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AAR to open Duluth MRO facility by year's end
AAR will open its new maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility at Minnesota's Duluth International Airport by the end of the year, the company says. The...
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SpaceX aims big with massive new rocket
Launcher developer SpaceX has promised a new engine for a new rocket, larger than the Falcon 9 that NASA expects to become a mainstay of its Earth orbit...
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Air France decentralises into eight business units
A shake-up of Air France's corporate structure will see the carrier decentralised into eight separate business units from 1 January 2013, says chief executive...
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Adria Tehnika aims to expand after cash injection
Slovenia's maintenance provider Adria Airways Tehnika has received a cash injection from its state owners to turn around the ailing business within one year....
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Bombardier starts final assembly of first CSeries flight aircraft
Bombardier has started assembling the fuselage of the first CSeries flight test vehicle (FTV-1) and begun the process of mating the wings to the static test...
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Azerbaijan Airlines to add daily Heathrow flights
Azerbaijan Airlines will start daily services from Baku to London Heathrow airport on 28 October. The new route will be operated with an Airbus A320,...
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NewsPICTURES: Qinetiq introduces modified RJ100
Qinetiq has formally commissioned a modified Avro RJ100 into its fleet, with a smaller RJ70 to follow in 2014 ...
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Virgin in talks about feeding Heathrow airlines hit by BMI demise
Virgin Atlantic is aiming to plug the connectivity gap left at its London Heathrow hub by the British Airways/BMI merger and is in talks with the carriers...
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Northrop, Elbit to flight test terrain-following system for C-130
Northrop Grumman and Elbit Systems are offering a new terrain-following/terrain-avoidance system for use with Lockheed Martin's C-130 ...
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NewsRaytheon offers Rafael Sparrow targets for US missile defence tests
Raytheon and Israel's Rafael are to market the latter's Sparrow series of targets to the US Missile Defense Agency ...
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NewsSriwijaya pilots grounded after landing at wrong airport
Indonesian investigators have opened an inquiry after pilots from local carrier Sriwijaya Air landed at the wrong destination. Both the captain and...
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NewsIsraeli air force boss grounds fighters to highlight safety
The Israeli air force grounded all of its fighting squadrons for one day on 14 October, following a series of safety incidents ...
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AFI plans new composite repair shop in Paris
Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance (AFI KLM E&M) is planning to build a new composite repair facility in Paris. The maintenance, repair...
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Kuwait orders CAE simulator for KC-130J tankers
CAE will supply the Kuwait air force with a full mission simulator to support operations with its future fleet of three Lockheed Martin KC-130J tankers ...
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Russian navy to buy Ka-62 maritime helicopters
Russia's navy is to acquire a navalised version of the Kamov Ka-62 light utility helicopter by 2014 to serve on its Project 20380-class frigates ...
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NewsIN FOCUS: USAF targets long-range strike bomber
The Long Range Strike-Bomber programme is the centrepiece of the Pentagon's emerging 'AirSea Battle' mission to ensure US forces can hold any point on Earth
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NewsVictor launches global push
Business jet aggregation and seat-trading website Victor has expanded its business worldwide, increasing the number of routes covered from 440,000 to 400...
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NewsIN FOCUS: Russian's next-generation bomber takes shape
Confirmation came on the occasion of the Russian air force centennial celebrations in August. Addressing media, air force commander-in-chief Lt Gen Victor Bondarev revealed that development of a new strategic bomber, the PAK-DA, had commenced.
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Kingfisher extends grounding to 20 Oct as DGCA deadline looms
India's Kingfisher Airlines has extended its grounding to 20 October. The airline grounded its fleet and stopped operations on 1 October after several...
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NewsVIDEO: Skydiver Felix Baumgartner breaks sound barrier, altitude record
Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner today became the first human to break the sound barrier in free fall after jumping from a record altitude of nearly 128,000ft.