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Paris 2011: Schiebel Camcopter Is Only UAV in the Paris Air Show Flying Display

Austria’s Schiebel (Hall 4 A40) is flying its Camcopter S-100 drone in the daily flying display here in Paris.
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Paris 2011: Boeing Promises Auspicious EIS for Dreamliner

With some 30 airplanes in various stages of completion parked outside the

Paris 2011: Saab’s Gripen Demo Shows Off Upgrades and Modifications

The Saab Gripen Demo, a two-seat technology demonstrator, is one month into its latest phase of a trials campaign aimed at showing off technologies and mod

Paris 2011: Air France Industries KLM Awaiting Big Engine Test Cells

Air France Industries KLM Engineering and Maintenance (AFI KLM E&M) is to set up a new $64 million engine test cell facility at Paris Roissy Charles de Ga
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Paris 2011: Bombardier Inks Global 8000 Order with Charter Operator VistaJet

Bombardier Aerospace (Chalet A256) announced the sale of 10 of its new Global 8000 business aircraft to charter provider
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Paris 2011: F-35 Will Be Affordable, Says USAF Program Officer

Predictions over escalating costs of the next-generation fighter will be proven wrong because of built-in reliability and maintainability aspects.
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Paris 2011: Embraer Looking at a Stretched KC-390 Freighter

Embraer is looking at the possibility of a stretched civil version of its

Paris 2011: Airbus Military and IAI Elta Systems Announce Year-old Partnership on Low-cost AEW Project

Airbus Military’s partner on the C295 AEW program was revealed here yesterday as
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Paris 2011: Korean Air signs for CSeries as P&W flies engine

Korean Air has signed a letter of intent for 30 Bombardier CS
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Paris 2011: AgustaWestland Buys Out Bell’s Stake in BA609 Civil Tiltrotor

AgustaWestland is buying out Bell’s stake in the

Paris 2011: IAI’s Small, Electrically Powered UAVs Take Off and Land Vertically

On display in the IAI corral outside the Israeli Pavilion are two of the company’s latest concepts for providing observation capability.
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Paris 2011: Sukhoi and Alenia Launch Business Jet Version of Superjet 100

Sukhoi Civil Aircraft and Alenia Aeronautica yesterday announced the launch of an executive version of the SSJ100.
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Paris 2011: Saint-Gobain Promotes Advanced Polymers, Seals and Gaskets

French plastics specialist Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics is showcasing materials made from its Meldin 7000 lightweight, high-temperature polymer on Sta

Paris 2011: Boeing and Avic Plan to Build Training Center in Xi’an, China

Boeing and China’s Avic have signed an agreement to set up a joint-training center specifically aimed at improving the quality of products made in China fo
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Paris 2011: Azul Lanhas Aéreas Converts 10 ATR 72-600 Options to Firm Orders ATR’s 78-order “strip tease”

ATR revealed yesterday that Brazilian carrier Azul Lanhas Aéreas had signed up for another 10 ATR 72-600s, and that the European turboprop manufacturer, in
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Paris 2011: Bright Skies for Breitling Winner

Breitling(Static AA168) recently ran a photo competition on Facebook that had the theme of capturing the spirit of aviation.

Paris 2011: Hawker Beechcraft Unveils Special-mission King Air 350ER

Hawker Beechcraft is displaying for the first time the latest addition to the company’s customer demonstration fleet, a King Air 350ER configured to highli
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Paris 2011: UK defense hit bottom line

ADS, the trade organization for the UK aerospace, defense and security industries, has reported that new defense orders slumped by 29 percent in 2010 due
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Paris 2011: MBDA lifts wraps on new missile concept

Multi-national missile developer and manufacturer MBDA showed off the results of its second concept—visions initiative—the CVS 401 Perseus.
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Paris 2011: Liebherr and Avic Enter Joint Venture on Manufacture of Landing Gear

Liebherr Aerospace of Germany and Avic of China are to form a joint venture company for the manufacture of landing gear for the

Paris 2011: Liebherr Joins KC-390 Team

Embraer Defense and Security has selected

Paris 2011: Raytheon To Protect Boeing KC-46 Aerial Tankers

Boeing may not be saying much about the configuration of the

Paris 2011: L-3 on Provides Standby Instruments for Citation Ten Business Jet and Boeing Ffighters

L-3’s Avionics Systems (Static F 186) continues its success in the field of providing electronic standby instrument systems (ESIS) with further selections

Paris 2011: GEnx-1B, Air India Join TruEngine Program

GE Aviation has launched its GEnx TruEngine program on the GEnx-1B engine and granted TruEngine designation to Air India’s GEnx-1B engine fleet.