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<description><![CDATA[FRANKFURT, Germany: The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] is helping Aeroflot Cargo improve its operational efficiency and adapt to growing market demands by providing three leased MD-11 Boeing Converted Freighters (BCFs). The companies joined in celebrating the freighters&rsquo; recent entry into service at a ceremony marking Aeroflot Cargo&rsquo;s new fleet and the resulting operational improvements at the carrier&rsquo;s facility at Frankfurt-Hahn airport.]]></description>
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<title>Russian Plans to Station Nuclear Bombers in Cuba.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The media has been abuzz today at the prospect of Russian nuclear bombers being stationed in Cuba if the US goes ahead with plans for missile defence bases in Eastern Europe. The story has riled the US enough that a US general has been wheeled out to tell the world&rsquo;s press that any Russian attempt to build another nuclear base in Cuba would cross US &quot;red line&quot;...]]></description>
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<title>FAA Extends First, Third Class Medicals.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Pilots under age 40 can save a trip to the AME. On July 24, the FAA will extend the duration of third class medicals from 36 calendar months to 60 calendar months (five years) and first class medicals from six calendar months to 12 calendar months for pilots under age 40...]]></description>
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<title>Indonesia: Pilot Charged in Crash That Killed 21.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BEIJING (Xinhuanet): The pilot of a Garuda Indonesia aircraft that crashed at Yogyakarta airport last year killing 21 people was charged on Thursday with negligence and deliberately causing an accident. Prosecutor Mudim Aristo told a five-judge panel that Capt. Marwoto Komar deliberately ignored warning signals from an onboard warning system and his co-pilot, force-landing the Boeing 737 which skidded off the runway and burst into flames...]]></description>
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<title>Higher, Faster, Stronger: 1950s Experimental Aircraft.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The 1950s was the decade of the test pilot and the experimental aircraft, as aviation technology turned to the jet engine and pushed its limits in both speed and endurance. With the world divided in Cold War, the stakes were high. Jet aircraft dominated both U.S. and Soviet arsenals and the data returned by subsonic and supersonic test flights had implications for the coming space race as well...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[SHANGHAI: China&rsquo;s central government and the Shanghai city government are discussing merging Shanghai Airlines with China Eastern Airlines, Chinese business magazine Caijing reported on its website yesterday. High global oil prices and slowing growth in China&rsquo;s air passenger traffic have increased speculation the government may encourage restructuring in the industry...]]></description>
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<title>Airplane! 3: The Hijacking.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[David Zucker, the director and writer who helped create &quot;Airplane!&quot; and &quot;The Naked Gun&quot; franchise has called on Hollywood&rsquo;s tiny but tightly knit Republican A-list crowd to help him make a broad yet unusually right-leaning political satire titled &quot;An American Carol.&quot;..]]></description>
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<title>Transaero Airline to Get Fuel Directly from Gazprom</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Russian air carrier Transaero and energy giant Gazprom have signed an
agreement in the sphere of fuel supplies. The parties have agreed on
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<title>Russia to Domesticate Helicopter Engines Production by 2010</title>
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<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;We will have our own gas-turbine engine in around 10 years. We have
some engineered projects but we need to modernize the industrial base
and test facilities. It is going to be an engine of an absolutely new
level with which we plan to outstrip the competitors&rdquo;Deputy Minister for Industry and Trade of the RF Denis Manturov.]]></description>
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<title>Biggest Annual U.S. Air Show to Salute NASA&#x27;s 50th Anniversary.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[WASHINTON: NASA&rsquo;s 50th anniversary celebration continues this summer with special recognition at EAA AirVenture 2008, the United States&rsquo; biggest annual air show, held in Oshkosh, Wis., July 28 - Aug. 3.]]></description>
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<title>US B-52 Crashes Off Guam, Two Killed, Four Missing.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON: A US Air Force B-52 bomber crashed off the coast of Guam in the central Pacific killing two crew members and leaving four others missing, navy officials said. A brief statement from the Andersen Air Force Base in Guam said the B-52H Stratofortress crashed at approximately 9:45am (0325 GMT) off the northwest coast of Guam...]]></description>
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<title>Manned Spaceship Design Unveiled.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The first official image of a Russian-European manned spacecraft has been unveiled. It is designed to replace the Soyuz vehicle currently in use by Russia and will allow Europe to participate directly in crew transportation...]]></description>
