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Forgeard: No knowledge of A380 delay before April EADS share disposal
EADS co-chief executive Noël Forgeard insists that he was initially informed about possible hold-ups to the Airbus A380 programme in April, several weeks after he and his family sold a batch of EADS shares.
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Cirrus Design signs second non-US aircraft re-assembly line for SR20s, SR22s in Brisbane, Australia
Cirrus Design has established its second aircraft re-assembly operation outside of the USA with a new facility in Brisbane, Australia, to cater for Australasian customers.
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Chinese carrier Xiamen Airlines becomes first operator to cancel a firm Boeing 787 order
Chinese carrier Xiamen Airlines has become the first operator to cancel a firm 787 order. The cancellation was booked as an unspecified drop of three 787s on Boeing’s latest online net order report.
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Video: Existence of secret 'Aurora' hypersonic sucessor to SR-71 Blackbird 'revealed' in UK defence ministry UFO report
Followers of the much-speculated US Aurora hypersonic military jet received a boost today thanks to closer reading of a recently declassified UK defence ministry report into unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
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Greece doubles Sagem Sperwer tactical UAV inventory
Sagem Défense Sécurité has confirmed that Greece has placed orders for two additional Sperwer A tactical unmanned air vehicle (UAV) systems, taking the country's totally inventory, once delivered, to four.
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Saab to form new aerostructures business with Denel to be based in South Africa
Sweden's Saab and South Africa's Denel are forming a new aerostructures company to be based in South Africa. The new company will compete internationally for aircraft design, manufacturing, and assembly work for civil and defence aircraft.
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Pictures: First images of Airbus's Super First Class suites concept for A380
Airbus has unveiled a novel “super first class” concept on its revamped A380 cabin mock-up in Toulouse which could debut on the aircraft with some of the early operators.
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EU €7m hypersonic research plan considers UK-designed Mach 5 aircraft to fly Brussels to Sydney in 2h
An aircraft capable of flying five times the speed of sound and reaching Sydney in between two and four hours from Brussels is the leading design in a €7 million European research project to find a hypersonic replacement to Concorde.
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Picture: Snapped USAF C-5 Galaxy report blames aircrew
US military air accident investigators have concluded that pilot and flight engineer error was the cause of the crash of a US Air Force Lockheed C-5 Galaxy in early April in Dover AFB in Delaware.
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US Defense Department restructures Northrop Grumman's costly Global Hawk, saving programme but reducing production
Programme survives, but production rate to be held down
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Launch customers 'unhappy' with Airbus A380 delay, EADS warns of €2bn lost earnings
EADS issued a warning saying that its revision to the A380 production schedule will cost the company at least €2 billion as launch customers have expressed concern over delivery delays of up to seven months.
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Singapore Airlines to order 20 Boeing 787-9s in latest blow to Airbus's A350 campaign
Singapore Airlines (SIA) is preparing to announce a major order for Boeing 787s, Flight has exclusively learnt.
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Pictures: Boeing begins new round of 747-8 windtunnel testing in UK
Boeing has begun a fresh series of low-speed aerodynamic validation tests of a scale model of its 747-8 Freighter using Qinetiq’s pressurised, 5m-diameter windtunnel in Farnborough, UK.
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Airbus A380 hit by new programme delay
The Airbus A380 is facing another serious programme delay, but first delivery to launch operator Singapore Airlines (SIA) is still expected by the end of the year.
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Airbus's A350 rethink splits customer opinion, with delays concerning Yemenia as Finnair takes a relaxed view
Airlines with Airbus A350s on order have given a mixed response to the proposal to relaunch the aircraft with a raft of major improvements that will delay its entry into service by several years.