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NewsFAA floats caveats in advance of NASA study release
The US FAA today questioned the accuracy and timeliness of the NASA surveys, which involved phone calls to pilots asking them to recall over the past 2- to 3-months if they’d encountered certain safety issues, for example runway incursions.
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Boom contact next step for automated aerial refuelling demonstration
Flight tests to demonstrate automated aerial refuelling have shown an unmanned aircraft can be manoeuvred safely and positioned accurately behind a tanker...
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Boeing patents self-transpiring cooling system for hot structures
A self-transpiring technology for hypersonic or reusable space vehicles using a solid material that becomes gaseous and flows through the porous outer surface...
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NewsAdam tooling up for A500, A700 production in Utah
Adam Aircraft is finalising plans with the US state of Utah to begin production of the A500 piston...
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Sensis to upgrade New York Kennedy ASDE-X for environmental trials
The US Department of Transportation plans to contract with Sensis Corporation to upgrade the company's Airport Surface Detection Equipment - Model X (ASDE-X)...
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Pilot shortages hold back growth of seaplane market
market Buoyant sector Seaplane manufacturers and float installers have enjoyed a bumper year, but pilot shortages threaten to hold back growth jeffrey...
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Airservices Australia develops air traffic management initiatives to reduce aviation’s enivronmental footprint
Australian air traffic services provider Airservices Australia is developing a number of new air traffic management initiatives designed to reduce aviation's...
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USA details possible $2.6 billion deal with Moroccan air force
US Congress has been notified of the possible sale to Morocco of 24 Lockheed Martin F-16C/D fighters and 24 Hawker Beechcraft T-6B trainers for a combined...
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Aerojet tests cryogenic oxygen/methane reaction control engine
US missile and space propulsion company Aerojet has completed hot-fire testing of a cryogenic oxygen and methane...
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Foreign aircraft inspections to increase in Europe
The UK is to dramatically increase the number of ramp checks it makes on foreign aircraft - to 600 in 2008 and 1,000 by 2009, compared with just 193 in 2006....