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Fighter Jet Competitions Still Up in the Air at Dubai 2011

Defense contractors vie for Middle Eastern fghter aircraft deals at the 2011 Dubai Air Show.
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Engines

Rolls-Royce Trent XWB Engine Prepped for Flight Tests

Rolls-Royce's Trent XWB engine for the Airbus A350XWB has logged 1,200 hours of ground testing. Soon the engine will begin flight testing.
Aircraft

New Boeing 'Silent Eagle' F-15 Variant Could Rekindle F-15 Production

Production of the F-15 is currently due to end next year, after the last of 60 F-15K models for Korea and 24 F-15SG models for Singapore are completed.
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Aircraft

HyperMach Now Shooting For Mach 4.0 Bizjet

HyperMach’s planned 20-seat supersonic business jet (SSBJ)–SonicStar–will be able to fly at speeds up to Mach 4.0.
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Engines

Rolls-Royce 'Very Pleased' with Trent XWB Engine Tests

Rolls-Royce is pleased with the “very positive” results achieved during testing eight examples of the new Trent XWB engine.
Aircraft

Middle East Embraces Airbus ACJ Models for Their Range and Space

the Middle East has long been considered good sales territory for Airbus Corporate Jets (ACJs).
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Aircraft

F-16 To Spearhead Reborn Iraqi Air Force

The U.S. Pentagon announced that the first payment had been made concerning the supply of Lockheed Martin F-16 fighters to Iraq
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Aircraft

Oman Air Could Announce 787 Decision at Dubai Air Show

This could be the week that Oman Air confirms definitively whether or not it will still take the six Boeing 787s.
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Aircraft

Vital Role for British Airpower over Libya

British commanders are counting the cost of a major and successful contribution to NATO’s Operation Unified Protector.
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Aircraft

NATO’s Role in Ghaddafi’s Downfall: Operation Unified Protector

British, French and U.S. aircraft began the action in mid-March, in a “coalition of the willing” named Operation Odyssey Dawn.
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Aircraft

Libya Defense: Boots On The Ground?

Throughout Operation Unified Protector, NATO spokespersons insisted that the alliance had remained faithful to the UN resolution 1973.
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Charter & Fractional

Dubai Business Aviation Firm Set To Expand Its Empire To India

Empire Aviation is about to conclude a major joint-venture agreement, which executive director Steve Hartley said will “double the size of the company.”
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Regulations and Government

U.S. Export Rules To Become More Flexible

New draft rules for the export of U.S. military aircraft and parts will create a unified list of controlled products and a single licensing agency.
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Aircraft

Pakistan Drone Strikes Aided by Covert Emitters?

Are kills by UAVs along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border being being aided by planted GPS tracking devices?
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Aircraft

Embraer-Elbit Connection Grows Via KC-390 and UAVs

Elbit Systems’ Brazilian subsidiary AEL Sistemas will supply the self-protection suite and directed, infrared countermeasures for the new Embraer KC-390.
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Aircraft

Cobham and Carson To Offer Sikorsky Helicopter Upgrades

Cobham and Carson To Offer Sikorsky Helicopter Upgrades
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Aircraft

ATR’s Record Year Set To Get Better

Promotional materials seen at the Dubai Air Show site this week suggest that Tanzanian carrier Precision Air could confirm an order for two of ATR 42-6s.
Aircraft

E-Jet Population To Multiply in Middle East

Embraer has decided to re-engine its E-Jets.
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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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Aircraft

Dassault Falcon Bizjet Buzzes the Burj

Dassault Falcon Bizjet Buzzes the Burj
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Aircraft

Airbus ‘Terminates’ A340

Airbus has manufactured its last A340.
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Aircraft

Piaggio Makes Plans For New Bizjet

Mubadala of Abu Dhabi is taking the lead in trying to advance the Italian airframer’s plans to launch a new business jet.
Aircraft

Dubai 2011 Set To Open with More Exhibitors, Visitors

The 2011 Dubai Air Show, which opens on Sunday, is set to trump the 2009 event, with anticipated visitor numbers for the trade-only event expected to be
Aircraft

Flight Control Snag Delays Embraer Legacy 450/500

The Embraer Phenom 500 prototype will not make its maiden flight by year-end as originally scheduled, due to delays stemming from the Parker remote
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ATC

FAA Expands NextGen Testbed at Embry-Riddle

An expanded FAA NextGen ATC technologies testbed at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's Daytona Beach, Fla. campus officially opened this week.
Charter & Fractional

MEBAA Meeting Explores Mideast Bizav Issues

Regional business aviation companies met in Dubai today to share information and discuss issues at the Middle East Business Aviation Association (MEBAA)
Maintenance and Modifications

ACI Jet Solutions Opens New Maintenance Facility

ACI Jet Solutions has finished construction of a 150,000-sq-ft ramp and 34,000-sq-ft maintenance facility at California’s San Luis Obispo County Regional A
Maintenance and Modifications

FAA Issues Airworthiness Directive for Citation CJ4

The FAA has issued an airworthiness directive for the Cessna 525C Citation CJ4.
Maintenance and Modifications

King Aerospace Adds EASA certification

King Aerospace has received certification by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA),
Maintenance and Modifications

StarPort Promotes Smith to Director of Maintenance

Orlando Sanford International Airport-based StarPort, a subsidiary of Cambata Aviation International, has promoted Phillip Smith to the position of directo