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Will retired satellites be revived to fill GPS gap?

Testifying before Congress in May, Stanford University professor Brad Parkinson–the chief architect of GPS and the original GPS program manager before his

Patience with 787 Delays Running Thin

The wellspring of goodwill among customers for the chronically delayed Boeing 787 drained a bit more this past week, when the company <link news/single-new

NTSB Chases New Leads in Air France Flight 447 Crash Probe

The National Transportation Safety Board has launched investigations into two recent incidents in which airspeed and altitude indications in Airbus A330s m

Airbus Inks Financing Deal with Chinese Bank

Airbus hopes to help loosen the grip of tight-fisted credit outlets with an MoU it signed this month with the world’s largest bank, China’s ICBC, to collab

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Boeing in Studies to Re-Wing 777

Boeing Commercial Airplanes has begun to study the possibility of fitting the <link news/single-news-page/article/new-777-wing-is-boeing-move-against-a350/

Paris Air Show Stages Industry Sales Rally

For one week at least, the gloom of the global recession seemed to lift along with the storm clouds gathered over the grounds of the Paris Air Show in Le B

Boeing Joins 747-8 Wing Box to Center Section

Boeing announced today that it has joined the first 747-8’s wing box to the airplane’s 40-foot-long center fuselage section in the final assembly bay at it

Qantas Slashes 787-9 Order, Delays Deliveries

The Qantas Group has reduced its firm order for 65 Boeing 787-9s by 15 airplanes, delayed first delivery of the type by three years and suspended delivery

Captain, Flight Attendant from Air France Flight 447 Identified

Search teams have found the bodies of the captain and a flight attendant among the victims of the crash of Air France Flight 447, the company confirmed tod

DOT IG: FAA Data Muddles Controller Training Failures

A report to Congress by the Transportation Department inspector general found that the FAA’s reported rate of training failures among newly hired air traff

Airbus Delivers First A320 Assembled in China

Airbus today delivered the first A320 aircraft assembled at its Final Assembly Line China (FALC) in Tianjin.

More Delays for Boeing 787

Boeing announced today that it has postponed first flight of the 787 Dreamliner once again, this time due to a need to reinforce areas within the side-of-b

New York Airspace Redesign Moving Forward

The New York/New Jersey/Philadelphia Metropolitan Area Airspace Redesign, which is intended to reduce delays in this heavy air traffic area, cleared a “key

Virgin Atlantic Airways Commits to 10 New Airbus A330s

Virgin Atlantic Airways announced today that it signed a $2.1 billion firm contract to buy six Airbus A330-300s and lease another four from Netherlands-bas

C Series supply chain locked; focus turns to production prep

Bombardier has moved into the next stage in the development of its new C Series aircraft, having secured the supply chain and completed the selection of al

Premium Aerotec To Build Part of A350 Fuselage

German aerostructures specialist Premium Aerotec (Hall 1 Stand E197) has signed a contract with Airbus to provide the fuselage structure for the European m

Airbus orders still flow, but now just a trickle

Cooling down somewhat from a red-hot commercial start at this year’s Paris Air Show, Airbus yesterday won a pair of modest but significant firm orders–one

Boeing joins sales parade

Boeing joined in the sales action yesterday at the Paris Air Show when MC Aviation Partners (MCAP), a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corp., finalize

Mitsubishi keeps MRJ on course; critical design review under way

Development of Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation’s MRJ regional jet continues on schedule, as some 800 engineers, designers and subcontractors in Nagoya, Jap

Flying the Airbus A380

Airbus engineers are never satisfied, and customers of the European airframe builder should have only one response: thank goodness.

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