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<title>Special Pilot Report: The Lambada Motorglider.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It may look like a motorglider, but don&rsquo;t be deceived. By maximizing versatility and minimizing energy, the Lambada is a multi-role airplane that may very well be the most efficient aircraft in production today. At a cruise power setting, the 80-horsepower version burns around 3.5 gph at 100 knots...]]></description>
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<title>Micro Air Vehicle: Three Gram &#x27;Dragonfly&#x27; Takes Flight.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ScienceDaily: Engineers have made a new tiny DelFly Micro air vehicle. This successor to the DelFly I and II weighs barely 3 grams, and with its flapping wings is very similar to a dragonfly. Ultra-small, remote-controlled micro aircraft with cameras, such as this DelFly, may well be used in the future for observation flights in difficult-to-reach or dangerous areas...]]></description>
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<title>Korea Plans to Develop Unmanned Aircraft.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[After years of debate over developing or buying stealth fighter jets, South Korea is turning its eyes toward building an unmanned combat aircraft with foreign partners. As consensus builds that the KF-X project to develop a fifth-generation stealth aircraft is economically and technically nonviable, the head of the Air Force&rsquo;s combat power development bureau has called for a shift in focus...]]></description>
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<title>Copa Airlines Announces Orders for Two Boeing Next-Generation 737 Aircraft.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[PANAMA CITY (PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX): Copa Airlines, a subsidiary of Copa Holdings S.A. and The Boeing Company today announced Copa&rsquo;&rsquo;s order for two Boeing 737-800 aircraft for delivery in 2010 and 2011. ..]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[DUBAI: DAE Capital, the aircraft leasing and financing arm of government-owned Dubai Aerospace Enterprise, is set to acquire at least $4bn worth of aircraft over the next two years and is targeting up to $600mn in revenue over the same period, the company&rsquo;s chief executive has said...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The contract covers engines used on the airline&rsquo;s fleet of Airbus A320 aircraft. The agreement, which extends to 2032, will initially cover 74 V2500-A5 powered aircraft already in service and engines for 78 aircraft that US Airways ordered last year...]]></description>
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<title>Boeing Wins Qatar Order for C-17 Military Aircraft.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AFP): Boeing on Monday signed a contract with Qatar for C-17 military airlift planes, the US aerospace giant said, without revealing how many of the long-range troop and cargo aircraft were ordered. The government of Qatar&rsquo;s purchase of the C-17 Globemaster III airlifter will provide &quot;new strategic-airlift mobility capabilities&quot; for the Qatar Armed Forces (QAF), Boeing said...]]></description>
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<title>Helicopter Taxi to Start Operating in Moscow</title>
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						Helicopter taxi service is expected to start operating in the Central Federal District of Russia in September 2008. Full Story]]></description>
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<title>Airbus Tops Boeing at Air Show Rescued by Mideast.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[(Bloomberg): Airbus SAS topped rival Boeing Co.&rsquo;s sales tally at the Farnborough International Air Show, where plane orders from Middle Eastern and Asian airlines shored up an industry besieged by high oil prices...]]></description>
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<title>First Class for Brass on Air Force Jets?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Air Force&rsquo;s use of more than $16 million in counter-terrorism funds for &quot;comfort capsules&quot; on military planes has prompted an internal debate over whether taxpayer money should be used for luxury Defense items...]]></description>
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<title>Pilot Saves Tangled Army Skydiver.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A pilot has been praised for his bravery after the mid-air rescue of an Army parachutist whose lines became tangled in the undercarriage of his plane...]]></description>
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<title>Pilot Gets Second Chance After Heart Transplant.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Forty-seven-year-old Malvern &rsquo;Skip&rsquo; Monaghan Jr. had logged around 630 hours by August 2001. The last time he went up was when he flew the Cessna 182 from St. Simons Island, Georgia, back home to Suwanee, Georgia, three weeks before he visited the doctor. Lately his throat had been getting tight, but he wrote it off to exercise-induced asthma...]]></description>
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<title>Proposed Jet Rises from Drawing Board.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[On paper it looks great, and principals of Stratos Aircraft Inc. are confident their calculations for a new single-engine Stratos 714 very light jet can be met...]]></description>
