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Alenia Aermacchi outlines performance boost for C-27J
Alenia Aermacchi plans to introduce a widespread package of enhancements to its C-27 Spartan medium transport, which will become the baseline standard for the type from late 2017.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Boeing and Airbus up the ante in China
Boeing and Airbus have both moved to increase their industrial footprint in China
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: One year on, Virgin Galactic forging ahead with SpaceShipTwo endeavour
One year ago this month, Virgin Galactic’s pursuit of suborbital space tourism was put in jeopardy when its Scaled Composites-built SpaceShipTwo broke apart over the Mojave Desert just 13 seconds into its fourth powered flight.
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Tigerair A320 engine cowling falls off mid-flight
A Tigerair Airbus A320 was forced to return to Changi International airport on 17 October at 23:20 local time, after the cowling of the left engine had fallen off.
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Mitsubishi focuses on taxi tests before first flight
Mitsubishi Aircraft has disclosed that two pilots with military experience will be piloting the MRJ regional jet on its first flight next week.
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Lockheed F-35 heads to the polls in Canada
As Canada heads to the polls on Monday, Lockheed Martin F-35 backers will be quietly hoping for a conservative win after Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau came out against the troubled fighter programme while on the hustings, in favour of more spending on ships.
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Firefighters: 10 water-bombing amphibians
This week came the sad news that Bombardier has paused the CL-415 amphibious water-bomber programme pending further orders. In firefighting, true amphibians are an exclusive breed. Here are 10.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Has American-US Airways lived up to its promises?
American Airlines and US Airways announced their merger with much fanfare at Dallas/Fort Worth International airport on Valentines Day 2013.
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Wings arrive for first Spanish A400M
Madrid’s first of a contracted 27 A400M tactical transports is on track for delivery to the Spanish air force by mid-2016, says Airbus Defence and Space.
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Sky A319 becomes latest to suffer cowl loss
Chilean investigators are looking into an incident involving a Sky Airline Airbus A319 which returned to Santiago after losing an engine cowl.
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ANALYSIS: T-50 steadily accumulates export orders
South Korea’s indigenously developed trainer is steadily racking up export wins
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Opinion
OPINION: Will MH17 investigation report mean justice for all?
Formal confirmation that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was downed by surface-to-air missile may comfort some, but Moscow’s intransigence leaves little hope of finding those to blame
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K-Max carries out US federal government firefighting tests
Lockheed Martin and Kaman have demonstrated to US federal government departments the firefighting capabilities of the unmanned K-Max helicopter.
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Polish F-16s to join Israeli exercise
A deployment of some of the Polish air force's Lockheed Martin F-16s to Israeli bases as part of the forthcoming Blue Flag exercise will allow the service to evaluate some Israeli-made systems that are on its shopping list.
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First-flight target unchanged as MRJ ground tests near conclusion
Ground tests of the first Mitsubishi Regional Jet flight-test aircraft are close to completion ahead of a maiden sortie later this month.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Eva Air gives 787-10 boost in Asia-Pacific
Eva Air’s planned order for 24 Boeing 787-10 aircraft is an important boost for the variant in the Asia-Pacific region.
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CEO Garrison leaving Bell for non-aerospace company
Bell Helicopter chief executive John Garrison is leaving the company to take over the top leadership post at a non-aerospace company, parent Textron announced on 15 October.
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Boeing’s MOP bomb approaching second phase of redesign
Boeing can expected a sole-source contract for redesign, qualification and testing of the US Air Force’s largest non-nuclear penetrating bomb, the 13.6t GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP).
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Watchkeeper carries out sortie in controlled airspace
Thales’s Watchkeeper unmanned air vehicle has been successfully flown in controlled airspace under the jurisdiction of air traffic control for the first time, completing a 1h sortie in Wales on 30 September.