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Biden to allow UAE F-35A, MQ-9B acquisition: report

The Biden Administration plans to move forward with $23 billion in arms sales to the United Arab Emirates, according a report citing congressional aides. The Biden Administration plans to move forward with $23 billion in arms sales to the United...

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Prototype sections for ‘Russified’ Superjet’s PD-8 engine emerge

Russia’s United Engine has completed manufacturing work on the primary components of a prototype Aviadvigatel PD-8 powerplant. The PD-8 is a lower-thrust variant of a family which centres on the PD-14 designed for the Irkut MC-21-310. It is intended for...

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Boeing delivers only two KC-46A tankers in Q1 2021

Despite orders for dozens more KC-46A Pegasus in-flight refuelling tankers in recent months, Boeing only delivered two examples of the aircraft in the first quarter of 2021.   Despite receiving orders for dozens more KC-46A Pegasus in-flight refuelling tankers in...

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Virtual Town Hall explores COVID-19 vaccine for Black community in Oklahoma City

OU Health physicians, Prospect Church, the City of Oklahoma City and the Oklahoma Public Health Association are recognizing National Minority Health Month in April with an educational Virtual Town Hall about COVID-19 vaccination in the local Black...

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Airbus extends sustainable-fuel Beluga operations to UK

Airbus has extended the use of sustainably-fuelled A300-600ST Beluga outsize transports to its UK wing plant at Broughton. It has carried out an initial flight from the UK facility with aicraft F-GSTF – one of five -600STs in the airframer’s...

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First AH-1Z Viper enters final assembly for Bahrain

Bell expects to deliver its first AH-1Z attack helicopter to launch export operator Bahrain before year-end, with the nation’s first “Viper” having entered final assembly. Bell expects to deliver its first AH-1Z attack helicopter to launch export operator Bahrain before...

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EASA draws up initial certification requirements for electric and hybrid engines

European aviation safety regulators have drawn up an initial set of certification requirements for electric or hybrid propulsion systems for future aircraft types. The in-depth special condition has been shaped from an initial proposal in January last year, following extensive...

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Italian start-up SkyAlps signs for Dash 8-400s

Italian start-up regional carrier SkyAlps has agreed to lease a pair of De Havilland Dash 8-400 turboprops from Chorus Aviation Capital. The aircraft are scheduled to be delivered to the Bolzano-based airline in April and May. Chorus has identified the...

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Flybe operating licence again under threat as sale nears completion

Administrators of collapsed UK regional carrier Flybe are immersed in renewed scrap over the airline’s operating licence, as the transaction to sell the business nears completion. The administrators had already averted a bid last year by the Civil Aviation Authority...

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Air Canada begins to offer refunds for non-refundable fares

Air Canada says it will begin to offer refunds to customers whose flights were cancelled or who did not use their non-refundable tickets due to the coronavirus crisis that has been dragging on for more than a year. Air Canada...

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