Content Archive: June 2009

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Thales helps extend Rafale reach

Thales is engineering a series of upgrades to the sensor systems aboard France’s Rafale that will be incorporated in the next batch of aircraft for the Fre
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Firm order vindicates Bombardier’s C series

The firm order placed by Deutsche Lufthansa late this past winter for 30 Bombardier CS100 airliners not only gave the much-maligned C Series its first conf
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Airbus, Boeing mull options for next narrowbody models

Bombardier has already thrown its hat into the more-than-100-seats jetliner ring with its C Series design and Embraer is considering its response to percei
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Embraer Thinks Big

Embraer continues to consider its product strategy.

French aero industry must rally in crisis

French aerospace industry association GIFAS believes the current crisis will be long.

Elbit plans to develop UAS for U.S.

Israel’s Elbit Systems has announced an agreement between its U.S.-based subsidiary and General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products to develop unmanne

New sim available from Thales

A new simulator designed with the latest training approaches in mind is the physical manifestation of a new customer-oriented business approach at Thales’s

Training Business Adapts To Downturn

As part of the launch of its “new reality” simulator and services portfolio, Thales assembled a high-level panel of simulation and training industry profes

Traditional pilots wings now have security role

Even in the era of ultra-high-technology security screening with growing reliance on techniques such as biometric identification, there is still a place fo
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Raven radar equipped Gripen to fly by year-end

In late March Saab announced a teaming agreement with Selex Galileo to develop the ES-05 Raven active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar for the Gri