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NewsNASA announces Commercial Orbital Transportation Services demonstration programme winners
NASA has announced that Space Exploration Technologies and Rocketplane-Kistler have won space act agreements for the agency's four-year $500 million Commerical Orbital Transportation Services demonstration programme.
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Want to see an Avro Vulcan fly again? You'll need to pay up
Team battling to get delta-winged bomber back in the air faces funding crisis
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NewsBoeing issues ‘stop work’ notices on C-17 Globemaster line, signalling end to California aircraft manufacturing
Boeing is announcing today that is to issue "stop work" notices to long-lead parts suppliers for the C-17 Globemaster III, marking a "break in production" and the first step towards the full closure of the last major California aircraft assembly line
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AOPA takes DoT to task as thousands of pilots' data files stolen in government car laptop theft
Thousands of Floridian and foreign trainee general aviation pilots have been exposed to the risk of identity theft after a laptop computer belonging to a key government official was stolen.
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From our reporter in Beirut: Most Israeli airport bomb damage to be repaired in days, fuel shortages remain
Flight reporter David Kaminski-Morrow was among the first correspondents to visit Beirut yesterday, with British Airways franchise partner BMed - he toured the airport ahead of a resumption of flights planned for today.
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NewsAnimation: NASA tests Gulfstream Supersonic Business Jet sonic boom noise reduction nose spike on F-15 fighter
Supersonic business aviation took a step closer to reality this week after NASA began flight testing Gulfstream’s patented Quiet Spike sonic-boom mitigation device on a Boeing F-15
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NewsVideo: NASA releases Ares vehicle quarterly progress report
NASA has released to Flight its internal Ares quarterly progress report video, following its Constellation programme review meeting held at Johnson Space Center earlier this month.
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NewsQantas to receive A$100m compensation for Airbus A380 delays, will add more A330s
Australia’s Qantas Airways is to receive more than A$100 million in damages from Airbus for delays in deliveries of its 12 firm-ordered A380-800s. It has meanwhile confirmed orders for four more Airbus A330 twinjets, two of which will be leased.
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NewsFormer Varig flight attendants to pose nude for Playboy Brazil 'as protest' against staff cuts
Three sacked air hostesses from troubled Brazilian flag carrier Varig have concluded a deal with men's magazine Playboy to appear nude in its local edition.
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NewsPictures: First unofficial photos of Boeing 747-400 Large Cargo Freighter rolling out in Taiwan
The first unofficial photographs of the specially-modified Boeing 747-400 Large Cargo Freighter (LCF) have emerged, showing its roll-out after undergoing structural work at Evergreen Aviation Technologies in Taiwan
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NewsBoeing focuses on weight not rate, easing back on production study to focus on lighter twinjet
Boeing confirms it is stretching out its 787 production rate increase study and, at the same time, is ramping up spending on weight-saving initiatives to close the gap with its original targets.