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NewsGeneral Atomics shows off Defender UAV concept to protect refuelling tankers
Protecting tankers and ISR aircraft with UAVs could free manned fighters, such as Lockheed Martin F-35As, to launch strikes deep into enemy territory.
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Paid contentWhy aviation must catch up on diversity: A welcome from CAE’s Nick Leontidis
Whether in discussions at high-level summits or studied in new research partnerships, gender diversity is becoming a high-profile topic in aviation. In contrast to the many highly skilled professions that have achieved significant progress towards gender parity, aviation is a single outlier. Today, aviation is leaving half of its available ...
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AnalysisBoeing’s new leaders may have what it takes to lead turnaround: analysts
In the year since the second 737 Max crash, Boeing has overhauled much of its top leadership, including naming of David Calhoun as new chief executive and Stan Deal as chief of Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Those changes have largely been viewed positively by aerospace analysts. They are optimistic Boeing’s new leaders have skills needed to move the company toward recovery.
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In depthBoeing pitches the US Army on retro compound helicopter FARA design
With three rotors, spinning in three different axes, Boeing’s compound helicopter bid for the US Army Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) competition might strike the novice as complex. But it’s not so, says the aerospace manufacturer.
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NewsGama Aviation sets sights on expansion of helicopter services portfolio
UK-headquartered Gama Aviation believes it can become a new force in rotary-wing operations as it nears the launch of helicopter air ambulance services in Scotland.
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In depth5 technologies needed to make attritable UAVs work
Aircraft developers believe these five pieces of technology need to be improved to make attritable aircraft work.
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NewsAirbus aims for short test campaign on 251t A330-900
Airbus is expecting a relatively short approval campaign for the higher-weight version of the A330-900, amounting to just 30-40h of testing. While Airbus carried out the first flight of the aircraft on 28 February, it had already conducted a number of tests with the previous variant of the -900 specially ...
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In depthWhy attritable UAVs have aerospace manufacturers rethinking lucrative MRO and upgrades
Because attritable aircraft are designed to be limited-use, and cheap enough to be lost in combat or thrown-away when obsolete, the traditional model of capturing long-term business government via vendor lock – selling proprietary aircraft to the US Department of Defense and then making profits on MRO and upgrades – could be disrupted.
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NewsCoronavirus ‘no excuse’ for state aid to failing carriers: Walsh
IAG chief Willie Walsh is firmly rejecting any notion that airlines which were struggling before the coronavirus outbreak should be granted state aid to help cope with its impact. He told the A4E aviation summit in Brussels on 3 March that the outbreak was “not an excuse” for such carriers ...
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In depthF-35 v Valkyrie: range, payload, cost and survivability
Relatively inexpensive unmanned systems have advantages which may put them on the front line when the USA squares up against China in the western Pacific
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InterviewAir France-KLM's Ben Smith appointed A4E 2020 chairman
Ahead of the annual A4E Aviation Summit in Brussels today, we speak to the association’s incoming chairman - Air France-KLM group chief executive Ben Smith - about the key challenges facing the European airline sector and the role A4E can play for its members.
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In depthWhy the US Air Force might use ‘deception’ and UAVs hidden in shipping containers to fight China
The US Air Force is rethinking the way it plans for war in the Pacific Ocean. It is eyeing a new class of unmanned air vehicle that could be hidden inside shipping containers and spread across small islands in the western Pacific. Should war ever come, the UAVs could be rocket launched within a matter of hours in massive volleys from dozens or even thousands of secret sites.
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NewsIncomplete single EU aviation market costing €37bn annually
Europe’s much-vaunted single aviation market remains an incomplete initiative, costing airlines €37 billion ($41 billion) per year in terms of disunity in legislation and application of regulations, according to an independent air transport research group. Half of this figure – some €17.4 billion – could be saved by implementing an ...
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NewsSAS pulls full-year financial guidance amid coronavirus uncertainty
Scandinavian carrier SAS has withdrawn its full-year financial guidance amid uncertainty around the impact on air travel demand of the coronavirus outbreak.
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NewsAirline failures loom as outbreak spreads: ISTAT panelists
Global airline capacity in 2020 has declined by nearly 3% as of 2 March compared to the same period in 2019, Rob Morris, global head of Ascend by Cirium, disclosed at an ISTAT event today. Through the week ended 1 March, global capacity had declined by 2% year-over-year, Cirium schedules ...
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NewsHNA Group appeals for government help amid heightened liquidity risk
Hainan Airlines’ parent company, the HNA Group, has requested the Hainan provincial government to set up a working group to look into its risk management efforts. HNA states that it has faced increased liquidity risk of late, in light of the coronavirus outbreak, and was unable to manage the risks ...
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NewsSaab announces team for Canada Gripen E campaign
Saab has announced a slate of partners who will participate in its Gripen E campaign for Ottowa’s requirement for 88 new fighters. The company says that the “Gripen for Canada Team” will comprise IMP Aerospace & Defence, CAE, Peraton Canada, and GE Aviation. “Over the past two years, Saab and ...
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NewsUS Navy F-16A aggressor jets receive structural upgrade
The US Navy has completed update work on 10 Lockheed Martin F-16A fighters that are used in the aggressor role. The work was undertaken by the Specialized and Proven Aircraft Program office, says the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR). Source: US Navy The FalconUp programme extends the F-16As ...
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NewsVistara receives first Boeing 787
India’s Vistara has taken delivery of the first widebody aircraft in its fleet, a Boeing 787-9. The GEnx-1B powered aircraft, registered VT-TSD, is the first of six 787s that Vistara has on order. Vistara takes first Boeing 787-9 The carrier, a joint venture ...
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NewsBoeing resurrects effort to turn JDAM bomb into cheap cruise missile
Boeing has resurrected and is showing off its Powered JDAM concept believing that the US Air Force (USAF) is keen to buy low-cost cruise missiles.