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NewsAirbus turns to Boeing partner Aviation Partners for A320 Enhanced winglets after rejecting in-house and Winglet Tech designs
Airbus has turned to Boeing's winglet supplier Aviation Partners to help it develop the upgrade for the A320 family, after other designs failed to achieve enough of a performance gain during testing.
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Air traffic controllers launch European 'just culture' campaign to shield aviation staff from criminal prosecution from accident investigation findings
Air traffic controllers are to launch a sustained, long-term campaign to convince resistant lawmakers within European member states of the merits of a Europe-wide establishment of "just culture".
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Initial UK aviation safety findings show no technical faults in December Morecambe Bay crashed Eurocopter Dauphin
Initial readings from the flight data recorder (FDR) from the Eurocopter AS365N Dauphin that crashed into the Irish Sea on 27 December killing all seven people on board indicate there was nothing technically wrong with the helicopter when it hit the water, according to a UK Air Accident Investigation Branch ...
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NewsSpace tourism with Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo set for 2009 lift-off with up to 50 flights in year one
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo (SS2) suborbital rocket glider may begin commercial operations in 2009, says the space tourism provider's chief pilot Stephen Johnson. The Scaled Composites-designed vehicle will have inclined pilot seats, but no fly-by-wire, he says in an exclusive first interview with Flight International.
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Probe says pilot error led to Dutch Chinook losses
Inexperience and procedural flaws blamed for accidents to two transports in Afghanistan
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Australia set to combine rotary training deals
Army and navy requirements to merge, with 28 twin-engined aircraft to fly from 2010
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Oslo's delay tactic wins JSF battle
Norway's insistence on gaining significant workshare in programme pays off Kongsberg signs fresh partnering deals
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Airbus hastens XWB supplier plan
Manufacturer accelerates selection of systems for A350 to enable partners to participate in joint definition phase
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Tatarstan offers home to Tu-334
Ailing KAPO plant could take over production of dormant twinjet in exchange for $100 million to renovate factory