All aerospace news – Page 432
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Job Air Technic teams with Russian MRO for Ulyanovsk venture
Russian MRO provider T1 has partnered with the Czech peer Job Air Technic to create a technical support centre in Ulyanovsk.
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DHL Express receives first A330P2F freighter
DHL Express has taken delivery of the first Airbus A330 to be converted from passenger to freighter configuration.
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Airbus Helicopters axes H120 light-single
Airbus Helicopters has called time on its involvement in the short-light-single segment and has axed the H120 Colibri from its line-up.
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Boeing opens Global Services R&D lab in Germany
Boeing has established a research and development facility for digital services at subsidiary Jeppesen's site in Frankfurt.
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Airbus technology chief departs after 18 months in role
Airbus Group's chief technology officer Paul Eremenko is leaving to take up the same role at United Technologies after a short but eventful year-and-a-half-long tenure.
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PICTURES: A330-300P2F secures STC approval
Conversion specialist EFW has secured European supplemental type certification for the modified Airbus A330-300 passenger-to-freighter modification.
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UK government pledges £54 million for aerospace research projects
Seven aerospace research and development projects have been granted investment worth a total of nearly £54 million ($73 million) by the UK government in a bid to boost the country's aerospace sector.
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PICTURE: A330-800 enters final assembly
Airbus has commenced final assembly of the first A330-800, the smaller of the two variants of the re-engined A330neo.
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Paid contentINSIGHT FROM FLIGHTGLOBAL: Who’s Buying into Big Data?
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Airbus, Siemens, R-R plan hybrid flights by 2020
Airbus, Rolls-Royce and Siemens have teamed up to demonstrate a flyable hybrid-electric propulsion system on a British Aerospace 146 regional jet.
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LHT to maintain CFM56 engines for Mango
South African Airways' budget subsidiary Mango has selected Lufthansa Technik to overhaul the CFM International CFM56 engines powering Boeing 737NGs.
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ANALYSIS: Dublin Aerospace rules out UK as it scouts for new site
Irish MRO provider Dublin Aerospace is evaluating various international locations for expansion after a plan to establish a UK facility was abandoned as a result of Brexit.
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PICTURE: GE9X prepared for first flight on 747 testbed
A first-flight milestone for the GE9X turbofan is only weeks away after GE Aviation completed installing the 339cm (133.5in)-diameter turbofan on the Boeing 747-400 testbed.
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Textron launches Beech 1900-sized SkyCourier with FedEx order
Textron Aviation has unveiled and launched the twin-engined Cessna 408 SkyCourier with a surprise order by FedEx for up to 100 aircraft worth $550 million at list price, in a move that reinserts the company into a market segment once occupied by the Beech 1900.
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Airbus names successor to 'living legend' Leahy
Airbus's highly-regarded veteran sales chief, John Leahy, is to be succeeded by Rolls-Royce civil aerospace president Eric Schulz next year.
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Lufthansa details 777X business-class seating
Lufthansa has revealed details of its next business-class seat, to be introduced on the airline's on-order Boeing 777X twinjets.
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NAVAIR studies plugging MQ-25 ground system into carrier ATC
As three companies continue vying for the contract to develop the MQ-25 Stingray, the US Navy is quietly making progress with the design of the carrier-based, unmanned tanker aircraft’s mission control system.
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Investor to take large shareholding in Adria MRO parent
Czech investment firm Hartenberg Holdings is to take a 50% shareholding in the parent of maintenance company Adria Airways Tehnika and its sister firm Linetech.
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Russian windtunnel tests wing for proposed long-haul jet
Russian analysts have conducted windtunnel tests to verify the performance of the preliminary wing design of a proposed long-haul widebody aircraft.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Boeing invests to mitigate long-term disruptive threats
Despite sitting atop a duopoly enjoying the longest, uninterrupted run of annual growth in history, Airbus and Boeing executives seem gripped by a heightened sense of healthy paranoia these days.