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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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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
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L-3 Trains Predator Operators
In May L-3 Link Simulation and Training division delivered the first five of seven Predator Mission Aircraft Training Systems (PMATS) to the U.S.
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Cargo carriers mulling how best to ship their packages
The delivery this month of the first Boeing 747-400F cargo aircraft to United Parcel Service (UPS) comes as the package hauler mulls its next move.
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MiG targets $4 billion in ’07 orders
In 2006, orders for Russian armaments totaled $30 billion, while aggregate military exports exceeded the target figure by 20 percent, setting a record of $
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Sky Warrior passes first flight
Earlier this month, the California-based General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.
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Tiger over the top
Getting in some early practice is this Eurocopter EC 665 Tigre, one of 24 rotary- and fixed-wing aircraft that will be flying in the daily display here.
Engines
MTU To Build Factory in Poland
German-based MTU Aero Engines is to build a new low-pressure turbine factory in Rzeszów, southeast Poland.
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787 Wing Ice System Testing To Begin
Flight-testing of the Boeing 787 electro-thermal wing ice-protection system, jointly devised by Boeing, GKN Aerospace and Ultra Electronics, is to begin fo
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Goodyear Tires for 737NG Aircraft
Boeing has awarded Goodyear Tire & Rubber, the world’s largest supplier of aircraft tires, a six-year contract to provide Flight Leader and Flight Radi
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Eclipse Fixes Coming; Service Center Opens Tomorrow
Eclipse Aviation will open its first factory-owned service center in Gainesville, Fla., tomorrow.
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A350XWB inspires Latécoère to expand
Leading French equipment maker Latécoère may take over one of the three sites for which Airbus is seeking a strategic industrial partnership under its Powe
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Maturing A380 on surer footing
Having promised so much and letting its A380 launch customers down so dismally with the news of serious program delays, Airbus is understandably cautious i
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Aeroflot to sign for A350s, if not here, then at MAKS
EADS expects to sign a firm contract with Aeroflot for 22 of the new Airbus A350XWB airliners here at the Paris Air Show this week, or perhaps at Moscow’s
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Nacelle tech keeps pace with engine advances
Manufacturers of nacelles and thrust reversers have no less interest in introducing new technology to their designs than do the suppliers of the engines in
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900ER not necessarily the end of the line
Quite possibly the last member of the best selling family of airliners in the history of the industry, the recently certified Boeing 737-900ER has at once
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Bombardier plans menu for aftermarket services
Bombardier’s business model for the C Series airliner family includes fleet management services along the lines of Boeing’s GoldCare program for the 787 th
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Engines will ultimately drive C Series outcome
The key to Bombardier’s still-pending decision on whether to go ahead with a $2 billion-plus investment in its projected C Series 110/130-seat regional air
