Boeing to Cut More Than 4,500 Jobs - WSJ

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Boeing Forecasts Latin American Commercial Fleet to Triple By 2035 [feedly]

Boeing Forecasts Latin American Commercial Fleet to Triple By 2035
http://boeing.mediaroom.com/news-releases-statements?item=129668

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Airbus Defence unit to showcase products at Doha event - Trade Arabia [feedly]

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Airbus Defence unit to showcase products at Doha event Trade Arabia The company's indoor exhibit, will feature a life-size mock-up of maritime, aerial and terrestrial surveillance products including the A330 MRTT, DVF2000, Spectus, Zephyr, among host of other key defence and space products, said a statement from the ... y más »

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MIT’s autonomous UAV can avoid crashes by evading objects autonomously

A PhD student , Andrew Barry at the MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has built a self-flying drone which has the capability to avoid crashes by evading objects autonomously. The drone can detect obstacles and avert potential crashes while travelling at a speed of 30 miles per hour full text: http://www.albanydailystar.com/technology/mits-autonomous-uav-can-make-manoeuvre-when-flying-akron-tekno-time-8640.html

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Pontifications: Airbus USA321 a milestone for US aerospace [feedly]

Pontifications: Airbus USA321 a milestone for US aerospace
https://leehamnews.com/2016/03/28/pontifications-airbus-usa321-milestone-us-aerospace/

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Four Engines Competing To Send Military Satellites Into Space [feedly]

Four Engines Competing To Send Military Satellites Into Space
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OPINION: Forecasters must be wary of the broken 'cycle' model [feedly]

OPINION: Forecasters must be wary of the broken 'cycle' model
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/opinion-forecasters-must-be-wary-of-the-broken-cyc-423070/

n Airline Business last year, we suggested that central bankers and finance ministers were somewhat optimistic in their view that, having missed the forecast for 2015, the world's economies would be back on track by 2016.

However, immediately before February's G20 meeting in Shanghai, the IMF made a number of pertinent albeit belated observations about future economic prospects. These included a "rising stress in emerging nations" and, following gyrations in financial markets, "higher risks of a derailed recovery at a moment when the global economy is highly vulnerable to adverse shocks".

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FAA selects two fuels for unleaded avgas testing [feedly]

FAA selects two fuels for unleaded avgas testing
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/faa-selects-two-fuels-for-unleaded-avgas-testing-423621/

A nearly decade-long search by the US government to find a new avgas formula that can replace leaded fuel in hundreds of thousands of piston-powered aircraft has entered a final, two-year evaluation with two remaining contenders: global heavyweight Shell and US-based start-up Swift Fuels.

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GAO Report on UCLASS Sees Progress on CBARS | French Navy Seizes Somalia Bound Weapons Cache | 490 Participants, 47 Countries Attend Defexpo India 2016 [feedly]

GAO Report on UCLASS Sees Progress on CBARS | French Navy Seizes Somalia Bound Weapons Cache | 490 Participants, 47 Countries Attend Defexpo India 2016



http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/gao-report-on-uclass-sees-progress-on-cbars-french-navy-seizes-somalia-bound-weapons-cache-490-participants-47-countries-attend-defexpo-india-2016-033299/

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Icon A5 Purchase Contract May Be More Complex Than The Aircraft Itself... [feedly]

Icon A5 Purchase Contract May Be More Complex Than The Aircraft Itself...
http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=f21e6bc1-0354-4214-958e-e4be3c73fbdd

Highly Restrictive, Certainly Controversial, The Purchase Agreement Leaves One Wondering -- Are You Buying An Icon A5, Or Just Borrowing It?

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NASA Sends Fire, Meteor Experiments To ISS On Commercial Cargo Spacecraft [feedly]

NASA Sends Fire, Meteor Experiments To ISS On Commercial Cargo Spacecraft
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Mars drone tech sniffs out methane leaks on Earth [feedly]

Natural gas pipelines stretch for thousands of miles across entire continents and inspecting them for potentially dangerous leaks is a full-time, never-ending job. To take some of the pressure off, NASA is testing a quadcopter equipped with a miniature methane gas sensor originally designed for testing the Martian atmosphere. The space agency says that the exceptional sensitivity of the equipment makes it possible to monitor many miles of pipeline at a time from the air.

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Lockheed Martin begins probing Space Fence's radar tech at new test facility [feedly]

An overhaul of the system that tracks space junk orbiting the Earth has taken another stride forward, with Lockheed Martin opening a new test site for its Space Fence system. The New Jersey facility will be used as a testbed for the radar array's new technologies, which are expected to boost our awareness of orbital debris by a factor of 10 once they enter operation.

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