All articles by NAME MISSING – Page 82
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Business: Good week - Bad week
Lufthansa is looking at new slimline seats for its short-haul fleet as a way to boost yields by increasing capacity without reducing space for individual...
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Opinion
Comment: Reality check
Pioneering Gulf Air was left behind as its former shareholders spun off their own network carriers. A new action plan must turn its fortunes around if it is to stay viable in the long term
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This week - briefing
Sikorsky's Coatesville, Pennsylvania facility is set to receive for customisation the first...
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Opinion
Dubai 09: Comment: A quiet Dubai?
What signals did last week's Dubai air show give about an aerospace recovery? Do not be misled by the lack of big home-grown airliner orders. The region is powering up again fast
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Opinion
Comment: Have BA and Iberia got it 20% right?
The decision by British Airways and Iberia to pursue a merger has re-ignited the debate on airline consolidation and its merits - or lack thereof. Proponents...
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Picture: Shuttle Atlantis begins penultimate mission
NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis emerges through the clouds over launch pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center seconds after its lift-off at 14:28 local time...
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ESA begins commissioning Proba-2 demonstrator
The European Space Agency has begun commissioning the 17 technology experiments and four scientific instruments that are aboard its Project for Onboard Autonomy...
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Emcore wins Cygnus solar cell contract
Orbital Sciences' Cygnus International Space Station resupply spacecraft is to use solar cells from New Mexico company Emcore. The solar cell manufacturer...
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Dubai 09: Ayla Aviation Academy set to launch youth summer camp in 2010
The first aviation youth summer camp in the Middle East is to be launched by Ayla Aviation Academy (stand E230c) in 2010.
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Dubai 09: Iacobucci creating the restaurant in the sky
Italian manufacturer and supplier of electrical galley inserts Iacobucci HF Electronics (chalet B17) is here to announce its latest products. Best...
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Dubai 09: FlyDubai will take delivery of new lightweight galley
A new lightweight galley is being introduced to the region by Dutch company Driessen Aerospace Group (stand W468).
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Dubai 09: Anyone can be a pilot at Mutahida Airways
Confront your fears of flying or fulfil your dreams of being the pilot of a jumbo jet by taking to the controls of a Boeing 747-400 cockpit simulator. Mutahida...
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Dubai 09: Personalised design makes one man Happy
Make your aircraft stand out from the rest with the help of Happy Design Studio (stand E650). The French company was set up by Didier Wolff eight years...
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Dubai 09: Flame-retardant seat covers on show
Flame-retardant aircraft seat covers are on display by German manufacturers of high-value polyester fibre specialist Trevira.
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Business: Good week - Bad week
Emirates Airline In week of the air show there, Dubai's flag carrier continues to defy the gloom that has descended on the city's previously rampant property...
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Flight International cover competition 2009
Last year's winner was Begemont's spectacular image of a Russian air force Sukhoi Su-27 (top left) while the 2007 cover competition champion was boxer 03's...
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Opinion
Comment: Market reality and the US middle man
Italy's Finmeccanica, virtually unknown in the US defence market even five years ago, seems to have set its sights on cracking the ultimate transatlantic...
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Opinion
Comment: Stripping out margin for error
Aviation has a long and worthy tradition of calculating safety performance to allow for error or the unexpected. This is being challenged by today's lean operating philosophy
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Business briefs
Operating profit at Moog's aircraft controls unit was down 5% to $52.4 million for its year to...
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Dubai 09: TDH Visions goes green with tugs
Aviation ground support equipment specialist TDH Visions (stand E675) is highlighting its new eco-friendly aircraft tug to the Middle East region. "We...