All articles by Dan Thisdell – Page 20
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HELITECH: Blue Sky launches portable tracking device
Satellite tracking and communications systems provider Blue Sky showed off its recently launched HawkEye 7200 tracking device at Helitech.
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ANALYSIS: Aerospace Top 100 has never had it so good
Anybody one talks to in the aerospace industry today seems to agree that the civil aviation boom that started in the mid-2000s has years to run. The financial crisis of 2008-2009 caused a wobble, for sure, but even a recession worse than any since the 1930s and high oil prices ...
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DSEI: Selex marks mini and micro UAV success
Finmeccanica's Selex ES has marked a successful week for its unmanned air systems business, achieving Italian air force certification for micro and mini...
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Russian Helicopters, AgustaWestland kick off 2.5t-class joint venture
Russian Helicopters and AgustaWestland have formally kicked off their joint bid to produce an all-new 2.5t-class single-engined rotorcraft, with the signing...
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CSeries spotted on high-speed taxi trials
Bombardier could be lining up for an imminent first flight of its all-new CSeries airliner in the wake of high-speed taxi trials apparently conducted at...
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Russian Helicopters schedules first flight of high-speed type for 2018
Russian Helicopters plans to perform the maiden flight of its new developmental high-speed rotorcraft towards the end of the decade as it eyes the fledgling...
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Russian Helicopters, AgustaWestland line up MAKS kick-off for joint venture
Russian Helicopters and AgustaWestland are set to formally kick off their bid to jointly produce a 2.5t-class rotorcraft, with an agreement on the "main principles" and development plan outline to be signed at the MAKS airshow in Moscow later this month.
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IN FOCUS: Dassault question raises its head at EADS
Now that EADS has managed to shake off the chains of French and German state ownership and turn itself into the normal company its investors have long wanted it to become, its investors - one of them, anyway - want it to behave like a normal company.
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Exelis to cut off ITT name from November
ITT Exelis will drop the "ITT" nomen from its name from November. The former ITT defence division has used both names with the agreement of its former parent since that entity's breakup into three independent companies in 2011.
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GE looks to jetstream to slash drag
GE researchers are claiming a world-record for the speed of an air jet, with a laboratory gadget measuring just 75mm square by 6mm thick putting out air at 220m/s, or about M 0.7.
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ESA sets sights on small spaceplane following key trial of technology demonstrator
A European Space Agency bid to develop a small, reusable spaceplane in the 2017-2018 timeframe is on track for a summer 2014 launch to test key re-entry technologies, following a successful helicopter-drop splashdown trial.
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Rolls-Royce aero engines businesses turn in strong first half
Rolls-Royce's aero engine businesses turned in solid first-half growth, reflecting a buoyant civil aviation market and the company overcoming military budget...
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Revolutionary UK engine shoots for 2020 flight test
An Oxfordshire company's bid to transform transportation to orbit with a radical air-breathing rocket engine it claims will be capable of driving airline-style operations with a runway take-off and landing reusable spaceplane got a shot in the arm last week in the form of £60 million ($91 million) from the ...
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Activist investor pushes AeroVironment onto defensive
Unmanned systems manufacturer AeroVironment has been forced onto the defensive by an activist investor ...
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Paveway IV modifications proceed towards UK F-35 introduction
A series of enhancements to Raytheon's Paveway IV precision-guided bomb are being readied for test for the UK ...
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PICTURE: Ariane 6 project blasts ahead on solid fuel foundations
The European Space Agency on 9 July unveiled its baseline configuration for the Ariane 6 heavylift launcher that is being readied to replace the in-service...
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Proton M failure flags up unreliability of Russian space programme
The post-mortem is under way on the spectacular 2 July Proton M rocket failure at Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, which destroyed the launch vehicle and its payload of three of Russia's Glonass navigation satellites.
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IN FOCUS: UAV engineers can learn from bumblebees, the masters of lift
Engineers are looking at taking inspiration from nature to support the development of small unmanned systems, such as a 'robobee' ...
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PARIS: Pogosyan outlines Superjet 100 production rate
Sukhoi will be turning out three Superjet 100s per month from July, which will lead to a total annual output of 26 of the regional jets.
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PARIS: Pogosyan sees market for 200 Su-35s
The mighty Sukhoi Su-35 lancing through the Le Bourget sky this week is just the beginning of the type's international exposure, according to Mikhail Pogosyan.