MOSCOW (AFP): A civilian Mi-8 helicopter crashed in northwest Siberia on Wednesday killing at least nine people, Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said. "According to provisional information, there were 16 people on board, including three crew members. At least nine people
The-Jet, Cirrus Design's single-engine, V-tail airplane, made its first flight on Thursday, July 3, from Duluth International Airport in Minnesota. The first test version, V1, "performed flawlessly" during its 45-minute flight, the company announced...
ROME: Alenia Aeronautica, a Finmeccanica company, successfully completed destructive testing on the horizontal stabilizer of the Boeing [NYSE: BA] 787 Dreamliner. The test took place at Alenia's Pomigliano plant in Naples with Boeing engineers and representatives of the U.S. Federal
British Airways boosted its new continental Europe-to-America operations by announcing that it had agreed to buy a French airline for £54 million. The privately-owned L'Avion operates two Boeing 757 all-business class aircraft between Paris' Orly airport and Newark in New
The Royal Air Force's Typhoon aircraft marked another milestone in its capability today, Tuesday 1 July 2008, as it was declared operational in the air-to-ground role, becoming the Service's most advanced multi-role aircraft...
Once upon a time, flying movies were a staple of Saturday matinee cinema. Along with wrestling flicks and westerns, they have sadly for the most part gone the way of the fifty cent double feature. There have been some great
American airline Continental and five individuals are to stand trial in France on manslaughter charges over the crash of an Air France Concorde near Paris in 2000. The defendants include two of the airline's employees, two former members of the
A Russian disabled wheelchair woman Natalya Prisetskaya intends to filea suit against S7 Airlines. On the 30th of June the air company refusedto take the woman aboard without an accompanying person. Full Story
XI'AN (Xinhua): The first China-made regional aircraft Modem Ark (MA) 600 was completed, marking a milestone in China's drive to be one of the world's leading providers of turboprop regional aircraft. The research and development of the 70-seat MA700 was
LONDON: That shrieking aircraft noise of jet engines during take off and landing is one of the biggest problems faced by the aviation industry. A researcher now claims that it is possible to quieten a jet engine by separating its
With a deafening roar, a Typhoon powers through the haze on the runway and into the desert sky. After a long wait, these planes are now ready to form the backbone of the RAF's war-fighting capability for decades to come...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.: The crew of the International Space Station will get a go-ahead next week to perform spacewalking inspections as part of a probe into back-to-back ballistic re-entries by Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Two veteran cosmonauts, meanwhile, say the type
A mini spacecraft *Oduvanchik, designed specifically for space travel,is expected to appear in Russia by 2012. Oduvanchik will be able totake one pilot and four passengers or 600 kilos of cargo aboard and tocarry out orbital and suborbital flights. Full
Sudan's president has ordered a ban on all Antonov and Ilyushin passenger and cargo aircraft following the latest crash near Khartoum, state media says. President Omar al-Bashir also sacked the head of the country's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and ordered
The Defence Public Sector Undertaking, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has secured an order for supply of 7 Dhruv Advanced Light Helicopters to Ecuadorian Air Force. HAL has bagged this order amidst strong competition from M/s. Elbit, M/s. Eurocopter and M/s.
PARIS (Thomson Financial): France and Brazil are expected to sign a 1.2 billion euro helicopter deal on Monday, Les Echos reported. Brazil is set to announce it will buy around 60 Cougar military transport helicopters. The extent of industrial cooperation
CHICAGO: Boeing has agreed to pay a $3 million fine for exceeding value limits on the purchases of parts from foreign suppliers for its military products. Boeing (nyse: BA) spokesman Tim Neale says the Chicago-based company discovered the violations and
Cirrus Design is putting its very light jet program in motion. The company has been developing The-Jet, a single-engine, V-tail airplane, and now the first test version, V1, is being readied for taxi tests. Assuming all goes well, the next
Numerous media reports, today, focus on a single sentence in the 67-page GAO analysis reached yesterday supporting its decision to sustain the Boeing tanker protest. "But for these errors," the GAO stated, "we believe Boeing would have had a substantial
At least six people died in a mid-air collision between two medical helicopters in the US state of Arizona, a US aviation official has said. The incident happened close to a hospital in the city of Flagstaff...
