All news – Page 4016
-
News
NASA initiates Lunar Lander ascent main engine development
NASA is to specify an expendable, liquid oxygen (LOX)- and liquid methane (LCH4)-powered ascent main propulsion engine for its Constellation...
-
News
Singapore Airlines reveals A380 route plans
Singapore Airlines has revealed that the flying programme for its A380 fleet will be expanded to include services to Hong Kong, London, San Francisco and...
-
News
Singapore Airlines unveils A380 cabin and lays out service plans
Singapore Airlines is using the introduction of its A380 fleet to set a new benchmark in premium cabins in the form of fully enclosed first-class suites. The...
-
News
Spain’s Marsans to use Airbus order to build hub network over the South Atlantic
Spanish airline group Marsans will use the order it placed earlier this month for 61 Airbuses - including four A380s - to build a transatlantic multi-carrier...
-
News
Boeing executive shake-up over, up and out
Pat Shanahan, vice-president for missile defence systems at Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, succeeds Mike Bair as vice-president and general manager of...
-
News
This week briefing
ERA DEVELOPS EMERGENCY PLANNING INITIATIVE STRATEGY The European Regions Airline Association (ERA) has teamed with crisis management specialist Kenyon...
-
News
Technotes - 23 October 2007
Shape-changing UAV morphs autonomously NextGen Aeronautics has completed the first autonomous flights of...
-
News
Shuttle and ISS in perfect Harmony
The International Space Station's 7m (22.9ft)-long pressurised cylindrical Node 2 module "Harmony" is pictured being loaded into the payload bay of NASA's...
-
News
EU selects more than €400 million in research projects for 2008 start
Meeting environmental targets, preparing for the next generation of single-aisle airliners and increasing co-operation with central Europe are the goals...
-
News
Carbon nanotubes enable self-healing surfaces say researchers
A technique enabling composite structures to initiate self-healing repairs to surface cracking has been demonstrated by researchers at the Rensselaer...
-
News
Orion to orbit Earth for six days before lunar injection
NASA's Orion crew exploration vehicle could be orbiting the Earth for six days after it is docked with the Lunar Lander. There will also be three lunar orbit...
-
News
Airbus Military yields to inevitability of A400M delay
The A400M's delivery date has officially slipped, following delays in the development of its Europrop International TP400 engine and other technical factors...
-
News
Daydream believer: How different is the Boeing 787?
dayDREAM believer STEPHEN TRIMBLE WASHINGTON DC The 787 is different - not least because Boeing decided to rewrite the rules of aircraft exterior...
-
News
India and Russia sign fifth-generation fighter deal
India has finally talked Russia into giving it equal funding and engineering shares in the next-generation fighter to be developed jointly by the two nations. A...
-
News
China considers commercial Shenzhou flights
In the second quarter of 2008 a legal bill may be introduced into China's legislative chamber...
-
News
Business briefs
AEROSPACE CLUSTERS GET FRENCH TAX BREAKS REGIONS French prime minister François Fillon has pledged extra support for the country's aerospace small-...
-
News
South Korean F-15K deal may close by end 2007
South Korea has begun price negotiations with Boeing over the purchase of 20 F-15K fighters, with industry sources saying that a deal is likely to be reached...
-
News
Comment - 787 troubleshooter has right ammunition
Pat Shanahan left Boeing's missile defence programme office in Washington DC last week to head back to Seattle, Washington to take over another programme...