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NewsPratt & Whitney Canada selected for White Knight II engines
Pratt & Whitney Canada's PW308 turbofan engine is to power Virgin...
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Transformed Boeing welcomes 787 roll-out
PiVOTAL AIRCRAFT GRAHAM WARWICK WASHINGTON DC Boeing reinvents the airliner US manufacturer's 787 programme has set revolutionary standards for...
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The Boeing 787 Deamliner timeline
1995 Airbus launches A330-200, usurping the 767-300ER, which had led the mid-size, long-range widebody market. 1997 Boeing launches 767-400ER "double-stretch"...
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Mid-sizers outrun super-jumbos
Fragmentation max kingsley-jones london Mid-sizers outrun super-jumbos The unveiling of the 787 in Everett last Sunday represented the end of...
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John Leahy - Airbus caught napping by 787
john lEAHY To Airbus's chief salesman John Leahy, the 7E7 looked like another in a long line of Boeing projects that would never see the light of day,...
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Sonic Cruiser - a different Boeing
strategy Max kingsley-jones london How the airline market focus changed Boeing would be a different company today if it had launched any of the...
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Mike Bair - the man behind the 787
mike bair The man leading the 787 is one of a long line of Boeing engineers turned executives. Having joined the company in 1979 as an engineer on...
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So far....So good. World airline safety
Worldwide airline safety has been better, statistically, in the first six months of 2007 than it has ever been for the same period. Although the number of...
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Poorest performers can improve
countries Poorest performers can improve Recent history shows that states which, like Indonesia, have had a consistently bad safety record compared...
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Royal Brunei orders four Boeing 787s
Royal Brunei Airlines has agreed to order four Boeing 787-8s for delivery from 2009 and, as an interim solution, it is adding...
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Kunpeng Airlines set to launch with Bombardier CRJ200s
Shenzhen Airlines' and Mesa Airlines' new regional airline joint venture in China, Kunpeng Airways, plans to launch in September with Bombardier CRJ200s...
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Sukhoi predicts Superjet orders will total 100 by year-end
Airframer Sukhoi Civil Aircraft is targeting a total 100 sales of the Superjet 100 (SSJ) regional jets before the end of the year. The current firm...
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Sukhoi studies advanced composites for stretched Superjet
Russian airframer Sukhoi is investigating the use of advanced composite materials on a future stretch variant of the Sukhoi...
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Europe agrees draft proposals for ADS-B surveillance programme
Europe has agreed on the objectives of a programme to introduce automatic...