Boeing asks Air Force for explanation of contract awarded to Northrop - St. Louis Business Journal [feedly]

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Boeing asks Air Force for explanation of contract awarded to Northrop - St. Louis Business Journal
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Boeing asks Air Force for explanation of contract awarded to Northrop
St. Louis Business Journal
Boeing Co. has requested a briefing regarding the U.S. Air Force's decision to award a $960 million nuclear missile contract to Northrop Grumman Corp. Boeing spokeswoman Queena Jones told Reuters that Boeing was "disappointed" by the Air Force's ...
Boeing asks US Air Force to explain Northrop ICBM contract award
Northrop lands nearly $1 billion deal to support Minuteman III ballistic missiles
Northrop Grumman Wins $963.5M Air Force Contract

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Boeing, Air Europa Announce Order for 14 787-9 Dreamliners [feedly]

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Boeing, Air Europa Announce Order for 14 787-9 Dreamliners
// MediaRoom

Largest ever Boeing widebody order from a Spanish carrier
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Air Europa confirms order for 14 787-9s [feedly]

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Air Europa confirms order for 14 787-9s
// Latest news

​Air Europa has confirmed a new order for 14 Boeing 787-9 aircraft with a $3.6 billion list value.
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Virgin Galactic takes pragmatic approach to fatal spacecraft crash [feedly]

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Virgin Galactic takes pragmatic approach to fatal spacecraft crash
// Latest news

​Virgin Galactic is focusing its efforts on the development of its next sub-orbital tourist spacecraft following the fatal crash of the previous model in October 2014.
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Embraer expects negative cash flow in 2014 - Reuters [feedly]

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CORRECTED-Brazil's Embraer expects negative cash flow in 2014 - Reuters
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CORRECTED-Brazil's Embraer expects negative cash flow in 2014
Reuters
(Corrects headline and first paragraph to say Embraer expects negative free cash flow in 2014, not this year). RIO DE JANEIRO Jan 14 (Reuters) - Brazil's planemaker Embraer said on Wednesday its free cash flow turned negative in 2014 as some clients ...
Embraer S.A. 2014 Guidance Review
Embraer delivers 30 commercial and 52 executive jets in 4Q14

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L'avion chinois ARJ-21 obtient sa certification - Les Échos (Blog) [feedly]

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L'avion chinois ARJ-21 obtient sa certification - Les Échos (Blog)
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Les Échos

L'avion chinois ARJ-21 obtient sa certification
Les Échos (Blog)
Les compagnies aériennes chinoises ont jusqu'ici rechigné à acheter des avions "made in China", même ceux assemblés par des coentreprises avec des constructeurs étrangers. Selon des analystes, l'ARJ-21 comme le C-919 intègrent un grand nombre de ...
Le premier avion régional chinois certifié pour les vols intérieurs

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ARJ21: better late than never? - MRO Network [feedly]

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ARJ21: better late than never? - MRO Network
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MRO Network

ARJ21: better late than never?
MRO Network
More than 12 years after the launch of the ARJ21 programme, the Chinese authorities finally awarded the country's first home-grown regional jet type certification last week (December 30, 2014). It has been a long and arduous journey for all concerned ...
Jet closer to market-entry clearance

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Safran to build engine components plant in Poland - Aerospace Technology [feedly]

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Safran to build engine components plant in Poland - Aerospace Technology
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Aerospace Technology

Safran to build engine components plant in Poland
Aerospace Technology
The facility will allow Safran to cater to its customers for new-generation aircraft, including LEAP engine-powered Airbus A320neo, Boeing 737 MAX and Comac C919, and Cessna Citation Longitude and Dassault Aviation Falcon 5X business jets, which are ...

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Selling current A380 remains priority: Airbus chief [feedly]

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Selling current A380 remains priority: Airbus chief
// Airlines news

Senior Airbus executives continue to hint that a re-engined A380 is being considered, but insist the "priority" remains securing orders for the current version of the superjumbo – something chief executive Fabrice Bregier sees as achievable this year, after Airbus finished 2014 with just 13 net
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Comac yet to firm ARJ21 delivery date for Chengdu Airlines [feedly]

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Comac yet to firm ARJ21 delivery date for Chengdu Airlines
// Airlines news

Comac has yet to firm a date for the delivery of its first ARJ21-700 to launch customer Chengdu Airlines.
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Aeroflot commits to another 20 Superjets [feedly]

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Aeroflot commits to another 20 Superjets
// Airlines news

​Russian flag-carrier Aeroflot has agreed to take another 20 Sukhoi Superjet 100s, under a tentative agreement with the airframer.
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El caza de quinta generación chino J-31 ¿decepciona en su primera aparición pública? [feedly]

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El caza de quinta generación chino J-31 ¿decepciona en su primera aparición pública?
// Aerotwitornados

 

 

En el festival aéreo de Zouhai se presentaron en noviembre el caza J-31 junto con los aviones de transporte Y-20 y el de alerta temprana KJ-2000 (ver los vídeos que publicamos en noviembre sobre ello)

El J-31 se dio a conocer hace dos años como el último desarrollo chino en cazas de 5ª generación, que podría poner en el mercado a un precio bastante bajo para dotar a los países que tradicionalmente han comprado armas a China y Rusia de un caza furtivo.

