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Flexibility can counter long-haul budget threat: Emirates' Clark
Emirates Airline president Tim Clark believes long-haul carriers need to brace for an inevitable threat from low-cost competition, but argues that the Middle Eastern airline has flexibility to counter the challenge.
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Serbia to be launch customer for HForce weapon system on H145M
Serbia has been revealed as the launch customer for the Airbus Helicopters HForce modular weapons system, with which it will equip four of its incoming fleet of H145Ms.
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Saab ready for Polish surveillance tenders
Saab intends to offer modified business jets to answer two forthcoming Polish requirements for new maritime patrol and electronic warfare (EW) aircraft.
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OpinionOPINION: Can software shift safeguard USAF's air dominance?
As the US Air Force contemplates how to field a next-generation air dominance capability by 2030, a key piece of the puzzle may have just come to light.
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VIDEO: What does it take to be an airline pilot?
What does it take to be an airline pilot? Ambition, certainly. Aptitude, without a doubt. An ability to work as part of a team, of course. And, for many aspiring aviators, an awful lot of cash. To qualify to fly an airliner can mean shelling out a six-figure dollar sum.
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Opinion
OPINION: Why Boeing opposes UTC-Collins merger
If any two companies ought to enjoy a close relationship, it is Boeing and United Technologies. From 1929 to 1934, Boeing and UTC even belonged to the same company: United Aircraft & Transport. Decades later, many of UTC's products – including the electric power and generation system for the 787 ...
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Montenegro Airlines eyes larger jets to replace Fokker 100s
Montenegro Airlines could order two larger jets to replace its Fokker 100s as part of a refleeting plan.
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Montenegro Airlines to add new German routes
Montenegro Airlines is to start serving Leipzig and Munich next year.
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Boeing re-inserts orders for Air Force One aircraft into backlog
Boeing confirms that two passenger-carrying 747-8s added to the order backlog a week ago will be delivered to the US Air Force for the Air Force One replacement.
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Hurricane Irma 'extensively' damages Saint Martin's famed airport
Hurricane Irma has caused extreme damage to Saint Martin's Princess Juliana International airport, long a popular spot among aviation fans for catching up-close views of incoming aircraft, according to reports.
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Canada entertains Australian Hornet buy to fill interim role
Canada could acquire used Australian F/A-18A and F/A-18B Hornets to replace its aging CF-18s, a move that would both satisfy its interim fleet needs and dodge a new Boeing acquisition.
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Lilium secures $90 million financing for electric VTOL air taxi
Start-up aircraft designer Lilium has closed a $90 million round of financing, garnering support from the founders of Skype and Twitter, to continue developing a five-seat, electric-powered, vertical take-off and landing vehicle as an air taxi scheduled to enter service by 2025.
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Eurofighter pitches Typhoon for Polish requirement
The Eurofighter consortium used the 5-8 September MSPO show in Kielce to promote its Typhoon as the Polish air force examines its future combat aircraft requirements.
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Poland ready to advance CSAR helicopter project
Poland's defence ministry is processing two bids linked to a requirement for eight combat search and rescue (CSAR) helicopters, and is also starting to consider a future need for multirole rotorcraft.
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Canada's Jetlines signs deal to lease two 737-800s
Hopeful Canadian upstart Jetlines has signed a letter of intent with an unnamed US lessor to acquire two Boeing 737-800s – aircraft that would supplement the carrier's plans to purchase at least five new 737 Max.
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Attack helicopter rivals target Warsaw's Kruk deal
With Poland poised to launch the tender process for a new fleet of "Kruk" attack helicopters, potential suppliers used the 5-8 September MSPO show in Kielce to promote their candidates.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: F-22 still rules skies 20 years after first flight
Twenty years after the first flight of a production aircraft on 7 September 1997, the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor remains unchallenged as the world’s top air superiority fighter. Remarkably, the F-22 dominates despite some startling gaps in its arsenal which are only now being addressed as the US Air Force ...
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NewsVixen radar chosen for Romanian trainer project
Leonardo has been selected to provide its Vixen 500E active electronically scanned array radar in support of an advanced trainer research activity in Romania.
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PICTURE: ANA takes first PW1100G-powered A321neo
All Nippon Airways has taken delivery of the first Pratt & Whitney PW1100G-JM powered Airbus A321neo.
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MRJ resumes flight tests with FTA-4
Mitsubishi Aircraft has returned one of its MRJ regional jet prototypes to flight testing, as the investigation into an engine flameout last month continues.