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Rolls-Royce Trent XWB Engine Prepped for Flight Tests

Rolls-Royce's Trent XWB engine for the Airbus A350XWB has logged 1,200 hours of ground testing. Soon the engine will begin flight testing.
Aircraft

Fighter Jet Competitions Still Up in the Air at Dubai 2011

Defense contractors vie for Middle Eastern fghter aircraft deals at the 2011 Dubai Air Show.
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Aircraft

Boeing Touts 'Evolution' of Its Upgraded Fighters

Boeing Military Aircraft (BMA) has stepped up its campaign to sell more F-15 and F-18 fighters.
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Evolving Mission Requirements Keep Eurocopter in the Forefront

Eurocopter expects its participation in this year’s Dubai Air Show to underscore its competitiveness in the Middle East.
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Aircraft

Bombardier Showcases CSeries Flight Deck at Dubai 2011

Bombardier Aerospace is unveiling a new flight-deck demonstrator at the Dubai Air Show.
Aircraft

Sagem's Smart Weapons, Threat-Detection Business Thriving

Sagem's defense and security businesses are thriving, especially in smart weapons and threat detection at airports.

Happy Design brings a touch of finesse to aircraft exteriors

Happy Design Studio has signed a contract to design the new liveries for freighters operated by Maximus Air Cargo.
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GE Working Hard to Meet GEnx Fuel-Burn Targets

Boeing 747-8F launch customer Cargolux postponed delivery of its first two airplanes in September.
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Aircraft

Boeing 787 Arrives in Dubai for Its First Middle East Appearance

The third Boeing 787 Dreamliner arrived this morning at Dubai International Airport.
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Aerostats Rise Through the Ranks in Surveillance Service

Aerostats are carving a substantial niche in the airborne surveillance business.
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Aircraft

CIT Taking ‘Cair’ Of The ACJ

CIT Taking ‘Cair’ Of The ACJ

Boeing Will Reap Benefits of 787 Technology for a Generation

Boeing's delays and the unanticipated complications that arose from its attempt at a to supply-chain management with the 787 program.
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Strata Aims For Leadership In Composites

Strata Aims For Leadership In Composites
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Jet Aviation Names Two To New Positions

Jet Aviation Names Two To New Positions
Aircraft

Jet Aviation Dubai Widens Maintenance Portfolio

Jet Aviation Dubai Widens Maintenance Portfolio
Engines

IAE Delivers 1,000th SelectOne Engine, Rolls Out SelectTwo

IAE Delivers 1,000th SelectOne Engine, Rolls Out SelectTwo

Arab Carriers Resent New Taxes and Seek Liberalization

Politicians viewing air transport as a soft target are the greatest threat to the air transport industry according to AACO.
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Aircraft

King Air Spies Like an Eagle

Hawker Beechcraft Corp. (HBC) has brought a special-missions-equipped King Air 350ER to the Dubai Air Show.
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ExecuJet Streamlines Aircraft Financing with Simplyfly Service

ExecuJet Aviation is offering aircraft buyers a more direct and straightforward way to finance and operate business jets through its relaunched SimplyFly.
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ATC

Summit: Global RNP Deployment Is Uneven

Performance-based navigation (PBN) procedures are being adopted on a worldwide basis.
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Muscat Fast-tracks Airport Development

The ambitious development plan to expand Oman’s Muscat Airport has been accelerated.
Aircraft

Training Underlines Afghan Air Force Rebirth

Training is just getting under way of the first military fixed-wing pilots to be taught to fly in Afghanistan since the early 1990s.
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Dubai Show Rises to the Training Challenge

The Dubai Air Show will be the occasion for the first Gulf Aviation Training Event being held tomorrow and on Tuesday.

Training Providers Scramble To Meet Middle East’s Pilot Shortfall

According to a report by Boeing, the Middle East will need more than 37,000 pilots to fly the aircraft due to be delivered there over the next 20 years.
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Aircraft

CSeries ‘On Track’ for First Flight in Second-Half of 2012

Bombardier expects to complete all the so-called data sets for the CSeries airliner by year-end.
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Aircraft

Rolls Helps Airbus Stretch Range and Payload

Airbus is developing an enhanced A350-1000 variant with “outstanding [increased] payload and long[er] range.
Aircraft

Airbus Takes Its Time To Get A350 Right the First Time

Since the Boeing 787 entered service last month, Airbus is working hard on the competing A350XWB.
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Aircraft

Huge Defense Deals To Dominate Dubai Air Show

Huge Defense Deals To Dominate Dubai Air Show
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Mubadala’s Sanad Brings Sanity To Spares Management

Sanad Aero Solutions's mission is to take the hassle and inherent inefficiency of spare parts supply management off the shoulders of aircraft operators.

Abu Dhabi's Sovereign Fund Solidly Behind Mubadala Aerospace

Abu Dhabi is determined to succeed in aerospace, but not at all costs.
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