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PARIS: Interview: L-3 Communications chief executive Michael Strianese
L-3 Communications built a multi-billion dollar global defence company during a massive acquisition spree near the end of the last cyclical downturn in US investment in weapon systems.
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PARIS: Boeing roughly defines 787-10X performance
The conceptual Boeing 787-10X, a stretch of the 787-9 due for entry into service in 2013, will have seating for 320 passengers and a range capability of 6,900nm
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PARIS: Issoire's Simba purrfect for full-scale manufacture
French aerostructures and aircraft manufacturer Issoire Aviation received type certification for its APM 40 Simba piston-single this morning.
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NewsPARIS: Airbus confirms undisclosed tentative A380 deal
Airbus has disclosed that it has signed a tentative agreement for 10 A380s with an undisclosed customer. The airframer said the agreement amounted...
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NewsPARIS: Massive AirAsia deal caps Airbus order frenzy
Low-cost carrier AirAsia finally let everyone fully in on the worst-kept secret at the Paris show, with a spectacular firm order for 200 A320neos.
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PARIS: Geocopter delivers unmanned rotorcraft to Dutch NLR
Dutch company Geocopter has delivered its first light unmanned rotorcraft system, named GC-201, to its launch customer and development partner, the National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR).
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PARIS: Turkey launches armed, unmanned helicopter prototype
Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has launched a small, armed, unmanned helicopter to expand a widening portfolio in the unmanned airborne systems market.
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PARIS: Cost savings boost Galileo
Europe's much-delayed Galileo satellite navigation system has received a huge boost in the form of €500 million ($715 million)-worth of cost savings enabling the purchase and launch of enough satellites to provide near-global coverage by the end of 2014.
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NewsPARIS: Uncertainty around A350-800 plans
Uncertainty is growing around the true status of Airbus's plans for the A350-800, following the announcement of a revised development schedule for the three member widebody family earlier this week.
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NewsPARIS: AirAsia places 200-strong A320neo order
Malaysian low-cost carrier AirAsia has placed a firm order for 200 Airbus A320neo twinjets. They will be powered by CFM International Leap engines.
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PARIS: Modified Falcon 50 becomes a film star
Le Bourget-based sister companies Aerovision and UniAir are displaying for the first time their Dassault Falcon 50 business jet modified for aerial filming and photography.
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PARIS: European aerospace too divided to compete globally
Europe's defence aerospace companies run the risk of losing out on the global stage if they do not unite to develop future unmanned platforms, France's defence minister, Gérard Longuet, has warned.
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NewsPARIS: Italy receives first naval NH90 helicopter
Italy's first naval NH90 was handed over today in NH Industries' display area
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Paul Coby column: the four Big C trends that will revolutionise the air transport industry – again!
As the airline IT industry meets up for its annual gathering in Brussels, SITA chairman Paul Coby examines how new technologies can be effectively harnessed...
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PARIS: L-3 wins Skylander avionics contract
L-3 Communications (static exhibition F186) has won an avionics deal for the Skylander SK-105 utility aircraft as a subcontractor to the main cockpit systems...
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PARIS: Japan's Skymark firms options on two A380s
Japan's Skymark Airlines has amended its agreement for Airbus A380s, exercising options for another two of the type.
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Cargo's new connections
Fresh blood is shaking up the air freight market, and changing trade patterns emerging. But how much of a threat will they be to established carriers? ...
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PARIS: Thales tests cockpit equipment for A350
Testing is under way of Thales' cockpit equipment for the Airbus A350, with the French electronics specialist expecting to deliver the software and hardware for the first aircraft over the next six months.
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PARIS: EASy II gets green light from FAA
Dassault has clinched US approval for its EASy II flightdeck less than two weeks after Europe gave its thumbs up to the cockpit.
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PARIS: Northrop Grumman proposes a 'civvie' LEMV
A commercial customer could be announced within 12 months for a new heavy freighter version of a hybrid airship in development for the US Army