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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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Socata To Make A330-200F’s Nose Fairing
EADS Socata said Airbus has selected it to manufacture the nose fairing for the A330-200F freighter.
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Avianca Places $500M CFM Engine Order
Adding to impressive sales tallies announced here this week, engine maker CFM said it landed South America’s Avianca as a customer for the CFM56B-5B engine
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Airliner buying spree unabated
This week’s spate of large-airliner orders, many confirming previous announcements, continued on Wednesday as Airbus and Boeing unveiled further business.
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Rolls-Royce working on new two-shaft engine
Rolls-Royce has revealed exclusively to Aviation International News details of an entirely new family of two-shaft engines under development to power busin
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NetJets buys new Cessnas worth $1B
NetJets, the founder of fractional aircraft ownership and the world’s biggest purchaser of business jets, put some more distance between itself and mere ma
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Saudi deals done for helos and Typhoons
Saudi Arabia and the UK have already concluded the huge contract for 72 Eurofighter Typhoon combat jets that has been in negotiation for 18 months, informe
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Sukhoi set to defend itself in the global export market
Sukhoi plans to supply 30-odd combat aircraft this year and sell more than $1.5 billion worth of its products, said Mikhail Pogosyan, the company’s general
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Thales unveils UK Watchkeeper, joins Dassault on French UAV
The final configuration of the Thales Watchkeeper UAV for the British Army is unveiled here, outside the Thales pavilion.
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Grumman testing new E-2D Hawkeye
As the final E-2C Hawkeye 2000 proceeds down the Northrop Grumman production line at St.
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Embraer Cuts Legacy Maintenance Costs
Embraer has completed a new revision of the Legacy 600 business jet’s maintenance planning guide.
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Northrop Grumman Thwarts Missile
Northrop Grumman’s laser directional infrared countermeasure (DIRCM) system has successfully thwarted simulated heat-seeking missile attacks on an AH-64D A
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Boeing sees need for 28,600 new jetliners over next 20 years
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UAV paraglider could replace current drones
French-based Flying Robots is here showing an unusual unmanned air vehicle (UAV) that looks like a paraglider with a powered payload.
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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.
Aircraft
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
Aircraft
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’
