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Russia may purge air operator certificates of financially weak airlines
Russia's Rosaviatsiya federal air transport agency may impose restrictions on flights or even scrap the air operator certificates of 42% of the country's airlines, including more than one-third of the country's leading operators, because of their weak financial situations.
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AUVSI: Ultra shows new multi-fuel engine
Ultra Electronics' Precision Air Systems (booth 611) is showing its dual-fuel small engine, the DF 70, but Sales and Marketing Manager Keith Scivier says...
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Search continues for crashed Agni Air Dornier 228 recorders
Rescuers are still searching for the flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of a Nepalese regional carrier's Dornier 228 turboprop that...
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India asks for enhanced systems on third Il-76 AEW
The third Ilyushin Il-76 airborne early warning aircraft ordered by the Indian air force will carry additional systems for enhanced performance. The AEW...
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AUVSI: UAV surveillance to increase as troops decrease
The US Army says the operational tempo for unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) in Iraq will likely increase as US combat units leave the country this year. "I...
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AUVSI: Kontron and AP Labs join forces
Embedded computer modules designer Kontron (booth 129) comes to this year's AUVSI with a whole new set of options to offer UAV manufacturers, following its...
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AUVSI: Army to test Boeing A160s for ISR
US Army officials say they will purchase a handful of Boeing A160T Hummingbird unmanned rotorcraft "within the next couple of years" to experiment with intelligence,...
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AUVSI: Cubewano supplies engine for T-Hawk
Start-up engine maker Cubewano (booth 402) is the newly announced engine supplier for the US Army's second increment of T-Hawk micro air vehicle (MAV). T-Hawk...
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AUVSI: Northrop tries spreading Heron wings
The US Army's longest-serving UAV could get new wing to carry it beyond 2020 - if funding is found
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AUVSI: Skunk Works lifts curtain on new UAV programs
Lockheed Martin's advanced development programs division - also known as Skunk Works - has chosen the AUVSI show to lift the curtain on two previously internal...
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AUVSI: Navy admiral emphasises new urgency on carrier-based attack UAVs
The US Navy's top officer emphasised new urgency for placing a stealthy, unmanned aircraft system (UAS) on carrier decks no later than 2018, but also made...
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AUVSI: Skunk Works reveals new depth of past UAV effort
Over the past 10 years, Lockheed Martin has drawn criticism for lacking a high-profile unmanned aircraft system (UAS). But new disclosures here provide...
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AUVSI: Honeywell hawks T-Hawk while Army mulls future
Honeywell is demonstrating the hover-and-stare virtues of its T-Hawk micro air vehicle to a wide variety of potential customers as the US Army Brigade Combat...
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AUVSI: Raytheon designing UAV-specific weapons
Putting weapons on UAVs "is a fait accompli," says Raytheon's Robert Francios, vice president of advanced missile systems and unmanned systems. With...
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AUVSI: Technology initiative could lead to driverless cars
While you read, sleep or watch TV, a robotic car drives you to work, talking to highway sensors to monitor road conditions and communicating with other cars...
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AUVSI: DRS jumps into micro-sensor market for UAVs
DRS Technologies has released the i2i-3 product to leap into the market for ultra-compact, gimballed sensors for unmanned aircraft systems. Leveraging...
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AUVSI: UUV power leash is too short, Roughead says
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead is reluctant to invest in sensor advancements for unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) until they have power...
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AUVSI: NASA, Northrop tests sensor drop on Global Hawk
NASA and Northrop Grumman this week successfully released dropsondes from a modified Block 0 Global Hawk, Northrop says. The tests, conducted at Edwards...
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Exin suffers second An-26 accident in five months
Polish freight carrier Exin has suffered a second Antonov An-26 accident in Estonia in the space of just five months. One of the operator's aircraft...
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Mexicana's new owners appoint administrator, negotiate with unions
Mexicana's new owners have appointed an administrator to run the airline group as it tries to negotiate concession packages with the carrier's unions.