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Business - bad week
NEWFREIGHTERSNippon Cargo Airlines (NCA) has been forced to put two nearlynew Boeing 747-400 Freighters into desert storage after failing to find a lessee....
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Business - good week
GKN First-half aerospace sales soared by 64% to $770 million ($1.3 billion) and trading profit jumped 68% to £79 million; underlying sales were up 5%, but...
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Opinion
Comment: Europe should have a common, higher transition altitude
Europe needs to drop disparate national transition altitudes and standardise. Ideally it should be done throughout, but regional change would be a start,...
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Opinion
Comment: Russian revolution
The Superjet 100 and MS-21 all-new single aisle will play crucial roles in the re-invention of a once mighty aerospace nation looking to again be a major player in the airliner industry
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AUVSI: Lockheed/Kaman team and Boeing to face off for cargo UAV contract
The US Marine Corps announced on the eve of the convention that the Boeing A160T Hummingbird and the Lockheed Martin/Kaman K-MAX helicopters will compete...
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AUVSI: Boeing, Schiebel poised to reveal S-100 tie-up
Boeing is likely today to announce the Schiebel S-100 unmanned helicopter as a new partner in the UAV market. Although the company has not confirmed...
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Southwest eager to keep Lynx feed in Denver
Southwest Airlines appears keen to retain the feed currently supplied by Frontier Airlines' subsidiary Lynx if the Dallas-based carrier is successful in...
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AUVSI: Goodrich demonstrates miniature SWIR camera
Goodrich (booth 837) is demonstrating its shortwave infrared (SWIR) sensor package for unmanned air vehicles - a miniaturized version of the SYERS II camera...
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AUVSI: Heron lease deal for El Salvador
Many potential users of unmanned air vehicles prefer the leasing of systems rather than purchasing them, says Israel Aerospace Industries. The company adds...
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AUVSI: Freewave launches new micro radios
FreeWave Technologies (booth 109) has announced additions to its MM2 family of high-performance, tiny-form factor radios, the MM2-M13 and the MM2-MU. The...
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Southwest increases and finalizes Frontier bid
Southwest Airlines submitted today a binding cash offer of more than $170 million for rival Frontier Airlines ahead of the Denver-based carrier being auctioned...
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AUVSI: Partnership success with Thunderstorm on Fury
A partnership between AeroMech Engineering (booth 656) and Chesapeake Technology International (CTI) has successfully demonstrated an unmanned airborne medium...
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Bombardier quiet on China CSeries talks
Bombardier is refraining comment on Hong Kong Aviation Company's announcement it is in talks to purchase Pratt & Whitney geared turbofan-powered CSeries...
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DOT denies second request by US Airways to postpone Beijing flights
A request by US Airways to postpone the launch of flights between Philadelphia and Beijing to March 2011 has been denied by the US Department of Transportation...
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Round-the-world solar aircraft prototype to be unveiled this month
Researchers are preparing to unveil the prototype of a solar-powered aircraft which is intended eventually to conduct a transatlantic and round-the-world...
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PICTURE: Mozambique's LAM takes first Embraer 190
Linhas Aereas Mocambique has taken delivery of the first of up to four Embraer 190s. The Mozambique flag carrier, whose fleet is based on Boeing 737-200s,...
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AUVSI: L-3 Blue Box offers training and operational roles
L-3 Link Simulation & Training (booth 1000) is showcasing Blue Box HD, a real-time network service that supports distributed virtual training or operations...