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PARIS: L-3 Communications faces new break-up pressure
L-3 Communications faces new pressure to break up the company after an activist investor group acquired enough shares on 22 June to become the company's largest shareholder.
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PARIS: AFI KLM E&M eyes GEnx and Trent XWB engine MRO
Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance plans to support General Electric GEnx or Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engines - or both of them. New-generation...
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PARIS: Ground manoeuvering concerns kept Saudi A330 tanker away
Airbus Military kept its A330 tanker away from Le Bourget due to concerns over restricted parking space ...
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PARIS: A400M buyers agree common support framework
Five partner nations for the A400M have agreed to support a common in-service configuration for the transport ...
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PARIS: Enhance Aero boosts footprint
French regional and business aircraft MRO provider Enhance Aero is growing its capacity with a new site in Italy and expansion plans at home.
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PARIS: Eurocopter flies upgraded Puma for RAF
Eurocopter has performed the first flight of an upgraded Puma transport for the UK Royal Air Force ...
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PARIS: Hamilton Sundstrand tests propeller
Hamilton Sundstrand has completed performance testing of its NP2000 propeller on a US Air Force Lockheed Martin C-130H, while operational evaluation of the eight-bladed prop on the New York Air National Guard'S LC-130's is almost complete
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PARIS: CFM racks up Paris orders over Pratt & Whitney
CFM International will walk away from Le Bourget with orders for more than 1,000 of its Leap next-generation narrowbody turbofans for the Airbus A320neo family.
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PICTURES: LOT revises livery as 787 makes Warsaw appearance
Polish flag-carrier LOT has unveiled a revised livery as it celebrated the arrival of a Boeing 787 at its Warsaw base. Its new colour scheme will strongly...
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Russia orders Tu-134 withdrawal after fatal crash
Russia is setting out a timetable to withdraw Tupolev Tu-134 aircraft from operation, days after the fatal loss of an airframe on landing at Petrozavodsk.
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PARIS: Swedish air force chief hails Gripen's role in Libya
Saab has been awarded the latest in a series of contracts to further development activities on its Gripen C/D fighter for the Swedish air force ...
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PARIS: ESA to fire up next-gen launcher
The European Space Agency, whose director general Jean-Jacques Dordain has described 2011 as ESA's "year of launchers", pushed that vision into the future by signing the Astrium-Avio-Snecma propulsion team to extend to a firing demonstration its work on a high-thrust cryogenic engine that could form the basis of ESA's next-generation ...
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PARIS: Raytheon delivers SeaVue XMC to US Customs
Raytheon has delivered the first production version of its SeaVue XMC maritime radar to the US Customs and Border Patrol for use on General Atomics Guardians.
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PARIS: A350-1000 diverges from commonality with sisters
Airbus's A350 programme manager estimates the A350-1000 will retain 70% commonality with the smaller A350-800/900 after changes have been made to the large twinjet to improve payload and range.
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PARIS: OEMServices takes Eaton and Hutchinson onboard
Eaton and Hutchinson Aerospace have become new partners of the France-headquartered component manufacturer MRO joint venture OEMServices.
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Eight more 787s fall off Boeing order book
Boeing's 787 order backlog has fallen by eight aircraft, although it is unclear which customer is responsible.
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PARIS: A320neo order analysis
Notwithstanding the need to firm up a large proportion of its order count, Airbus's success at the Paris air show has demonstrated positive market reception to the manufacturer's A320neo.
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Singapore Airlines takes wider aim with new strategy moves
a pact Goh Choon Phong has deliberately taken a low profile since becoming chief executive of Singapore Airlines at the start of the year, but two...
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PARIS: European customer orders 10 CSeries twinjets
Bombardier has secured another firm order for its CSeries programme, after an unidentified European customer booked 10 of its CS100 twinjets. It disclosed...
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Opinion
Comment: Singapore spring at IATA agm
A week, so the saying goes, is a long time in politics. And for outgoing IATA chief Giovanni Bisignani, it took just two days in Singapore, where airline...