India is set to buy six Hercules transport planes from U.S-based Lockheed Martin. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, this will be India’s biggest arms deal with the United States, and a major departure in New Delhi’s military purchasing policies…
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THE RAF is being forced to borrow American spy planes and paint roundels on them to replace its fleet of Nimrod R1 signals intelligence aircraft. The crews of the US Rivet Joint spy planes masquerading as RAF aircraft will not even be totally British with US personnel expected to take control on some missions…
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The Predator is an unmanned aerial vehicle operated by a mobile ground control station. It is equipped with cameras, sensors and radar that can capture video and still images. It also has a targeting system and can carry two laser-guided Hellfire missiles. It is about 27 feet long, weighs more than 1,100 pounds and can fly at up to 25,000 feet, remaining aloft for up to 40 hours. The prime contractor is General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc…
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About twenty one of the 44 passengers and crew of the British European Airways airliner which crashed yesterday near Munich carrying the Manchester United football team and many journalists are feared dead. About eight others are in hospital, seriously injured. Frank Swift, the former international goalkeeper, who had become a journalist, died in hospital…
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Police say prominent members of the Georgia Republican Party were among six people who died when a plane crashed in a front yard in North Carolina. No one on the ground was hurt when the plane crashed Friday in Mount Airy, N.C., cable news reported Saturday. The plane’s passengers were heading from Georgia to Primland, a hunting and golf resort in Meadows of Dan, Va., about 25 miles north of the airport, The Mount Airy (N.C.) News reported…
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.: Several planes collided on the ground at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport on Friday. Airport officials said what happened on the runway was pretty rare. They described it as "bumper cars when planes weighing thousands of pounds crashed into each other…
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In a follow-up interview with Shelly Simi, spokesperson for Adam Aircraft Inc., she told Industry Headline News, "We’re alive. AAI has gotten responses from investors; we’re looking into options to secure long-term financing." Simi declined to confirm if Adam had raised $25.5 million, outside of the $5.5 million secured in December, meeting the company’s self-imposed deadline to secure $30.5 million by Jan. 31. Englewood, Colo.-based Adam set out to secure $30.5 million, giving its investors a special incentive, until Citibank is able to secure at least $100 million…
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"Look mommy. There’s a big hole in the wing and that man is trying to fix it." When Gail Sydow turned to see what her 11-year-old son Josh was on about, she could not believe her eyes - a maintenance person had hopped on to the plane’s wing and was "patching" it up with what looked like silver duct tape…
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By Robert Mark on February 1st, 2008 - www.jetwhine.com We’ve all been talking about the looming pilot shortage - as well as a shortage of aviation mechanics. Some airlines have already begun feeling the pinch as the requirements for future cockpit members have begun to plummet in a simple supply and demand equation. With very few exceptions, the conversation about a shortage has fallen upon deaf ears with most of it being a debate about whether or not the shortage exists or not. American Airlines yesterday announced it might cancel some February flights due to a shortage of pilots.
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On Friday, February 1st, 2008, the Airbus A380 will launch the company’s alternative fuel research programme by becoming the first commercial aircraft to fly with a synthetic liquid fuel processed from gas (Gas to Liquids, GTL) in a three hour flight between Filton, UK and Toulouse, France…
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