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Comac ARJ21 completes CAAC stall tests
Chinese airframer Comac has completed stall tests for its ARJ21 regional jet programme. Aircraft 104, one of six regional jets undergoing both ground...
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Elon Musk: Boeing 787 battery fundamentally unsafe
The lithium ion batteries installed on the Boeing 787 are inherently unsafe, says Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and owner of electric car maker Tesla. "Unfortunately,...
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US Air Force hopes to upgrade aggressor F-16s
The US Air Force is hoping to upgrade its fleet of Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon "aggressors" so that those aircraft can better replicate enemy fighters,...
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DOT Secretary LaHood to step down after controversial term for aviation
US secretary of transportation Ray LaHood has announced that he will not serve a second term in the cabinet level position, leaving behind a legacy of championing...
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South Africa's Airlink adds flights to Vilanculos and Kasane
South Africa's Airlink will launch flights from Johannesburg to Vilanculos in Mozambique and Kasane in Botswana on 22 March. The regional carrier will...
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: How will airlines fund $100bn worth of new aircraft this year?
Record production means that airlines' delivery finance requirements will increase by 15% this year to $100 billion, with banking activity likely to grow significantly.
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Italian search teams find wreckage of missing USAF F-16
Italian search and rescue teams have recovered debris in the Adriatic Sea which they believe belongs to a missing Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon operated...
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Israel tests Thrust pod for combat helicopter training
Israel Aerospace Industries has expanded its Ehud family of embedded training systems to allow the equipment to be used by attack helicopters ...
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Nextant steps up European marketing effort for 400XT
Nextant Aerospace is stepping up its marketing effort for the 400XT in Europe following EASA certification of the light cabin business jet late last year.
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TAI completes Anka UAV test campaign
Turkish Aerospace Industries has completed a roughly 130-flight acceptance test campaign involving its Anka unmanned air vehicle ...
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Indian automobile maker Mahindra eyes aerospace
After a successful move into the automobile industry, India's Mahindra eyes aerospace
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Transport ministry identifies crashed SCAT CRJ200
Kazakhstan's transport ministry has identified the SCAT Bombardier CRJ200 involved in an accident outside the city of Almaty as a 13-year old airframe
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Kazakh prosecutor opens inquiry into SCAT CRJ crash
Kazakhstan's transport prosecutor's office has opened an inquiry into the crash of an aircraft operated by local carrier SCAT.
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Kazakh crash reportedly involves local operator SCAT
Unconfirmed reports from Russia indicate that an accident in Kazakhstan involves a domestic service operated by local Kazakh carrier SCAT. The reports...
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Engineers discover culprit behind F-35B fueldraulic line failure
Engineers working on the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) have identified the likely culprit behind a fueldraulic line failure on 16 January...
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AIM-9X Block II performing better than expected
The Raytheon AIM-9X Block II Sidewinder is about halfway through its operational testing and, thus far, the weapon is performing better than expected with...
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Japan launches reconnaissance satellite
Japan has successfully orbited two satellites during a 27 January launch at Tanegashima, Japan, in the nation's first launch of 2013. The larger satellite,...
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Cessna hopes for modest gains in 2013 after bleak Q4
Cessna's deliveries will be "modestly higher" in 2013 despite an unexpectedly slow conclusion to 2012, parent company Textron says.
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UK deploys Sentinel for Mali surveillance role
The UK has provided one of its Sentinel R1 battlefield surveillance aircraft to support France's Operation Serval campaign in Mali ...
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Afghanistan’s Kam Air rejects drug smuggling allegation
Kam Air, Afghanistan's largest private carrier, has angrily rejected media reports alleging that it smuggles opium on passenger flights to Tajikistan.