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NewsSMBC Aviation Capital orders 80 737 Max 8s
SMBC Aviation Capital has ordered 80 Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft, the largest single order for the re-engined variant from a leasing company.
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NewsPICTURES: Boeing donates test 787-8 to Museum of Flight
Boeing has donated one of its original flight test 787-8s to the Museum of Flight in Seattle.
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NewsMorphing wings flight trials promise leap in efficiency – NASA
NASA morphing wing project aims for surge in aeroefficiency
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NewsRussian army Mi-26 helicopter saves lost polar bear cub
For a heart-warming – or least bear-warming – tale, consider the crew of a Russian army Mi-26 helicopter who stopped to save a lost polar bear cub
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NewsRussia tests engine for new bomber
Russian military aircraft engine designer Kuznetsov has announced completing bench tests of a new propulsion system in development for a next-generation bomber.
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OpinionOPINION: Virgin Galactic crash shows that big dreams mean big risk
Tragedy has struck space tourism a most cruel blow. First, the 31 October crash of SpaceShipTwo took the life of test pilot Mike Alsbury. Then, images of the in-flight break-up cast a calamitous cloud over the industry’s biggest and most important player – the Virgin Galactic/Scaled Composites team.
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NewsGood neighbours: Our Top 10 Anglo-French aviation projects
In the week that the UK and France advanced their ambitions to test a jointly-developed unmanned future combat air system, we take a look at the bilateral project, plus nine other notable examples of Anglo-French collaboration in the aerospace sector.
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NewsBA quickens retirement of 767 fleet
British Airways is to quicken the retirement of its Boeing 767s and has advanced slightly the delivery schedule of its Airbus A380 and Boeing 787 fleets.
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NewsRAF Reapers to double surveillance of Islamic State militants
The Royal Air Force has confirmed that it is planning to double the General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper unmanned air vehicle capability that it is currently operating over Iraq against Islamic State (IS) militants.
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China approves Nextant 400XTi twinjet
Nextant Aerospace has clinched Chinese approval certification for its 400XTi business jet, paving the way for the US airframer to deliver the first of the remanufactured light twin-engined types into the region early next year.
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IAG details harmonisation efforts across A320 fleets
IAG has detailed its efforts to cut costs by harmonise aircraft configurations across the short-haul fleets of its three operators.
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JetBlue plans three more international points
New York-based JetBlue Airways plans to add another three new international destinations by end-2015.
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NewsJetBlue unveils T5i at JFK
New York-based JetBlue Airways today unveiled an extension to its terminal at New York John F Kennedy airport that will handle the airline’s international flights from 12 November.
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NewsRaytheon launches flight tests of persistent close air support
Raytheon has started flight tests of the persistent close air support (PCAS) system, the third phase of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) effort to provide ground troops with faster, more accurate close air support.
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Bombardier third CSeries prototype to flight status
Bombardier flew the first CSeries prototype aircraft on 6 November for the first time in more than five months.
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NewsMH17 airframe to be reconstructed by inquiry team
Dutch investigators are to reconstruct a portion of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER which crashed in eastern Ukraine in July.
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All of Air Canada’s 777s to get international business class
Air Canada will outfit an additional seven 777-300ERs with international business class and premium economy seats, meaning it will eventually have three-class cabins on its entire fleet of 25 777-300ERs and 777-200ERs, the airline announces.
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NewsIndonesia celebrates double first with helicopter deliveries
Indonesia’s armed forces are celebrating a double first with the arrival of the initial examples of two new helicopters.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: NTSB will have no quick answers after Virgin Galactic crash
Structural failure – not a faulty rocket motor – has quickly emerged as a key focus of the investigation into the 31 October crash of the Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo that killed a test pilot and launched a new crisis for Virgin Galactic and the nascent suborbital space tourism industry.
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Debt woes continue at Finmeccanica as aerospace business stalls
Finmeccanica’s aerospace business has turned in a weak performance for the year to end-September, with sales essentially flat at €8.38 billion but profits (EBITA) slumping by a fifth to just €680 million as the bottom line slipped in every sector.