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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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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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AIN Blog: Where’s the iPlane?

Manufacturers must figure out what customers will want before they even have a clue that they’ll want it.
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Aircraft

Dassault Falcon Bizjet Buzzes the Burj

Dassault Falcon Bizjet Buzzes the Burj
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Middle East Business Aviation at “Crucial Stage,” Says MEBAA

The business aviation market in the Middle East is now at a crucial stage in its development.
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On Top Of The World With Google And SIME

On Top Of The World With Google And SIME
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Aircraft

Yak-130 Leads Irkut Regional Thrust

Later this year the Irkut Corp. will deliver the first Yak-130 advanced trainers to the Algerian air force.
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Goodrich Shows Its Strengths with Emirates Deal

Emirates Airline has signed a 10-year agreement for Goodrich to overhaul and support the 16 passenger-evacuation slides on its A380 aircraft.
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