Content Archive: June 2009

AIN is World’s Top Airshow Daily Again

Aviation International News has once again been named the world’s top airshow daily publication in the annual Aerospace Journalist of the Year award

Paris Air Show Stages Industry Sales Rally

For one week at least, the gloom of the global recession seemed to lift along with the storm clouds gathered over the grounds of the Paris Air Show in Le B
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Environment

Bizav’s carbon conundrum

With Europe set to begin cap-and-trade of aviation emissions in 2012, and Congress working on legislation that would cap the greenhouse gases that have bee
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Airbus Inks Financing Deal with Chinese Bank

Airbus hopes to help loosen the grip of tight-fisted credit outlets with an MoU it signed this month with the world’s largest bank, China’s ICBC, to collab
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Aircraft

Dassault embraces green technology

With an eye toward ever-increasing environmental awareness, Dassault Aviation is aiming for 2020 entry into service for new technologies that will reduce t

Boeing Joins 747-8 Wing Box to Center Section

Boeing announced today that it has joined the first 747-8’s wing box to the airplane’s 40-foot-long center fuselage section in the final assembly bay at it

NTSB Chases New Leads in Air France Flight 447 Crash Probe

The National Transportation Safety Board has launched investigations into two recent incidents in which airspeed and altitude indications in Airbus A330s m
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Safety

DHS IG raps TSA for its anti-GA campaign

General aviation operations present such a limited and hypothetical threat to security that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) does not need

Patience with 787 Delays Running Thin

The wellspring of goodwill among customers for the chronically delayed Boeing 787 drained a bit more this past week, when the company
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Boeing in Studies to Re-Wing 777

Boeing Commercial Airplanes has begun to study the possibility of fitting the
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