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...The head of Airbus has said the group “might need some support” from European governments for a new, multibillion-dollar commercial aircraft programme as it gears up for a successor to its best-selling A320...
...It hopes to have a nine to 19-seat aircraft capable of flying up to 300 miles ready for commercial flights by 2025, with a 40 to 80-seat aircraft able to fly up to 700 miles entering service by 2027....
...Despite Italy and the UK’s tentative support for Saudi membership, people briefed on the matter said that it came with substantial caveats....
...He said that AutoFlight had “no direct support from state-owned funds or governments”, nor was it involved in Beijing’s military-civil fusion programme, expanded under President Xi Jinping to improve the...
...The UK government announced on Thursday that P8 maritime patrol and surveillance aircraft will track threats in the region, including the transfer of weapons to terrorists....
...But talks to loosen the restrictions had faced strong opposition from Komeito, a coalition partner of the ruling Liberal Democratic party that draws its support from Buddhist voters....
...That said, it should still be perfectly possible for Airbus to develop a next-generation single-aisle aircraft without support. Imagine such a project ended up costing $15bn over 8 years....
...Critics have recently pointed to the aircraft carriers’ dwindling escort fleet of frigates and destroyers as evidence of a lack of logistic support....
...“If it’s not Boeing, I’m not going,” was long a cherished slogan of the aircraft giant....
...Boeing said: “We fully support the FAA and our customers in this action.”...
...Los Angeles-based Air Lease Corporation, one of the world’s biggest aircraft lessors, owning about 448 planes and with a fleet net book value of $25.6bn, said it has over the past five years reduced the...
...“We agree with and fully support the FAA’s decision to require immediate inspections of 737-9 aeroplanes with the same configuration as the affected aeroplane.”...
...“We agree with and fully support the FAA’s decision to require immediate inspections of 737-9 airplanes with the same configuration as the affected airplane.”...
...State-owned Comac was established jointly with companies including Shanghai-listed Aluminum Corporation of China, China Baowu Steel Group and Sinochem Corporation....
...Arch rival Airbus has benefited from ample European support. It is capitalising on Boeing’s woes, increasing production and continuing to deliver its A320 model that competes with Boeing’s 737....
...Japan’s tourism minister Tetsuo Saito told reporters that the JCG aircraft was taking emergency supplies to Niigata to support the region affected by Monday’s earthquake....
...Last year he condemned the previous government for supplying MiG-29 fighter aircraft to Kyiv and promised instead a ban on weapons exports as soon as he took office....
...There are modernisation plans under way with 13 frigates on order and three new solid support ships in the works....
...President Biden reinforced the ironclad US alliance commitment to the Philippines under the US-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty, which extends to armed attacks on Philippine armed forces, public vessels or aircraft...
...German defence minister Boris Pistorius hailed the speed of the delivery as evidence that his country was mobilising all possible options in its support of Ukraine....
...These were truly “blue water operations”, wrote Mike Dahm, a former US naval intelligence officer and now an analyst at the Mitre Corporation think-tank, which conducts defence research for the US government...
...Unlike other parts of the UK manufacturing base — hamstrung by the government’s failure to produce a coherent industrial strategy — aerospace has, on the whole, benefited from long-term state support for...
...According to the UN, one truck can deliver between 20 and 30 tonnes of aid, 10 times the amount carried by one aircraft....
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