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By Richard Aboulafia, Kevin Michaels
The world aerospace industry produced direct revenues of US$838 billion in 2017. This is the top line number from Aerodynamic Advisory and Teal Group’s joint research project.
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By Angus Batey
An ambitious secure communications network solution dubbed Network for the Sky has been launched by Airbus Defense & Space.
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By Tony Osborne
The school which dates to World War II is undertaking a radical transformation as it gears up to train a new generation of test pilots.
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By Tony Osborne
As Britain’s Royal Air Force has begun receiving the most capable Eurofighter Typhoons yet, as the four-nation program is gearing up for a wave of potential new sales.
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By Thierry Dubois
Liebherr Aerospace & Transportation has partnered with automotive giant General Motors to develop an APU for future single-aisle aircraft, based on a hydrogen fuel cell.
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By Tony Osborne
Czech manufacturer Aero Vodochody is to announce additional orders for its L-39NG jet trainer at this year’s Farnborough Airshow.
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Foxconn Technology—aka Hon Hai Precision Industry Company—has broken ground on a US$10 billion facility in Wisconsin, bringing the manufacture of critical liquid crystal displays to an ex-Asia location for the first time.
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Airbus and the government of Côte d’Ivoire signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a framework of collaboration to support the development of the country’s aerospace industry. The MoU was signed on June 15 by Amadou Koné, minister of transport of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, and Mikail Houari, president of Airbus Africa Middle East, in the presence of Daniel Kablan Duncan, vice president of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, and Guillaume Faury, president of Airbus Commercial Aircraft.
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By Lee Hudson
Defense contractors are gearing up for a potential competition to replace the Royal Air Force’s Boeing E-3 Sentry airborne early warning aircraft.
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By Lee Hudson
Tactical Air Support Inc. is outfitting its F-5 supersonic fighter aircraft with a Garmin integrated flight deck and anticipates first flight with the new technology will be later this year.
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By Angus Batey
From the aerobatic displays of the Blades to an expanded presence on the static line and in the trade show, 2Excel Aviation is harder than ever to miss at Farnborough this year.
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By Lee Hudson
Tactical Air Support Inc. is outfitting its F-5 supersonic fighter aircraft with a Garmin integrated flight deck and anticipates first flight with the new technology will be later this year.
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By Tony Osborne
The prototype General Atomics’ MQ-9B SkyGuardian remotely piloted air system has touched down on at RAF Fairford on the eve of the Royal International Air Tattoo after a milestone transatlantic crossing.
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By Angus Batey
The flight of a General Atomics MQ-9B from North Dakota to Fairford last week is being hailed as a breakthrough. But ShowNews has learned that a similar feat nearly took place over a decade ago.
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NATS – the UK’s air-navigation service provider (ANSP) – may not be the first name to leap to mind when thinking of unmanned-aircraft operations. But the company has announced a number of strategic investments and partnerships in recent months that show it is seeking to occupy a pivotal position in the UK’s UAS ecosystem.
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Luxembourg-based Wijet is partly blaming Brexit for transferring its British air taxi operations to other European operators.
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By Angus Batey
If ways can be found to better harness the innovation and speed-of-movement of small and medium-size enterprises, the benefits to UK defense will be considerable.
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by Daniel K. Elwell, Acting Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration
Flying once seemed impossible, until the earliest pioneers made it happen. More than a century later, commercial aviation is now the safest it has ever been. Here at Farnborough, the world is here to see the next level of flying innovation – things like drones, rockets, and other new vehicles.
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By Thierry Dubois
ATR is exhibiting an ATR 42-600 turboprop with a Silver Airways livery—thus illustrating the manufacturer’s hopes in regard to the U.S. market.
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By Thierry Dubois
ATR,the regional turboprop manufacturer has inked the first firm order for ClearVision, a combined vision system that merges synthetic terrain with images from optical sensors for situational awareness in low visibility.
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By John Morris
L3 Technologies launches a new commercial aviation division integrating both on- and off-aircraft products and services for aviation customers.
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Daher has announced a new configuration of its TBM 910 and TBM 930 high-speed single-turboprop aircraft as platforms for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions.
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By Michael Bruno
L3 Technologies has acquired Applied Defense Solutions, an aerospace engineering, software development and space situational awareness company for about $50 million. Headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, with offices in Herndon, Virginia, and Colorado Springs, Colorado, the business will be renamed L3 ADS. It provides space systems mission planning for the intelligence community, Pentagon, NASA and other customers.
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By Angus Batey
Inzpire, a defense-training provider, has launched its training academy – not a physical location, but a concept that allows Inzpire to industrialize their expertise and experience.
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Globally, the aerospace industry is worth an estimated US$838 billion, according to an analysis conducted by the AeroDynamic Advisory and Teal Group Corp.
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