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NewsUAV pioneer unveils new design for long-endurance VTOL aircraft
Tad McGeer, an unmanned aircraft pioneer who designed the Aerosonde and ScanEagle, has now unveiled a vertical take-off and landing, long-endurance aircraft in the same size class called Flexrotor.
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Singapore's Tiger dismisses Jetstar-AirAsia alliance as "hot air"
Tiger Airways has dismissed the alliance between its rivals Jetstar and AirAsia as a "publicity stunt" and "a lot of hot air".
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HAL sets sights on global presence
Ashok Nayak has been at the helm of Hindustan Aeronautics for a year and is determined to turn the giant into a more nimble and effective global player
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Indian aerospace industry opens up
India is fast becoming a major global aerospace market, aided by a combination of increasing defence spending, a booming commercial aviation market, and...
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Shanghai Airport profit down 18% in 2009
Shanghai Airport Authority has posted an 18% fall in 2009 net profit.
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China Eastern plans new subsidiary for Shanghai Airlines' assets
China Eastern Airlines will set up a wholly-owned subsidiary to house the assets and debts of Shanghai Airlines, which it took over.
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NewsDepth of Koito seat problem still being assessed
Airbus and EASA are still working to assess whether seats manufactured by Koito Industries and currently fitted to in-service aircraft meet airworthiness...
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Comment: Healing in Houston
No longer in denial, the helicopter industry came together in Texas last week, fully aware of its shortcomings and challenges and fully committed to a more robust, safer future
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NewsTroubled Malev is renationalised
Hungary's Government has stepped in to rescue struggling flag-carrier Malev, retaking control of the airline three years after its privatisation.
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Europe aims for an end to tooling
Shaped metal deposition promises to slash costs and speed production compared with traditional machining techniques
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Business: Good week - Bad week
AIR INDIA The government is pumping Rp8 billion ($174 million) of new equity into its loss-making flag carrier "to ease the cashflow situation [and] also...
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Comment: Is Obama boxing clever on NASA?
As a former Marine Corps general and Space Shuttle commander, NASA administrator Charles Bolden is well-equipped to take fire. That's good, because he needed all the grace under pressure he could muster last week when senators tore into him and his boss, Barack Obama, for killing off US human spaceflight.
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First flight of interiors-fitted 787 slides to March
First flight of Boeing's third flight test aircraft has moved into March, citing a pre-fitting of flight test instrumentation that the company believes will...
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OCCAR: 'Significant progress' made in talks to save A400M
Customer nations for the A400M transport are awaiting a response from EADS after proposing changes to save the project ...
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Fokker Services - life after death
Fokker the airframer is long gone, but out-of-production aircraft are a growth business
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NewsAeroflot A320 takes off from Oslo taxiway
Norwegian investigators have opened an inquiry after an Aeroflot Airbus A320 bound for Moscow Sheremetyevo took off from a taxiway at Oslo Gardermoen yesterday.
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Singapore's Tiger to double fleet size by 2012
Singapore's Tiger Airways plans to double its fleet size over the next two years. It will increase its fleet to 33 Airbus A320s by March 2012, up from...
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Proposed UAC incentive ties tax break to domestic orders
Russia's United Aircraft is seeking to foster demand for its projected new aircraft by offering fiscally-attractive investment deals to domestic airlines...
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Eurocopter to dazzle this decade
One year ago, Sikorsky dominated the Heli Expo buzz with a very public unveiling of its X2 advancing blade concept demonstrator, an aircraft that to date has reached 106kt (195km/h) and is expected to gradually ramp up to 250kt by year's end.
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Auckland Airport profit up 4.7% in H1
Auckland Airport has posted a 4.7% growth in net profit for the six months ended 31 December 2009, as passenger demand recovered.