News | 29 Apr 2009 14:00 | Niall O'Keeffe
Daher's newly acquired airplane division Socata is offering co-ownership deals and calling for regulatory change as it tries to ride out the downturnhttp://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/Socata-sticks-to-plans-despite-surge-in-deferrals-325759/News | 02 Jan 2009 00:01 | Bill Gunston
The Second World War brought aerospace innovation on both sides, but the sound barrier remained intact until 1947http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/Flight-100-History-1939-1948-320369/News | 27 May 2008 00:00
<P>India has been declared ILA’s official partner country, and about 25 Indian companies and organisations will be present at the show, with exhibits covering an area of 1,200 square metres. This follows similar ‘official partner country’ participation at the Hanover trade fair in April, and at the ITB Berlin Tourism expo. <BR><BR>But the link between India and Germany is especially strong in Aerospace. Though the Indian armed forces have a long history of buying British and French military aircraft, German engineers and companies have been especially active in helping India’s indigenous aircraft programmes. <BR><BR>Professor Kurt Tank, for example, creator of the wartime Focke Wulf Fw 190 fighter, worked in India from 1955 until 1970, and led the team responsible for creating the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) HF-24 Marut – India’s first indigenous supersonic strike fighter. In recognition of this link an HF-24 is displayed at the Deutsche Museum Flugwerft at Schleissheim in Bavahttp://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/ILA-2008-Partner-India-steps-up-participation-224145/News | 10 Feb 2008 15:10
US carrier mergers 'an imperative', says United consolidation United Airlines chief executive Glen Tilton told an audience at the carrier's annual...http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/Briefing-12-February-2008-221433/News | 21 Dec 2004 00:00
<p>An aviation treasure trove awaits visitors to the Udvar-Hazy Center in Washington, but the best is yet to come with more artifacts en route</p> <p>Under its vaulted, white-arched roof, the US National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center does not look half empty - or half full, depending on your viewpoint - but it is. The more than 1.7 million people who visited the museum in its first year would find it hard to believe that the centre is only half way to its goal of displaying 200 aircraft and a similar number of large space artifacts.</p> <p>From floor to ceiling, the cavernous hangar-style building seems chock-full of aircraft, aeroengines, spacecraft, missiles and other historically significant aerospace artifacts. But when the centre opened on 15 December last year, two days before the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first powered flight only 82 aircraft were on display. Another 21, many from the museum's vertical flight collection, are now being moved in, takihttp://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/Rare-birds-191716/News | 18 Dec 1996 00:00
Despite being more than six decades old, the Junkers Ju-52 is still going strong. <p>Herman De Wulf/BRUSSELS </p> <p>How long do aircraft last? The legendary Junkers Ju-52/3m tri-motor transport is 60 years old and still extremely popular - especially for pleasure-trips. One airworthy example is operated in Lufthansa colours, and is booked to capacity most of the time. </p> <p>People pay DM260 ($166) for a scenic flight lasting no more than 45min. "Tante Ju" (Auntie Junkers), as the historic Junkers airliner is affectionately known in Germany, cruises at a sedate 100kt (185km/h), rarely any higher than 2,000ft above ground level, and operates only in visual-flight-rules conditions. It carries just16 passengers, but they travel in pre-Second World War leather-seated luxury, watching the landscape moving slowly through large windows while enjoying plenty of elbow room. By today's standards, the corrugated duraluminium Ju-52/3m is a simple aircraft, with fixed landing-gear, propelledhttp://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/Flying-a-legend-10363/