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Comment - India's fast jet contest must go fast
Last year, talking about India's long delayed tender for multi-role combat aircraft, a senior air force official remarked: "The bidders can wait. This is...
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Comment - Don't wait to take action over toxic cabin air
There's no argument that toxins get into cabin air. The argument is about how much harm they do. Should airlines await legal proof before acting to protect their crew and passengers?
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Flight Interview: Malaysian air force chief sets strategic focus
Malaysia's air force chief says additional multirole fighters and airborne early warning aircraft head the service's spending priorities ...
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US oversight lapses 'may have compromised F-35 secrets'
A US Department of Defense internal audit into its own oversight of sensitive technology related to the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has concluded...
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OpenSkies 757 emerges
The first Boeing 757-200 for British Airways' new OpenSkies division has emerged from the paint shop equipped with Aviation Partners winglets. The airline,...
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NewsLockheed protests USN BAMS award
Lockheed Martin has decided to appeal the US Navy’s decision to award a $1.1 billion contract to Northrop Grumman to develop the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance system ...
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IATA sees more signs of slowdown in March
Airline passenger traffic figures for March are a further indication of the slowing growth rate of air travel demand, warns the International Air Transport...
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Dutch mull specific greenhouse gases for taxation
The Netherlands is mulling over whether to build into its new controversial environment tax a specific levy linked to climate-changing nitrogen oxide (NOx)...
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Eclipse gains Indian, Australian certification for EA500
Eclipse gains Indian, Australian certification for EA500
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One year on: the story of the 787
One year ago, Boeing could not have been riding higher. Its stock and yearly orderbook were climbing to a record peak and its flagship product, the 787 Dreamliner,...
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Rude awakening for dream factories
Far from the 787 final assembly line, two facilities in north Charleston, South Carolina were established to manufacture and integrate fuselage barrels for...
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787 centre wing box redesign buckles schedule
In mid-March, Steven Udvar-Hazy, chairman of International Lease Finance, Boeing's biggest customer, declared to an audience of Wall Street analysts that...
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Missouri offers tax credits to woo Bombardier
Missouri's state senate has approved a $240 million tax credit programme that it hopes will persuade Bombardier to build a $395 million CSeries 110/130-seat...
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Airbus advances Power8 cost plan with UK wing contract
Airbus has selected Magellan Aerospace's UK subsidiary for new work packages and further wing work, prompting the aerospace supplier to invest £3.5 million...
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FAA mandates A320 stabilizer inspections
The US FAA has finalized an airworthiness directive (AD) first proposed in October, calling on operators of 721 US-registered Airbus A320-family aircraft to perform a one-time inspection of the aircraft’s trimmable horizontal stabilizer actuator (THSA).
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Flight International's deputy editor Max Kingsley-Jones covers Emirates' financial results and more
Flight International's deputy editor Max Kingsley-Jones covers Emirates' financial results and more
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NewsHawker Beechcraft to launch Premier II at EBACE
A more capable variant of Hawker Beechcraft's Premier light business jet family is expected to...
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Slot-trading an acceptable practice, says European Commission
European regulators have formally acknowledged, for the first time, the potential value of secondary slot-trading between airlines, in a clarification of...
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Northrop receives contract for UAV radar payload
The US Army has signed a deal to replace Lynx II sensors on some of its UAVs with Northrop Grumman's Starlite system ...