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  Day IV -- Live From The Show Floor

  Posted by Madhu Unnikrishnan 12:18 PM on Jun 21, 2007

  With fighters screaming overhead during the flying display, now is a good time to take a minute to reflect on this year's Paris Air Show. The industry days are coming to a close, a... Read More >>

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  Falcon 7X and Rafale Show FBW Lineage at Paris Air Show

  Posted by Madhu Unnikrishnan 8:28 AM on Jun 21, 2007

  Eric Girard's 9G, 29 degree angle-of-attack, black-and-blue bruising flight demonstration routine in the highly unstable Mach 1.6 Rafale indeed is impressive. The artificial s... Read More >>

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  Next Generation Narrowbody

  Posted by Frank Jackman 10:14 AM on Jun 20, 2007

  A lot of attention at Le Bourget has focused on an aircraft that isn't here, that hasn't been ordered and probably is a decade away from flying: the next generation narrowbody. Thi... Read More >>

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  Big Fighter, Big Glass

  Posted by Bill Sweetman 8:14 AM on Jun 20, 2007

  Sukhoi's Su-35, to be unveiled in August at the MAKS air show in Moscow, is the biggest revision yet of the company's heavyweight fighter. On show at Paris is a demonstration simul... Read More >>

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  A160 in action next year?

  Posted by Bill Sweetman 10:41 AM on Jun 19, 2007

  The Boeing A160 helicopter UAV could be in service with Special Operations Command as early as next year, according to George Muellner, president for Advanced Systems in Boeing's I... Read More >>

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  Su-35 for MAKS

  Posted by Bill Sweetman 10:21 AM on Jun 19, 2007

  The latest version of Sukhoi's heavy fighter family, the Su-35, will make its debut at Moscow's MAKS air show in August, Sukhoi General Director Mikhail Pogosyan confirms here. The... Read More >>

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  Honeywell and SAP

  Posted by Frank Jackman 6:18 AM on Jun 19, 2007

  An interesting tidbit picked up amongst the chalets here yesterday: Honeywell Aerospace is in the process of implementing the largest single instance of SAP on the planet. The impl... Read More >>

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  Capitalist Tricks 101

  Posted by Bill Sweetman 5:02 PM on Jun 18, 2007

  As well as tackling head-on their not-always-stellar reputation for product support - by extending the life and engineering better reliability for the MiG-29 fighter family - Russi... Read More >>

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  Boeing's Carson on the Environment and the Current Industry Cycle

  Posted by Frank Jackman 4:57 PM on Jun 18, 2007

  There has been a lot of talk here at Le Bourget about the environment and about how long the current aviation industry cycle/honeymoon is going to last. Scott Carson, president and... Read More >>

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  No Helmet For F-22

  Posted by Bill Sweetman 4:47 PM on Jun 18, 2007

  Most fighters today are available with a high off-boresight missile and its essential complement, a helmet-mounted display (HMD) to point it accurately at its intended victim. Big ... Read More >>

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