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Working Week: Steve Bothma hopes to score for ExecuJet
Hoping to score for ExecuJet After more than 30 years in the South African Air Force Steve Bothma made the move to business aviation. He now heads...
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NewsEmirates to deploy A380 on Chinese route
Middle Eastern carrier Emirates is to deploy its Airbus A380 aircraft on the route to Beijing later this year. The Beijing A380 service will begin...
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NewsComplexity of AF447 crash probe to dominate ICAO discussion
Complications with the investigation into the destruction of Air France flight AF447 are set to dominate discussions on flight-data retrieval, aircraft communications...
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Business briefs
Thales's aerospace and space business segment fell to an operating loss of €310 million ($420...
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Regent to expand with interiors refurbishment facility in Mobile
Interiors refurbishment specialist Regent Aerospace will expand operations by opening new facilities in Mobile, Alabama, the company announced on 26 February. The...
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NewsUAV pioneer unveils new design for long-endurance VTOL aircraft
Tad McGeer, an unmanned aircraft pioneer who designed the Aerosonde and ScanEagle, has now unveiled a vertical take-off and landing, long-endurance aircraft in the same size class called Flexrotor.
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Singapore's Tiger dismisses Jetstar-AirAsia alliance as "hot air"
Tiger Airways has dismissed the alliance between its rivals Jetstar and AirAsia as a "publicity stunt" and "a lot of hot air".
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HAL sets sights on global presence
Ashok Nayak has been at the helm of Hindustan Aeronautics for a year and is determined to turn the giant into a more nimble and effective global player
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Indian aerospace industry opens up
India is fast becoming a major global aerospace market, aided by a combination of increasing defence spending, a booming commercial aviation market, and...
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Shanghai Airport profit down 18% in 2009
Shanghai Airport Authority has posted an 18% fall in 2009 net profit.
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China Eastern plans new subsidiary for Shanghai Airlines' assets
China Eastern Airlines will set up a wholly-owned subsidiary to house the assets and debts of Shanghai Airlines, which it took over.
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NewsDepth of Koito seat problem still being assessed
Airbus and EASA are still working to assess whether seats manufactured by Koito Industries and currently fitted to in-service aircraft meet airworthiness...
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Opinion
Comment: Healing in Houston
No longer in denial, the helicopter industry came together in Texas last week, fully aware of its shortcomings and challenges and fully committed to a more robust, safer future
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NewsTroubled Malev is renationalised
Hungary's Government has stepped in to rescue struggling flag-carrier Malev, retaking control of the airline three years after its privatisation.
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Europe aims for an end to tooling
Shaped metal deposition promises to slash costs and speed production compared with traditional machining techniques
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Business: Good week - Bad week
AIR INDIA The government is pumping Rp8 billion ($174 million) of new equity into its loss-making flag carrier "to ease the cashflow situation [and] also...
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Opinion
Comment: Is Obama boxing clever on NASA?
As a former Marine Corps general and Space Shuttle commander, NASA administrator Charles Bolden is well-equipped to take fire. That's good, because he needed all the grace under pressure he could muster last week when senators tore into him and his boss, Barack Obama, for killing off US human spaceflight.
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First flight of interiors-fitted 787 slides to March
First flight of Boeing's third flight test aircraft has moved into March, citing a pre-fitting of flight test instrumentation that the company believes will...
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OCCAR: 'Significant progress' made in talks to save A400M
Customer nations for the A400M transport are awaiting a response from EADS after proposing changes to save the project ...
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Fokker Services - life after death
Fokker the airframer is long gone, but out-of-production aircraft are a growth business