All North America news – Page 546
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NewsIATA: New airline chiefs take up big challenges
As airline chiefs assemble in Miami for IATA's latest annual general meeting, there are new leaders at the helm of 16 of the 100 biggest carriers since they met a year ago in Doha.
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NewsNorthrop unveils NATO-1 Global Hawk destined for Europe
Northrop Grumman has unveiled the first of five RQ-4B aircraft for NATO’s Alliance Ground Surveillance programme at a ceremony in Palmdale, California – a milestone on the multinational programme that has been 20 years in the making.
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NewsUnited evaluating E-Jet E2 for further 50-seater reductions
United Airlines is “looking at” the Embraer E-Jet E2 family for its mainline fleet, as part of its plan to further shrink its fleet of 50-seat regional jets.
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NewsCash boost for Lockheed’s anti-ship missile programme
The value of Lockheed Martin’s Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) development programme has been raised by $104 million to $306 million as the US military presses to have the autonomous, ship-killing missile integrated with the B-1B “Bone” bomber and F/A-18 Super Hornet by 2018 and 2019, respectively.
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NewsUSAF moving past cluster munitions, CALCM cruise missile
The US Air Force expects that production of a 500-pound, iron-spraying bomb, among other efforts, will eliminate the need for cluster munitions after 2018, is accordance with a timeline set by the Pentagon in 2008
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NewsBoeing 767-2C tanker completes first flight with boom, wing pods
The first engineering and manufacturing development aircraft of Boeing’s KC-46 tanker programme has completed its first airworthiness flight equipped with an aerial refuelling boom and wing air refuelling pods with a 4.3h flight from Boeing Field to Paine Field in Washington state.
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NewsA380 does not work for United: CFO
United Airlines chief financial officer John Rainey says the Airbus A380 “doesn’t really work” for the airline’s network, driving its preference for smaller widebodies like the Boeing 787.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Analysts sound alarm bells about US capacity growth
Delta Air Lines weak second quarter unit revenue guidance today provides new fuel to concerns that growth in the domestic US market is heating up too quickly.
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NewsJordan Hansell exits NetJets
Jordan Hansell has stepped down as chairman and chief executive officer at NetJets with immediate effect. He has been replaced by Adam Johnson, a long-time employee of the US-headquartered fractional ownership provider.
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NewsQuest sells first European Kodiak through dealership as certification looms
Quest Aircraft has sold its first Kodiak single-engined turboprop through a European dealership and is now working towards EASA certification of the 10-seat utility aircraft, which it hopes to secure by early next year.
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Inmarsat eyes 2016 certification for cockpit satcom offering
Updated with clarification from company that launch date of next GX satellite has yet to be confirmed. In original story, it was reported that satellite would be launched at the end of June 2015.
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NewsNorthrop unveils OpenPod as USAF seeks F-15 IRST
Northrop Grumman has responded to US Air Force interest in an infrared search and track (IRST) capability for its F-15C Eagle by unveiling OpenPod, a reconfigurable sensor pod which the company says is already being flight tested on a tactical military aircraft. Northrop’s system would employ an IRST system produced ...
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NewsFrontier orders 12 more A320 family jets
Denver-based Frontier Airlines has ordered 12 Airbus A320 family aircraft, comprising 10 A321 and two A320 current generation jets.
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NewsCivil Simulator Census: who owns what devices and where?
What is the distribution of commercial training devices by aircraft type, location and simulator providers around the world? Our annual Civil Simulator Census has the answers
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NewsAlaska to exercise E175 options with SkyWest
Alaska Air Group will exercise its eight options for the Embraer 175 with SkyWest Airlines, says chief executive Brad Tilden.
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OpinionOPINION: Appreciating the depreciation conundrum
Ascend's head of consultancy Rob Morris weighs in on recent suggestions that the assumed economic life of an aircraft should be reduced to 18 years
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NewsBoeing 767-2C tanker airframe resumes airworthiness flights
The first Boeing KC-46A Pegasus test tanker has returned to the skies over the US state of Washington with a four-and-a-half-hour airworthiness flight on Thursday and another flight late on Friday, the company says.
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NewsMarine Corps F-35Bs depart USS Wasp after carrier tests
Six US Marine Corps F-35B Joint Strike Fighters have departed the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp following a one-and-a-half-week trial that included 108 test sorties and an F135 engine delivery from a V-22 Osprey as the first combat fighter squadron stationed in Yuma, Arizona, prepares to declare initial operational capability ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Low-cost carrier traffic up 10% in 2014
Low-cost carrier growth showed no sign of abating in 2014 as passenger number among the leading budget and leisure sector carrier increased almost 10% in 2014.
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NewsUPDATE: DOD wants to block-buy 450 F-35 jets from Lockheed
The Pentagon says it has enough confidence in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter programme to start planning for a three-year block buy that would purchase about 450 jets from prime contractor Lockheed Martin.