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Qantas to resume A380 flights to Los Angeles on 16 Jan
Qantas Airways will resume operating the Airbus A380 to Los Angeles on 16 January, after it stopped operating the superjumbo jet on trans-Pacific routes...
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India's Tejas fighter achieves initial operational clearance milestone
More than two decades after it was conceived, India's Tejas light combat aircraft has received its initial operational clearance ...
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Opinion
Comment: The airline safety gap is growing
Airline safety performance has just recorded its eighth year in a row in which accident numbers and rates have resolutely failed to fall. But why should...
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Opinion
Comment: Don't be fooled
On the surface, the dramatic emergence of a previously-secret Chinese fighter might cause consternation in the West. But Beijing is a long way from developing a true modern warplane
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Targeting intelligence
Raytheon's Applied Signal acquisition bid heats up US defence electronics sector
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Saudi Arabian confirms intention to join SkyTeam
Saudi Arabian Airlines has become the latest Middle Eastern carrier to sign up for alliance membership, after formally agreeing to join SkyTeam next year. The...
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Both recorders retrieved from Iran Air 727 crash site
Recovery personnel at the site of yesterday's Iran Air Boeing 727-200 crash have retrieved both flight recorders from the wreckage.
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Swiss PrivateAviation heads for closure as Lufthansa mulls options
Swiss European Air Lines' business jet division Swiss PrivateAviation is going through a consultation process which will likely lead to its closure, and...
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Lockheed wins contract for Apache sensor upgrade
The US Army has given Lockheed Martin a $15 million contract to launch production of its VNsight enhancement for the AH-64 Apache ...
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Airbus expects strong lessor demand for A320neo
Airbus is confident that its new A320neo family will prove popular with leasing companies, despite the lukewarm reception that the re-engining plans received...
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Rafael pitches Litening pod for India's fighter contest
Israel's Rafael has intensified a marketing push to get its Litening G-4 targeting pod on board whichever aircraft eventually wins the Indian air force's medium multi-role combat aircraft (MMRCA) competition.
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Elbit's second Hermes 900 poised to enter flight test
Elbit Systems' second prototype Hermes 900 UAV will soon enter flight testing, while its first example has already accumulated more than 350 flight hours ...
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Viking Hellas to boost Iraq services through new joint venture
Greek charter carrier Viking Hellas has teamed up with a consortium of German and Iraqi investors to launch a new joint venture in Iraq called Viking Middle...
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Inquiry opens into fatal Iran Air 727 crash
Iranian investigators have set up several working groups to probe yesterday's fatal Iran Air Boeing 727-200 accident at Urmia. The aircraft is a 37-year...
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Evidence of Tu-154 power fault day before fatal fire: MAK
Russian investigators have discovered evidence of an electrical fault on the burned-out Tupolev Tu-154 at Surgut, which showed up the day before fire destroyed...
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Egyptair to build maintenance facility at Marsa Alam airport
Egyptair Maintenance & Engineering is to open a line- and later build a base-maintenance facility at the privately owned Marsa Alam airport on the Red Sea. The...
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Astraeus contracts JorAMCo for 737 C check
UK-based wet-lease specialist Astraeus has contracted Jordan Aircraft Maintenance (JorAMCo) to provide a C check on one of its Boeing 737-300 aircraft. The...
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EU's Clean Sky project looks to SMEs for research
One of Clean Sky's aims is to increase the number of small and medium-sized enterprises involved in the aviation industry, and so more than one-third of the topics - which are meant to contribute to the elaboration of the demonstrators - were won by SMEs.
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Virgin Atlantic withholds BAA fees over Heathrow snow disruption
Virgin Atlantic is refusing to pay landing fees to airports operator BAA until an inquiry into the disruption at London Heathrow caused by last month's severe...
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Aviation industry under pressure to reduce landfill waste from scrapped airliners
Reducing the level of waste from scrapped airliners that goes to landfill hinges on finding a recycling solution for materials used in aircraft interiors