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Airliner buying spree unabated

This week’s spate of large-airliner orders, many confirming previous announcements, continued on Wednesday as Airbus and Boeing unveiled further business.
Engines

Rolls-Royce working on new two-shaft engine

Rolls-Royce has revealed exclusively to Aviation International News details of an entirely new family of two-shaft engines under development to power busin
Aircraft

NetJets buys new Cessnas worth $1B

NetJets, the founder of fractional aircraft ownership and the world’s biggest purchaser of business jets, put some more distance between itself and mere ma
Aircraft

Saudi deals done for helos and Typhoons

Saudi Arabia and the UK have already concluded the huge contract for 72 Eurofighter Typhoon combat jets that has been in negotiation for 18 months, informe
ATC

Issues abound in expansion of UAV missions

The number of unmanned air vehicles in our skies is growing fast, but there are many regulatory and doctrinal issues to resolve, before UAVs and their grou
Aircraft

Sukhoi set to defend itself in the global export market

Sukhoi plans to supply 30-odd combat aircraft this year and sell more than $1.5 billion worth of its products, said Mikhail Pogosyan, the company’s general
Aircraft

Thales unveils UK Watchkeeper, joins Dassault on French UAV

The final configuration of the Thales Watchkeeper UAV for the British Army is unveiled here, outside the Thales pavilion.
Aircraft

Grumman testing new E-2D Hawkeye

As the final E-2C Hawkeye 2000 proceeds down the Northrop Grumman production line at St.
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Aircraft

Embraer Cuts Legacy Maintenance Costs

Embraer has completed a new revision of the Legacy 600 business jet’s maintenance planning guide.
ATC

Park Air To Improve East Europe ATC

Northrop Grumman’s UK subsidiary, Park Air Systems, has been selected to supply air traffic control upgrades in Central and Eastern Europe worth approximat
Aircraft

Northrop Grumman Thwarts Missile

Northrop Grumman’s laser directional infrared countermeasure (DIRCM) system has successfully thwarted simulated heat-seeking missile attacks on an AH-64D A
Engines

PWC is going green on PW-10X

Pratt & Whitney Canada is showcasing its latest green engine technologies at Paris centered on the 10,000-pound-thrust-class PW-10X engine it is develo
Aircraft

Boeing sees need for 28,600 new jetliners over next 20 years

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Aircraft

UAV paraglider could replace current drones

French-based Flying Robots is here showing an unusual unmanned air vehicle (UAV) that looks like a paraglider with a powered payload.
Engines

CFM rakes in $2 billion with another $200 million due today

CFM International is having a bumper airshow, announcing more than $2 billion of contracts by the end of Tuesday and with more deals worth potentially anot
ATC

G550 spy plane can be pilotless

Boeing has revealed a surprise and innovative entry for the U.S.
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Aircraft

Gallois claims full recovery for Airbus

Airbus chief executive Louis Gallois declared yesterday that the European consortium “is back, fully back,” from an odyssey through one of the most trying
Aircraft

Boeing ready to negotiate any 787 roadblocks

Boeing has made plans to accommodate any delays in the first-flight schedule for its new Model 787 twin-aisle twinjet now in final assembly at Everett, Was
Engines

Dassault Picks Rolls-Royce To Power New Bizjet

Rolls-Royce is the surprise winner of the all-out competition to power Dassault’s projected super-midsize business jet, securing the UK-based engine compan
Security

First Eclipse 500 AD To Limit Flight to VFR Only

The FAA is expected to issue the first Airworthiness Directive on the Eclipse 500 VLJ in the next few days, restricting the jet to day VFR flight because o
Aircraft

Airbus continues to roll with firm orders for 35 A330s

Airbus followed Monday’s spectacular order flourish with a strategically important pair of contracts for members of its A330 family.
ATC

Alaska To Get Statewide ADS-B

There was good news for Alaskan pilots last week, when FAA Administrator Marion Blakey introduced the agency’s draft 2008-2012 Flight Plan, along with the
FBOs

Macquarie Modifies Mercury Bid, Adds Two SJC FBOs

In an 8-K filing with the U.S.
Aircraft

ILFC backs booming 787 sales and finds new lessees

An International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC) order for 50 Boeing 787s, plus conversion of two previously unannounced options (booked earlier this year
ATC

Russia and Sweden agree on ground stations for ADS-B

After spending a decade studying automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) technologies, Russia and Sweden have signed an accord to bring to their
Engines

Small DGEN 380 engine completes first test phase

French-based startup company Price Induction, here on Stand A7 in Hall 3, on the eve of the show announced that its small engine, the DGEN 380, has complet
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Engines

Snecma To Service Wind Jet’s Engines

Snecma Services will provide Italian low-cost airline Wind Jet with maintenance for its CFM56 engines under an exclusive time and material contract signed
Aircraft

Tame Confirms Two Embraer 190 Options

Tame Línea Aérea del Ecuador has converted two options on Embraer 190 regional jets into firm orders, Embraer announced here at the Paris Air Show.