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NewsIndustry presses on with pilot training mandate
Faced with being wound-up following many years of work yielding few visible results, the International Pilot Training Consortium (IPTC) has had its mandate renewed for a further three years, subject to approval by its member organisations. This was agreed at the 23-25 September International Flight Crew Training Conference at the ...
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Rotorcraft rivals trade blows over US Army trainer buy
Airbus Helicopters has defended the US Army’s decision to purchase 155 of its rotorcraft to operate as trainers without running an open competition, despite a rival’s bid to stop the proposed $1.16 billion acquisition.
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NewsNATO finishes AWACS commitment to Afghanistan
NATO has completed a more than three-year commitment of Boeing E-3A airborne warning and control system (AWACS) aircraft to Afghanistan, with two of the command and control assets having returned to Europe.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: From vision to world's most successful commercial engine: 40 years of CFM
It began with a casual encounter in Paris and has flourished into a 40-year marriage with a prodigiously successful offspring. CFM International – the union between the USA’s General Electric and France’s Snecma – is heading towards production of its 30,000th engine. But the joint venture’s start, back in the ...
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NewsDelta focused on A350-900 and 787-9 for widebody order
Delta Air Lines has narrowed down its options for a planned widebody order to either the Airbus A350-900 or the Boeing 787-9, says chief executive Richard Anderson.
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OpinionOPINION: Will US have to look for an all-American alternative to Russian rockets?
War, as the saying goes, is the domain of chance. Business is usually more friendly to calculated manoeuvres, but when actual fighting intervenes all bets are off.
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NewsOffshore helicopter firms join forces for safety push
Five of the world's biggest offshore helicopter operators are to join forces in a new safety initiative to share best practice throughout the industry.
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NewsKings of the swingers: Top 13 swing-wing aircraft
As the operators of Europe’s Panavia Tornado mark the 40th anniversary of its first flight, we bring together a baker’s dozen of variable geometry aircraft – only most of which made it into operational service.
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NewsPICTURE: Eastern Air Lines firms up order for up to 40 MRJs
Eastern Air Lines has firmed up an order for 20 Mitsubishi Regional Jets (MRJ), following its signing of a memorandum of understanding at July’s Farnborough air show.
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NewsF-35s deploying to US carrier in November might not be fully operational
Plans to test a Lockheed Martin F-35C aboard a US aircraft carrier in November are on track, but both aircraft scheduled to deploy to the Pacific may not be capable of taking off and landing from the ship.
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NewsEmbraer rolls out first US-assembled Super Tucano
Embraer North America and Sierra Nevada Corp. on 25 September rolled out the first A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft produced outside Brazil.
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NewsJTSB fails to pinpoint cause of 2013 ANA 787 battery incident
The Japan Transport Safety Board (JTSB) has released findings from an investigation into the 16 January 2013 main battery incident aboard an All Nippon Airways Boeing 787-8 aircraft, which resulted in an emergency landing and contributed to a global grounding of the type.
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Spirit to add eight routes from Cleveland in 2015
Spirit Airlines will begin service to Cleveland Hopkins International airport in January 2015, with service planned to eight destinations.
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JetBlue expands Emirates codeshare to dozens of routes
JetBlue Airways is planning a major expansion of its codeshare agreement with Emirates.
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ExpressJet appoints Marren new COO
ExpressJet Airlines has appointed Alexandria Marren its new chief operating officer, following the retirement of Brad Holt.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: GEnx misses fuel burn spec on 787, but on upgrade path
One month before Boeing returned the 787-8 to flight in May 2013 after an 18-week grounding caused by battery fires, GE Aviation quietly certificated the third major production version of the GEnx-1B, inching one of the two propulsion options for the Dreamliner closer to the promised fuel efficiency targets.
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ROUTES: New widebodies are ‘network-planning game changers’
New generation widebodies like the Boeing 787 and Airbus’s A350 and A330neo are revolutionising the network-planning world by making previously uneconomic routes viable.
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ROUTES: Alaska focuses on core capacity in 2015
Alaska Airlines will focus on growing its core capacity in 2015, with the planned 11% increase in departures from Seattle/Tacoma International airport at the centre of its strategy.
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NewsROUTES: Bombardier keeps CSeries on target despite grounding
Bombardier is confident the CSeries is back on track for service entry next year, following its return to the air earlier this month.
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NewsAerion advances supersonic ambitions with Airbus collaboration
Aerion’s dogged decade-long ambition to bring the first supersonic business jet to market in the next seven years has taken a major leap forward as the aerospace firm joins forces with Airbus to “collaborate on technologies associated with the future of high-performance flight”.