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PICTURE: US Army's light utility helicopter programme
The US Army's light utility helicopter programme may not have been grabbing headlines, but it could have a fundamental affect on how the service buys rotorcraft
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NewsPICTURES: UK's Future Lynx programme moves into manufacturing phase
AgustaWestland's Future Lynx project will move into its manufacturing phase this month, with the company also hoping to add export business to its 70-aircraft deal
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Italy grapples with funding dilemma over Tranche 3 Eurofighters
The Italian government has moved to guarantee its funding for the Eurofighter Typhoon for the next five years as part of a new draft budget request for 2008,...
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Day dawns for air taxi operator DayJet
The day for DayJet is here at last. The "per-seat, on-demand" operator held its grand opening on 2 October in Florida...
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PICTURE: NASA successfully drop tests the Ares I first-stage recovery parachute
The first drop test of the Ares I crew launch vehicle's first-stage main parachute, conducted on 25 September at the US Army's Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona,...
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PICTURE: Airbus says there is a market for the A380 freighter conversion
Airbus is reacting to concerns that appraisers are setting A380 residual values too low by re-emphasising the ultra-large airliner's long-term viability...
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Up-cycle for air travel nearing peak, Avitas analyst says
Widespread hopes that airlines have overcome the industry's historical boom-and-bust cycles is ill-considered and the current cycle of growth is "definitely"...
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UK advances Merlin HC3A, Sea King upgrades
AgustaWestland is engaged in two key projects to boost the UK's battlefield helicopter capabilities, with efforts linked to the EH101 Merlin and Sea King...
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Airbus begins deliveries of first elements of performance improvement package for A320 family
Airbus is about to begin delivering the next instalment of a major performance improvement package for the A320...
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Opinion
Comment: Efficiency choker
There is no point in making flights quicker and greener if a lack of runways in Europe is going to choke all the efficiencies delivered by sophisticated ATM in a Single European Sky
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Opinion
Comment: The way back from the brink
It would be easy to write off commercial aviation safety in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) as a lost cause. But actually, aviation...
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NewsVIDEO: CAL 737-800 nearly overruns runway (UPDATED)
A China Airlines 737-800 broke one of eight lamps at the end of a runway in a near-overrun incident at Saga Airport in Japan.
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Interview
Interview: Niall Olver, Grob Aerospace
Niall Olver has turned a small South African Learjet distributorship into one of the world's biggest business aviation services organisations, with fixed-base...
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Bristow to step up offshore pilot training in USA
Bristow is set to double the pilot training programme at its US training academy to service the thriving offshore...
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FlightSafety to open offshore helicopter training centre
FlightSafety International is to open an offshore helicopter training centre in Lafayette, Louisiana in 2008....
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Bell solves BA609 tiltrotor torque mystery
Bell Helicopter engineers have resolved a performance anomaly that test pilots had discovered...
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F-16 airprox link unproven after Lufthansa student’s fatal crash
Investigators have filed as unexplained the fatal loss of a Lufthansa...
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Working week: Getting the NBAA show on the road
Business aviators descended on Atlanta last month for the 60th annual convention of the National Business Aviation Association. Working Week talks to Kathleen Blouin, the person responsible for making it happen
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Cosworth revs into aviation
New market opens for UK engineering firm as chequered flag comes down on F1 era
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Business briefs - 9 October 2007
MTU 'REBUFFED' IN BID FOR VOLVO AERO ACQUISITIONS MTU Aero Engines has declined to comment on German press reports that it has been rebuffed in a...