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EBACE: GE Aviation Prague centre of excellence readies for Advanced Turboprop
With its mix of brand-new, five-axis CNC equipment and hand-cranked milling machines – some dating from just after the Second World War – a tour of GE Aviation’s Prague facility highlights the journey the one-time Walter Aircraft Engines has been on since becoming the US business’s first overseas fully integrated ...
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Flydubai crash probe completes cockpit recording transcript
Russian investigators have completed transcription work on the cockpit exchanges between the pilots of the Flydubai Boeing 737-800 which crashed at Rostov-on-Don.
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ISTAT: Jeju Air targets 40 aircraft by 2019
Jeju Air plans to grow its fleet of Boeing 737-800s to about 40 aircraft by 2019, says director of planning Hyuk Park.
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NewsSaab ready to reveal first Gripen E
Saab is on course to conduct the first flight of its lead Gripen E test aircraft before year-end, with the jet to be revealed at its Linköping site in Sweden on 18 May.
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Tigerair Australia signs with SIAEC for A320 heavy maintenance
Tigerair Australia has entered into a two-year heavy maintenance agreement with SIA Engineering (SIAEC) covering its 14 Airbus A320s.
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NewsUS Army picks Special Forces gear as ‘interim’ DVE capability
The US Army is in contract negotiations with Sierra Nevada Corporation as it prepares to field an interim degraded visual environment (DVE) capability based on US Special Operations Command’s DVE Pilotage System.
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NewsSenate committee votes to disband F-35 JPO
Three weeks after a prominent member called the size of the F-35 joint programme office (JPO) “disturbing”, the Senate Armed Services Committee has proposed to disband the organisation just as an $8 billion follow-on modernisation programme is taking shape.
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NewsGE Aviation enters experimental, kit-built market
GE Aviation is entering the market experimental-rated kit-built aircraft, supplying the H80 turboprop for a high-performance remake of the Turbine Aircraft Legend.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: UK helicopter training looks to make synthetic shift
In 2014, the Royal Air Force’s chief of air staff, ACM Andrew Pulford, said that “without any doubt” more of the UK forces' training had to be simulated, moving away from a reliance on live flying.
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PICTURE: A350-1000 on track for first flight this year
The first Airbus A350-1000, which is now structurally complete in Toulouse, is on course to make its first flight by year-end as it moves through the final-assembly process.
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NewsFirst Italian air force G550 arrives in Israel for AEW mods
The first of two Gulfstream G-550 business jets for the Italian air force have arrived at Israel Aerospace Industries’ facilities, ahead of reconfiguration into an airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft.
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SA Express studies MRO options after operational restart
South African regional carrier SA Express is discussing a potential cooperation with defence manufacturer Denel's maintenance arm as part of evaluations about the airline's future MRO strategy.
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EBACE: Embraer caps 16-year run with 1,000th delivery
Sixteen years is not such a long time in the aviation business. It might only cover the entire production of a single aircraft type, such as the Cessna Citation CJ2, for instance, which ceased production in January after a 16-year run.
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ANALYSIS: The mixed fortunes of all-business class services
At the start of the 21st century, the only all-business class service was Concorde. Now – after a short-lived flurry of all-premium transatlantic start-ups in the mid-2000s – a second wave is having mixed success. Those who appear to be making the model work – albeit in a modest way ...
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Star partners SAA and Avianca Brazil launch codeshare
Star Alliance partners South African Airways and Avianca Brazil have launched codeshare operations.
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InterviewINTERVIEW: IAG chief executive Willie Walsh
Five years ago Willie Walsh set out on a mission to reinvent the airline merger as he brought two fiercely independent international flag carriers – British Airways and Iberia – into single ownership under the International Airlines Group umbrella.
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ANALYSIS: Is business aviation in Europe headed for a triple-dip?
Is it third time unlucky for business aviation in Europe? In less than a decade, the sector has experienced two sharp downturns in traffic – once in the midst of the global crisis of 2009, and again in 2011 and 2012 after a short-lived rebound. Now, as the sector prepares ...
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Cathay to take first A350 on 27 May
Cathay Pacific has confirmed that it will take delivery of its first Airbus A350-900 in Toulouse on 27 May, after several push backs from an initial delivery schedule of February.
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Interview
INTERVIEW: George Galanopoulos, managing director, London Executive Aviation
George Galanopoulos, managing director, London Executive Aviation
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NewsGermany seeks pricing for 41 CH-53K King Stallions
The US government is preparing a response to Germany’s letter of request for pricing and availability of 41 heavy-lift Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion helicopters to begin replacing the 80 G-models the country currently operates.