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News787 flight tests resume, final schedule unclear
After a six-week suspension, Boeing will resume flight test activities today, though a complete assessment of the schedule will be completed in January and...
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Boeing makes progress in 747-8F flight tests
After the cumulative effect of design changes added six-months to the first delivery of the first 747-8 freighter, Boeing appears to have found a more steady...
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Air New Zealand receives first 777-300ER
Air New Zealand has received its first Boeing 777-300ER aircraft, scheduled to land in Auckland on 24 December.
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Forecasts 2011: Safety - The price of safety
A shake-up and investment in flight safety and security is overdue, but is it likely to happen this year?
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Shannon Aerospace employees agree to job cuts
Union and employee representatives have agreed to Shannon Aerospace's planned restructuring.
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NewsAirline Business looks back at another roller-coaster year for airlines in 2010
Things are seldom quiet in the airline industry and 2010 proved no exception. It will be a year remembered for a faster financial recovery from airlines than anyone dared hope; when a volcano eruption in Iceland brought European airspace to its knees; and where consolidation fever within the industry took ...
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NASA's COTS dream gets boost from Taurus II test
NASA's vision of private enterprise partners filling the cargo and crew launch gap left by the imminent retirement of its Space Shuttle fleet got a further boost from Orbital Sciences's successful 17 December long-duration test firing of its liquid-fuelled Aerojet-supplied AJ26 rocket engine.
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Missing recorder means CV-22 crash remains a mystery
A paperwork glitch has deprived investigators of the flight incident recorder on board a crashed Bell Boeing CV-22 tiltrotor despite evidence that the critical device survived, according to the president of a US Air Force accident investigation board.
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EASA extends Trent 900 inspection intervals
Europe's safety regulator has extended the inspection threshold and interval requirements for Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines with certain modification standards. The...
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UK CAA warns carriers to meet denied-boarding obligations
UK regulators have castigated some airlines for failing to meet passenger obligations during the recent snow disruption at the country's airports.
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VIDEO: Precision strike AT-802U demonstrator runway crash
Flightglobal has obtained a slow-motion video taken by a ground observer as Air Tractor's AT-802U surveillance and precision strike demonstrator aircraft...
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Business Aviation - In Brief
Czech business aircraft services provider ABS Jets has received authorisation to carry out maintenance of UAE-registered aircraft.
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Brazil takes its first Legacy 650
Embraer has delivered the first Legacy 650 business jet to a private Brazilian customer who is also the owner of an entry-level Phenom 100
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NewsLockheed pays $10 million to settle charging dispute with US government
Lockheed Martin has paid a $10.28 million settlement to resolve a dispute with the US Department of Justice over allegations of inflating overhead costs related to the C-27J airlifter.
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Lithuania's FL opens MRO line station at Bristol
Lithuanian maintenance specialist FL Technics has opened a line station at the UK's regional Bristol International Airport. Alongside base maintenance,...
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Eurocopter EC135 due complete Poland's medical fleet upgrade
Eurocopter has handed over the final two EC135 helicopters to Poland's state-controlled air medical rescue operator...
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CRJ1000 gains type certification from FAA
The Federal Aviation Administration has followed Transport Canada and the European Aviation Safety Agency to award type certification for the Bombardier...
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CAE to become training provider for CHC Helicopter
CAE has signed an agreement with offshore oil and gas transport provider CHC Helicopter to take on the company's flight training operations, including four full-flight simulators located in Norway, the UK and Canada.
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F136 engine funding ok’d through 4 March
The US Department of Defense must reluctantly continue paying General Electric and Rolls-Royce to develop the F136 engine through at least 4 March, says Sen Sherrod Brown of Ohio.
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Lufthansa and Munich operator approve Terminal 2 satellite
Lufthansa and Munich airport's operator FMG have approved plans to construct a satellite building to increase the capacity of the Bavarian hub's Terminal...