aircraft from its previous estimate of between 250 and 300 following a

August 13, 2010

Case for 737 Re-engining Will Weaken if Airframe Advances Accelerate

A decision to re-engine the Boeing 737</link

Aircraft

August 13, 2010

New Leasing Group Fans Airliner Sales Activity

Airliner leasing pioneer Steven Udvar-Hazy is back in business with a vengeance.

August 13, 2010

Boeing Still Inspecting 787 Dreamliners for Workmanship ‘Issues’

Boeing hasn’t finished inspecting parts of the tail sections of flight-test and production 787 Dreamliners, several weeks after the Chicago-based aerospace

Aircraft

August 12, 2010

FAA Adopts ICAO’s ‘Line Up and Wait’ Terminology

Current FAA terminology for an air traffic controller’s instruction for a pilot to taxi onto the runway and await takeoff clearance is “position and hold.”

ATC

August 12, 2010

GAO, DOT IG Concerned about FAA's NextGen

Each key FAA NextGen project has an individual "metric" to measure how its development is progressing.

ATC

August 10, 2010

Cathay Pacific To Order 30 A350 XWBs, Convert Purchase Rights for Six Boeing 777-300ERs

Cathay Pacific Airways has signed a letter of intent with Airbus covering 30 <link news/single-news-page/article/airbus-keeps-a350xwb-on-the-787s-tail-2541

Aircraft

August 4, 2010

Trajectory-based ops pair new tech and flying basics

Now that we’ve all gotten accustomed to acronyms like Rnav, RNP, LPV and all the others, the next big game changer will be TBO, for trajectory-based operat

ATC

August 2, 2010

Operators skewer proposed Long Island VFR routing

Public comments about the FAA’s proposed mandatory helicopter routing over New York’s Long Island are overwhelmingly negative, according to the Eastern Reg

ATC

August 2, 2010

FAA says Gulf TFR working

Helicopter traffic in the Gulf of Mexico has nearly doubled, to nearly 2,000 flights per day, since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded on April 20.

ATC

August 2, 2010