All aerospace news – Page 994
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Mini recorder to boost Eurocopter single safety
Eurocopter is to make the Vision 1000 flight data monitoring system standard equipment on all AS350B2/B3 single-engined...
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US carriers in overseas slashing
Following their deep domestic cuts in 2008, network airlines now see overseas exposure as a vulnerability
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OpinionComment: Business travel continues sharp decline
Business travel demand began its sharp decline in September and this has fast become a global phenomenon. Airlines are responding with steeper price cuts than those seen in economy, but will this leave business travellers with new expectations?
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Saudi Arabia scraps luxury A319 operator Kayala
Middle Eastern luxury carrier Kayala Airline is to suspend operations in April, citing uneconomical trading conditions. The carrier is operated through...
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Comment: A400M reality yet to bite for EADS
EADS has drawn up a shopping list of A400M contract renegotiation demands - it includes a revised delivery schedule, new delivery standards, slowed production...
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NewsChina's East Star grounded after failing to pay GECAS
China's civil aviation authority has grounded privately-owned East Star Airlines after it failed to pay money owed to GE Commercial Aviation Services (GECAS)...
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Boeing to modify landing gear on later 787-8s to speed turnaround times
Boeing is to incorporate a redesign to the landing gear on later production 787-8s to speed gate turnaround operations by improving the thermal performance...
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Working week: an evolving career at Filton
Peter Bermingham started on the shop floor at British Aerospace in Filton and has played key roles in the site's transition to the Airbus organisation and, now, to GKN Aerospace, where he is head of assembly
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Business: Good Week - Bad Week
PZL SWIDNIK The Polish helicopter maker signed a deal to make ceiling stressed plate and rear ramp subassemblies for AgustaWestland's AW101, with work on...
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Business Briefs
UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CUTS FORECAST OUTLOOK Pratt & Whitney engines and Sikorsky Helicopters...
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Comment: Playing the slots
The European Commission's proposal to suspend 'use-it-or-lose-it' regulations to help legacy carriers ride out the recession is another slap in the face for the single aviation market
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China's STAECO adding first widebody hangar
Chinese maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) firm Shandong TAECO Aircraft Engineering (STAECO) is building its first widebody hangar and hopes to do heavy...
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Liberalisation takes hold in Southeast Asia
Positive signs are emerging that air services liberalisation initiatives in Southeast Asia are more than just empty promises, with Indonesia and Singapore...
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AirAsia X reaches out to Europe
The AirAsia Group has expanded its long-haul airline concept with a new route connecting Malaysia with the UK
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NewsSearchers find Cougar S-92A fuselage, bodies in 120m water
Search teams have located the fuselage and detached tail boom of the Cougar Helicopters S-92A that crashed en route to oil fields off the coast of Newfoundland Thursday morning
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Ares I-X booster segments take the rails to launch site
Alliant Techsystems has shipped four solid rocket motor segments to KSC, the last remaining major hardware elements needed to build up the first suborbital test vehicle for NASA’s next generation Ares I booster system.
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Almost heaven
Seaborne fight it out with the elements in the Caribbean to keep a seaplane dream alive