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Falcon 7X scores a double century
The 200th Falcon 7X has rolled off the production line at Dassault's Bordeaux-Merignac production facility in southern France where it is being readied for...
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Working Week: Steve Allright
Steve Allright is a Boeing 747 captain with British Airways and in his spare time - supported by his employer - works for an organisation which helps passengers...
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NASA selects four companies to study advanced SLS boosters
NASA has downselected four companies to work on advanced boosters for the Space Launch System (SLS), which will replace ex-Space Shuttle hardware to power...
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SkyWest expects more deals to follow MRJ order within six months
US regional carrier SkyWest Inc expects to conclude more deals for 70- and 90-seat aircraft within the next six months, following-up on its commitment to...
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Selex Galileo gets new order for Mirach 100/5 target drone
Selex Galileo has won a contract worth about $4.9 million to supply Mirach 100/5 target drones to an undisclosed customer ...
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Foreign carriers move fast to absorb Pluna's market gap
Latin American airlines are capitalising on the sudden grounding in late June of Montevideo-based Pluna, which transported a significant amount of connecting...
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Gol resumes international expansion
Brazil's second largest airline Gol has announced the launch of a number of new regional international routes after a year of systematically reducing its...
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Air Astana plots Asian growth path
Encouraged by the rapid success of recently opened regional routes, Air Astana will continue to expand its network in Asia. Chief executive Peter Foster...
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FARNBOROUGH: L-3 Wescam unveils lightweight sensor payload
L-3 Wescam has unveiled a new MX-10D sensor for carriage by light helicopters or fixed-wing aircraft ...
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FARNBOROUGH: BAE close to selling 1,000th Hawk trainer
BAE Systems is within weeks of pushing sales of its Hawk jet trainer through the 1,000 barrier ...
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FlightGlobal’s Sustainability at Farnborough programme - day 1
Every day during Farnborough 2022 FlightGlobal is producing daily programmes focused on the hottest topic of the show – sustainability.
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PICTURE: C295 makes first test flight with anti-ship missile
Airbus Military's C295 has been flown for the first time carrying an MBDA Marte Mk2/S anti-ship missile ...
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FARNBOROUGH: BAE Systems tests UAV auto-control system on Jetstream
BAE Systems is flying a modified Jetstream regional turboprop to test automatic flight control systems for unmanned air vehicles, which can fly - and in...
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Germany to extend operations with Heron 1 UAV
Germany is to continue using Israel Aerospace Industries Heron 1 unmanned air vehicles in Afghanistan until October 2014 under a two-year contract extension...
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PICTURES: First flying A350 nears final assembly
Airbus's first flying A350-900 prototype is nearing final assembly after its forward fuselage arrived at the line in Toulouse. The 21m (69ft) section,...
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Boeing makes progress on 737 Max backlog
Boeing's latest single-aisle product, the 737 Max, entered the industry's premier event this year faced with high - and perhaps even impossible - expectations.
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FAA should have issued GE CF6 directive in 2006: NTSB
The US National Transportation Safety Board says an engine fire on an American Airlines Boeing 767-300ER in February would not have occurred had the Federal...
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Burned FDR sets back Dana MD-83 dual-engine failure probe
Investigators probing the fatal Dana Air Boeing MD-83 approach crash to Lagos face a substantial hurdle to explain an apparent dual-engine failure on the...
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GE: CMCs may yield 1.5% fuel burn cut in Leap engines
Lightweight, high-temperature ceramic matrix composites will play a key role in the long-term evolution of CFM's Leap-X turbofan engine, ultimately yielding...
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Snecma prepares dual fan factories for Leap engines
By 2019, Snecma will be producing one CFM Leap engine composite fan blade every 30 minutes, or 32,000 per year, from two identical manufacturing centres...