All articles by NAME MISSING – Page 78
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Opinion
Comment: Business aviation needs a good fatigue risk management system
Airlines are proving crew fatigue risk management to be a safety concept whose time has come. Business aviation operators should embrace - rather than resist - a huge improvement
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News
C&D Zodiac subcontracts CSeries insulation to MTI-Polyfab
C&D Zodiac has selected MTI Global subsidiary MTI-PolyFab to supply a thermal and acoustic insulation system on the Bombardier CSeries scheduled to debut...
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This Week briefing
A leaked draft preliminary report on the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800 crash off the Lebanese coast on 25 January identifies human factors as the cause of the accident, according to Beirut daily newspaper As-Safir.
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Business briefs
Thales's aerospace and space business segment fell to an operating loss of €310 million ($420...
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Opinion
Comment: Healing in Houston
No longer in denial, the helicopter industry came together in Texas last week, fully aware of its shortcomings and challenges and fully committed to a more robust, safer future
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Opinion
Comment: Is Obama boxing clever on NASA?
As a former Marine Corps general and Space Shuttle commander, NASA administrator Charles Bolden is well-equipped to take fire. That's good, because he needed all the grace under pressure he could muster last week when senators tore into him and his boss, Barack Obama, for killing off US human spaceflight.
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News
Business: Good week - Bad week
AIR INDIA The government is pumping Rp8 billion ($174 million) of new equity into its loss-making flag carrier "to ease the cashflow situation [and] also...
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Fokker Services - life after death
Fokker the airframer is long gone, but out-of-production aircraft are a growth business
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Business: Good week - Bad week
Russia's United Aircraft failed to seal a takeover last year, but president Alexei Fyodorov reckons this year could see a controlling-stake...
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Working Week: Sangyong Chong shares knowledge at Vietnam Airlines
Sharing the knowledge at Vietnam Sangyong Chong is an A320 instructor with Vietnam Airlines, on contract with Rishworth Aviation. Originally from South...
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British Airways cabin crew vote to strike
British Airways cabin crew members have again voted heavily in favour of taking industrial action to protest changes to working conditions and contractual...
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This Week Briefing
Japan Airlines is cut 16,000 employees' salaries by 5% and withdraw bonuses as part of its financial...
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Opinion
Comment: Grasping the nettle
As concern grows about the future availability of biofuels, the aviation industry is taking its fate into its own hands as it attempts to implement its commitment to cut carbon emissions
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Opinion
Comment: Don't hold your breath for a light sabre
It was a moment that signalled the dawn of a new age of photon weapons. A modified Boeing aircraft fired a high-energy laser at a speeding missile.
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News
Hainan starting Shanghai-Brussels service in May
Chinese airline Hainan Airlines will start operating direct flights linking Brussels Airport and Shanghai Pudong International Airport, effective 28 May...
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Business briefs
US regulators have tentatively approved transatlantic anti-trust immunity for Oneworld partners...
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Business: Good week - Bad week
Shortages of biofuel feedstock have delayed some recent alternative fuel trial flights, but now Airbus parent EADS and the Singapore government's Agency...
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Opinion
Comment: Does FAA pilot training produce the right stuff?
The FAA is reviewing whether its pilot training is producing the right stuff. Perhaps the US aviation authority should be examining instruction quality rather than quantity