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Environmental special: Quietly does it
Quietly does it ROB COPPINGER LONDON While aviation's carbon emissions have grabbed the headlines, European industry's efforts to cut noise pollution...
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Environmental special: Six-year project to validate technologies
Starting in April 2001, SILENCE(R) cost €111 million ($151 million), with 50% of the funding provided by the European Commission and the rest by industry....
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Environmental special: How EU plan affects Europe's Airlines
While including non-European Union flights within the EU emissions trading remains controversial, the scheme also came under friendly fire earlier this year...
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Environmental special: Battle lines
battle lines stephen trimble washinGton dc Anti-aviation sentiment, already in full force among European environmentalists, is starting...
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NewsNorthrop Grumman tests oblique flying wing X-plane in windtunnel
Northrop Grumman is beginning high-speed windtunnel testing of the oblique flying wing X-plane it...
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US Army makes unexpected Guardrail update
The US Army will spend up to $460 million over the next five years to modernise a fleet of nearly 36-year-old signals intelligence (SIGINT) aircraft that...
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Environmental special: The alphabet soup of alternative fuels
terminology The alphabet soup of alternative fuels XTL - "X to liquid" - generic term for fuels produced from coal, natural gas or biomass using...
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FAA proposes recall on hundreds of TFE731 bizjet engines
Owners of more than 500 Honeywell TFE731 -family turbofan engines are being called upon by the US Federal Aviation...
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Eclipse 500s to enter air taxi fleet service
Air Taxi fleets are the biggest customers of Eclipse , and two providers are about to be the first to put their...
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Business aviation in brief
GULFSTREAM EXPANSION Gulfstream has opened the first of two phases of its new 58,025m2 (624,600ft2) Savannah,...
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China developing WIGE aircraft
A wing-in-ground-effect aircraft is under development at Shanghai based-Tongji University, according to Chinese media. With a design payload of 4,000kg (8,800lb),...
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Brussels emissions trading scheme goes to vote
The European Parliament's transport committee is due to vote on whether to back proposals for a single unified launch date of 2012 for both international...
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Japan to fund stealth fighter study
Japan's Y4.8 trillion ($41.4 billion) defence budget request for fiscal year 2008 includes an initial Y15.7 billion allocation from the nation's air force...
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IATA criticises all aspects of Brazilian aviation safety infrastructure
Brazil's accident rate is currently about 3.5 times the world average and the reasons for this are almost all down to shortcomings in air traffic control,...
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European satellite servicing competitors announce new customers and new spacecraft
The two competing on-orbit satellite servicing companies, UK based-Orbital Satellite Services ...
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Farnborough Airport draws up master plan
Farnborough Airport is drawing up a master plan which lays out a strategy for the...