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Comair Employee Admits to Smuggling

Former Comair employee Zabdiel Santiago Balaguer pleaded guilty in Orlando federal court last month to gun and drug smuggling.

July 5, 2007

Rising tide raises all boats in the air transport business

The cyclical nature of the airline business showed its inevitability again at this year’s Regional Airline Association convention, held May 21 to 24 in Mem

July 5, 2007

More range for Smaller E-jets

Embraer has launched a program to add as much as 300 nm of range to its 70- and 76-seat E-Jets.

Aircraft

July 5, 2007

Is funding the least of FAA’s problems with NextGen?

Since everyone agrees that rapidly increasing traffic volumes over the next 20 years will demand the FAA’s NextGen solution–or something very similar–it ca

ATC

July 2, 2007

EU Takes Control of Galileo with Taxes

Members of the Transport, Telecommunication and Energy Council of the European Union have accepted a proposal by the European Commission to assume control

ATC

July 2, 2007

Development Begins on Single European Sky Program

The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched the early development phase of the Single European Sky Iris program, a research initiative designed to improve

ATC

June 26, 2007

Embraer says airline deal could could net $1.26B

Embraer yesterday said it has signed a “preliminary commercial agreement” with a Brazilian airline for dozens of airliners in a deal potentially worth $1.4

Aircraft

June 25, 2007

Air France-KLM admits to previous Boeing 777, 737 order

The Air France-KLM Group revealed itself yesterday as the customer that placed a previous order for nine Boeing 777-300ERs and seven 737-700s.

Aircraft

June 25, 2007

Northrop has GPS-aided stellar INS

Northrop Grumman delivered the first production LN-120G GPS-aided stellar-inertial navigation system to the U.S.

ATC

June 25, 2007

Fuel-tank inerting among the stars of Parker’s show

U.S.

June 20, 2007

Issues abound in expansion of UAV missions

The number of unmanned air vehicles in our skies is growing fast, but there are many regulatory and doctrinal issues to resolve, before UAVs and their grou

ATC

June 20, 2007

Use of winglets are growing on world airlines

Seattle, Washington-based Aviation Partners Boeing is racking up sales of its efficiency-enhancing Blended Winglets, with new orders from Air China and She

Aircraft

June 20, 2007

IS&S lands big Boeing retrofit deal

Be sure to glance left the next time you step aboard an American Airlines Boeing 757 or 767.

Aircraft

June 20, 2007

Sukhoi draws first Western Superjet buy

Sukhoi has secured its first Western customer for the Superjet 100 regional jet with a $283 million order for 10 firm aircraft from Italian low-cost carrie

Aircraft

June 20, 2007

UPS says ADS-B will save $3 million a year

United Parcel Service will save millions of dollars a year by introducing technology that is designed to provide improved aircraft spacing for arriving air

ATC

June 20, 2007

EngineAlliance anxious to power Airbus A350XWB

The GE Aviation /Pratt & Whitney Engine Alliance, which builds the GP7200 powering the Airbus A380 flying at the show, is ready to offer a powerplant s

Engines

June 20, 2007