Egyptair and leasing company GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) took delivery Monday of the first Boeing 777-300ER (Extended Range) commercial jetliner to join Egyptair's fleet. EGYPTAIR operates a fleet of five Boeing 777-200ERs, five 737-500s and 12 737-800s, with another eight 737-8......read more
Date Posted: 10/03/2010
Category: "Aircraft, Engines & Components"
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Row 44, Inc, the provider of satellite-based in-flight Wi-Fi, has announced that Larry Kellner, former Chairman and CEO of Continental Airlines, has joined the company's Board of Directors.
"It would be difficult to find a more respected, trusted and knowledgeable executive in the airl......read more
Date Posted: 10/03/2010
Category: "Aircraft, Engines & Components"
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Parker Hannifin Corporation, the global player in motion and control technologies, has announced that Rolls-Royce has exercised its option to add Parker Aerospace's heat management valves to the pneumatics package it already supplies on the Trent XWB engine program.
Parker estimates th......read more
Date Posted: 10/03/2010
Category: "Aircraft, Engines & Components"
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The second Boeing 787 Dreamliner, ZA002, landed at 10:53 a.m. local time today in Victorville, Calif. This marks the beginning of the first flight-test operations outside of Washington state for the program.
The airplane will be stationed at Victorville for approximately three weeks. T......read more
Date Posted: 10/03/2010
Category: "Aircraft, Engines & Components"
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Effective March 22, Sid Ashworth will serve as Vice President of GE Aviation's Washington, D.C. Operations.
Ashworth has more than 25 years experience in the legislative and executive government branches. She spent 14 years as a Professional Staff Member with the U.S. Senate Comm......read more
Date Posted: 10/03/2010
Category: "Aircraft, Engines & Components"
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François Tarel has been named Executive Vice President of Aircelle, Safran Group. François Tarel, 46 years old, is an engineering graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (France). He joined the Safran group in 1991 with Hispano-Suiza, as Manufacturing Enginee......read more
Date Posted: 10/03/2010
Category: "Aircraft, Engines & Components"
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The European Commission notes the decision announced on 8th, March by Northrop Grumman / EADS not to submit a bid to the US Department of Defence contract for the US Air Force's aerial refuelling tanker programme.
"It is highly regrettable that a major potential supplier would feel una......read more
Date Posted: 10/03/2010
Category: "Aircraft, Engines & Components"
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On Friday 5th March the Devon & Cornwall Police took delivery of a new EC145 helicopter. The machine was customised at Eurocopter UK, in Oxford, to meet the needs of the modern police service. It is equipped with the latest aids to police reconnaissance and airborne crime fighting. In......read more
Date Posted: 09/03/2010
Category: "Aircraft, Engines & Components"
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