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Alenia boss: 'We will invest' in 90-seat turboprop
Alenia Aeronautica is committed to developing a 90-seat stretch of its regional turboprop family, with or without its ATR partner EADS.
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PICTURES: UAE receives first C-17 transport
The United Arab Emirates has taken delivery of the first of its six C-17 strategic transports during a ceremony at Boeing's Long Beach site in California ...
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Irish Govt scraps travel tax in return for increased traffic
Ireland's Government has agreed to abolish its controversial aviation tax in return for increased tourist traffic, prompting Dublin Airport Authority to...
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Crashed Merpati MA60 recorders sent to China
Indonesian investigators have sent the flight data and cockpit voice recorders from the crashed Xian Aircraft MA60 operated by Indonesia's Merpati Nusantara...
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Dutch navy receives mission planning system for NH90 fleet
The Royal Netherlands Navy has taken delivery of a mission planning and analysis system for its fleet NH90 helicopters ...
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Russian Helicopters suspends IPO
Russian Helicopters, the state-owned holding company that makes Mil and Kamov civil and military rotorcraft, has indefinitely suspended an
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Delta and Virgin Australia finally receive antitrust nod from the US
Nearly two years after they first applied for antitrust approval for a transpacific joint venture, US regulators have proposed to approve the tie-up between...
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Boeing ups 787-9 weights again
Boeing again has increased the maximum take-off weight (MTOW) of the 787-9 as it further refines the performance of the larger variant due in late 2013.
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RNP at mid-sized airports promises big benefits: GE
Deploying required navigation performance (RNP) approaches at 46 mid-sized airports that are not presently the focus of the US FAA's NextGen scheme could...
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UK cabin fume study finds no danger to crew or passengers
Fume events in aircraft cabins cause no danger to crew or passengers, the UK's Cranfield University has concluded, after it carried out a study involving 100 flights.
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PICTURES: UK's A330 tanker tests launch 'Voyager' of discovery
The Royal Air Force's new Airbus A330-based Voyager tanker/transport has begun receiver clearance testing in the UK ...
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EBACE: Superman vision in sight for future cockpits
Innovations in cockpit technology could bring an era of 'superman vision'
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EBACE: Your taxi is delayed
Europe's air taxi revolution never arrived. Was the economy alone to blame, or the concept itself flawed? Despite everything, some still believe in the dream
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Alenia Aeronautica plans to go it alone with MALE UAV project
Alenia Aeronautica is looking for a partner to develop a medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned air system to rival the Franco-British venture announced earlier this year by BAE Systems and Dassault Aviation.
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Phantom Ray flies again
Boeing has announced the second flight of its Phantom Ray demonstrator has taken place from NASA Dryden in California ...
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EBACE: New aircraft in the works
The financial crisis has not dampened the enthusiasm of business aviation's community of pioneers and their quest to rival established brands with innovative designs.
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EBACE: Corporate aviation safety management systems - a case study
SCE&G, a US-based energy utility company with a fairly new corporate flight department operating corporate services under Part 91, recently presented its own experience of setting up and operating a safety management system and operating according to industry best practice.
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Friction data gives false sense of security: Norwegian inquiry
Norwegian investigators believe that winter weather measurements give a false impression of accuracy, and that this misunderstanding contributes to incidents and accidents on slippery runways.
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Alenia Aermacchi boss: T-X will be duel between M-346 and T-50
Alenia Aermacchi believes its M-346 twinjet will be in a two-horse race with the Korea Aerospace Industries/Lockheed Martin T-50 for the US Air Force's T-X trainer requirement, with the competition kicking off in earnest with an "industry day" around the Paris air show.
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EBACE: Safety management and other safety regulation in business aviation
The Flight Safety Foundation has assessed global corporate aviation safety in 2010 as fairly good based on accident figures, but similar numbers have often been achieved in the past decade, so no serious claims for improvement can be made.