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Airbus engages all of Europe in A350 project

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Big year for BAE’s UAVs

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June 8, 2009

Bombardier considers stretch variant for Q400

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June 8, 2009

Thales helps extend Rafale reach

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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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June 8, 2009

Airbus, Boeing mull options for next narrowbody models

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June 8, 2009

Embraer Thinks Big

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June 8, 2009

French aero industry must rally in crisis

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

June 8, 2009

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

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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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June 8, 2009

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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Airbus ramps up work on A350 family

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Radar systems business thriving for ThalesRaytheon

Ground Master 400, the new ThalesRaytheonSystems air defense radar on display here in Thales’ outdoor compound, is just completing its development ahead of

Group seeks approval for civil UAVs

Civil certification of unmanned aerial vehicles has taken on new momentum over the past few years with the realization that there could be a large number o

Three decades of the cold war

On this 100th anniversary of the Paris Air Show French journalist Gil Roy continues his reflections on the greatest moments from the salon du Bourget’s ill

Back to the future for U.S. manned space flight

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Elbit plans to develop UAS for U.S.

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