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X-Plus one: el retorno de los VTOL "Tail-Sitter" [feedly]

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X-Plus one: el retorno de los VTOL "Tail-Sitter"
// Aerotwitornados

 

 

 

El eterno dilema de cómo lograr una aeronave que vuele como avión, rápido y con un consumo bajo, pero que sea capaz de tener vuelos a punto fijo y despegue y aterrizajer vertical, como un helicóptero. Y la vieja solución del tailsitter, que tal vez esta vez sí funcione, por ser un UAV en vez de un avión tripulado, con controles de vuelo automáticos

Es mecionar la palabra tailsitter y vienen a mi mente de forma inmediata el Triebflügel, Convair XFY-1 Pogo  o el Lockheed XFV-1. Y el X-Plus es algo así como un híbrido entre un tailsitter de toda la vida y un helicóptero cuatri-rotor de esos tan de moda estos días.

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Aviones con motor híbrido (combustión interna+eléctrico) [feedly]

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Aviones con motor híbrido (combustión interna+eléctrico)
// Aerotwitornados

Hasta un 30% menos de consumo de combustibleEl primer avión híbrido capaz de recargar sus baterías en vuelo

Ya no suena raro el hablar de coches híbridos. El Toyota Prius se lanzó en 1997, como el primer coche híbrido producido en serie y comercializado, y desde entonces otras marcas se han animado a lanzar coches similares. En aviación hemos visto algún intento de eléctricos, pero no de híbridos. En ambos casos el problema es el mismo: el peso de las baterías. Los últimos desarrollos han permitido almacenar más energía con menos peso, algo importante en los coches, pero crítico en los aviones.

Ahora, Boeing -que ya presentara su avión con pila de hidrógeno- y la Universidad de Cambridge presentan su Watts up, un avión híbrido combustión-eléctrico.

 

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A 21st century 'dronestrike' test?

http://www.aerosociety.com/News/Insight-Blog/2704/A-21st-century-dronestrike-test

Market potential for A321LR [feedly]

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Market potential for A321LR
// Leeham News and Comment

Here's how Airbus sees the market potential for the A321LR, going well beyond the 50-60 Boeing 757s flying the Atlantic and some limited operations on other routes.

Airbus believes the A321LR will expand the market considerably over the Boeing 757 long-range routes today. Source: Airbus.

 

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Piaggio readies Avanti Evo for service entry [feedly]

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Piaggio readies Avanti Evo for service entry
// Aircraft news

​Piaggio Aerospace is readying the first two Avanti Evos for delivery to their Indian owners this month following certification in late December by the country's civil aviation authority.
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Airbus full-year order total exceeds Boeing's [feedly]

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Airbus full-year order total exceeds Boeing's
// Aircraft news

Airbus expects to disclose later this month that it secured more orders than rival Boeing over the course of last year.
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Terrafugia asks FAA for LSA exemptions for Transition flying car [feedly]

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Terrafugia asks FAA for LSA exemptions for Transition flying car
// Aircraft news

​US start-up Terrafugia has asked the US Federal Aviation Administration for an exemption from the light sport aircraft regulations for gross weight and stall speed limitations for its Transition flying car.
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Netherlands to host first European UAV training facility - Flightglobal [feedly]

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Netherlands to host first European UAV training facility - Flightglobal
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Flightglobal

Netherlands to host first European UAV training facility
Flightglobal
The site will boast a runway some 2,440m (8,000ft) in length that will be available to all EU member states for training on fixed- and rotary-wing UAVs. The facility will also specifically provide a Northrop Grumman SandShark UAV trainer capability ...
Strat Aero LOI for UAV pilot base
Strat Aero Moves Towards Creating Drone Training Centre In ...

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Pilots attend 'UAV' (Drone) Conference, cautions on risks - Scoop.co.nz (press release) [feedly]

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Pilots attend 'UAV' (Drone) Conference, cautions on risks - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
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Pilots attend 'UAV' (Drone) Conference, cautions on risks
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
The New Zealand Air Line Pilots' Association (NZALPA) will be attending the upcoming Conference (Symposium) on 'UAV's or drones as they are more commonly known - being run by the Royal Aeronautical Society and held in Masterton this weekend, but ...

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CNN strikes UAV research deal with FAA - Air Traffic Management [feedly]

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CNN strikes UAV research deal with FAA - Air Traffic Management
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CNN strikes UAV research deal with FAA
Air Traffic Management
"Our aim is to get beyond hobby-grade equipment and to establish what options are available and workable to produce high quality video journalism using various types of UAVs and camera setups," said CNN senior vice president David Vigilante. "Our hope ...

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USAF will downgrade T-X requirements to shave cost - 1/14/2015 - Flight Global

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/usaf-will-downgrade-t-x-requirements-to-shave-cost-407923/

USAF Secretary Deborah Lee James said on 14 January that the Air Force is specifically targeting four programmes for capabilities downgrades, including the T-X trainer replacement for the Northrop Grumman T-38 jet trainer. Also in the crosshairs of the so-called cost-capability analysis (CCA) programme are the long-range standoff weapon, the follow-on to the space-based infrared system (SIBRS) and the multi-domain adaptable processing system (MAPS), which is envisioned as a pod to enable communications between stealth fighters.

Airbus looks to add ejectable black box' flight recorders on A380 and A350 aircraft - Aerospace Technology

http://www.aerospace-technology.com/news/newsairbus-looks-ejectable-black-box-flight-recorders-a380-a350-aircraft-4488785

Indonesia AirAsia A320’s fuselage found underwater; Fernandes ‘devastated’ | Safety content from ATWOnline

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