18 October 2011
Cobham extends QantasLink contract with Qantas
Cobham has signed a five-year extension of its B717 QantasLink contract with Australian airline Qantas worth A$500m ($514m), which was scheduled to expire in 2013.
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18 October 2011
Airbus delivers A380 to China Southern Airlines
Airbus has delivered the first A380 aircraft to China Southern Airlines, under a firm five-aircraft order, at its delivery centre in Toulouse, France.
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18 October 2011
Virgin Atlantic develops low-carbon aviation fuel
Virgin Atlantic, in collaboration with New Zealand-based LanzaTech, has developed an aviation fuel from industrial waste gases which will reduce the carbon emission of standard jet fuel by half.
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17 October 2011
Airbus opens new wing facility in Broughton
Airbus has opened a new £400m wing-manufacturing factory in Broughton, UK, to expand existing manufacturing capacity and produce high-tech carbon fibre composite wings for the A350 XWB long-range aircraft family.
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17 October 2011
Nasa to launch Earth-observing satellite
Nasa is planning to launch the first Earth-observing satellite, the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP), on a Delta II rocket from Space Launch Complex 2 at...
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17 October 2011
Cargolux Airlines receives GEnx-powered Boeing 747-8 Freighter
Boeing has delivered the first Boeing 747-8 Freighter, powered by the GEnx engine, to the launch customer Cargolux Airlines as part of a firm order totalling 13 747-8 aircraft.
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17 October 2011
Air France and Airbus test biofuel-based aircraft
Air France and aircraft manufacturer Airbus have completed the world's greenest commercial flight by combining the latest fuel and air traffic management (ATM) technologies.
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16 October 2011
Kenya Airways to lease two Boeing 777-300 ER Aircraft
Kenya Airways has signed a 12-year lease agreement with General Electric Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) for two Boeing 777-300 Extended Range (ER) aircraft.
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16 October 2011
Pratt & Whitney buys Rolls-Royce stake in IAE
Pratt & Whitney will pay $1.5bn to acquire Rolls-Royce Group's stake in International Aero Engines (IAE), a producer of engines for the Airbus A320 plane family.
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16 October 2011
CAE to deliver four Level D flight simulators
CAE has signed a C$55m ($53.7m) contract to deliver four Level D full-flight simulators (FFS) to Cathay Pacific Airways, Asian Aviation Centre of Excellence and Lufthansa Flight Training.