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(SUMMARY) Calls Eurocopter Helo A 'Low-Risk' Platform Boeing Defence Australia (BDA) and Thales Australia have named the Eurocopter EC135 as the preferred platform for their bid on the Australian Defence Force (ADF) Project AIR 9000 Phase 7 - Helicopter...

(SUMMARY) To Be Held In Dallas, TX In Conjunction With Heli-Expo The social helicopter pilot organization "Twirly Birds" has announced their annual meeting to be held in Dallas, Texas on Sunday, February 12th during the 2012 HAI Heli-Expo. The reception will...

(SUMMARY) GE Receives Commitments For 400 Units The GE90 engine experienced its most successful year in 2011, accumulating airline and freighter operator commitments for 400 engines with a list price of more than $11 billion. This surpasses the previous record...

(SUMMARY) Expanding Capabilities For Chinook Customers, Others Columbia Helicopters says it has officially opened its new turbine engine testing facility. The $4 million project will allow the company to work on a wider variety of turbine helicopter engines,...

(SUMMARY) Launch Window Opens February 9th ESA's new Vega rocket is now fully assembled on its launch pad. Final preparations are in full swing for the rocket's inaugural flight from Europe's Spaceport. The launch window opens on February 9th.

(SUMMARY) Pilot Fatally Injured When The Plane Went Down In Ocala, FL An NTSB official said in a media briefing Sunday that the landing gear on a Cessna 340 which went down Friday near Ocala International Airport was nearly fully retracted, and the gear handle...

(SUMMARY) Calls The Measure A "Done Deal" Speaking at a car show in Dearborn, MI, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said that a long-term funding bill for the FAA is a "done deal," and expressed additional optimism that a long-term transportation measure...

(SUMMARY) Spent More Than 1,400 Hours In Space Over Three Decades Jerry Ross, the first person to launch into space seven times, has retired from NASA. In a career that spanned more than three decades, Ross spent almost 1,400 hours in space and conducted nine...

(SUMMARY) Friend Of "Aviation Criminal" Site Gets Turned In, Anonymously, For Alleged Medical Ailment News/Analysis by ANN Editor-In-Chief, Jim Campbell ANN is monitoring the complex and bewildering plight of an airman in California who was turned into the FAA...

(SUMMARY) Company Also Names Other Key Executive Positions Republic Airways announced Thursday that David Siegel will join the Company as CEO, President, and interim Chief Operating Officer of Frontier Airlines, a wholly owned subsidiary of Republic Airways...

(SUMMARY) "I think this story is very important and should be questioned and told. The FAA must, in no way, take an anonymous phone call and turn it into an inquisition on the pilot. A simple inquiry would have been the best first contact. The pilot is guilty...

(SUMMARY) Danish Aerotech Would Service Seahawk Helos For The Royal Danish Navy A Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) was signed Monday between Danish Aerotech A/S and Sikorsky to discuss the possibility of establishing a maritime helicopter logistic support...

(SUMMARY) Just In Time For Delays Caused By Runway Construction Pardon the California stereotype, but we didn't make this up. Four years of runway construction at San Francisco International Airport is coincidentally getting underway just as a new "Zen Room"...

(SUMMARY) Tom Enders To Take Over As CEO Following Louis Gallois The EADS Board of Directors has met Thursday for one of its regularly scheduled meetings in Amsterdam. During this meeting, it was determined that Tom Enders would be designated to take over the...

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