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Analysis
ANALYSIS: How increased profits spread across airlines in 2015
Profit levels and the immediate outlook ahead have never been better for airlines.
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Interview
INTERVIEW: Brussels Airlines chief executive Bernard Gustin
The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche famously said “that which does not kill us makes us stronger”, which seems a good epithet for the recent experience of Brussels Airlines.
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FBI calls off hunt for 727 hijacker 'DB Cooper'
Investigators from the FBI have suspended the effort to identify the hijacker who, in 1971, parachuted from the rear air-stair of an airborne Northwest Orient Boeing 727 after securing a $200,000 ransom.
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FARNBOROUGH: Airbus, R-R to jointly house Cathay's A350 parts
Airbus and Rolls-Royce have created an integrated parts availability service for Cathay Pacific's growing Airbus A350 fleet.
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FARNBOROUGH: Mahindra to produce AS565 parts in India
India’s Mahindra Aerostructures will produce airframe parts in Bengaluru for the Airbus Helicopters A565 Panther.
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FARNBOROUGH: Three shops tapped for MRJ MRO
Mitsubishi Aircraft has selected three MRO firms as preferred service providers on the Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ).
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FARNBOROUGH: Safran, HAL form engine MRO joint venture
Safran and Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) have formed an MRO joint venture in India to support two types of engines used on HAL-produced helicopters.
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PICTURES: LATAM's first A320neo rolls out at Airbus
LATAM Airlines Brazil will be the first South American operator of the Airbus A320neo, as the airframe rolls out at Airbus’ Toulouse facility with engines installed.
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FARNBOROUGH: Stalled sales forced A380 rate cut
Airbus’s decision to slash the production rate on the A380 is the inevitable result of a clash between long lead times for the type and the airframer’s policy of avoiding building ‘white-tail’ aircraft.
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FARNBOROUGH: Airbus to halve A380 output
Airbus is to halve its production output on the Airbus A380, aiming for just 12 deliveries annually from 2018.
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FARNBOROUGH: Norsk to open New York additive manufacturing plant
Component manufacturer Norsk Titanium will build in New York what it calls the world's first industrial-scale aerospace metal additive manufacturing plant.
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FARNBOROUGH: UTAS unveils OpsInsight electronic flightbag
UTC Aerospace Systems has unveiled a new integrated electronic flightbag system.
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FARNBOROUGH: KC-390's long way to show debut
Having flown for 13h, stopping at five airports on a journey spanning 4,500nm (8,320km), the Embraer KC-390 tanker-transport has probably made the longest journey to Farnborough. The company's first prototype – PT-ZNF – which has been flown from the Embraer facility in São José dos Campos, Brazil, is making the ...
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FARNBOROUGH: Thales to expand IFE business in Florida
Thales Group aims to create as many as 500 new jobs in Florida and invest more than $20 million in the US state over five years as part of an effort to expand its in-flight entertainment business, called InFlyt Experience.
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FARNBOROUGH: Gardner wins contracts from Airbus UK
Aerospace component manufacturer Gardner Aerospace has won new contracts and extensions to existing contracts from Airbus UK.
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FARNBOROUGH: L-159 set for Red Flag debut with Draken
Czech manufacturer Aero Vodochody is looking forward to its L-159 light attack aircraft taking part in a Red Flag-series exercise in the USA for the first time.
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FARNBOROUGH: Leonardo clarifies Yeovil's unmanned role
Although admitting it was “expecting to have a bigger role” in upgrading the British Army’s AH-64D Apache fleet, Leonardo's helicopter division believes the UK government still recognises its strategic importance.
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FARNBOROUGH: Parker acquires fuel vapour scrubbing system
Parker Aerospace has acquired rights to technology developed by Phyre Technologies that uses a catalytic process to make aircraft fuel tank vapours inert.
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FARNBOROUGH: Heron UAV to receive sense and avoid capability
Israel Aerospace Industries and Honeywell have teamed to provide a sense and avoid system for the former’s Heron unmanned air vehicle fleet; a development that could eventually lend itself to the former’s offering for the German air force.
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FARNBOROUGH: Textron advances UAV control innovation
Textron is working on a new ground control system that will be able to switch between its Aerosonde and Shadow unmanned air systems with merely the flick of a switch.