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CargoLogicAir and Volga-Dnepr Pursue 'Premium' Cargo

CargoLogicAir and Volga-Dnepr Airlines have a three-pronged strategy: Fly frequently, fly full and fly premium freight.
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GE Aviation Turns To the Cloud for Predictive Mx

GE Aviation's and Microsoft's collaboration will accelerate digitization in aerospace, says GE
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Airbus' New Head of Sales Setting His Own Tempo

Airbus'top salesman Eric Schulz says Boeing's NMA is "lost" in company's catalog.
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Boeing's Glimpse into the Future: Hypersonics and eVTOLs

Boeing Next and HorizonX programs aim to drive innovations that will mean less driving for humans, and more efficeint transit.
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Digitalization, Big Data Driving Advances at Pratt & Whitney

Pratt & Whitney and parent United Technologies are embracing new technologies to keep pace with airplane makers' plans to speed up production.
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Aerospace Revenues Climb On Higher Defense Spending

While aerospace and defense growth is lagging world economic growth, U.S. defense industry revenue has increased to 2.5 times that of Europe.
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Oerlikon Inks Additive Manufacturing Deal with RUAG Space

Oerlikon continues its push into 3D printing and additive manufacturing with deal with RUAG to develop parts for use in space.

Boeing Lands Orders for Nineteen 777 Freighters

Boeing has recorded orders for 65 widebody freighters this year and more than 180 since early 2014.
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CPI Aero Helps Give HondaJet Elite Pax a Quieter Ride

CPI Aerostructures wins long-term contract to supply noise muffling engine inlets on Honda Aircraft's upgraded business jet
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Astronautics Delivers Upgraded EFB for Boeing 787

Boeing 787 electronic flight bags are getting their first update since the airplane entered service in 2011.
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Liebherr-Aerospace Helps Lift Boeing 777X

Liebherr-Aerospace shows off critical components of its folding wing tip system for the Boeing 777X.
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Superjumbo Production Struggles To Stay Alive

Sadly the days of large, four-engined commercial aircraft could be numbered despite attempts to go against the market and commercial logic.
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Pattonair Streamlines Parker Aero Fluids System Supply Chain

Building on a 20-year relationship, Pattonair and Parker Aerospace are working to streamline the supply chain for Parker's fluids division
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Israel Aerospace Industries Shoots for the Moon

IAI and nonprofit SpaceIL plan to launch Moon mission from Cape Canaveral in December.
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Gardner Aerospace Expands Production

Gardner Aerospace is expanding in Polan, India and China, and has won a slew of new aerospace supply contracts
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Narrowbody Production Rates Put Strain on Supply Chains

As Airbus and Boeing go to higher rates, their entire supply chains have to remain in harmony, or it will cause chaos.
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Boeing Global Services Unveils New Strategy

BGS was announced in 2016 and already it is bringing together the company to focus on making services more part of the core offering.
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Aerospace Suppliers Feeling Squeeze of ‘Vertical Integration’

Boeing, Airbus look inward for more revenue sources, supply-chain control
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Airbus Renews Tough Talk with Suppliers

Demands 100-percent on-time rate as production approaches 800 aircraft a year
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Boeing's 777 Line Stumbles as Traveled Work Mounts

Program continues to struggle with transition to new automated fuselage assembly process
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Boeing Stages Launch of 777X Production

Ceremony in Everett, Washington, marks start of new widebody’s early assembly process
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