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PICTURE: Boeing's 737 Max arrives for Farnborough debut
The Boeing 737 Max 8 arrived at Farnborough on 6 July ahead of its debut at this year's international air show.
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PICTURES: China inducts Y-20 strategic transport
The Chinese air force has officially inducted the Xian Y-20 strategic transport.
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GA ASI starts assembling first new Predator B variant
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA ASI) has started assembling the fuselage and systems of a new variant of the Predator B unmanned air system (UAS) that is designed to meet existing airworthiness requirements.
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First Bell 525 test aircraft crashes, killing crew
Bell Helicopter has confirmed the first test aircraft in the 525 Relentless programme crashed in central Texas on 6 July, killing two company test pilots and setting back a year-long effort to certificate the first application of fly-by-wire technology in a commercial helicopter.
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Metal Master begins engine ground runs on Flaris LAR-1 personal jet
Polish engineering company Metal Master has started engine ground runs on the Williams International FJ33-5A-powered Flaris LAR-1 personal jet, and is preparing the five-seat single for its first flight in the third quarter
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RAF reveals VIP-configured Voyager
The Royal Air Force’s VIP-roled Airbus Defence & Space A330 Voyager has been revealed ahead of its first deployment – transporting the UK defence secretary Michael Fallon to a NATO summit in Warsaw on 8 July.
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FARNBOROUGH: Airbus battles to get A400M back on track
Airbus’s military transport aircraft unit will arrive at the Farnborough air show amid an unwelcome gearbox crisis linked to its poster-child A400M – a model for which adding promised tactical capabilities was already proving harder than expected.
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Pilatus delivers 1,400th PC-12
Pilatus has delivered its 1,400th PC-12, around 22 years after the first example of the single-engined turboprop entered service.
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Hot shutdowns led to CS100 engine-test explosion: inquiry
Canadian investigators have traced an explosion and uncontained engine failure on a Bombardier CS100, during ground tests, to an oil-feed tube seal failure, resulting from misinterpretation of shutdown procedures.
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FARNBOROUGH: Boeing bids to redeem in-service record with 787-9
Redemption is not a word often associated with the introduction of new aircraft models, but the entry into service of the 787-9 nearly two years ago was anything but a typical event.
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FARNBOROUGH: Lord looks to future with French fly-by-wire acquisition
It has been a year of mixed fortunes in aerospace for Lord. Like most suppliers to commercial airliner manufacturers, the US corporation headed into Farnborough with the “nice problem” of having to ramp up fast to deliver on a large backlog of contracts for Airbus and Boeing aircraft. It has ...
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FARNBOROUGH: Bionic design emerges from Airbus 3D printers
Machining aircraft parts out of giant metal billets is time-consuming, wasteful of material and very expensive – but still, for the most part, necessary. Despite significant advances in the past two decades, autoclave-cured composite parts remain usually more expensive to build than metallic equivalents. Additive manufacturing – so-called 3D printing ...
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NetJets takes delivery of milestone Latitude
Fractional ownership company NetJets has taken delivery of its first Cessna Citation Latitude, and added a further 50 options to its 2012 order for 150 of the midsize business jets.
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FARNBOROUGH: Rolls-Royce ramps up testing on next-generation programmes
The next 18 months are destined to be a busy period for Rolls-Royce’s research and development engineering teams as the UK-based engine manufacturer ramps up test activities on its next generation of turbofan engines.
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Capital Air Ambulance plots European expansion
Capital Air Ambulance, the UK’s largest fixed-wing medical evacuation company, is planning to grow its share of the European market by expanding its fleet and operational bases.
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Ross Aviation relaunches with the acquisition of six FBOs
US fixed-base operator (FBO) chain Ross Aviation has been resurrected by its former owner, two years after the company was snapped-up by business aviation services provider Landmark Aviation for an undisclosed sum.
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Piper M500 nears European approval, with M600 to follow
Piper Aircraft is confident it will secure long-awaited European Aviation Safety Agency certification for its M500 single-engined turboprop in July, ending a 20-month wait for approval.
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SITA OnAir to assist Rolls-Royce engine health monitoring
Rolls-Royce has chosen SITAONAIR technology to collate and distribute engine health monitoring data.
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FARNBOROUGH: Airbus sets stage for A350-2000 launch decision
Only one piece remains missing in the long-term portfolios of Airbus and Boeing widebody products as the two companies enter the Farnborough air show – and it could remain purposefully obscure for at least a while longer.
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INTERVIEW: Air BP in São Paulo prepares to fuel the Olympics
As Brazil enters the run-up to the Olympics, Air BP prepares to support the games through aviation fuelling. Eliana Mendes is Air BP’s operations manager at Guarulhos International airport, the main airport serving São Paulo. She is one of the few women in this role in the country.