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EU Pushes To Expand CleanSky Partner Network
The European Union (EU) is trying to attract more small- and medium-size enterprises to participate in its long-running 
Aircraft
Virgin America’s A320Neo Order Propels Airbus’ 2010 Sales Beyond Boeing’s
A late surge in new airliner orders during December took Airbus’s sales tally for 2010 to 644 aircraft (compared with 574 in 2009), just edging out rival B
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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.
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Suppliers now immersed in role as integrators
The quiet revolution that sped through the airliner supply industry over the past decade has become mainstream doctrine: no longer can subsystems suppliers
Manpaby Tom Withingtond threat increases as weapons fall into hostile hands
The statistics are sobering: as many as 700,000 anti-aircraft missiles for man-portable air defense systems (Manpads) have been manufactured since the 1970
TopDeck-equipped S-76 due to fly in Q2 this year
Sikorsky has scheduled the maiden flight of the first Thales TopDeck-equipped Sikorsky S-76D for the second quarter of this year.
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TopDeck avionics give S-76D a high-tech edge
In 2005 Sikorsky selected Thales’ TopDeck avionics suite to equip the S-76D.
Airbus’ Power8 is more than a cost-cutting plan
Airbus’ Power8 restructuring program has so far done what its designers intended it to do at its inception in February 2007, achieving a reduction in overh
