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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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  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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  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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  Don't Like the Grizzly? Try the Gigant

  Posted by Robert Wall 7:18 AM on Jul 22, 2010

  Airbus Military's decision to name the A400M the Grizzly has elicited some controversy here at the Farnborough air show. Our friend, Tim Hepher at Reuters, reports that RAF boss AC... Read More >>

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  PAK-FA Will Be Operational In 2015, Pogosyan Says

  Posted by Bill Sweetman 6:00 AM on Jul 22, 2010

  Sukhoi's T-50 PAK-FA fighter will be delivered to the customer in 2015, Sukhoi director general Mikhail Pogosyan said in an interview here on Tuesday, notwithstanding Western skept... Read More >>

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