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Lufthansa is taking a majority shareholding in UK carrier BMI following the exercising of a share option agreement by BMI chairman Sir Michael Bishop.
A joint venture launched on Friday between Rocket Racing, Inc., Armadillo Aerospace and the government of New Mexico will send adventurers into suborbital space at a cost of $100,000 per ticket or less.
The three companies unveiled plans to field a fleet of reusable Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) vehicles that will take flight from Spaceport America near Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Concorde made it's last commercial flight five years ago today. Here Concorde G-BOAF is seen taking off from London Heathrow on a ferry flight back to retire at Filton, the aircraft's place of birth.
Flight published a Concorde timeline and I found it in the archives...
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The RAF is "determined" to learn the lessons following the loss of one of its C130K transport aircraft that exploded in mid-air after enemy action started a fire in its starboard outer wing in Iraq in 2005.
The aircraft crashed following...
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Our very own Stephen Trimble wrote a blog post on the DEW line recently about Alenia Aeronautica opening up the floor to suggestions for its Aermacchie 346 jet trainer.
Have a look at the AirSpace discussion thread and see if you can come up with anything more impressive. And if Alenia Aeronautica likes your idea, you get to have a ride in the thing.
To find out what that might be like, Peter Collins, one of Flight's test pilots, had a go in the prototype...
Picture credit - Alenia Aeronautica
British Airways was offered up for sale by the British government.
This archive entry is actually from November 1986 reporting that the UK Department of Transport has announced that British Airways will be privatised "in the early weeks of 1987".
The announcement of BA's privatisation was beset with hold-ups including an anti-trust case in which the US and the UK were in continuous disagreement over laws affecting air services between the two countries.
Also in August of this year BA ordered 16 Boeing 747s, as pictured.
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