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<title>Boeing, Air China Announce Agreements for Boeing 777s and 737s.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[FARNBOROUGH, United Kingdom: The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has signed an order with Air China, the flag carrier of the People&rsquo;s Republic of China, for 15 777-300ER (Extended Range) and 30 Next-Generation 737-800 jetliners. &quot;These airplanes are the most fuel efficient in their classes,&quot; said Kong Dong, Chairman of Air China Limited. &quot;The 777-300ER will be the backbone of our long-haul international fleet and the new 737-800 will support our hub build-up and our company&rsquo;s domestic strategy.&quot;]]></description>
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<title>Heads of Agency International Space Station Joint Statement.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[PARIS: The heads of the International Space Station (ISS) agencies 
from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States met at 
European Space Agency (ESA) Headquarters in Paris on July 17, 2008, to review ISS cooperation. As part of their discussions, they noted the significantly expanded capability that the ISS now provides for on-orbit research and technology development activities and as an engineering test bed for flight systems and operations that are critical to future space exploration initiatives. These activities improve the quality of life on Earth by expanding the frontiers of human knowledge.]]></description>
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<title>English Language in Plane Tickets Appears Illegal in RF</title>
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<description><![CDATA[
Russian air carrier S7 Airlines has faced an unordinary claim by the
West-Siberian procuracy: it found filling in plane tickets in the
English language to be violation of the law for customer rights
protection and the Constitution. Full Story]]></description>
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<title>NASA Moon Capsule Running Late, Full of Problems.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP): Money problems will likely force NASA to abandon its ambitious internal goal of having a new moon spaceship ready by 2013, a top space agency official told The Associated Press Wednesday. The agency should still be able to meet its public commitment to test launch astronauts in the first Orion capsule by March 2015, the official said, unless national budget stalemates continue...]]></description>
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<title>Hungarian Airline May Place $226 Million Order for Q400.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bombardier Inc., the world&rsquo;s third-biggest plane maker, may receive an order valued at as much as $226 million to supply turboprop planes to Hungarian airline Malev Zrt. Malev signed a letter of intent to buy four new Q400-model airliners from Montreal-based Bombardier, with an option for another four, said Krisztina Nemeth, a spokesperson for the Budapest-based carrier...]]></description>
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<title>Qantas to Shed 2,000 Jobs.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Australia&rsquo;s main airline Qantas has revealed it is about to axe up to 2,000 jobs worldwide. Qantas CEO Geoff Dixon warned the national carrier&rsquo;s 36,000 staff this week that operations were being reviewed. Due to the record price of oil hitting the airline, Mr Dixon said he was particularly looking at how Qantas would operate in a new cost environment.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[FARNBOROUGH (RIA Novosti): Russian and European aircraft producing giants signed a contract on Wednesday to convert Airbus A320 passenger planes into freighters...]]></description>
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<title>Pratt and Whitney Wins US$270M Order for V2500 Engines from Shenzhen Airlines.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[FARNBOROUGH, England. (PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ FARNBOROUGH AIR SHOW): China&rsquo;s Shenzhen Airlines has selected the International Aero Engines V2500 to power 28 Airbus A320 family aircraft and back the engine order with a long-term V2500Select(R) agreement. The combined engine and aftermarket deal, which represents the first V2500 order from Shenzhen, is valued at more than $270 million to Pratt &amp; Whitney, if all options are exercised. Pratt and Whitney, a United Technologies Corp. company, is a major participant in International Aero Engines (IAE)...]]></description>
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<title>Air China Says it is to Buy 45 Boeing Aircraft.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[SHANGHAI: FLAGSHIP carrier Air China said its board has approved an agreement to buy 15 Boeing 777 and 30 Boeing 737 aircraft in a deal that would be worth several billion dollars. The catalogue price of the 45 planes is approximately 6.3 billion dollars (S$8.5 billion) but Air China said it expects Boeing to grant price concessions which will lower the overall cost, the carrier said in a statement late Tuesday...]]></description>
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<title>FARNBOROUGH British Govt Silent About Future of 1 Bln Pounds Helicopter Project.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[FARNBOROUGH, England (Thomson Financial): The British government on Tuesday remained tight-lipped about the future of a one billion pounds military helicopter programme, which industry observers believe could become the victim of defence spending cuts...]]></description>
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