Dubai Air Show 2011 Day 2 highlights

TIM ROBINSON reports on Day 2 highlights from this year’s Dubai Air Show on 13-17 November

Plenty to see.

The second day of the Dubai air show dawned and the heat, quite literally was back on. Let’s take a look at some of the highlights from Day 2.

-Airbus strikes back with ALAFCO neo order
-Oman Air secures 787s
-CSeries flight deck and cabin unveiled
-More Typhoon combat debut detail emerges
-Boeing reveals Middle Eastmarket forecast
-MC-21 – taking on neo & MAX
-ATR secures more orders
-Randy Babbitt at RAeS UAE Branch

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Russian Aircraft Company's MiG is best known for its fighter planes which have been used by the USSR, China, North Korea and North Vietnam since the beginning of WWII. These days, the former Government-owned RAC MiG is a publicly traded entity and competes on the open market with its technologies, having more than 1600 of its MiG-29 fighters in operation in 25 countries. Now MiG is claiming a major first in military aviation with the launch of a 3D flight simulator at the Dubai Air Show, providing volumetric visualization of beyond-the-cockpit space for trainee top guns. The simulator comes complete with the MiG-29’s cockpit and actual control systems...
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Britain has agreed to sell all of its 74 decommissioned Harrier jump jets, along with engines and spare parts, to the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps — a move expected to help the Marines operate Harriers into the mid-2020s and provide extra planes to replace aging two-seat F-18D Hornet strike fighters.

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