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China Eastern agrees to take 50 more 737s
China Eastern Airlines has agreed to acquire 50 new Boeing 737s in a deal worth $4.5 billion at catalogue prices.
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ANALYSIS: Textron Aviation turns integration focus to piston-powered aircraft
Since its founding less than 18 months ago, Textron Aviation has been quite busy. First, there was the critical task of blending two historically competitive organisations – Cessna and Beechcraft – into a unitary corporate system. Cessna also needed to concentrate on completing certification programmes of several upgraded and new ...
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Axtmann acquires majority stake in Germany's Fly Alpha, plots expansion
Axtmann Holding - parent company of German business aircraft services provider FAI rent-a-jet and maintenance company FAI Technik – has purchased a majority stake in fellow Nuremberg-based operator Fly Alpha.
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Air Europa taps capital markets for 787 PDP funding
Air Europa has completed the pre-delivery payment financing of a Boeing 787‐8 in the capital markets.
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Fatigue, sickness involved in botched Qantas A330 approach
Qantas Airways has updated its training for visual approaches following an incident in which the crew of an Airbus A330-200 misjudged an approach into Melbourne airport, resulting in warnings from the aircraft's enhanced ground proximity warning system (EPGWS).
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Boeing, Japan’s aviation sector develop biofuel for 2020 Olympics
Boeing and Japan’s aviation sector have partnered to develop sustainable aviation biofuel for flights during the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo.
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Changes at FAA spurred proactive safety culture: official
Closer collaboration with the aviation industry and greater use of aviation data has driven a transformation at the Federal Aviation Administration, allowing it to focus more on mitigating future risks and less on investigating accidents, says a top FAA safety official.
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US “carrier gap” could see naval air power dip in Gulf region
A looming gap in the United States’ aircraft carrier presence in the Middle East is symptomatic of an overworked naval force in need of more cash and resources and a sign of things to come without change in Pentagon priorities, says a Navy League panel.
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Downsized US Army to pass on 533 shunned OH-58, TH-67 helicopters
The US Army has already found a home for 119 of the 652 Bell OH-58 Kiowa and TH-67 Creek helicopters that have been displaced under the service’s aviation restructure initiative, according to a recent report provided to Congress.
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CybAero receives authorisation for UAV delivery to China
Swedish company CybAero has been granted an export licence to sell 70 Apid unmanned air vehicles to the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), allowing the first type to be delivered in-country.
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Hawaiian to lease an additional A330-200
Hawaiian Airlines has signed a deal to lease one additional Airbus A330-200 for six years beginning in summer of 2016, the Honolulu-based carrier confirms to Flightglobal.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: How Heathrow is feeling the squeeze
Following the UK Airports Commission's recommendation for development of a third runway at London Heathrow to meet future airport capacity needs, analysis from Flightglobal’s Ascend consultancy highlights how lack of capacity at the UK’s biggest airport has seen it lose ground to other big hubs, in Europe and the ...
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ANALYSIS: How bridging to the A330neo has challenged Rolls-Royce
"It's not how I envisaged my first communication with the market," admitted new Rolls-Royce chief executive Warren East as, on his second day in the role, he delivered a profits warning covering the UK engine maker's core aerospace propulsion business.
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Airbus Helicopters promises safe single-engine operations with Bluecopter demonstrator
Airbus Helicopters has unveiled a new demonstrator aircraft that brings together a basket of new and existing technologies aimed at drastically cutting fuel consumption, carbon dioxide emissions, and noise levels. For the first time, these include the possibility of safely operating a twin-engined helicopter in normal flight using just one ...
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ATR prototype starts environmental technology tests
Turboprop manufacturer ATR has commenced test flights with an aircraft fitted with a modified fuselage panel, aimed at examining lighter structures and lower-noise technology.
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Lufthansa Technik names new BizJet chief
Maintenance specialist Lufthansa Technik has appointed Thomas Kuhn to replace Manfred Gartner as chief executive of its US-based VIP completion centre BizJet International.
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MC-21 technology to be applied in Russian-Chinese widebody
Russia's government has outlined its vision for a proposed widebody to be developed jointly with China.
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PICTURE: CS100 performs minimum-unstick test
Bombardier has disclosed details of the minimum-unstick testing on the initial CSeries variant which it conducted at a regional airport in Kansas.
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Qantas to return two CIT A330s by end-2015 for MRTT conversion
Qantas Airways will return two Airbus A330-200 aircraft to CIT Aerospace by the end of the year, pending their conversion to multi-role tanker transports (MRTT) for the Royal Australian Air Force.
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CAAC punishes Okay Airways for overworking pilots
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has slapped Okay Airways with a fine and suspended the airline’s application for the introduction of new aircraft, as it finds the airline's flight crew to have been overworked.