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EADS elbows into tanker fray

EADS Military Transport Aircraft (MTA) has set its sights on half of the aerial-refueling-tanker market estimated at 600 aircraft for 30 countries over the
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French Tigers to get Hellfire II

France is buying the Lockheed Martin Hellfire II missile system to give its 40 Tiger HAD (Hélicoptère d’Appui Destruction) helicopters a versatile precisio
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Airbus offers frax ownership of A400M airlifter to NATO

Airbus Military is offering to supply some A400M tactical airlifters to NATO on a “fractional ownership” basis.
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Irkut sends first two Flankers to Malaysia

The Irkut aviation plant on Sunday delivered the first two Su-30MKM multirole fighters to Malaysia, where they will be reassembled.
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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 company’s long-term
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EADS eager to enter the space tourism market

EADS Astrium’s plans to move into the space tourism market, revealed last week to a VIP audience and represented here by a full-scale mockup of a hybrid sp
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GE and Smiths already in sync

Barely a month has passed since what formerly traded as Smiths Aerospace formally became General Electric Aviation Systems at the closing of the U.S.
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L-3 Trains Predator Operators

In May L-3 Link Simulation and Training division delivered the first five of seven Predator Mission Aircraft Training Systems (PMATS) to the U.S.
Engines

ComTran Hushkit Gets EASA Nod

Texas-based ComTran on June 1 received EASA certification for its noise-cutting “advanced jet nozzle” on MD-80 airliners.
Aircraft

Cargo carriers mulling how best to ship their packages

The delivery this month of the first Boeing 747-400F cargo aircraft to United Parcel Service (UPS) comes as the package hauler mulls its next move.
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MiG targets $4 billion in ’07 orders

In 2006, orders for Russian armaments totaled $30 billion, while aggregate military exports exceeded the target figure by 20 percent, setting a record of $
Charter & Fractional

Million Air and FlyingGroup to team on FBO

European business jet operator FlyingGroup has teamed up with fixed-based operator Million Air at Le Bourget’s new business aviation terminal.
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Sky Warrior passes first flight

Earlier this month, the California-based General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.
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Tiger over the top

Getting in some early practice is this Eurocopter EC 665 Tigre, one of 24 rotary- and fixed-wing aircraft that will be flying in the daily display here.
Engines

MTU To Build Factory in Poland

German-based MTU Aero Engines is to build a new low-pressure turbine factory in Rzeszów, southeast Poland.
Aircraft

787 Wing Ice System Testing To Begin

Flight-testing of the Boeing 787 electro-thermal wing ice-protection system, jointly devised by Boeing, GKN Aerospace and Ultra Electronics, is to begin fo
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Goodyear Tires for 737NG Aircraft

Boeing has awarded Goodyear Tire & Rubber, the world’s largest supplier of aircraft tires, a six-year contract to provide Flight Leader and Flight Radi
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P&WC’s work on C Series leads to bizjet possibilities

Having passed responsibility for an engine for the planned Bombardier C Series 110- to 149-seat jetliner to its U.S.
Engines

Pratt sees GFT in widebody by late next decade

Confidence in Pratt & Whitney’s geared turbofan (GTF) program is such that company president Steve Finger is talking about a potential widebody application
Charter & Fractional

Aviacard holders earn bizav bonus

French executive charter operator and broker Aviaxess has launched what it claims to be the first frequent flyer loyalty program in the business aviation m
Aircraft

Eclipse Fixes Coming; Service Center Opens Tomorrow

Eclipse Aviation will open its first factory-owned service center in Gainesville, Fla., tomorrow.
Accidents

Aborted Falcon 900 Takeoff Ends in Overrun

A Falcon 900 ran off Runway 25 while departing from California’s Santa Barbara Airport at 2:15 pm on June 10.
Airports

HPN Curfew Bill Aims To Neutralize Nighttime Noise

A bill that would give local authorities the right to enforce a nighttime curfew at New York’s Westchester County Airport has drawn criticism from NBAA.
Charter & Fractional

Strong Charter Demand Drives EJM Incentives

Demand for charter is so strong that Executive Jet Management (EJM) is offering new incentives to encourage business aircraft owners to make their airplane
Engines

Chinook win validates new way of doing business at Honeywell

Honeywell Aerospace has spent the past couple of years restructuring its activities along customer lines.
Engines

A smarter cool on display here

Technofan is demonstrating its new cooling fans here at the Paris Air Show (Hall 2B Stand D13).
Aircraft

A350XWB inspires Latécoère to expand

Leading French equipment maker Latécoère may take over one of the three sites for which Airbus is seeking a strategic industrial partnership under its Powe
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Maturing A380 on surer footing

Having promised so much and letting its A380 launch customers down so dismally with the news of serious program delays, Airbus is understandably cautious i