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Iberia MRO arm to repair CAE simulators
Spanish operator Iberia's maintenance division has secured an agreement to repair avionics and components for CAE simulators.
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Qatar fixes date for first A350 delivery
Qatar Airways is to take delivery of its first Airbus A350-900 in Toulouse on 13 December, about a month before it enters service on the Doha-Frankfurt route.
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Network Rail contracts UAV surveillance services
Network Rail has contracted four unmanned air vehicle services providers to deliver three years of aerial infrastructure surveillance for the UK’s railways.
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First operational MQ-8C delivered to USN
The US Navy’s first operational Northrop Grumman MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned air vehicle has been delivered to the service ahead of its first ship-board flight tests, due to begin on board the USS Jason Dunham destroyer
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ANALYSIS: Should Rolls-Royce stick to aero engines?
Rolls-Royce made the news with a call for its breakup
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Boeing fixes KC-46 wiring issues, sets first flight for spring 2015
The first prototype of Boeing’s KC-46 aerial refueling tanker has been rewired to meet US Air Force standards and is being prepared for its first flight sometime in late spring 2015, the companies chief operating officer says.
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Hawaiian to add seats on 717s in 2015
Hawaiian Airlines will revamp the interiors of its Boeing 717 aircraft in 2015, installing new, slimmer seats to the fleet and increasing each aircraft’s total seat count to 128.
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ANALYSIS: 787's voice and data recorder concerns not unique
The types of problems raised in recent days with the Boeing 787’s cockpit voice and flight data recorder are not unique to that aircraft, say industry sources and a former accident investigator.
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Sikorsky CH-53K first flight pushed at earliest to March
The US Marine Corps will have to wait until at least March for its new heavy lift helicopter, the Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion, to make its maiden flight.
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ANALYSIS: How will US scope clauses impact regional fleets
Michael Lapson, senior analyst in the New York office of Flightglobal’s Ascend consultancy, examines the impact of revised scope clauses in the US market
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Habitat Restoration Project gears up for final phase of airborne rodent eradication programme
An international effort to rid a remote sub-Antarctic seabird habitat of millions of rodents using a trio of helicopters is preparing for its third and final mission.
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ANALYSIS: Ending Dassault's Airbus connection opens new doors
France's aerospace industry must pay close attention as Dassault and Airbus disengage
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Four VTOL UAVs delivered to Bulgarian armed forces
Four UAV Solutions Phoenix 30 vertical take-off and landing unmanned air vehicles have been delivered to the Bulgarian national military forces, under a foreign military sale agreement with the US government.
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RN establishes UAV squadron
The Royal Navy has established its first unmanned air vehicle squadron to oversee the deployment of the Insitu ScanEagle that has been in operation for some 12 months.
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OBITUARY: Jean-Paul Bechat, the industrialist who steered the Safran merger
The announced merger of state-controlled French engine maker Snecma and privately-owned defence electronics group Sagem 10 years ago may have been greeted by scepticism by analysts and been more about Gallic industrial machismo than smart business. After all, Safran, the seemingly unweildy conglomerate it created, made everything from photocopiers to ...
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Magnetic MRO adds engine on-wing support arm
Estonia's Magnetic MRO has opened an engine on-wing maintenance unit and begun offering related support packages.
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Iran believed to have joined air battle against IS
Iran has reportedly joined the fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq, targeting insurgents in the eastern part of the country with McDonnell Douglas Phantom F-4s. News reports state that operations began in recent days, following Iranian ground operations in Iraq.
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Macedonian state looks to create new flag-carrier
Macedonia’s government is looking at creating a new national airline for the Balkan state, an operator to succeed defunct flag-carrier MAT.
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PICTURE: Airbus delivers 200th aircraft from Tianjin line
Airbus has marked the 200th Airbus A320 family aircraft assembled at the Final Assembly Line China (FALC) in Tianjin, handing over an A319 to China Eastern Airlines.
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ANALYSIS: Miltary faces 'perfect storm' of budget vs need
European defence forces are facing a “perfect storm”, and those in the UK are at its eye. So says Andrew Dorman, Professor of International Security in the defence studies department at Kings College, London, and a lecturer at the UK Joint Services Command and Staff College in Shrivenham.