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Qantas reinstates flights after engineers call off strike
Qantas Airways has reinstated dozens of flights it had planned to cancel on 13 May, after its engineers decided to hold off on industrial action.
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Thai ministry of agriculture receives C212-400 for rain-making missions
The Thai government has taken delivery of the first of two Airbus Military C212-400s.
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Programme delays hurt Australian defence budget
Australia's armed forces will return A$4.3 billion ($4.6 billion) to the government over the next five years, with A$2.4 billion to come from troubled capital expenditure programmes.
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Qantas to scrap 31 flights tomorrow due to engineers' strike
Qantas Airways plans to cancel 31 flights tomorrow morning and delay several others as a result of a planned strike by its engineers.
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NewsVIDEO: Maryland nears human-powered award
Engineering students and faculty at the University of Maryland in College Park are close to hovering a 31m (103ft)-wide ultra-light human-powered helicopter in preparation for record attempts and the $250,000 Sikorsky prize for human-powered helicopter flight.
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NewsFAA updates proposed air carrier crew training rules
The US FAA has issued an update to proposed sweeping pilot, flight attendant and dispatcher training rules first published in January of 2009. Two...
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Saab eyes 787 passenger doors as growth opportunity
Saab has seized on "difficulties" with a major supplier for the Boeing 787 as it looks to increase its own presence on the commercial widebody programme.
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Rockwell Collins quantifies head-up benefit
Rockwell Collins says recent flight tests with the Pro Line Fusion avionics on a Bombardier Global 5000 reveal that a combination of synthetic vision on a head-up display increased instrument landing system tracking accuracy by 70% laterally and 25% vertically compared with guidance from traditional head-down gauges.
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RNP at midsized airports promises big benefits: GE
Deploying required navigation performance (RNP) approaches at 46 midsized airports that are not now the focus of the US NextGen airspace overhaul could save...
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Gama on track for 'truly global' presence
One of Europe's largest business aviation services providers, Gama Aviation, says it is well on the way to creating "a truly global footprint" as it looks to add bases in Asia and South America to its UK, US and Middle East operations.
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Business Aviation - In brief
Bahrain-based Gulf Aviation Academy has become the first training organisation in the Middle East to be awarded regional training partner and authorised training centre accreditation from the International Air Transport Association
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Alenia boss: 'We will invest' in 90-seat turboprop
Alenia Aeronautica is committed to developing a 90-seat stretch of its regional turboprop family, with or without its ATR partner EADS.
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NewsPICTURES: UAE receives first C-17 transport
The United Arab Emirates has taken delivery of the first of its six C-17 strategic transports during a ceremony at Boeing's Long Beach site in California ...
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Irish Govt scraps travel tax in return for increased traffic
Ireland's Government has agreed to abolish its controversial aviation tax in return for increased tourist traffic, prompting Dublin Airport Authority to...
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Crashed Merpati MA60 recorders sent to China
Indonesian investigators have sent the flight data and cockpit voice recorders from the crashed Xian Aircraft MA60 operated by Indonesia's Merpati Nusantara...
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NewsDutch navy receives mission planning system for NH90 fleet
The Royal Netherlands Navy has taken delivery of a mission planning and analysis system for its fleet NH90 helicopters ...
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Russian Helicopters suspends IPO
Russian Helicopters, the state-owned holding company that makes Mil and Kamov civil and military rotorcraft, has indefinitely suspended an
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Delta and Virgin Australia finally receive antitrust nod from the US
Nearly two years after they first applied for antitrust approval for a transpacific joint venture, US regulators have proposed to approve the tie-up between...
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Boeing ups 787-9 weights again
Boeing again has increased the maximum take-off weight (MTOW) of the 787-9 as it further refines the performance of the larger variant due in late 2013.
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RNP at mid-sized airports promises big benefits: GE
Deploying required navigation performance (RNP) approaches at 46 mid-sized airports that are not presently the focus of the US FAA's NextGen scheme could...