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Boisture takes over at Hawker Beechcraft
Bill Boisture, the former president of NetJets, Gulfstream Aerospace and British Aerospace Corporate Jets, has taken over as president and chief executive...
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Lufthansa receives Citations for Private Jet business
Lufthansa has taken delivery of the first two commercially operated Cessna...
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AirAsia establishing four new hubs
AirAsia is planning to establish hubs at Phuket in Thailand, Penang in Malaysia and Medan and Bandung in Indonesia to aid its expansion. The low-cost...
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US Airways in final negotiations with Goodrich for EFB contract
US Airways has unveiled Goodrich as the likely supplier of electronic flight bags (EFB) for 20 Airbus A319s as part of a FAA-funded programme to gather runway...
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PICTURES: General Electric GEnx-2B makes maiden flight aboard 747 testbed
General Electric launched its flight test campaign for the Boeing 747-8 GEnx-2B engine in the skies over Victorville, California.
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Airline pilots begin NASA-funded upset recovery study
The first of 20 airline pilots taking part in a NASA-funded large transport upset recovery human factors analysis program have begun physiological testing...
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European suppliers partner with Bombardier on CSeries
Three European companies have been announced as key suppliers to Bombardier on the CSeries programme, less than two weeks after Germany's Lufthansa placed...
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Williams completes coal-based fuel testing
Williams International has completed testing of a coal-based "hydrotreated" fuel in its FJ44-3 gas turbine engine....
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PICTURES: New equipment to boost French helicopter safety
France's DGA procurement agency has ordered 25 ground mat kits to improve the safety of military helicopters landing under "brownout" conditions ...
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PICTURE: Crew escape German Tornado crash
Both crew members of a German air force Panavia Tornado were injured when they ejected during a landing incident at Büchel air base ...
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Aeronautics boss outlines Aerostar deal with Dutch military
Aeronautics Defense Systems has provided further details of its $50 million contract to provide Aerostar unmanned air vehicle services to the Netherlands ...
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Air India expands SR Technics engine pact to A320s
Air India is extending its powerplant maintenance agreement with SR Technics to include additional CFM International CFM56 engines. The two sides already...
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The sound and the fury: measuring perception of noise
The absence of a common language of reporting, communication and negotiation in relation to aircraft noise is a key obstacle to effective noise management that will become critical as aviation growth outstrips technical and operational gains.
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Banking crisis makes airline failures more likely: IATA
The world banking crisis is making the risk of a major airline failure more likely because carriers will not be able to access funding for a rescue
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GTF versus open rotor - which is best?
Will advanced turbofan technology outclass open rotors? GEARING UP FOR THE NEXT STAGE Open rotor technology may promise the step-change economic...
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Flying Colours adds to palette with JetCorp acquisition
Canadian completion and maintenance company Flying Colours has acquired the assets of refurbishment and maintenance...
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Indian air force seeks new basic trainer
The Indian air force is in discussion with Bangalore-based Hindustan Aeronautics to finalise the configuration and performance parameters of a new ab initio...
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FAA grounds large portion of Sikorsky S-92 fleet
The US FAA today grounded the Sikorsky S-92 fleet so that operators can replace certain original hardware thought to be related to the 12 March crash of a Cougar Helicopters S-92 off the coast of Newfoundland
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Co-ownership programme launched for TBM 850 turboprop
Daher Socata has launched a co-ownership programme for new TBM 850 customers...
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IATA: no recovery in sight until 2010
The airline industry will not begin to recover until 2010 at the earliest, according to IATA head Giovanni Bisignani.