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ANALYSIS: Emirates' Trent selection gives Rolls the A380 lead
Emirates’ decision to switch to Rolls-Royce engines for its latest batch of Airbus A380s nudges the UK manufacturer ahead of rival Engine Alliance, although the lead amounts to fewer than a dozen aircraft.
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ANALYSIS: Sharp eye and laser blasts promise to clean up space junk
Spacecraft, by nature, are delicate machines; they are certainly not designed cope with being hit by an exploding hand grenade
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AnalysisANALYSIS: TAI sets sights on export market
Just over 40 years ago, the government in Ankara embarked on a venture that was intended to transform the Turkish military from being largely dependent on foreign-sourced weapon systems by creating a capable national defence industry.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Can infrastructure catch up with Turkey's burgeoning air transport?
Arrive at Istanbul’s Ataturk International – all too often after passing time in a holding pattern over the city’s western reaches – and you get a clear impression of an infrastructure straining to accommodate the ambitions of the country’s aviation sector. The gateway to Turkey’s biggest metropolis does not have ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Fuel benefits outweigh currency headwinds at Delta
Delta Air Lines continues to see a strong financial year in 2015, despite mounting headwinds in international markets.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Has the bubble burst for China's business aviation sector?
China’s business aircraft market grows up China is still an immense private jet market, but a glut of new aircraft and a changing political and economic outlook are weighing on private jet sales.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: International growth focused on largest US markets
Much has been made about the new generation of widebody aircraft opening up new international gateways in cities like Austin, San Diego and San Jose, with routes to faraway cities like London and Tokyo.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Airlines reap benefits of cheap funding for now
Strong capital markets are proving to be a boost for airlines looking to raise capital this year, but this strong market sentiment should be met with guarded optimism as the financial recovery is anything but ordinary.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Geared turbofans usher P&W into Big Data era
By 2030, tens of thousands of Pratt & Whitney geared turbofans will be generating a staggering amount of data along with thrust. The combined fleet will stream 12 petabytes – equivalent to 12 million gigabytes – to servers on the ground every year, with each engine capturing 50 times the ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Recovering eurozone markets driving April growth
April data from Flightglobal’s schedules specialist Innovata shows a number of EU airports, in particular Greek capital Athens, making up lost ground from the recession as airlines lift their capacity
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AnalysisANALYSIS: France's ISAE studies reasons for pilot error
Pilots make mistakes. Mistakes are a product of the brain. If it were possible to identify the common neurological precursors for pilot errors, it might be possible to prevent them.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Novaer develops new trainer, utility aircraft for world market
Privately-owned Novaer Craft’s thirty-odd employees temporarily operate from rented offices in a rather rundown office park positioned at the very edge of the São José dos Campos aerodrome. The location – adjacent to Embraer headquarters – is appropriate. Founded and managed by ex-Embraer employees, Novaer trusts that its new side-by-side, ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: How Europe's hardest-hit airports are driving growth
Some of the European markets hardest hit by the recession, compounded by the debt and currency crisis in the eurozone that accompanied it, are now leading the pace of growth in the region.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: L-3 spurs ADS-B hopes for GA with low-cost Lynx
Five years ago, the US Federal Aviation Administration set a very ambitious goal. By 31 December 2019, any pilot operating in controlled airspace must carry a system compliant with automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) out that continuously transmits the aircraft’s identify and precise position.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Has the light sport aircraft market lived up to expectations?
Sun-n-Fun in April 2015 will mark the 10th anniversary of the introduction of the light-sport aircraft sector in the USA. Both Evektor and Flight Design obtained their S-LSA certificates on the opening day of that 2005 show. Conceived by the FAA as a way to bring ultralights under FAA ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Preparing for a connectivity revolution
Like the air we breathe, access to wi-fi is increasingly seen as a necessity to get us through the day. Gone are the days when airline passengers were content to be incommunicado during their time on board an aircraft.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: What will a Delta-Aeromexico joint venture offer?
A planned joint venture between Delta Air Lines and Aeromexico will create a competitor on US-Mexico routes that can challenge the dominance of United Airlines and American Airlines, say Delta and Aeromexico.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Pegasus fights for international recognition
Turkey's second airline, Pegasus, is predicating its fleet expansion plans on how rapidly it receives new traffic rights to countries in the former Soviet Union, the Middle East and North Africa, and acknowledges that its struggle to be taken seriously by the government is ongoing.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: KC-390 lifts expectations in Brazil
Embraer has a long tradition of identifying – and succeeding in – unattended market niches. Over the years, they have done this with regional turboprops and jets, turboprop trainers and counter-insurgency aircraft, airborne early warning aircraft, light business jets and now the mid-range military transport segment, where the Lockheed C-130 ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Gol's net loss echoes Latin American challenges
Depreciation of the Brazilian real and weakening corporate demand have impacted Gol's 2014 financial results, mirroring the challenges faced by other South American carriers last year.