All Fixed-wing articles – Page 596
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Can the Sun alone power flight?
Solar cells and batteries have improved to such a degree that continuous manned five-day flight now looks possible
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Business briefs
Mega-lessor International Lease Finance has lost its second chief executive in the space of two months, after John Plueger retired with immediate effect
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C-130J deal nets $2.3bn offset package for Canada
In return for the $1.4 billion acquisition of 17 C-130J airlifters by Ottawa, Canadian aerospace industry will reap $2.3 billion in offsets over the life...
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NewsFirst F-15SGs arrive in Singapore
Singapore has flown home its first Boeing F-15SG fighters, just under a year after taking delivery of the first examples. Republic of Singapore Air...
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USAF rules out new F-15s and F-16s to narrow ‘fighter gap’
Delays and cost overruns for the Lockheed Martin F-35 have not changed the US Air Force's plans to deactivate about 250 fighters later this year, says its...
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NewsMBDA sets sights on US weapons sector
Missiles house sets sights on annual prize worth more than $400 million
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NewsVIDEO: Brazilian air force probes fatal display team crash
Brazil's air force has started an inquiry after a pilot with the Esquadrilha da Fumaca aerobatic team was killed after his Embraer T-27
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MBDA: more nations to order Meteor this year
MBDA expects more partner nations in its UK-led Meteor programme to sign their first production orders this year for the beyond visual-range air-to-air missile ...
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UK signs for more Lynx AH9As after Kenyan test success
The British Army will begin operating its first upgraded Lynx AH9A utility helicopters in Afghanistan this month ...
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EADS: KC-X position unchanged after Sarkozy weighs in at White House
EADS has insisted that its position on bidding for the US Air Force's KC-X aerial refuelling tanker contract remains "unchanged", despite President Nicolas...
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NewsTraining: jobs for tomorrow
Professional pilot skills are expensive to gain and, for the foreseeable future, expenditure on pilot training will remain essential to the functioning...
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Australia nears decision on interim pilot training
Canberra is expected to decide on the provision of an interim basic flying training service by early June, having received industry responses to a request...
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PICTURE: Nigeria receives second ATR 42 maritime patrol aircraft
Nigeria's second of two Alenia Aeronautica ATR 42 maritime patrol aircraft has been accepted at the company's Turin Caselle facility ...
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NewsNorthrop puts Global Hawk on show in Japan
Northrop Grumman has made a major fresh push to sell its RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned air vehicle to Japan ...
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NewsSaying goodbye to the 'Mighty Hunter'
The UK's Nimrod MR2 fleet will bow out of service on 31 March. We look back at the type's operational history, and fly on one of the type's final training sorties ...
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On board Nimrod flight 'Kinloss 453'
Defence editor Craig Hoyle flew on one of the last training sorties involving the Nimrod MR2 ...
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RAF prepares for future with Nimrod MRA4
The Royal Air Force is getting ready to transition to its next maritime patrol aircraft - but this is no ordinary Nimrod
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Business briefs
DAIMLER WILL NOT UPSET EADS VOTING BALANCE SHAREHOLDING The French-German balance of shareholder voting rights in Airbus parent EADS is to remain in...
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Opinion
Comment: Saga or sideshow?
The agonising WTO battle between Airbus's and Boeing's national sponsors can only achieve so much. A lasting solution surely must emerge from the political, rather than legal, realm