Sardinia-based airline Meridiana is aiming to become Italy’s premier airline under a new name, Air Italy. The airline acquired the smaller Air Italy in 2011 and will adopt its name and fly as a new Air Italy. Alitalia, Italy’s previous flag carrier, went into administration in May last year and is now being auctioned off […]
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Safran Electrical & Power is participating in the Boeing 2018 ecoDemonstrator, a campaign launched to improve commercial aviation’s environmental performance throughout an airplane’s lifecycle. After decades of successful partnership with Boeing on electrical wiring interconnection systems, Safran Electrical & Power is demonstrating its capabilities in power generation, distribution, electrical motors, and power electronics by supplying
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Boeing and Swiss-based Oerlikon, a leading technology and engineering group, have signed a five-year collaboration agreement to develop standard materials and processes for metal-based additive manufacturing. Additive manufacturing, popularly known as 3D printing, is a controlled process in which material is joined or solidified to create a three-dimensional part. “This agreement is an important step
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Daher has inaugurated its new plant in Tangier this month, strengthening the company’s position in Morocco as an aircraft manufacturer, equipment supplier and service provider. It follows the first site established at Tangier in 2001, and a second created at Casablanca during 2007. The new plant sits just 500 meters from the other facility in
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Airbus has delivered the world’s first A350-1000 widebody airliner to launch customer Qatar Airways at a delivery event in Toulouse, France. The aircraft is the first of 37 A350-1000s ordered by the carrier and is the first ever Airbus aircraft fitted with the revolutionary new Qsuite seats, offering the first ever double bed in Business
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Ryan Robertson has joined C&L Aviation Group as Sales Manager for Component Repair as the company continues an expansion of its component repair capabilities and offerings. Robertson has more than 15 years of experience with regional aircraft and component repairs. Before joining C&L in 2018, he was Director of Regional Sales for Worthington Aviation, with
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About a year after the launch of the EU’s ground-breaking Bionic Aircraft project, CENIT reports concrete initial results. These include software for automated recognition of topologically optimized structures, an associated catalogue of parameterized bionic characteristics in CAD, and a tool for direct generation of file formats for 3D printing. Since September 2016, IT and software
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Oriens Aviation, the exclusive British Isles Pilatus Centre, formally inaugurated its new MRO facility, Oriens Maintenance Services, at London Biggin Hill Airport on February 15. Founder and CEO of Oriens Aviation Edwin Brenninkmeyer highlighted his company is proud to be at the forefront of the single-engine turboprop (SET) revolution, one of the brightest spots in
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At the 455th meeting of the BACA Council (BACA, the Worldwide Association of Air Charter Professionals) on February 15th, Nick Weston of Weston Aviation was elected to the position of BACA Deputy Chairman. He will share the role with Volker Meissner of ARGUS International during a transition period as BACA moves forward to its next
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Subsequent to last month’s indication from General Electric Company’s (GE’s) new CEO, John Flannery, that he was exploring the possibility of breaking up the company, sources are indicating that the sale of its industrial gas turbine business is being seriously considered. The possible sale of the industrial gas turbine business, which would include the Jenbacher
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