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  easyJet Safety Training

  Posted by Lee Ann Tegtmeier 2:47 PM on Jul 23, 2010

  The big aircraft orders capture a lot of attention at the show, but news from the halls generates some interesting news, such as this:About 100 easyJet maintenance and engineering ... Read More >>

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  JSF for BMD?

  Posted by Sean Meade 1:48 PM on Jul 23, 2010

  Amy Butler writes:The Joint Strike Fighter distributed aperture system (DAS) could be useful for ballistic missile defense, according to Tom Burbage, executive vice president of F-... Read More >>

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  Iron Dome Has Customers, Follow-Ons

  Posted by Bill Sweetman 11:18 AM on Jul 23, 2010

  Rafael marketing vice-president Lova Drori says that the company's new Iron Dome counter-rocket system already has "quite a few" export customers, and that exports will start in pa... Read More >>

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  Shadowy Hercs

  Posted by Sean Meade 10:16 AM on Jul 23, 2010

  Amy Butler writes:Lockheed Martin is continuing work on a roll on/roll off kit to give a sophisticated ISR collection capability to the Pentagon's C-130 fleet.Details about the so-... Read More >>

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  JSF STOVL power upgrades - more than simply engines

  Posted by Guy Norris 6:17 AM on Jul 23, 2010

  Lockheed Martin executive vice president and general manager for the F-35 Tom Burbage is quick to remind the engine makers that their would-be thrust growth plans for the F135 and ... Read More >>

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  Heard at the Farnborough Airshow

  Posted by Benet Wilson 4:47 PM on Jul 22, 2010

  “We bring new aircraft to air shows to fly them, [Boeing] brings them to park them.” Airbus CEO Tom Enders"We are at the beginning of a long, slow recovery as airli... Read More >>

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  Airbus - Boeing 'Cold War' thaws at Farnborough

  Posted by Guy Norris 12:34 PM on Jul 22, 2010

  It wasn’t quite the Glienicke Bridge – the steel span over the Havel River connecting East and West Berlin, but the ramp space at Farnborough briefly took on overtones ... Read More >>

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  Enders: Airbus flies, Boeing parks air show aircraft

  Posted by Robert Wall 11:08 AM on Jul 22, 2010

  Airbus CEO Tom Enders is quite happy with how Farnborough has gone this year, with healthy new order intake a clearly a new dynamism in the market. The Airbus boss also got a... Read More >>

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  App for Engine Monitoring

  Posted by Lee Ann Tegtmeier 9:42 AM on Jul 22, 2010

  GE Aviation's nifty new digital service, myEngines, is part of a suite of applications that the OEM is demonstrating here at Farnborough. Here's a video we created this week.I... Read More >>

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  Eurofighter Talks Down F-35

  Posted by Bill Sweetman 8:20 AM on Jul 22, 2010

  When Eurofighter people state - as they did yesterday at the show - that the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter doesn't match the low radar cross section (RCS) of the F-22, they are not jus... Read More >>

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