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Airbus kicks off construction on new China plant Beijing (AFP) July 1, 2009 
European aviation giant Airbus said Wednesday it had started building a new plant in China that would make major components for its A350 XWB - an aircraft designed to compete with Boeing's Dreamliner. The plant in the northern city of Harbin is part of a programme to realise an Airbus commitment of allocating five percent of the A350 XWB airframe to the Chinese aviation industry, the ... read moreChina unveils fund to finance aerospace industry: state media 
Beijing (AFP) June 29, 2009China has unveiled the country's first national fund aimed at investing in aerospace, state media reported, as the country tries to compete with the industry's heavyweights. Investors in the fund, which expects to raise 30 billion yuan (4.4 billion dollars), include state-run operations such as Xi'an Yanliang National Aviation Hi-Tech Industrial Base, the Xinhua news agency said Sunday. ... more
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First Chinese-assembled A320 rolled out
Tianjin, China (UPI) Jun 25, 2009 The first Airbus A320 aircraft assembled in China has been delivered to a national leasing firm at a ceremony at the Final Assembly Line China plant in Tianjin. The delivery, in the same week as a major bank financing agreement, marks what Airbus hopes will be a big push into the lucrative Chinese commercial aviation market to give it a 50 percent share by 2012. It currently estimates ... more Airbus delivers first China-made jet, underlining its Asian thrust 
Tianjin, China (AFP) June 23, 2009European aviation giant Airbus delivered the first A320 aircraft made at its factory in China on Tuesday, saying the event symbolised its long-term focus on the growing Chinese market. A giant red curtain was pulled back to reveal the jet in a hanger during a ceremony at the factory outside the northern Chinese city of Tianjin. The jet was the first to be completed at an Airbus factory ... more Air France black boxes not yet found: defence minister 
Paris (AFP) June 23, 2009French search teams have not found the flight recorders of Air France Flight 447 but are trying to identify signals coming from the crash zone, Defence Minister Herve Morin said Tuesday. The French nuclear submarine Emeraude detected "acoustic signals" on Saturday, Morin told AFP, but this was not the first time that such noise had been picked up from the ocean depths. "We are not able ... more Airbus says Chinese bank could provide plane financing 
Paris (AFP) June 22, 2009Airbus said Monday it had signed a draft deal with China's ICBC bank under which the bank could provide 3.0 billion dollars (2.2 billion euros) to finance the acquisition of Airbus aircraft by Chinese carriers. "Airbus today signed a draft agreement with the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China ... covering cooperation in financing and leasing aircraft," the European aircraft manufacturer ... more |
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Russians perform well at Paris Air Show
Paris (UPI) Jun 17, 2009 For the first time, Russian jet manufacturers Sukhoi and MiG are taking part in the Paris Air Show as a team, and they appear to be stealing the show from established rivals. Of course European and U.S. aircraft makers are still dominating with sheer presence this week's Paris Air Show, which runs until June 21. But as Boeing's hopes for new orders were so far denied, Sukhoi's new Super ... more China Eastern confirms Shanghai Airlines merger 
Shanghai (AFP) June 13, 2009China Eastern Airlines confirmed Saturday it was in long-awaited merger talks with smaller rival Shanghai Airlines, adding a detailed plan of the tie-up was expected within the next 20 days. Speaking at a shareholders' meeting in Shanghai, China Eastern chairman Liu Shaoyong said members of a joint team of executives had "reached consensus on all major issues" of the merger process. "The ... more Air France crash shows 'black box' obsolete: expert
Paris (AFP) June 12, 2009Whether or not the black boxes from Air France flight 447 are found, the crash has shown that new technology is needed to record a flight's last moments in real-time, an aviation expert argues. Former Air Canada chief executive and ex-head of the International Air Transport Association, Pierre Jeanniot helped pioneer flight data recorders 40 years ago but now says the "black boxes" are obsol ... more New York to cull geese around airports 
New York (AFP) June 11, 2009Some 2,000 wild geese are to be killed around New York's main airports as part of measures to reduce the numbers of the birds that brought down an Airbus in January, officials announced Thursday. The plan entails the capture and culling of up to 2,000 Canada geese on city-owned property within five miles (eight kilometers) of JFK and LaGuardia Airports, the mayor's office, the Port Authority ... more |
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