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Panetta Lifts F-35B Probation 23 Jan 2012 | 11:12 pm
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has ushered the F-35B out of the penalty box, after the short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing (Stovl) version of the stealthy fighter was sidelined for poor performance for...
SIA Starts A380 Crack Inspection 23 Jan 2012 | 11:11 pm
Singapore Airlines Friday started inspecting an Airbus A380 in response to a European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) airworthiness directive that operators examine their A380s for potential cracks in a...
NPP Commissioning Resumes After VIRS Anomaly 23 Jan 2012 | 11:11 pm
Controllers have restarted on-orbit checkout of the Npoess Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite, which was suspended last year after the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) sensor begin l...
France Pares Defense Spending 23 Jan 2012 | 11:10 pm
France’s 2012 defense budget has had to cut €267 million ($352.4 million) from its original request of €31.72 billion. Had the axe not fallen, this budget would have remained stable, since the origina...
New Malaysia Widebody Charter Airline Planned 23 Jan 2012 | 11:10 pm
A new privately owned airline, Eaglexpress Air Charter, is planning to start Boeing 747-400 operations in Malaysia as early as next month, assuming its air operator certificate (AOC) is approved. [Th...
Airbus Eyes A330 Production Increase Before A320 23 Jan 2012 | 11:09 pm
Airbus expects to decide soon on a plan to boost widebody output to a rate of 11 aircraft a month even as it delays ramping up narrowbody production. Airbus had been considering a single-aisle produc...
ATR Plans 2012 Production Boost 23 Jan 2012 | 11:09 pm
Bolstered by record orders, turboprop-maker ATR plans to step up production quickly to keep pace with demand. ATR this year expects revenue to jump to $1.6-1.65 billion, and rise to $1.75 billion in 2...
Funds Shift For Electronic Warfare In Europe 23 Jan 2012 | 11:08 pm
The age-old electronic warfare adage “friend in war, enemy in peace” is about to be tested again. With the drawdown of military forces in Afghanistan clearly on the horizon, the era of relatively hea...
PC-12 Passes 1,100 Mark, With Follow-On Coming 23 Jan 2012 | 11:07 pm
There was nothing like it: A pressurized, single-pilot, single-engine turboprop with 1,500-nm range, capable of taking off and landing on short, grass strips, featuring a flat-floor, 6-9-passenger cab...
Cessna Doubles Down On Bizjet Market Lower End 23 Jan 2012 | 11:07 pm
The top executive at Cessna Aircraft’s parent company says the struggling business jet manufacturer needs to stay focused on its core market of small- and medium-sized aircraft and dismisses talk it c...
