All articles by Murdo Morrison – Page 53
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Gulf Technics secures ST Aero rotable support
Gulf Technics, the maintenance, repair and overhaul start-up, has turned to Singapore's ST Aerospace to provide parts support for its Airbus rotable components...
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Bahrain Airport Services eyes strong demand for training
Bahrain Airport Services is expecting a "big demand" among school-leavers for a UK-endorsed aeronautical engineering training programme that is recognised...
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NewsHopes diminish for Gulf Air CSeries order
Bombardier hopes of seeing a CSeries order from Gulf Air at the Bahrain International Airshow appear to have been dashed.
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Gulf Technics outlines expansion plans
Middle Eastern maintenance, repair and overhaul start-up Gulf Technics has spelled out its expansion plans at the Bahrain International Airshow.
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Red Wings to become launch customer for Tu-204SM
Russian airline Red Wings is set to tomorrow confirm at the Bahrain International Airshow that it is to become the launch customer for the latest version...
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NewsIN FOCUS: Bahrain's Gulf Aviation Academy prepares for a 'defining year in terms of growth'
Gulf Aviation Academy will announce an expansion to its facility next to Bahrain's international airport at the show, kicking off what chief executive Tim Shattock calls a "defining year in terms of growth" for the former Gulf Air training department.
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NewsIN FOCUS: Bahrain proves its worth as offshore base to tap Saudi Arabia's lucrative business aviation market
Although Dubai is the undisputed hub of the Middle East's business aviation sector - with the free zone next to its international airport housing a cluster of brokers, charter providers and fixed-base operations - Richard Gaona had no hesitation in choosing Bahrain two years ago as Comlux's Middle Eastern base.
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NewsIN FOCUS: Bahrain air show kicks off against a background of political turmoil but optimism about the kingdom's prospects
When Bahrain's security forces violently put down protests inspired by the Arab Spring last year, it exposed growing ethnic fissures and shook the perception many had of the island as the Gulf's most relaxed, democratic and liberal state.
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NewsIN FOCUS: Gulf Air hopes to shrug off horrible 2011 and return to restructuring efforts at air show
Another year; another Gulf Air attempt to haul itself back to profitability. The uncharitable view of prospects for Bahrain's flag-carrier - which once enjoyed a virtual monopoly of hub-and-spoke services in the Middle East
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NewsIN FOCUS: Bahrain Air puts faith in premium value model as it competes with Gulf Air in tiny market
Serving a population of only 1.2 million and competing with larger rival Gulf Air on all but one of its 13 full-service routes, the privately-owned Airbus A320-family operator, formed four years ago, must take second place behind the state-owned flag-carrier when negotiating authorisation to fly to new destinations.
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IN FOCUS: Lauak's Portuguese subsidiary finds its niche in aerostructures
It might be a metaphor for the ups and downs of Portugal's industrial ambitions. Beside a crumbling former Renault plant - shut in the 1990s when eastern Europe began to undercut countries such as Portugal for low-cost car assembly - another French investor is creating manufacturing jobs, this time in ...
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NewsIN FOCUS: Embraer's investment set to transform Portugal's fledgling aerospace industry
Five hundred years ago, Portuguese pioneers ventured to Brazil to seek their fortune in the young colony. Now Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer is on a transatlantic mission in the other direction to create its first overseas manufacturing outpost.
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NewsIN FOCUS: Portuguese companies show their versatility with innovative aviation projects
Embraer's investments in Portugal may help invigorate the aerospace manufacturing sector, but there is no shortage of innovative engineering businesses determined to show what Portugal can offer the world of aviation away from the Brazilian airframer's supply chain.
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NewsIN FOCUS: A400M partnership a decade ago would have set Portuguese industry on very different path
Had a political decision gone another way almost 10 years ago, the infant Portuguese aerospace industry might have taken a very different path.
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NewsIN FOCUS: KC-390 deal pushes transformation of OGMA
That Embraer has chosen OGMA - alongside design engineering specialist Empresa de Engenharia Aeronáutica (EAA) - to lead Portugal's involvement in the KC-390 airlifter and tanker programme comes perhaps as no great surprise.
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NewsIN FOCUS: Italian aerospace manufacturer Secondo Mona illustrates benefits of keeping it in the family
Dr Roberto Mona is convinced on the benefits of running a vertically integrated family company. "We are in a position to control our destiny," says the chairman...
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IN FOCUS: Italian exports driven by Lombardy aerospace giants
Exports driven by the aerospace giants in the region around Milan are vital if Italy is to avoid diving into a full-blown recession
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NewsIN FOCUS: Piaggio looks to special missions market with P180 Avanti and new jet
Piaggio's sleek new canard is attracting admiring glances as the manufacturer eyes emerging markets such as Russia
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Interview
Working Week: Vance Poleski
What attracted you to this industry? As a young man aviation was not on my radar. I was working in a steel mill in Seattle and going to college at...
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China Careers:Home-grown pilots can fill some of the demand
China's fast-growing carriers are prepared to offer experienced commanders lucrative rewards for relocating to the country