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FedEx Shrinks Schedule Following Lowered Demand

Cost-Cutting Brings 8% Reduction in Fleet Usage FedEx Express has rolled back on some of its operations to the tune of almost 10%, looking to cut costs amid decreasing demand for freight shipping. The decision was spoken of by CEO...

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BAE and Heart Aerospace Developing Battery for Electric Aircraft

System to Power ES-30 Hybrid-Electric Regional Airliner BAE Systems, the British multinational arms, security, and aerospace concern, has partnered with Swedish plane-maker Heart Aerospace for purpose of collaboratively developing a battery system for the latter’s ES-30 regional electric aircraft. The...

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Barrett Precision Engines Makes it Out to Sun ‘n Fun

High-Performance, Premium Work for the Discerning Aviator On Tap Courtesy of the Barrett Family Barrett Precision Engines (BPE) made their way out to Sun 'n Fun again this year, showing off some of their handiwork in repairing Lycoming and Continental...

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F-22 Upgrade Pathway Skews Towards LTA Combat

F-22 Block 50 Upgrades Focus on High-Altitude, Low-Speed Balloon Combat After capping off its first air-to-air successes with the F-22 Raptor, the US Air Force is doubling down on a new niche for the aircraft as the premier anti-lighter-than-air-aircraft asset....

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Fisher Flying Products Inks Deal for F-22-Alike LSAs

Lightweight Kit Selected for Next-Gen COIN Platform in Surprise Ukraine Bid Fisher Flying Products' nifty little bird has a new customer, after a seriously expedited Foreign Military Sales deal secured their SF-1 Archon as the newest offering to militaries abroad....

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Classic Aero-TV: F/W R/C Models-Horizon Hobby’s Stunning Small A/C Capabilities

From 2015 (YouTube Version): RC Aviation Offers Stunning Technologies and TRULY Exciting Flying Fun For Today's Model Aviators While at eFest 2015, ANN CEO and Editor-In-Chief, Jim Campbell, talks with a company known as Horizon Hobby to find out what’s...

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Puerto Rico University Acquires Piper Seminole

PA44-180 Delivered to Inter American University On Tuesday, 28 March 2023, Piper Aircraft, the storied and perennial American aircraft manufacturer, announced it had delivered a specimen of its enduring PA44-180 Seminole light twin-engine airplane to Puerto Rico’s Inter American University...

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Rotax Announces Fire-Breathing 917 iS/TT with 341 Hp

New Twin-Turbocharged, Nitrous-Injected Light Sport Engine Provides Wild Power Output for Experimental Aircraft A small pet project under the Rotax umbrella was let loose on the world after general manager Peter Ölsinger approved a limited production run of a high-performance,...

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New Sustainable Aviation Fuel Brand Announced

American Consortium Challenges Convention In a surprising, if not intuitively sound move certain to occasion acrimony among the world’s established producers of Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) a consortium comprising McDonald’s, Burger King, and Wendy’s announced on 01 April 2023 that...

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Apple Makes Offer on Bendix-King

Will There Soon be an Apple...Plane? A surprise investment by Apple appears to have set up the computer manufacturer to gobble up legendary avionics manufacturer Bendix-King. The deal could come about following an April 1st stock swap, with Bendix rolling...

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