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HELI-EXPO: Return to flight edges closer for AW609 tiltrotor
Ground runs of the third AW609 prototype, AC3, are due to take place in the coming days as Finmeccanica Helicopters looks to get its civil tiltrotor back into the air.
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HELI-EXPO: AgustaWestland rebrands SW-4 for civil market
Finmeccanica Helicopters has unveiled a new name and a pair of critical upgrades for civil variants of the SW-4 light single produced by its Polish subsidiary PZL Swidnik.
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HELI-EXPO: Bell outlines progress on new commercial platforms
Bell Helicopter is giving a Heli-Expo debut to its two clean-sheet civil programmes, with prototypes of the light single-engined 505 Jet Ranger X and the super-medium twin 525 Relentless both on display on the show floor.
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NewsNASA selects Lockheed Martin to design supersonic X-plane
NASA has selected Lockheed Martin to design a half-scale supersonic X-plane with boom-suppression technology in an effort to lift the international ban on flying faster than Mach 1.0 overland.
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NewsHELI-EXPO: Bell rules out future conventional military helicopter developments
Mitch Snyder, the chief executive of Bell Helicopter, does not imagine the company offering another clean-sheet helicopter type to the US military after completing delivery of the AH-1Z Viper and UH-1Y Venom programmes of record.
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Opinion
ISTAT: Leahy changes opinion on demand for new A350 stretch
Airbus chief operating officer for customers John Leahy now thinks a market exists for a 45-seat stretch of the A350-1000 after speaking to multiple airlines around the world.
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HELI-EXPO: Bell mulls new clean-sheet launch
Bell Helicopter’s new chief executive Mitch Snyder has again re-iterated his commitment to bringing “disruptive technology” to the rotorcraft market and has dropped the strongest hint yet of its plans to launch an entirely new design.
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HELI-EXPO: Marenco flies second SKYe SH09 prototype
Marenco Swisshelicopter has successfully conducted the maiden sortie of its second flight-test SKYe SH09 light single-engined rotorcraft.
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NewsVIDEO: Bell relentlessly pursuing 525 despite market troubles
Work on the Bell Helicopter 525 Relentless is accelerating at the company’s assembly plant in Amarillo, Texas, as the third flight-test vehicle (FTV) nears completion and the first two production-representative examples also begin to take shape.
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ISTAT: Economist predicts oil prices will rise
Oil prices are unlikely to remain at today’s very low rates, but they will not rebound to 2014 levels of over $100 per barrel in the near future, says Avitas economist Adam Pilarski, speaking on 29 February at the ISTAT Americas conference.
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NewsRNZAF NH90 embarks on first deployment
Two of New Zealand’s NH Industries NH90 rotorcraft have embarked on their maiden deployment, supporting aid delivery to Fiji in response to the cyclone that struck on 20 February.
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Asia-Pacific helicopter fleet grows 45% over last decade
Asia-Pacific’s in-service helicopter fleet has grown by 45% since 2005, with a year-on-year growth rate averaging 3.6%, according to a special report produced by Flightglobal consultancy Ascend in conjunction with Rotorcraft Asia 2017. In contrast, the world’s largest helicopter market – North America – saw its fleet expand by 13.2% ...
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: How Electroimpact is reshaping aerospace automation
Market demand is the reason Airbus and Boeing have announced plans to raise monthly aircraft deliveries by a combined 42% between now and 2020. Factory automation may be the key reason that aggressive ramp-up is possible.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: MRO steps into the Asian limelight
The 2016 edition of the Singapore Airshow was light on aircraft orders, but this allowed the maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) sector to steal some of the limelight for a change.
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NewsHoneywell makes case for $90.7bn UTC merger
In the face of growing criticisms from major aerospace manufacturers, Honeywell has confirmed details and possible benefits of a proposal to acquire Pratt & Whitney and UTC Aerospace Systems parent United Technologies in a $90.7 billion deal.
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NewsDRDO claims Nishant programme still alive after crash
India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) insists its indigenous Nishant unmanned air vehicle programme is alive and well, despite reports it had been shelved after a crash in November.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: France stuck between export and import selections
France’s DGA defence procurement agency predicts that the nation's military exports will have nearly doubled in 2015, thanks in no small part to its first international orders for the Dassault Rafale.
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NewsNHI finishes self-protection tests on Norwegian NH90
NH Industries (NHI) has successfully concluded trials of the self-protection system fitted to NH90 naval helicopters for the Royal Norwegian Air Force (RNoAF), following a five-month campaign.
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NewsEnhanced MQ-9 carries out maiden flight
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has carried out the maiden flight of an enhanced endurance variant of its MQ-9 Reaper unmanned air vehicle at its Palmdale, California facility.
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NewsNorthrop preparing German Euro Hawk to fly again
The Northrop Grumman-built “Euro Hawk” unmanned air vehicle will fly again after the Germany Air Force decided to resume testing of the aircraft and its Airbus Defence & Space signals intelligence payload.