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AgustaWestland is continuing to push its family concept for civil rotorcraft with a static display at Paris featuring two of its in-development helicopters, the AW169 and its bigger brother, the AW189. The AW189 on display is a flight-test prototype painted in the livery of Bristow Group, which is due to take delivery of its first of six offshore transport-configured aircraft later this year. So far, the 8t type has accumulated around 1,500h acro ...

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Mildura Airport has commended the crew of a Virgin Australia flight that was forced to make an emergency landing in heavy fog this morning. The Boeing 737 was carrying 85 passengers and 6 crew on a flight from Brisbane to Adelaide when it was diverted to Mildura because of fog. Then a second plane, a Qantas flight from Melbourne, was also diverted to the airport. That caused problems because there was also heavy fog at Mildura. Mildura Airport ch ...

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Photo A small charter jet was forced to make a hard landing at Cincinnati Municipal Lunken Airport Tuesday. CINCINNATI A charter flight made an emergency landing at Cincinnati Municipal Lunken Airport late Tuesday morning. The small jet made what officials on the scene called a hard landing after the jets landing gear collapsed. The only people on board were the flight crew who were performing touch and go maneuvers, according to Cincinnati fire ...

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The teens who came to Arlington,Wash.,this week to work on two Glasair Sportsman aircraft did not come alone. The students from Saline, Mich., brought their teacher, Ed Redies, and a parent chaperone. The teens from Canby, Minn., brought their teacher, Dan Lutgen, and their principal, Bob Slaba. Canby High School Principal Bob Slaba (in blue) is a student pilot. Slaba is not standing on the sidelines. Hes a student pilot with about 25 hours logge ...

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Danish leasing company Nordic Aviation Capital (NAC) has ordered 90 ATR-600 aircraft, including 35 firm orders, ATR said on Tuesday. The contract, including options is worth over USD$ 2.1 billion, the statement said. The firm orders are for 30 ATR 72-600s and five ATR 42-600s. Airwise News Top Stories

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Rockwell Collins is launching at Paris a new enhanced vision system for helicopters to enable safe operations on demanding missions such as emergency medical services (EMS), even in marginal weather conditions. Known as HeliSure, the helicopter synthetic vision system (H-SVS) derives sensor data from multiple sources including its helicopter terrain awareness and warning system (H-TAWS), and provides a real-time three-dimensional visualisation of ...

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Having been selected to upgrade South Korea's Lockheed Martin F-16s with an avionics package including the Raytheon Advance Combat Radar, BAE Systems is aiming to secure further orders in a market that encompasses about 1,000 Fighting Falcons. The company is expecting a letter of acceptance to upgrade 134 Korean jets that will combine the radar upgrade with the other avionics upgrades before the end of the year, says Gordon Eldridge, BAE's vice-p ...

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PARIS BAE Systems Plcs push to challenge Lockheed Martin Corp. in upgrading foreign fleets of F-16 fighter jets is a logical move, given the contractors experience with the work, BAE officials said. The U.S. subsidiary of the London-based company has refurbished more than 1,000 aircraft in the past couple of decades. That includes about 270 F-16s for the Air National Guard and more than 200 C-130 cargo planes. Both aircraft are made by Bethesda, ...

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The US Marine Corps is making a strong push to qualify the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey to operate from vessels from around the world - and potentially secure additional sales for the tiltrotor aircraft. Col Gregory Masiello, the Naval Air Systems Command programme manager for the joint V-22 programme, says that the V-22 recently completed a US Navy military utility evaluation on board the aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman. Additionally, the MV-22 l ...