All articles by Dan Thisdell – Page 30
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IN FOCUS: Euro's demise to change shape of aerospace industry
The European single currency may survive 2012, but after months of roiling crisis only the delusional can seriously, in unguarded private moments, believe...
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Air Partner trading well in 'difficult' environment
Charter broker Air Partner describes business as encouraging in a "very difficult trading environment", especially in private jet and freight broking, but says economic conditions are providing too little visibility to indicate future financial performance.
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Vega on track for January maiden flight from ESA's French Guiana launch site
The European Space Agency will finish its so-called "year of launchers" a few weeks short of realising the maiden flight of its third vehicle, but the Vega light rocket remains on course for a January 2012 launch from ESA's Kourou, French Guiana spaceport.
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Safran turns scientist advisers into 'operational tool' to speed technology from lab to practical application
A systematic approach to the elusive challenge of managing innovation may be paying dividends at Safran, where the establishment two years ago of a scientific...
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IN FOCUS: AgustaWestland is a Finmeccanica star - but faces testing times in weak defence market
For Finmeccanica, the helicopter business is an area of strength but job cuts in the AgustaWestland arm's UK operation points to the need for a boosted civil profile
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IN FOCUS: Finmeccanica revitalisation drive built around aerospace, helicopters, defence electronics and security
Stung by 787-assisted losses, Finmeccanica has resolved to restructure, reorganise and relaunch its aeronautics division, with implications for jobs, outsourcing policies and supplier relationships
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IN FOCUS: Alenia's 787 factory is 30-year investment
Alenia Aeronautica's heavy investment in its factory that supplies the Boeing 787 programme reflects an expectation of 30 to 40 years of revenue
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Finmeccanica chairman resigns, denies bribery allegations
Finmeccanica chairman Pier Francesco Guarguaglini has resigned and been replaced by Giuseppe Orsi, who retains his role as chief executive of the financially...
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Ariane 5 Midlife Evolution gets go-ahead
The European Space Agency has approved the long-mooted Midlife Evolution design to add 20% payload capacity to its 10-tonne Ariane 5 heavy-lift launcher....
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Bombardier Aerospace posts $129m fiscal Q3 operating profit
Bombardier Aerospace's order backlog has risen 16% so far this fiscal year to $22.3 billion, mainly due to an increase in orders for large business jets...
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Human power sheds light on winglets
Experience with low-powered aircraft aerodynamics gained during the 1970s and 1980s - by engineering teams in the USA, Europe and Japan bidding to win Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) prizes for human-powered aircraft (HPA) - is widely credited with paving the way for high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned systems.
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Nanotechnology's first big aerospace application may be in paint
Nanotechnology is an umbrella term referring to the manipulation of materials on the scale of nanometres, or billionths of a metre. But as Martin Kemp, the...
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Nanotechnology gets big in UK composites research drive
Last week saw three milestones in the exploitation of composite materials in aerospace, with Airbus beginning assembly of the first A350's wings at its Broughton...
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IN FOCUS: Cash flow gives Xcor momentum
Plans to develop a rocket-powered spaceplane that can put passengers into microgravity - within half an hour - gained a fillip from funding deal signed in September
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IN FOCUS: Cash flow gives Xcor momentum
Plans to develop a rocket-powered spaceplane that can put passengers into microgravity - within a half hour - gained a fillip from funding deal signed in...
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UK researchers unveil silent aircraft concept
Reducing noise from a Boeing 767-sized aircraft to levels so low that take-offs and approaches would not be audible beyond an airport's perimeter is possible...
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Supply crunch could usher in $176 a barrel oil
Inadequate investment in oil production in the Middle East and North Africa is threatening to push prices as high as $176/barrel in 2015 - rivalling their heights in the months before the global financial crisis struck in 2008.
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Sea trials pending for 'super accurate' shipboard UAV rotorcraft landing system
Thales and French naval defence systems specialist DCNS are readying seaborne trials of a system that promises world-beating accuracy for shipboard automated...
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DUBAI: Face the facts with Claude Alber, Rockwell Collins vice-president for EMEA
Claude Alber is vice-president and managing director, Europe, Middle East and Africa, for US-headquartered aerospace technology manufacturer Rockwell Collins.
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GKN addresses A350 ramp-up challenges
Aerostructures manufacturer GKN Aerospace has delivered its first set of A350 composite wing spars and trailing edges to the Airbus wing assembly plant at...