Boeing completed taxi tests on the first 747-8 Freighter. With Chief Pilot Mark Feuerstein at the controls, the airplane reached a top seed of approximately 90 knots (103.5 mph, 166.6 kph). This was the last functional test planned before first flight on Monday February 8th.
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MTU Aero Engines officially opened its new representation office in Shanghai on February 8th. It will be managed by Melody Liu, whose job it will be to coordinate the German engine manufacturer’s various activities in China. “By setting up this new liaison office, we want to establish a strong presence in Shanghai. The aviation industry
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United Airlines has named Rohit Philip to the newly created role of senior vice president
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Constant Aviation, headquartered at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, has been awarded the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) repair station certification. The certification now authorizes Constant
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BAE Systems has signed an agreement with Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation of Japan to provide design integration and certification services in connection with the propulsion systems for the next-generation Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) aircraft. A team from BAE Systems
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AAR announced that the FAA and EASA have issued Supplemental Type Certificates (STC) approving the Company
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For MTU Aero Engines, the 2010 Singapore Airshow proved a profitable event: Just a few days before the event officially opened, the German engine manufacturer had already benefited from a major V2500 engine order placed with International Aero Engines (IAE); now the engine consortium has announced more contracts it received over the course of the
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Air France/KLM released that traffic declined 1.6% in January with capacity reduced by 3.4%, leading to a 1.4 pts improvement in the load factor to 78.0%. The group carried a total of 5.1 million passengers (-3.2%).
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BA reported that in January 2010, passenger capacity was 8.3% below January 2009, while traffic fell by 7.0%. This resulted in a passenger load factor increase of 1.0 point versus last year, to 74.2%.
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Iberia took delivery of a new A-319 from the Airbus plant in Hamburg, Germany, on February 5th. It is the first aircraft to join the fleet since deliveries were suspended more than a year ago as the company reduced capacity to cope with the global economic slump. Configured to carry up to 141 passengers, it
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