Content Archive: November 2007

Grob sells two more SPns in Middle East

Grob Aerospace added two more Middle East sales yesterday here at the airshow.
Aircraft

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.

Airbus sources more from Turkey

Airbus and Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) signed a memorandum of understanding for the extension of an important supplier contract last Tuesday.

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

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

Reaper drops first bombs in anger

On Wednesday the General Atomics MQ-9A Reaper unmanned attack vehicle dropped its first precision-guided bombs in anger, not long after the combat debut of

Eurofighter flies first Tranche 2 Typhoon

The Eurofighter consortium achieved a major milestone on the first of the month with the first flight of a Typhoon with Tranche 2 avionics.

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