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Embraer sticks to year-end target on new commercial jet decision
Embraer still plans to reach a decision by year-end on its strategy to address the evolving narrowbody market now that Boeing has declared its intent to...
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Polish side blames its own for presidential Tu-154 crash
Polish investigators have attributed the overwhelming majority of responsibility for the fatal crash of President Lech Kaczynski's Tupolev Tu-154 on the...
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EADS makes some Vision 2020 headway
EADS made first-half progress towards two of its "Vision 2020" rebalancing goals, but slipped further behind on its key objective of growing...
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Fire risk in air freight increases dramatically
Fires in aircraft freight holds caused by lithium batteries for consumer electronic equipment has been a growing worry for airlines, particularly in the...
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South Korea private plane conducts maiden flight
Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) has developed and flown a prototype of South Korea's first indigenous private aircraft. The four-seat aircraft,...
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Eurocopter, Mahindra Group ink MoU for trade partnership
Mahindra Group representatives Mahindra Aerospace and Mahindra Satyam have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for trade partnership with Eurocopter...
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FAA weighs in on LightSquared alternate plan
The US FAA says an alternate operational proposal by wholesale broadband provider LightSquared would likely cause timing issues with its terminal, enroute...
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AF447 crew not trained for high-altitude stall: investigators
Inquiries into the loss of Air France flight AF447 have yet to explain fully why the pilots failed to avert the Airbus A330's fatal stall, despite its onset...
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Thales and Dassault sign Indian Mirage upgrade deal
India's Air Force has signed an agreement with Dassault and Thales to upgrade its fleet of Dassault Mirage 2000H fighters ...
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L-3 awarded Pakistan F-16 simulator contract
L-3 Communications has been awarded a contract to build two F-16C Block 52 aircrew training devices for Pakistan ...
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TAP Portugal set to defect to A350-900
TAP Portugal is poised to defect to the larger Airbus A350-900, becoming the latest in a series of customers to shift away from the shrunk -800 variant. Airbus...
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KAL places firm order for 10 Bombardier CS300s
Bombardier has landed its first firm order for its CSeries aircraft in Asia, with Korean Air converting a letter of intent into an order for ten CS300 aircraft,...
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Airbus orders to exceed 1,000 this year: EADS
Airbus will end the year with gross orders for more than 1,000 aircraft, parent company EADS has forecast. But it is maintaining its delivery estimate...
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Airbus commercial earnings dip in first half
Airbus's commercial aircraft division turned in lower earnings for the half-year, down 7.4% to €223 million ($319 million), even as the airframer raised...
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Oxford Aviation Academy wins FTO approval in Singapore
Oxford Aviation Academy has secured Flight Training Organisation approval from Singapore's Civil Aviation Authority, making it the first non-Singaporean...
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Asiana 747-400F had fire in hold before crash
The Asiana Airlines Boeing 747-400F that crashed into the sea off Jeju Island on 28 July had fire in its hold, but the fire's role in the crash itself is...
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China confirms naval pilot training underway
China has officially confirmed that its new aircraft carrier will be used for training and scientific research, and that naval pilot training is underway ...
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India ready for new GSLV attempt in March 2012
The Indian Space Research Organisation hopes to be ready to return its heavy-lift Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) to flight by March 2012.
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OSHKOSH: F-16 damaged after runway overrun
A Lockheed Martin F-16 was damaged after overrunning the runway on 28 July at the AirVenture fly-in in Oshkosh, Wisconsin ...