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PARIS: Embraer and Elta team on P600 AEW aircraft
Embraer and Israel's Elta Systems have launched at Paris the P600 AEW, an airborne early warning variant of the Brazilian manufacturer's Praetor 600 super-midsize business jet.
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PARIS: Cranfield fund-raising for new flying lab
Cranfield University is at the show spreading the word about its fund-raising effort for a new flying laboratory. The UK aviation educational institution is replacing its 35-year-old British Aerospace Jetstream 31, which it has used to give students experience of a flight test environment for the past 16 years.
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NewsPARIS: Largest show on record with over 2,450 exhibitors
This year’s Paris Air show – the 53rd outing in its 110 year history – is the biggest ever, with the number of exhibitors at the longest-running and largest aerospace event in the world exceeding 2,450. “We sold out within weeks of opening the booking in October 2018,” says ...
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NewsPICTURES: Honeywell, Safran offer sky taxi commonalities
Safran and Honeywell are building parts for the nascent urban air mobility industry with the aim of serving common needs for the diverse array of aircraft concepts.
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Daher snaps up US firm Quest Aircraft
Daher, the manufacturer of the TBM line of high-speed turboprops, is to acquire USA-based Quest Aircraft, which makes the Kodiak 100 short take-off and landing aircraft.
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KAI to supply wings for Gulfstream G280
Korea Aerospace Industries will supply the wings of the Gulfstream G280 business jet for the first time, after it inked a deal with Israel Aerospace Industries for a period of about 11 years.
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Lilium picks London as its software engineering hub
German electric aircraft developer Lilium is to base its software engineering hub in London to take advantage of what the company calls “the rich pool of talent” in and around the UK capital.
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PICTURE: NFT unveils Aska eVTOL flying car
US start-up Next Future Transportation (NFT) has unveiled a one-sixth-scale model of its electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) flying car, which it hopes will become leading player in the nascent urban air mobility (UAM) market and revolutionise point-to-point transport for many thousands of travellers.
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NewsCalifornia's Ampaire demonstrates parallel hybrid Cessna 337
A Cessna 337 Skymaster powered partly by an electric motor flew on 6 June from a California airport, demonstrating a prototype propulsion system that manufacturer Ampaire hopes to deploy commercially by 2021.
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Tamarack files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
Emergency airworthiness directives in Europe and the USA related to Tamarack Aerospace's Atlas active winglet system equipping certain Cessna Citation jets have pushed the Idaho-based supplier into seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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NewsHoneywell and Vertical Aerospace team up on eVTOL design
Honeywell has joined forces with UK electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft developer Vertical Aerospace to address what it calls "the technical, regulatory and business challenges of the emerging urban air mobility (UAM) segment".
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Alaka'i unveils concept for hydrogen-powered electric aircraft
Massachusetts aerospace company Alaka'i Technologies has thrown its hat into the urban air mobility ring, announcing development of an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft powered by hydrogen fuel cells.
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NewsWheels Up acquires US charter company TMC
US membership-based private aircraft firm Wheels Up has acquired charter operator Travel Management Company (TMC) in a move designed to broaden its fleet of “high quality” light business jets and enhance the service offering for its 5,000+ members.
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NewsFlexjet launches by-the-day-based fractional programme
Flexjet, the world's second-largest fractional ownership operator, has introduced a by-the-day-based programme for the Gulfstream G650. The move is designed to give greater flexibility to shareholders of the ultra-long-range business jet and help boost the company's share of the high-end private jet travel market.
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INTERVIEW: Management with a personal touch
Robert Coleman is general manager for Vertis Aviation's US office. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, he is spreading the word about the aircraft charter broker and building its business throughout the Americas
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EmbraerX proposes air traffic control framework for air taxis
Embraer has laid out details of an air traffic control infrastructure it says must be in place before the urban air taxi concept can evolve to reality.
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NewsGama plots MRO expansion with new flagship facility
Gama Aviation – one of the largest business aviation services providers in the world – has its eyes set on rapid expansion in the maintenance sector, and sees the recent opening of a new flagship facility in Bournemouth, UK as crucial to achieving that ambition.
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Textron showcases flush line-up of in-development jets and props
Textron Aviation has no shortage of products to highlight at this year's EBACE, including its flagship Cessna Citation Latitude and a rich development pipeline.
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Inmarsat increases Jet ConneX speeds by a third
Satellite company Inmarsat has upgraded its Jet ConneX Ka-band business aviation in-flight broadband solution to make it one-third faster and provide customers with unlimited data.