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AUVSI: AeroVironment digital Puma nabs largest ever order
AeroVironment said on Tuesday that it has received its largest-ever contract for the company's Puma throwable unmanned aerial system.
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PICTURE: Brazilian air force receives final Caravan
Cessna has delivered its last aircraft from a new batch of nine 208B Caravan light transports to the Brazilian air force, taking the service's total inventory of the type to 32.
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PICTURE: First flight for TAI-built T129 attack helicopter
The first T129B attack helicopter to be manufactured by Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) made its flight debut from the company's Akinci-Ankara site on 17 August.
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AUVSI: AeroVironment looks to expand into VTOL
Building upon its work on a DARPA program, AeroVironment said on Tuesday that it intends to release an unmanned vertical takeoff and landing system in the...
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AUVSI: Europe gains new unmanned systems event
Clarion Events announced Tuesday that the event planner is bringing a new conference, called Unmanned Air Systems, that will be held in June 2012.
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Gulfstream G650 edges closer to certification
Gulfstream's G650, which saw its flight test programme disrupted by the 2 April fatal accident involving aircraft 6002, has completed a number of flight-test...
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AUVSI: Lockheed navigates leading edge with mono-wing research
Lockheed Martin's biologically inspired Samarai mono-wing rotorcraft flew publicly for the first time on Tuesday at AUVSI.
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BA recruitment drive aims to attract less well-off pilots
British Airways aims to broaden the pool of potential pilot recruits with its new Future Pilot Programme (FPP), which it claims will put an end to the situation in which only the rich can raise the finance to complete pilot training to airline level.
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AUVSI: Global Hawk operations update
Two Block 20 Global Hawk aircraft have been modified to accept the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN), a communications relay, Northrop Grumman...
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AUVSI: Firebird displays at Empire Challenge
Northrop Grumman's Firebird performed flawlessly at Empire Challenge, said Steve Nichols, program manager at the company.
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MAKS: Ilyushin aims to firm order for up to 30 CSeries this year
Lessor Ilyushin Finance intends to slot the Bombardier CSeries into the centre of its portfolio, to give it a broad family of aircraft with a degree of commonality. IFC...
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AUVSI: Marine Corps experiments with armed Shadow
The US Marine Corps has decided to experiment with arming the AAI RQ-7 Shadow, in a move that could lead to adding hundreds of unmanned air systems (UAS) to the weaponized fleet.
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MAKS: Tinseth bullish on further 787 sales in CIS as Dreamliner makes Russian debut
Boeing is confident of securing more sales for its 787 in Russia and neighbouring CIS countries, a market it reckons is worth $80 billion in the long term.
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Royal Air Maroc takes delivery of first ATR 72-600
European turboprop manufacturer ATR has handed over the first ATR 72-600 to launch customer Royal Air Maroc (RAM). The delivery, on 16 August, coincided...
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Cathay enters sale-leaseback deal with Deucalion Capital
Cathay Pacific Airways has entered a sale-and-leaseback deal for six Airbus A330-300 aircraft with Deucalion Capital.
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MAKS: Ilyushin Finance plans to take up to 30 CSeries
Russian lessor Ilyushin Finance has signed a tentative agreement to take up to 30 Bombardier CSeries twinjets, a potential landmark deal for the type.
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Bristow goes operational with TCAS for helicopters
Bristow Helicopters has begun operations using TCAS2 (traffic collision avoidance system) for the newer additions to its helicopter fleet.
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MAKS: Gazpromavia in line for 10 Superjets
Russian energy giant Gazpromavia is to sign for 10 Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft.
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Qantas says new strategy is key to its future
Qantas has said its new premium carrier in Asia will not result directly in Australian job losses, and that the company's new strategy is essential to the...
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MAKS: Kiev's Aviant plant turns to An-148 production
Antonov Design Bureau is preparing for a new production cycle at the adjacent KiGAZ Aviant aircraft manufacturing factory, following an investment in excess of $200 million in the three years since taking over the facility.