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  • IN FOCUS: The TriStar heritage 40 years on

    15:00 20 April 2012

    Forty years ago, in April 1972, Lockheed saw its last civil airliner design - the L-1011 TriStar - enter service with...


  • PICTURE: Airbus A330 MRTT tanker flies in RAAF colours

    11:40 16 May 2006

    <P>Airbus has flown the first A330 MRTT for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in the service's colours.</P> ...


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  • IN FOCUS: The TriStar heritage 40 years on

    News | 20 Apr 2012 15:00 | David Learmount

    Forty years ago, in April 1972, Lockheed saw its last civil airliner design - the L-1011 TriStar - enter service with launch customer Eastern Airlines.http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/IN-FOCUS-The-TriStar-heritage-40-years-on-369902/

  • Paris: CAE remains on offensive in military market

    News | 19 Jun 2011 16:00 | Murdo Morrison

    Martin Gagné, group president military simulation products at CAE, explains how the Canadian business is positioning itself for a downturn in global defence spending and why it remains buoyant about opportunities in tankers, trainers and unmanned systemshttp://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/Paris-CAE-remains-on-offensive-in-military-market-357973/

  • PARIS AIR SHOW: 100 years of Paris air show highlights

    News | 05 Jun 2009 06:00 | Günter Endres

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  • Pictures: First Australian Airbus A330 MRTT air-to-air refuelling tanker rolled out

    News | 12 Jun 2007 15:25 | Barbara Cockburn

    <FONT size=2> <P>The first of five Airbus A330 multi role tanker transports (MRTT) ordered by the Royal Australian Air Force has been rolled out of the hangar at the conversion centre of EADS Casa in Getafe near Madrid.</P> <P>The <A href="http://www.defence.gov.au/raaf/aircraft/mrtt.htm" target=_blank>contract to convert the RAAF's A330s into MRTTs </A>was signed on 20 December 2004 between EADS Casa and Australia.</P> <P>The five A330s are due to enter service in 2009 as MRTTs and are being modified for air-to-air refuelling and personnel transport. </P> <P align=center><IMG style="WIDTH: 445px; HEIGHT: 334px" alt="" src="../assets/getAsset.aspx?ItemID=18103" border=0></P> <P align=left>The RAAF's A330 MRTTs have a centerline air refueling boom system (ARBS ) with fly-by-wire controls, plus two under-wing hose and drogue pods. </P> <P align=center><IMG style="WIDTH: 445px; HEIGHT: 334px" alt="" src="../assets/getAsset.aspx?ItemID=18104" border=0></P> <P><BR>The aircraft will carryhttp://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/Pictures-First-Australian-Airbus-A330-MRTT-air-to-air-refuelling-tanker-rolled-out-214571/

  • Headlines briefing: 20 February 2007

    News | 20 Feb 2007 00:00

    <P><STRONG>Dutch Chinooks get cockpit upgrade</STRONG></P> <P><STRONG>Avionics</STRONG> The six Boeing CH-47F Chinook heavylift helicopters ordered by the Netherlands last week will have a next-generation version of the Honeywell Avionics Control and Management System glass cockpit fitted to upgraded Dutch CH-47Ds, rather than the Rockwell Collins Common Avionics Architecture System being fitted to US Army CH-47Fs. The helicopters will be delivered between July 2009 and January 2010.</P> <P><STRONG>France clarifies Saudi Arabian deal</STRONG></P> <P><STRONG>Order</STRONG> The French defence ministry withdrew a statement last week that Saudi Arabia had ordered two Airbus A330-MRTT military refuelling aircraft, saying that talks were continuing. Less then 2h after issuing the statement that Michèle Alliot- Marie and the Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz had signed the agreement, ministry officials released the clarification.</P> <P><STRONG>Raptors get navigation software patchhttp://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/Headlines-briefing-20-February-2007-212131/

  • PICTURE: Airbus A330 MRTT tanker flies in RAAF colours

    News | 16 May 2006 11:40

    <P>Airbus has flown the first A330 MRTT for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in the service's colours.</P> <P><IMG alt=A330MRTT src="../assets/getAsset.aspx?ItemID=12771"></P> <P><EM><A href="http://perso.wanadoo.fr/ydphotos/">Source: French Frogs Airslides</A></EM></P> <P>The RAAF has ordered five of the A330-200-based aircraft and the first is due to be delivered shortly to EADS Casa for modification to the tanker role. The refeuelling boom system has separately been flight-tested on an A310.&nbsp;</P> <P>Following acceptance testing, the type is due in service by late 2009.</P>http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/PICTURE-Airbus-A330-MRTT-tanker-flies-in-RAAF-colours-206674/

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