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HK airport releases HK$450m package to assist airlines
Hong Kong airport has unveiled a HK$450 million package ($58 million) to help airlines cope with the economic downturn and maintain flights into Hong Kong. The...
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NewsLockheed wins ISIS airship contract from DARPA
Lockheed Martin has won a $400 million contract to build a high-altitude airship demonstrator with radar technology so powerful it could spot a car hidden under a canopy of trees more than 300 km away.
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NTSB asks for Boeing 757 manual revisions
The US NTSB is asking the FAA to require Boeing to make changes to 757 and 767 procedures and training materials based on a 22 September incident involving...
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NewsSukhoi confirms Su-35 prototype crash
Sukhoi has confirmed the company’s third prototype for the Su-35 programme crashed at Komsomolsk-on-Amur during high-speed ground tests.
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Swiss wants in-flight connectivity for all passengers
Swiss International Air Lines is taking a wait and see approach to in-flight Internet, saying it will only bring the service onboard if it can offer it to...
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Southwest works to firm Row 44 installation on a fifth aircraft
Southwest Airlines is still in the process of determining installation of a Wi-Fi system supplied by Row 44 on a fifth aircraft. The Dallas-based...
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Boeing passes 25% design release mark for 747-8I
Boeing's engineering team on the 747-8 Intercontinental has completed one-fourth of the design data needed to start building tools and parts.
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PICTURE: AgustaWestland reveals AW149 for Turkey
AgustaWestland has unveiled a full-scale mock-up of its AW149 armed utility helicopter at the IDEF exhibition in Istanbul, Turkey ...
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Gulf Air awards new maintenance business to GE
Gulf Air has signed a 10-year maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) agreement with GE Aviation after selecting CFM International CFM56-5B engines for 15...
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Beechcraft Bonanza G36 flies with experimental fuel
Teledyne Continental, Hawker Beechcraft and Swift Enterprises have flown for the first time a Beechcraft Bonanza G36 with unleaded fuel and Swift sustainable fuel cellulose-based biofuel that is being touted as a replacement for 100LL.
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Civil simulators special: EC225 simulator flight test - startling realism
The EC225 simulator made its debut last year - and our test pilot's bumpy landing testified to the machine's realism
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Civil simulators special: Going through the motions - are motion systems for simulators on their way out?
Has the value of six-axis flight simulators been overrated? New research suggests their benefits may have been exaggerated
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Civil simulators special report
Simulator technology is advancing but how will it evolve? Our special report looks at possible trends, spawned by an FAA initiative to help pilots prepare better for upsets and compares the relative merits of sx axis and lower cost
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Civil simulators special: High-end helicopter simulation comes of age
Fixed-wing simulators have long been part of mainstream training, but rotorcraft devices are only now making their mark
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Enviroment Special Report: Southwest presses on with transformation
Jeff Martin certainly has his work cut out for the next three years as part of what Southwest Airlines terms its "automation transformation". Martin...
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ANZ grounds personnel as precaution against swine flu
Air New Zealand (ANZ) has grounded 18 crew and two staff who were on board an ANZ flight on 25 April that is suspected to have had passengers on board infected...
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Environment Special Report: Using the European Single Sky to let civil and military aircraft share airspace
Sharing airspace with military jets is one thing. Optimising that shared use is quite another. How well the civil-military dimension will be integrated...
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Working Week: A Frenchman promoting the UK
Bruno Esposito arrived in London for 'two or three years' to work at Inmarsat. Now, 21 years later, he is still in England and representing British industry as director of civil air transport at the SBAC
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Environment Special Report: US airlines to press for NextGen funding
The total absence of federal dollars pledged to NextGen in US President Barack Obama's recent economic stimulus package is intensifying lobbying efforts...