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EADS TO EXTEND POWER8 PROGRAMME RESTRUCTURING Airbus owner EADS is to extend its cost-cutting programme in a bid to diminish...
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Mergers still in full swing
Gloom and doom is not just fashionable in aerospace these days - with a credit crisis, general downturn and rocketing fuel prices a cloudy outlook seems entirely rational. But from the perspective of some investment bankers, times are good.
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Kingfisher goes international
Kingfisher is launching international operations with a bang as it takes 10 widebodies and shifts A320s from domestic Fresh from completing its merger...
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Mooney chooses RR500 turboprop for new product development
Mooney Airplane Company is to flight test the new Rolls-Royce RR500 turboprop engine to evaluate it as a customer option...
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Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo rocket motor options revealed
Paraffin and asphalt based-solid fuels for the SpaceShipTwo (SS2) rocket motor have been tested by Virgin Galactic's prime contractor Scaled Composites. Speaking...
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Good Week - Bad Week
airbus The airframer managed to record a first-half EBIT of €712 million ($1.12 billion), up from just €19 million in the first half of 2007 - despite a...
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Investigators suspect oxygen tank explosion in Qantas 747 probe
Investigators probing the 25 July fuselage rupture and rapid decompression...
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Airbus seals Laupheim site sale with Diehl/Thales
Airbus has finalised the sale of its Laupheim cabin interiors plant to its preferred bidder, a partnership between Diehl and Thales, under a deal which includes major packages of A350 XWB work.
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Israel makes request to buy 9 C-130Js, swelling Lockheed's backlog
The US government today announced plans to sell 9 Lockheed Martin C-130J-30 to Israel only two days after disclosing another proposed sale of six C-130Js to Iraq.
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PICTURE: Qantas puts business and premium economy seating on A380 upper deck
Qantas has followed the example of Singapore Airlines for its Airbus A380 cabin-configuration plan,...