Content Archive: June 2009

Maintenance and Modifications

Rolls-Royce Expands North American On-Wing Services

Rolls-Royce has opened its new North American headquarters for On-Wing Care at Indianapolis International Airport.
Maintenance and Modifications

DRF Luftrettung Offers EASA Helo Mx Type Ratings

DRF Luftrettung at Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport has obtained an EASA Part 147 certificate as a training organization.
Maintenance and Modifications

Chromalloy Initiates New Global Sales Structure

Chromalloy has implemented a new global sales structure, with each region of the world having a designated Chromalloy sales leader.

Group seeks approval for civil UAVs

Civil certification of unmanned aerial vehicles has taken on new momentum over the past few years with the realization that there could be a large number o

Piccard team set to unveil Solar Impulse this month

The HB-SIA solar-powered aircraft, the first prototype of the Solar Impulse project, is to be unveiled next week on June 26 at Dübendorf air base, near Zur

Three decades of the cold war

On this 100th anniversary of the Paris Air Show French journalist Gil Roy continues his reflections on the greatest moments from the salon du Bourget’s ill

Back to the future for U.S. manned space flight

As the era of the Space Shuttle draws to a close, uncertainty hangs over the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) like the pall of smoke after a launch.
Aircraft

Airbus expects minor mods to keep A320 flying for years

Despite the fact that final assembly of the 4,000th example is now under way, the A320 single-aisle twinjet may be only at the midpoint of its production l
Aircraft

LHT undertakes restoration of Super Star Constellation

The Lockheed L-1649A Super Star was the queen of the skies in the late 1950s and it might again become a familiar sight aloft, according to Lufthansa Techn
Aircraft

Airbus engages all of Europe in A350 project

To the casual observer, it looked like just another chunk of concrete apron on Airbus’s sprawling production complex at Blagnac Airport outside Toulouse.