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  • FAA Inspections to Improve

    The Acting Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in Washington DC recently announced the results of a safety audit as well as internal plans to improve the general ...

  • China Aviation Industry Corporation’s New ARJ21

    China Aviation Industry Corporation (AVIC I), a state-owned company based in Shanghai, is currently assembling a 70 to 90 seat passenger jet with high hopes of using this new airplane to ...

  • Canada to Buy Mothballed Danish Drones – Airplanes

    Canada's Department of National Defense (DND) is interested in purchasing ten aerial drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), from Denmark that never worked for that country. This will be the ...

  • Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow 2012

    The Royal New Zealand Airforce will be celebrating its 75th anniversary in conjunction with the Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow 2012. Visitors will be able to view historic warbirds, ...

  • Student Readers Rewarded with Airplane Ride

    Grade school book reading clubs have reached a new height-literally. Third graders at a Naples, Florida elementary school who read more than 100 books by a certain date earned a free airplane ...

  • Unmanned SkyTote is Hybrid of Helicopter and Fixed Wing Aircraft

    The Air Force Research Laboratory is creating a new unmanned aircraft that will perform vertical take offs and landings like a helicopter, but fly horizontally at high speed. The cyclic ...

  • World’s Largest Aircraft to Ship NATO Freight – Airplanes

    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has hired a Russian company to haul oversized freight in the Antonov An-124, a Soviet-era aircraft, and the world's largest jet. Volga-Dnepr, the ...

  • Don’t Miss the 2008 Southport Air Show

    On the weekend of September 6th and 7th, the popular tourist resort of Southport will be hosting a fabulous air show. This year’s show will coincide with the RAF’s 90th anniversary, which ...

  • The Great New England Air Show This September

    The Westover Air Force Reserve Base is the largest of its kind in the country and is home to the 439th Airlift Wing, which is an Air Force Reserve Command unit. Here the staff operates sixteen ...

  • Boeing Backs Biofuel Derived From Tobacco

    The aviation industry continues to strive to be in the forefront of industries with regard to managing carbon emissions. To this end the industry aims to attain carbon-neutral growth by the year ...

  • Boeing Presents New EA-18G Growler Warbird – Airplanes

    Boeing presented the first EA-18G Growler, the airborne electronic attack aircraft designed to replace the EA-6B Prowler. The EA-6B Prowler began service in 1971, and the U.S. military has used ...

  • Finnair Creates Futuristic Concept Aircraft

    In celebration of the company’s 85th anniversary, Finnair has created a whole array of concept aircraft designed to provide a possible glimpse into the future of aviation. The collection is ...

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