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IATA: Bombardier sees discounts key to CSeries traction
Bombardier executives say discounts for its flagship CSeries as key to gaining momentum for the programme, responding to criticism from Airbus executives.
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EgyptAir crash: French vessel detects possible locator signal
Search teams hunting for the flight recorders from the crashed EgyptAir Airbus A320 in the Mediterranean Sea have detected a possible locator signal.
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Magnetic MRO cleared to sell engine parts
Estonia's Magnetic MRO has been approved by the Aviation Suppliers Association to trade engine parts.
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NewsUSAF calls for a "penetrating counterair" study in 2017
The US military will lose air superiority by 2030 unless a host of new capabilities and sweeping changes to acquisition processes can be adopted and fielded within the next 14 years, including a new penetrating counter-air system, the US Air Force says in a newly-released strategy document.
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IATA: China Southern looks to more international growth
China Southern Airlines aspires to grow its share of international passengers, as it hopes that customers will choose its Guangzhou hub as a point of transit while travelling between Europe and Australasia.
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IATA: Adapting safety focus as operating environment changes
IATA has always taken safety and security seriously, but the emphasis has to alter subtly from time to time to take account of changes in the global operating environment. A quick glance at recent airline safety performance shows accidents are down, but disasters have still occurred and the terrorist threat ...
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NewsILA: Airbus introduces final RAF Voyager
The last example of the Royal Air Force’s 14-strong fleet of Airbus Defence & Space A330 Voyager tankers has made an appearance at ILA, fresh from being painted at Manching in Germany, and ahead of its planned delivery to manager AirTanker in July.
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IATA: Tyler corrals troops to champion carbon-offset deal
IATA director general Tony Tyler is delighted his members are congregating in Dublin this year, heralding Ireland as a great example of a country that embraces commercial aviation. And as he makes his last appearance as the association’s boss, Tyler acknowledges that 2016 is a crunch time for the world’s ...
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HAL basic trainer completes maiden sortie
Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) has undertaken the maiden flight of the Hindustan Turbo Trainer 40 (HTT-40) basic trainer.
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WestJet exercises nine Q400 options
WestJet has ordered nine Bombardier Q400 turboprops, exercising its remaining options for the aircraft.
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ILA: German airframer pitches Qatari-funded surveillance aircraft
Platform developer and producer Reiner Stemme Utility Air-Systems has debuted the new Q01 German-Qatari intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft for the first time outside of the Middle East, which is being funded by the Gulf state.
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NewsILA: Boeing and Sikorsky arrive in Germany to tout heavy-lift offerings
Boeing and Sikorsky are touting the benefits of their heavy-lift rotorcraft offerings to Germany in a bid to influence the decision on a replacement for the air force’s CH-53G.
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NewsILA: Aircraft Industries advances with new L410 turboprop development
Czech airframer Aircraft Industries’ Let L410 NG twin turboprop is in the midst of its certification campaign, with the manufacturer hoping to sell 10 examples of the type this year.
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NewsILA: Typhoon SOM study nears completion
Roketsan and Airbus Defence & Space’s feasibility study into the potential integration of the former’s Stand-Off Missile (SOM) onboard the Eurofighter Typhoon is some six months from completion, the manufacturer says.
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ILA: Hamburg's cluster philosophy
Hamburg may be best known in aviation circles for having one of Airbus’s two European final assembly lines but the region around the Finkenwerder plant is also home to the third biggest aerospace cluster in the world after Seattle and Toulouse, with 40,000 employees (counting Airbus) and some 300 suppliers, ...
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NewsLithium ion batteries fly again on A350-900
Battery supplier Saft has clarified that Airbus installed and delivered the first A350-900 equipped with rechargeable lithium-ion batteries to a customer at the end of last year.
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AnalysisIATA: New airline chief executives in the hot seat
This year’s IATA AGM in Dublin will see a number of new faces among the top tier of airlines, as several new and a few familiar ones have embarked on new roles.
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Israel prepares ground for F-35I testing
The Israeli air force's chief flight test engineer wants an early as possible delivery of its Lockheed Martin F-35 test asset, to expedite the process of adapting locally-produced weapon systems to the aircraft.
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Israel steps up interest in KC-46 tanker
Israel's air force has been briefed on the status of the US Air Force's in-development Boeing KC-46A tanker, and has an immediate request for at least two examples.
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H225 crash investigators focus on three possible causes
Investigators probing the 29 April fatal crash of an Airbus Helicopters H225 on Norway’s west coast have narrowed their focus to three possible causes for the main rotor separation that doomed the rotorcraft.