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Engines shipped for Emirates' first Trent-powered A380
Engines for the first Emirates Airbus A380s to be powered by Rolls-Royce Trent 900s have been sent to the type’s final assembly line in Toulouse.
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CAAC slams Orient Thai for 737 landing without wheel
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has penalised Orient Thai Airlines for an incident where one of its Boeing 737-300s landed at Nanning with a missing wheel.
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Airbus Helicopters works to mature Australia's MRH90 fleet
Despite well documented problems, Airbus Helicopters claims Australia’s MRH90 rotorcraft programme is beginning to emerge from its troubled beginnings and is showing increasing signs of maturity.
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Airline concerns linger over smouldering Gulf debate
Global airline executives remain concerned over potential implications of the subsidies battle between US legacy carriers and Gulf airlines, even though the issue appears to have largely fallen off the industry's radar.
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ANALYSIS: North Sea safety a work in progress
UK-based North Sea oil support helicopter operators have been engaged in a whirl of activity ever since the UK Civil Aviation Authority published its review of the sector’s safety performance in February, and some new ditching survivability measures are already in place.
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USAF issues RfP for initial design of next Air Force One
As America prepares to pick its next president, the US Air Force is about to put Boeing on contract to begin designing the next version of Air Force One.
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Mitsubishi Aircraft hoping to accelerate MRJ test plan
Now six months deep into a two-year flight test programme, Mitsubishi Aircraft continues searching for ways to accelerate the certification schedule for the 88-seat MRJ90 regional jet.
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Larger 737 Max talk could rekindle geared turbofan bid
Boeing’s new interest in a potentially larger version of the 737 Max presents a “great opportunity” for a geared turbofan engine, says Pratt & Whitney vice-president of marketing Jim Speich.
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USAF proposes Gulfstream G550 CAEW to re-host electronic attack gear
The US Air Force has requested permission from Congress to shift advanced electronic attack hardware from its EC-130H Compass Call aircraft onto Gulfstream G550 conformal airborne early warning airframes.
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Larger Flying Elephant carries out cargo drop tests
The new larger variant of the Elbit Systems/Bluebird Flying Elephant cargo-carrying unmanned air vehicle prototype has completed a series of air drops.
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Enhanced Brimstone completes RAF Tornado assessment
The Royal Air Force has completed a series of trials of the enhanced variant of MBDA's Brimstone air-to-surface missile using the Panavia Tornado GR4.
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GAMA reveals first-quarter deliveries slump
Shipments of business and general aviation aircraft fell across all sectors during the first quarter of 2016, triggered by the continued slump in demand for new platforms from the global marketplace.
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EasyJet still weighing A321 as higher-density A320s arrive
EasyJet is expecting to take delivery of its first higher-density Airbus A320 this month, but is still weighing the possibility of acquiring the larger A321.
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Undisclosed customer orders 20 A330s
Airbus has secured orders for 20 A330s from an undisclosed customer, the airframer’s backlog figures have revealed.
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Comlux America opens expanded widebody completions hangar
Comlux America, the US aircraft completions and service centre arm of the Comlux Group, has opened its hangar extension in Indianapolis, a year after it broke ground on the new building.
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Falcon 2000LXS performs first LPV approach at Charles de Gaulle
A Dassault Falcon 2000LXS has become the first business jet to fly an instrument approach with a published localizer performance with vertical guidance (LPV) minima of 200ft (LPV200), using the European geostationary navigation overlay service.
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First Citation CJ1 gets Tamarack winglet upgrade
Textron Aviation has installed the first pair of winglets designed and manufactured by US engineering company Tamarack Aerospace on a Cessna Citation CJ1 light business jet. The Atlas winglets were fitted to the six-seat twin – registration HB-VPF – at Textron’s Zurich, Switzerland-based service centre in late April.
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E190 and MRJ to form J-Air's core fleet
J-Air says its incoming fleet of Embraer E-Jets are not deemed as “short-term” assets, despite the impending arrival of the first of its 32 Mitsubishi MRJ regional jets in 2021.
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PICTURE: Embraer delivers Japan's first E190 to J-Air
Embraer has delivered Japan’s first E190 to J-Air, regional subsidiary of Japan Airlines (JAL), with the inaugural revenue flight taking place between Osaka Itami and Kagoshima on 10 May.
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Textron Systems beds down Aerosonde operations in Blackstone
The town of Blackstone, Virginia has become accustomed to the steady whir of the Lycoming EL-005 two-stroke, single-piston heavy fuel engine that powers the Textron Systems Aerosonde Mk4.7G.