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Looking ahead, MROs recruit skilled technicians

“There was always talk of the labor shortage in the MRO market of ‘Mr.
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737 changes signal no urgency for replacement

If it didn’t become immediately apparent when Boeing began alluding to time frames that implied a replacement of the 737 might not materialize until 2020,

Mexico prepared for new wave of investment in aerospace sector

Mexico’s fast-growing aerospace sector is here at the Paris Air Show in strength once again (Hall 3 Stand D24), and the latest projections for its future s
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CFM bets on composites for future turbofan blades

CFM International (Hall 2 Stand B149) is studying a next generation of turbofans to power single-aisle commercial aircraft, hoping to secure a role in

Resolute Curado sees need for bold action at Embraer

Embraer expects to deliver 30 percent fewer airliners this year than it shipped in 2008, and roughly half the number of Legacy and Lineage corporate airpla
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King Air still in high demand for hot-and-high recon missions

How much more performance can be extracted from the King Air twin turboprop to satisfy surveillance requirements? The latest Model 350ER offers almost doub
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Embraer sets its sights on new military jet transport

Embraer has received a $1.3 billion contract to design and deliver a new military transport, called the KC-390.

Cobham debuts large format IFD

Cobham Avionics (Hall 2 Stand E83) has just released its new large-format IDU-680P integrated flight display.

100 years: Biennial Paris Air Show marks 100th anniversary

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the world famous Paris Air Show.

Environment Drives R&D

As for much of the aerospace sector, the need to make air transport greener is driving much of the research-and-development effort at GKN.

GKN sees new horizons at Filton

Market conditions have hardly been kind to aerospace these past six months or so, but when a company is celebrating its 250th birthday–as GKN is this year–
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Block III will ensure Apache ‘production’ through 2040

They’ve done it with the Chinook, now they’re doing it with the Apache.

Diehl and Thales collaborate on integrated airliner cabins

Diehl Aircabin (Hall 2, Stand 192), one of the concerns shed by Airbus as part of its Power 8 restructuring program, is investing more than $135 million in
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Raven radar equipped Gripen to fly by year-end

In late March Saab announced a teaming agreement with Selex Galileo to develop the ES-05 Raven active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar for the Gri
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Baltic Air Policing

On May 1 the JAS 39C/D Gripens of the Czech air force’s 211.tl took over NATO’s Baltic Air Policing detachment, which provides a two-aircraft, 24-hour, 15-
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Raven radar equipped Gripen to fly by year-end

In late March Saab announced a teaming agreement with Selex Galileo to develop the ES-05 Raven active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar for the Gri

Traditional pilots wings now have security role

Even in the era of ultra-high-technology security screening with growing reliance on techniques such as biometric identification, there is still a place fo

Training Business Adapts To Downturn

As part of the launch of its “new reality” simulator and services portfolio, Thales assembled a high-level panel of simulation and training industry profes

New sim available from Thales

A new simulator designed with the latest training approaches in mind is the physical manifestation of a new customer-oriented business approach at Thales’s

Elbit plans to develop UAS for U.S.

Israel’s Elbit Systems has announced an agreement between its U.S.-based subsidiary and General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products to develop unmanne

French aero industry must rally in crisis

French aerospace industry association GIFAS believes the current crisis will be long.
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Embraer Thinks Big

Embraer continues to consider its product strategy.
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Airbus, Boeing mull options for next narrowbody models

Bombardier has already thrown its hat into the more-than-100-seats jetliner ring with its C Series design and Embraer is considering its response to percei
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Firm order vindicates Bombardier’s C series

The firm order placed by Deutsche Lufthansa late this past winter for 30 Bombardier CS100 airliners not only gave the much-maligned C Series its first conf
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Thales helps extend Rafale reach

Thales is engineering a series of upgrades to the sensor systems aboard France’s Rafale that will be incorporated in the next batch of aircraft for the Fre
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Bombardier considers stretch variant for Q400

Bombardier Aerospace is continuing to define a further stretch of its 78-passenger Dash 8 Q-400 regional turboprop to create a possible 90-seat variant tha

Big year for BAE’s UAVs

This promises to be a milestone year for BAE Systems’ growing unmanned air systems business with the first flights of both the demonstrator for the Mantis

Air France announces photo contest]

To celebrate the adoption of its latest livery, Air France is conducting an international photography contest with the theme of “Air France Livery: Yesterd

Onera recruiting here at Paris

Despite the recession, French aerospace research organization Onera is launching a recruitment drive here at the Paris Air Show.
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Meeting the Operational Challenge

In both engineering and visual terms, the open rotor is a huge departure from the turbofans that power today’s aircraft.