Content Archive: November 2007

Aircraft

Straight as Arrows

The UK Royal Air Force Red Arrows make a return appearance to the Dubai Air Show.
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Aircraft

Qatar pads order book with Boeing freighters

Gulf carrier Qatar Airways yesterday signed an order for five Boeing 777F cargo aircraft and took options on a further five.

Sikorsky lands $2 billion order for 40 helicopters

Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Interior has ordered 40 Sikorsky helicopters in a deal valued at approximately $2 billion, the U.S.-based manufacturer announced

Cessna lengthens its order backlog in the Middle East

Cessna announced yesterday that its authorized sales representative for the region, Wallan Aviation in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has placed an order for 25 air

Saab rotary UAV casts off for sea duty

As if fully autonomous UAV operations didn’t present enough of a challenge, Saab Aerosystems is developing one of its unmanned systems to operate at sea.

Middle East to be second in air travel growth

Over the last five years, no other region in the world has seen air travel, as measured by revenue-passenger kilometers and cargo traffic, grow faster than

Lufthansa Systems introduces EFB that downloads briefing documents

Lufthansa Systems (LHS) is here introducing the electronic flight folder (EFF), a new feature in its Lido eFlightBag that allows crewmembers to download la

ATR boss predicts record year

Standing at 88 orders so far this year, regional turboprop manufacturer ATR’s order book may well break the previous record of 90 in 2005, a confident Stép

DAE and GE Aviation sign MoU on global cooperation

Dubai Aerospace Enterprise CEO Bob Johnson kicked off what promises to be a hectic week for the show’s sponsor yesterday morning by inking a global coopera