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NewsPARIS: Northrop Grumman BAMS first flight in summer 2012
The first Northrop Grumman MQ-4C broad area maritime surveillance (BAMS) aircraft is on track for rollout in the spring of 2012, with first flight that summer.
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PARIS: Gulf Air turns to Panasonic for fleet-wide connectivity
Panasonic Avionics can add Gulf Air to its rapidly growing list of customers for in-flight high-speed broadband Internet, mobile connectivity and live television...
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PARIS: Saint-Gobain to showcase Meldin 7000 at air show
Polymer components manufacturer Saint-Gobain Performance Plasticsis displaying Meldin 7000, a lightweight high-temperature solution for aerospace finished parts, at the le Bourget exhibition centre.
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PARIS: ITT sharpens up for army duty
ITT has won two orders worth a total of $25 million to supply the US Army with image intensification tubes and night vision goggles.
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PARIS: Ontic to provide repairs on Hawker 800 blended wingtips
Legacy after-market components specialist Ontic is to provide repairs and product support to owners of Hawker 800 series aircraft fitted with Aviation Partners blended wingtips.
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PARIS: ESA chief confident in Galileo launches
European Space Agency director general Jean-Jacques Dordain has expressed growing confidence in achieving the planned 20 October launch of the first two of Europe's Galileo navigation satellites.
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NewsPARIS: AgustaWestland acquires Bell tiltrotor
AgustaWestland has accomplished its long-rumoured acquisition of Bell Helicopter's BA609 civilian tiltrotor, now called the AW609. "The acquisition...
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NewsPARIS: Boeing mulls 777-9X
With the show's attention focused on Boeing's as-yet undeclared plans for its 737, the airframer has revealed it is examining near- and long-term 777 improvements, including conceptual studies for aircraft it has dubbed the 777-8X and 777-9X, intended as a possible response to the updated Airbus A350-1000.
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PARIS: Interview: Thales defence SVP Pierre-Eric Pommellet
Pierre-Eric Pommellet is Thales's senior vice president of defence mission systems. He talks to Flightglobal about the growing importance of unmanned aerial vehicles, the significance of India's shortlisting of the Dassault Rafale fighter and the likely impact of the 'Arab Spring' on the global defence market
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NewsPARIS: PICTURE - John Travolta brings a touch of Hollywood to Paris
For the Hollywood movie star spotters among you, a walk past Breitling's stand yesterday could have proved a bonus as none other than Pulp Fiction's John Travolta was visiting.
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NewsPARIS: United Aircraft opens door to new airliner launch
United Aircraft has opened the door to launching a new aircraft programme aimed at the commercial sector within two years.
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PARIS: Neo dominates Airbus orderbook while Boeing orders mount
Airbus' domination of the show with the A320neo continued on the second day, while Boeing quietly racked up a number of new orders as Aeroflot, Norwegian,...
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PARIS: Oklahoma's unmanned aerospace ambitions
The recent history of regional economic development is categorised by fads. In the early 1990s, which saw the decoding of the human genome and officially proclaimed "decade of the brain", every state and region sought a biotechnology complex
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JetBlue seeks to ‘mitigate’ 25 E-190s
JetBlue Airways is examining options to reduce its Embraer E-190 orderbook by 25 aircraft to support its recent conclusion that the optimal number of 100-seat...
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PARIS: Embraer concerned over subsidies to new jet competitors
Embraer does not perceive any serious threat from new regional aircraft in Asia and Russia but has expressed concern over government funding for their development.
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PARIS: Pratt & Whitney wins bulk of engines on CIT Neo order
Lessor CIT Aerospace has revealed the majority of the engines selected to power the 50 Airbus A320neo twinjets it committed to earlier today.
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NewsPARIS: Marshall Aerospace offers C-130J maritime patrol conversion
Lockheed Martin's C-130J Super Hercules could be adapted for an entirely new mission, if UK company Marshall Aerospace gets its way.
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PARIS: Embraer reveals plan for KC-390 civil stretch
Embraer has confirmed plans to launch a stretch version of the KC-390 for the civil cargo market that company officials predict will generate between 200...
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NewsPARIS: PICTURE - Happy Rafale livery a star of day one
A literary livery created by Happy Design Studio adorned the Dassault Rafale as it roared over Le Bourget yesterday.