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Unidentified customers order 30 737s, six 777s
Boeing booked new orders for 30 737s and six 777 from one or more unidentified buyers during the week that ended on 16 December.
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FLIGHT TESTS: Our year at the controls
What's Flight without flying? Our test pilots had a busy year in 2014.
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Bid for Aer Lingus rejected: IAG
British Airways and Iberia parent IAG has confirmed that it submitted "a proposal to make an offer" for Aer Lingus but met rejection from the Irish flag carrier's board.
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Stop-gap SAR helicopters arrive at Bristow as AW189 approval nears
Bristow Helicopters has taken delivery of two new AgustaWestland AW139s as a potential stop-gap measure to help fulfill its contract with the UK government to progressively take over search and rescue activities from the military. beginning in 2015.
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Germany receives first A400M airlifter
Germany has taken delivery of its first A400M tactical transport, with its air force becoming the fourth to introduce the type.
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ANALYSIS: EC175 finally arrives just as civil helicopter market slows
Another blue-sky day in Marseille. No clouds mar the horizon, but a stiff breeze whips across the airfield, snapping out the bright orange safety tags attached to the helicopter’s rotorblades. The yellow-liveried aircraft – and its sister ship parked inside the nearby hangar – is an EC175; “the first brand-new ...
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SAR variant of new EC175 gathers momentum
Airbus Helicopters hopes to soon secure the first orders for the search and rescue variant of its new EC175, having proposed the 7.5t rotorcraft for several nascent requirements.
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Europe to begin testing of UAV-based maritime surveillance system
Tekever’s AR5 Life Ray Evolution unmanned air vehicle has been selected to participate in the testing of Europe’s first UAV maritime surveillance system, following a contract award from the European Space Agency and European Maritime Safety Agency.
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For the love of lists: Ten top 10s
When the going gets tough, the tough write things on a list; herewith the best of Flight’s 2014 news-inspired best-evers
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Embraer Legacy 500 receives European certification
Embraer has received European approval for its Legacy 500 business jet and is preparing to deliver the first midsize aircraft into the region during the first quarter of 2015.
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VIDEO: Dassault rolls-out ultra-long-range Falcon 8X
Dassault has rolled-out the first Falcon 8X during dedicated customer event at its 60-year old manufacturing facility at Bordeaux-Merignac.
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US aerospace sales to grow in 2015
The US Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) estimates that the country's aerospace industry sales will grow by 5.3% in 2015, but is not backing down on a call on the US government to boost defense spending.
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Australia, Japan tapped to maintain Asia-Pacific F-35s
The US Defense Department has chosen Australia and Japan to shoulder heavy airframe and engine maintenance for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II in the Asia-Pacific region beginning in 2018.
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NASA launches study for Skunk Works SR-72 concept
NASA has awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin to study the feasibility of building a hypersonic propulsion system for a concept intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft dubbed the SR-72 using existing turbine engine technologies.
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Seoul finalises $657 million Global Hawk purchase
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract worth more than $657 million to provide South Korea with a surveillance fleet of RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned air vehicles.
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ANALYSIS: US airlines gear up for another strong year
From Worst to First was the title of former Continental Airlines chief executive Gordon Bethune’s book on how he turned around the ailing airline in the 1990s, fast forward more than a decade and it is an appropriate description for the US airline industry among their global peers.
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South Korea picks Heron 1 for UAS requirement
South Korea is to purchase an undisclosed number of Israel Aerospace Industries Heron 1 unmanned air systems, following a decision taken by the nation's Defense Acquisition Program Administration.
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ANALYSIS: Can European carriers find profits momentum?
European airlines have strengthened their tentative grip on profits in 2014, but restructuring remains very much a work in progress for many.
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SpiceJet grounded as fuel companies cut supplies
Beleaguered Indian carrier SpiceJet has cancelled dozens of flights, apparently due to fuel companies’ unwillingness to refuel its aircraft.
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ANALYSIS: SpiceJet's winter of discontent
As 2014 comes to a close, it is difficult to imagine the folks at SpiceJet looking forward to a happy new year.