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Air China to buy 31 Boeing planes; As Cathay cancels freighters
Mar 01, 2013 (AFP)
Air China signed an agreement Friday to buy 31 Boeing passenger and cargo planes from Boeing, subject to government approval, the Chinese flag carrier said. Air...
Indonesia, South Korea to build fighters
Mar 01, 2013 (UPI)
Indonesia and South Korea are cooperating in building a joint fighter but politics are delaying progress. The project will produce the KFX/IFX fighter, which is...
US chooses Brazilian plane to outfit Afghan force
Feb 28, 2013 (AFP)
The US Air Force has chosen a Brazilian firm for a $427 million contract to supply light attack planes to Afghan forces, the company said Thursday, despite comp...
F-35 soaring costs trouble Australia
Feb 28, 2013 (UPI)
Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters to be bought for the Australian air force will cost about $90 million apiece, officials said. The fighter's soaring c...
Larry Ellison buys Hawaiian airline to go with island
Feb 27, 2013 (AFP)
Tech billionaire Larry Ellison, who bought his own Hawaiian island last year, now has an airline to go with it. Island Air, a regional carrier based in the Paci...
DARPA Developing Next Generation Of Vertical Flight Technology
Feb 26, 2013 (SPX)
One of the greatest challenges of the past half century for aerodynamics engineers has been how to increase the top speeds of aircraft that take off and land ve...
Embraer seeks larger executive jet market
Feb 26, 2013 (UPI)
Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer is aiming to expand its share of an international executive market, which is seeing more players than a decade earlier. Competi...
EU MPs back temporary suspension of airline carbon tax
Feb 26, 2013 (AFP)
EU lawmakers on Tuesday backed plans to exempt some airline carbon emissions from a controversial tax pending an international accord on an issue which has pitt...
F-35 flights should resume soon: Pentagon official
Feb 25, 2013 (AFP)
The Pentagon's director of the F-35 programme said Monday the next-generation US fighter jet could be back in the air within a fortnight after an engine crack f...
Israeli arms dealers held over seized F-4 parts for Iran
Feb 24, 2013 (UPI)
Israeli arms dealers Eli Cohen and Avichai Weinstein have been arrested on suspicion of trying to smuggle F-4 fighter components to Iran amid a shakeup in the D...
US military halts test flights for F-35 fighter
Feb 22, 2013 (AFP)
The US military suspended all test flights Friday for the new F-35 fighter jet over potential engine problems, officials said, the latest setback for a program ...
BAE secures deal with Saudi Arabia on Typhoon jet pricing
Feb 21, 2013 (UPI)
BAE, the world's third-largest defense company, has secured an agreement with Saudi Arabia over the pricing of 72 Eurofighter Typhoon strike jets, after two yea...
First F-35 Production Model Takes Flight
Feb 20, 2013 (SPX)
The first Lockheed Martin production model F-35C carrier variant, known as CF-6, flew its first sortie Thursday. Upon delivery later this year, the jet will be ...
AgustaWestland gets Indonesian and Malaysian helicopter orders
Feb 20, 2013 (UPI)
AgustaWestland announced it has signed a deal to provide Indonesian charter service Travira Air with two twin-engine AW139 intermediate helicopters. Travira Air...
Proposed supersonic plane to do without windows, video screens instead
Feb 19, 2013 (UPI)
A U.S. firm working to develop a supersonic passenger aircraft says the design will lack one thing found in every other such airplane -- windows. Spike Aerospac...
NASA Seeks It All: High Lift, Low Drag
Feb 19, 2013 (SPX)
NASA and its industry partners have been working to disprove an aeronautical version of the notion that you can't have your cake and eat it too - and it may app...
Brazil regional jet makes inroads into U.S. market
Feb 19, 2013 (UPI)
Brazilian regional jet Embraer 175 is making more inroads into the U.S. commercial aviation market, apparently at the expense of aircraft made by North American...
Next Phase of Modernizing B-2 Defensive Systems Starts
Feb 18, 2013 (SPX)
Northrop Grumman will help drive down costs and speed the availability of new hardware and software upgrades for the B-2 stealth bomber under a recently awarded...
Agusta faces blacklisting from Indian helicopter market
Feb 17, 2013 (UPI)
AgustaWestland faces exclusion from the lucrative Indian market if Parliament votes to blacklist the British company over allegations of kickbacks. The Defense ...
France confident of selling Rafale jets to UAE
Feb 17, 2013 (AFP)
A top French defence industry official said Sunday that talks to sell Rafale jet fighters to the UAE were "progressing well", expressing confidence that a deal ...
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