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Rolls-Royce and Safran agree transfer of RTM322 helicopter engine programme to Turbomeca.
Rolls-Royce announced that it has reached agreement to sell its shareholding and interest in the RTM322 helicopter engine programme to Turbomeca (a Safran company). Rolls-Royce’s 50 per cent interest in the engine programme will be progressively transferred to Turbomeca, which will then hold 100 per cent of the RTM322 programme. Rolls-Royce will receive a cash consideration of…
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Ethiopian Signs Agreement with Djibouti Airport for Sea – Air Transport.
Ethiopian Airlines, the fastest growing airline in Africa, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Djibouti International Airport for the provision of sea-air and air-sea cargo transport of goods in East Africa. The MoU was signed at Ethiopian Airlines headquarters on Monday, 22 April 2013, between Mr. Tewolde Gebremariam, CEO of Ethiopian, and Mr. Mohamed…
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Eurocopter validates its optionally piloted helicopter capabilities with successful unmanned EC145 demonstration flights at Istres, France.
Eurocopter’s ability to integrate unmanned flight capabilities into its helicopter family has been validated by an optionally piloted vehicle (OPV) demonstration program, which used an EC145 to fly routes that included deployment of an external sling load and a representative observation mission. Conducted at the French Air Force base in Istres, France, this program was…
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Embraer Executive Jets Legacy 650 Certified in Indonesia.
Embraer Executive Jets received type certification for its large Legacy 650 aircraft from Indonesia’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation on March 27, 2013, paving the way for Premiair to put the aircraft into service. “With the certification of the Legacy 650 in Indonesia, all in-service Embraer Executive Jets are now certified in the country,” said…
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NASA Successfully Launches Three Smartphone Satellites.
Three smartphones destined to become low-cost satellites rode to space Sunday aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Science Corp.’s Antares rocket from NASA’s Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia. The trio of “PhoneSats” is operating in orbit, and may prove to be the lowest-cost satellites ever flown in space. The goal of NASA’s PhoneSat mission…
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Testing Continues on Next-Generation GE90 Engine; GE Aviation to Spend More than $200 Million This Year on Technology Maturation for GE9X.
Testing Continues on Next-Generation GE90 Engine; GE Aviation to Spend More than $200 Million This Year on Technology Maturation for GE9X EVENDALE, OH – GE Aviation is assembling the high pressure compressor (HPC) rig that will be tested this summer as part of the GE9X engine study for Boeing’s 777X aircraft. The high pressure compressor…
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transavia.com aims for growth during the 2013/14 winter season with city trips, winter sports and winter sun destinations.
Transavia.com started ticket sales for the 2013/2014 winter schedule. The airline is continuing its growth this upcoming winter with 20% more capacity, primarily through extra flights to winter sports and city trip destinations, and increasing frequencies to winter sun destinations. The last winter season was a successful one, with strong growth in passenger numbers. Eindhoven…
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Pluto compared.
Pluto’s size compared with the largest moons. Composition of NASA images by Eurocommuter. From the left: Ganymede (Jupiter), Titan (Saturn) and Callisto (Jupiter) Io (Jupiter), Moon (Earth), Europa (Jupiter), Triton (Neptune) and Pluto. Related articles Pluto Twirling With Our Lives (crystalbastrology.wordpress.com) What Makes Pluto So Doggone Special? (numbersatplay.wordpress.com)
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How Big is the Sky?
Originally posted on The JetHead Blog: The cockpit is a solemn place in the pregnant pause between preflight and pushback. Always, like a deserted island where everything’s already been said: checklists done, preflight complete, systems verified, amen. Plenty more details and decision points ahead, but nothing to worry about now, because the litany of procedures,…
