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Pilatus PC-21 Now Training Singaporean Students

Student pilots from the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) have begun basic flight training on the Pilatus PC-21 advanced turboprop.
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BAE Hawk Marketing Refocused after Jet Trainer Eliminated in Singapore

Although neither the UAE nor Singapore has yet chosen their new jet trainer, both have now eliminated the BAE Systems Hawk from consideration.
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UK Royal Air Force To Replace Nimrod SIGINT Aircraft with RC-135s

The UK Royal Air Force flies three Nimrod R.1 versions that are dedicated to SIGINT (signals intelligence).
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Saudi Typhoon Deal Progresses, but Corruption Probes still Threaten

The first seven Eurofighter Typhoons for the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) are now in final assembly at the Warton, UK facility of BAE Systems.
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Northrop and Boeing regroup for KC-X fight

Northrop Grumman rates its chances of clinching the KC-X contract as only 50 percent, if the U.S.

Mexicans Thank GKN for Coming

GKN Aerospace was the proud recipient yesterday of an appreciation award from Mexico, which recognizes the success of GKN’s Mexicali operation, located nex

AgustaWestland, Boeing Team for Italian CH-47F

Yesterday AgustaWestland and Boeing signed an agreement to jointly manufacture the Boeing CH-47F Chinook helicopter for the Italian army.

Emirates sells, leases back Boeing freighters

Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) Capital plans to acquire ten Boeing 747-8Fs and eight 777Fs from Emirates Airline in a split purchase and leaseback agreem

Bisignani blasts EU ‘greed’ over emissions trading tax

IATA director general Giovanni Bisignani lambasted European governments for their alleged greediness for environmentally inefficient taxes here yesterday.<

Boeing and Airbus continue to defy gloomy predictions

For the third day running, Airbus and Boeing defied pessimistic predictions of softening demand for airliners with new contracts collectively worth almost

P-8’s low-risk radar is ready for ground tests

 This month Raytheon begins integrated tests on its APY-10 inverse synthetic aperture radar for the Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patroller.

Breakthrough takes pilots for a loop

BAE Systems, in conjunction with Cranfield Aerospace and Cranfield University, executed an entire flight without human intervention in a BAE Systems Jetstr

Adaptive flight controls boost aviation safety

A revolution in the progress of aviation could result from Rockwell Collins’ recent acquisition of Athena Technologies.

Slovakia’s camouflaged MiGs dressed to impress

Perhaps the most eye-catching camouflages on display here at Farnborough are the digital pattern applied to the single-seat MiG-29AS and tiger stripes on t

Consortium to convert freighters

Airbus Freighter Conversion (AFC), the joint venture established in March 2007 by EADS EFW, Airbus, United Aircraft Corporation and Irkut, yesterday signed
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GE challenging P&WC PT6 t-prop

The significance of General Electric’s purchase of Walter Aircraft Engines last year has only recently become evident.

Marotta joins ITT for bomb rack competition

Executives from Cobham, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Rockwell Collins, Saab and Thales are establishing an ethics strategy on the basis of existing European

EDS, Siemens Team on Defense Logistics

EDS (Hall 1A Exhibitor’s Club Restaurant and Bar) and product lifecycle management specialist Siemens PLM Software (Hall 4 Stand E17) are combining their r

Aéro Montréal Strengthens Links to Europe

Aéro Montréal, greater Montreal’s aerospace cluster, has signed two “framework agreements” with similar industrial clusters in Germany and Poland aimed at

Ruag Buys Saab’s Space Business

Switzerland’s Ruag has acquired Saab’s space business (Saab Space, based in Gothenburg), including its subsidiary, Austrian Aerospace, for 335 million Swed

MoD Recognizes General Atomics for Reaper

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) won an award this week from the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) for the deployment of the MQ-9 Reaper surv

Integration started on military Dhruv

India-based Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL, here at chalet R1) now has the military utility version of its Dhruv helicopter certified with an IAI-made
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787 is making ‘steady progress,’ Boeing assures

Reportedly rising at 4 a.m.

PAS Tech gets lean and mean

PAS Technologies (Hall 3 Stand B8) is here to highlight its expanding product line, global reach and repair performance.President and CEO Rober

F’boro organizers to help launch Bahrain airshow

Farnborough International Limited (FIL), organizers of the Farnborough International airshow, will collaborate with Bahrain on a new airshow in January 201

Watchkeeper UAVs on track

The Thales-led Watchkeeper program is on schedule for entry into service with British forces in 2010, having flown for the first time this year in Israel,

Lockheed Picks TacView for C-130J

Lockheed Martin has chosen Esterline CMC Electronics (Hall 4 C14a) to supply its TacView portable mission display to meet current and future C-130J mobile

A Guarantee Rolls-Royce Can Take to the Bank

Alenia Aeronautica has extended its C-27J “exclusive propulsion system provider” business with Rolls-Royce from 42 AE2100D2 engine/Dowty propeller assembli

Boeing Expects Strong Earnings

Despite a second-quarter charge of approximately 22 cents per share for delays on its airborne early warning & control (AEW&C) program, Boeing expe