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15 min ago | The Hartford Courant

Flush with orders, aerospace industry retools for future

As airplane makers gathered outside Paris to show off their newest high-tech jetliners on Monday, a less-heralded technology story was unfolding back home on the factory floors of the world's leading aerospace firms.

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Related Topix: Robots, Science / Technology, Commercial Aircraft, Boeing Aircraft, Boeing 737, Civil Aircraft, Airbus Aircraft, Airbus A320, Ansonia, CT

4 hrs ago | MSNBC

Recommended: 45 years later, details of fatal Yuri Gagarin jet crash revealed

The circumstances surrounding the death of the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, who was killed in a 1968 jet crash, have long been clouded in theories and rumors.

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Related Topix: Air Accidents, Science / Technology, Space, Sukhoi Aircraft, Sukhoi Su-15, Military Aircraft

8 hrs ago | Hunts Post

VIDEO: Sonic boom causes "explosion noise" over Cambs

The Ministry of Defence confirmed that the noise was a sonic boom - a bang is caused when an aircraft breaks through the sound barrier .

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Related Topix: Eurofighter Typhoon, Eurofighter Aircraft, Military Aircraft

12 hrs ago | Blackburn Citizen

Airbus take-off secures 1,000 East Lancashire jobs

THE successful maiden flight of a new lightweight airliner will safeguard more than 1,000 aerospace jobs across Burnley and Pendle.

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Related Topix: Airbus Aircraft, Airbus A350, Commercial Aircraft, Lancashire County, England, United Kingdom, World News,

16 hrs ago | Lethbridge Herald

Paris Air Show: Long-haul jets get boost with promised orders for Airbus, Boeing

Airbus and Boeing both won pledges for big purchases of long-haul, wide-body jets Monday, as the Paris Air Show got off to a robust if rainy start.

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Related Topix: Airbus A350, Airbus Aircraft, Commercial Aircraft, Civil Aircraft, Airbus A320, Airbus A380, Boeing Aircraft, Boeing 787, Boeing 777

19 hrs ago | Al Bawaba

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The National Bank of Kuwait , DVB Bank, and Jazeera Airways Group today announced a USD90 million commercial facility for funding JAG's aircraft purchases through a structured facility led by NBK and DVB Bank SE.

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Related Topix: Commercial Aircraft, Civil Aircraft, Airbus Aircraft, Airbus A320, Virgin America

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Examiner.com

New electric taxiing system avoids use of aircraft engines

Honeywell and Safran have completed the first major phase of testing of their electric green taxiing system , and will make the first public demonstration of the technology, installed on an Airbus A320 aircraft , during the 50th International Paris Air Show held at Le Bourget Airport this week.

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Related Topix: Commercial Aircraft, Civil Aircraft, Airbus Aircraft, Airbus A320

The Washington Post

Airbus Said to Win A380 Order Worth $4 Billion From Doric Asset

Airbus SAS is set to win an order for more than 10 A380 double-decker airliners from leasing company Doric Asset Finance Ltd., people familiar with the transaction said.

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Related Topix: Commercial Aircraft, Civil Aircraft, Airbus A380, Airbus Aircraft, Airbus SAS, Aerospace-Defense, Business News

Reuters

AIRSHOW-UPDATE 1-Jet engine makers battle over performance

Engine makers for next-generation Airbus and Boeing narrow-body jets stepped up their war of words on Sunday, claiming their new power plants will burn less fuel than current models plus last longer without maintenance and create less noise than their rival's.

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Related Topix: Boeing Aircraft, Commercial Aircraft, Boeing 737, Civil Aircraft, Airbus Aircraft, Airbus A320, Airbus A321, Airbus A319

Fermanagh Today

British - Thunderbirds' designs from 1960s unearthed

Inventions designed by British engineers in the 1960s have been brought to life in a display more in keeping with an episode of the Thunderbirds.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Inventions, Space, English Electric Lightning, English Electric Aircraft, Military Aircraft

The Independent

Emergency landing fire threat plane back in the air

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Related Topix: Commercial Aircraft, Boeing Aircraft, Boeing 777

The Miami Herald

Paris Air Show peek: Wide-body battle and drones

The Paris Air Show, which opens for business on Monday Jun. 17, brings hundreds of aircraft to the skies around the French capital, the usual tense competition between aircraft manufacturers Boeing and Airbus, and a slew of innovations large and small.

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Related Topix: Commercial Aircraft, Boeing Aircraft, Boeing 787, Airbus A350, Airbus Aircraft, Hybrid, Electric Vehicle, Sukhoi Aircraft, Sukhoi Su-35, Military Aircraft

KJCT

Plane carrying George W. Bush diverted

A plane carrying former President George W. Bush was diverted to Louisville on Saturday night after the pilot reported the smell of smoke.

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Related Topix: George Bush, W., Civil Aircraft, Gulfstream IV, Gulfstream Aircraft

Sat Jun 15, 2013

Al Bawaba

Etihad Airways launches new Belgrade service

Etihad Airways' maiden flight to Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, has landed on schedule at the city's Nikola Tesla Airport.

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Related Topix: Commercial Aircraft, Civil Aircraft, Airbus A319, Airbus Aircraft, World News, United Arab Emirates, Middle East

Free Republic

New York–Bound Flight Diverted After Fire Threat

EgyptAir Flight 985, which was on its way to JFK from Cairo, was escorted to Glasgow by Royal Air Force Typhoon fighter jets this morning after a note reading, "I'll set this plane on fire" was found in the plane's bathroom by BBC producer Nada Tawfik, who happened to be on board the Boeing 777.

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Related Topix: Commercial Aircraft, Boeing 777, Boeing Aircraft

MSNBC

Solar-powered plane zeroes in on Washington after 'pit stop' in Ohio

The Swiss-made Solar Impulse plane took off from Cincinnati on Saturday and headed for Washington, the penultimate stop in a cross-continent, solar-powered odyssey.

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Related Topix: Boeing 747, Commercial Aircraft, Boeing Aircraft, US News, Liberal Political News

Click2Houston

EgyptAir flight bound for JFK is diverted

The British Royal Air Force scrambled a fighter jet to escort an EgyptAir flight that had been bound for New York City to Glasgow instead, the Defense Ministry said Saturday.

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Related Topix: Commercial Aircraft, Boeing 777, Boeing Aircraft

WTAE-TV Pittsburgh

FBI: Possible security threat aboard plane

Frontier Airlines Flight 601 left Knoxville, Tennessee, about 6 p.m. ET Friday, and safely landed in Denver before it was moved to a remote pad at the airport for screening, the FBI said.

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Related Topix: Transportation, Airlines, Frontier Airlines, Knoxville, TN, Commercial Aircraft, Civil Aircraft, Airbus A319, Airbus Aircraft, Travel

Bicester Advertiser

German bomber en route to museum

The aircraft was lifted from its watery grave in the English Channel last week after it was shot down off the Kent coast more than 70 years ago The only surviving German Second World War Dornier Do 17 bomber is being transported to an RAF museum where it will undergo the first stage of conservation.

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Related Topix: Dornier Do 17, Dornier Aircraft, Military Aircraft

The Times Bulletin

Todd to compete in Discover Flying Challenge

Ryan Todd, who was born and raised in Van Wert, attended Van Wert High School, and considers his home airport to be Van Wert County Airport, is one of six pilot intern - competing in Cessna's Discover Flying Challenge.

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Related Topix: Flying, Life, Hobbies, Civil Aircraft, Cessna 172, Cessna Aircraft, Van Wert, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Charity