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UK shoots down Argentine FA-50 deal

The United Kingdom has stopped a long-running plan for Argentina to obtain eight Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) FA-50 light attack jets. In a letter dated 28 October, KAI thanked the South American nation for its interest in the jet, but...

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American expands pre-flight testing programme

American Airlines has expanded its pre-flight coronavirus testing programme, hoping to inspire customers’ confidence to return to air travel. American Airlines has expanded its pre-flight coronavirus testing programme, hoping to inspire customers’ confidence to return to air travel. The Fort...

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Trump or Biden: How might aerospace fare?

How might a Joe Biden presidency impact the aerospace sector differently than another four years with President Donald Trump in the White House? How might a Joe Biden presidency impact the aerospace sector differently than another four years with President...

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Area-I expanding air launched effects portfolio with 1,000km-range drone

With recent successes under its belt, Area-I is developing an even larger air launched effect, called the Altius-900.  There was one company US Army Brigadier General Walter Rugen wanted to “brag on” after the service’s recent Project Convergence exercises, a...

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Canadian National Defence orders three King Air 350ERs for special ops recon

The Canadian Department of National Defence awarded L3Harris Technologies a firm-fixed price contract of an undisclosed amount to modify three King Air 350ERs into intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft for the country’s special operations forces. The Canadian Department of National...

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Ryanair’s O’Leary plots aggressive post-Covid strategy

Ryanair will exit the coronavirus crisis leaner, more competitive and ready for expansion, group chief executive Michael O’Leary has vowed. The low-cost carrier is using the crisis to “rapidly restructure our cost base”, he explained during a 2 November half-year results...

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ATSG turns Q3 profit as it steps up 767 freighter deployments

Air Transport Services Group made an operating profit of $74 million in the third quarter, up 80% year on year, as it deployed seven Boeing 767 freighters to leasing customers to capitalise on the demand for cargo aircraft amid the...

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Capacity concerns forgotten as embattled Berlin Brandenburg finally opens

One of the ironies of Berlin Brandenburg airport’s much-delayed opening is that the onset of the air transport crisis has brought an excess of capacity to a hub which, at one point, was thought to have a shortage. Combined passenger...

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CO2 emissions fail to fall in line with flight cuts, Dutch researchers find

Dutch researchers believe that an increase in long-distance cargo flights, combined with steeper reductions in short-haul passenger services than for long-haul operations, are responsible for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions failing to fall in line with the overall drop in flights....

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NTSB Prelim: Piper PA28

CFI And Student Pilot Reported That They Conducted Two Uneventful Touch And Go Landings On October 17, 2020, about 1742 Pacific daylight time, a Piper PA-28-140 airplane, N4673R, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near the...

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