All North America news – Page 538
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NokScoot eyes Hawaii flights
Thai long-haul low-cost carrier NokScoot is eyeing service to Honolulu in the future, and plans to operate the flights with shareholder Scoot’s Boeing 787s.
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NewsAlaska to take first 737 Max 8 in 2017
Alaska Airlines plans to take delivery of its first Boeing 737 Max 8 early in late 2017, says its vice-president of capacity planning John Kirby.
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NewsAmerican to debut new heritage jets this fall
American Airlines will debut its last three heritage jets this “autumn”, says chief integration officer Beverly Goulet.
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NewsSierra Nevada-Intuitive team confirmed as fourth JSTARS bidder
Sierra Nevada Corporation has been revealed as the fourth contender for the US Air Force’s Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) Recapitalization programme, confirming to Flightglobal that it partnered with Intuitive Research and Technology Corporation to offer a replacement for the radar-carrying E-8C.
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US Navy orders 13 P-8As, with four for Australia
Boeing has secured a $1.49 billion contract from the US Navy for 13 P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft, including the first examples for Australia.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: BA logs in to Silicon Valley economic boom
Norman Y Mineta San Jose International airport continues to slowly spread its wings internationally, as British Airways logs into the heart of Silicon Valley with new service to London Heathrow from May 2016
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British Airways announces new Silicon Valley service
British Airways will launch new service to San Jose International airport from London Heathrow in May 2016.
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NewsUSAF moving F-22s to Europe as warning against Russia
The US Air Force has announced the inaugural deployment of the Lockheed Martin F-22 to Europe to counter a “resurgent Russia”.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Lockheed proposes “RQ-X” as U-2 operations enter sixth decade
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works is looking to write the next chapter in the history of the U-2 Dragon Lady after 60 years of continual global intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations.
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NewsUS Navy begins certifying new anti-ship missile on Super Hornet
The US Navy has begun integrating Lockheed Martin’s new Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) with its Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and airworthiness flights are due to start next month.
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NewsBoeing checks cabin system effect on smoke after 787 fire
Boeing is developing models to assess how environmental control systems might carry particles and gas from a fire in the emergency locator transmitter, in the wake of the Ethiopian Airlines 787 fire at London Heathrow.
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NewsNavy need deferred, but F-35 software ‘on the right track’
The Lockheed Martin F-35 appears to be overcoming many of the software troubles that have dogged the programme since its inception, but the fighter jet’s complexity means that any attempt to squeeze extra capabilities into early software blocks would threaten the wider rollout schedule.
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NewsLockheed Skunk Works designing next-gen U-2 spy plane
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works is designing a next-generation high-altitude, long-endurance surveillance airplane, known internally as RQ-X or UQ-2, as an optionally-manned successor to the U-2 and Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Local demand drives LCC growth at former hubs
Pass through Cleveland Hopkins International airport and you can breeze through security, get a local brew from friendly staff at a pub in the concourse and then sit with a view of idled jet bridges at the shuttered Concourse D.
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ANALYSIS: Why the principle of economics still rules ok
As attention turns to summer 2016 schedules and the slot co-ordination process for the season, it is timely to examine the likely operating environment and how economic expectations are changing, as well as the likely implications.
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NewsUAV market set to triple in value in next decade
A new report predicts that the global market for unmanned air vehicles will more than triple over the next decade, with growth fuelled by the emergence of recreational and commercial models, alongside the continued production of established military types.
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OpinionOPINION: Buffett purchase of Precision positive for industry
The Oracle of Omaha’s mega-deal reminded everybody that aerospace is one of few industries today with a serious upside – but while investors are hungry, don’t expect a feeding frenzy
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Atlantic capacity creeps up despite weak yields
The question of demand continues to envelope the transatlantic market this year, as airlines continue to add capacity despite weak results in the first half.
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NewsBoeing completes KC-46 flutter tests as EMD-2 flight faces delay
The Boeing KC-46 test program has completed a series of flutter tests of the 767-2C tanker type, certifying it to operate with wing aerial refuelling pods and its tanker tail boom stowed.
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NewsUSAF plans to end MQ-1 Predator operations in 2018
The remotely-piloted aircraft that ushered in the armed drone revolution, the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-1, will be put out to pasture by 2018, after more than two decades of service, the US Air Force says.