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Southern states create alliance to win tanker deal

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:41:36 GMT

WASHINGTON -- Gulf Coast officials are working together to land a federal contract to build nearly 200 refueling tankers for the Air Force, a multibillion-dollar deal that could create tens of thousands of jobs and jump-start an effort to create an...
Source: Montgomery Advertiser

Once again, a $40 billion military tanker contract is up for grabs

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:35:06 GMT

Stop us if you've heard this one before: Sometime in the next few weeks, the Pentagon will release its final bid specifications for a new generation of Air Force refueling tankers. Wait. Didn't that happen in 2002? Didn't Boeing Co. win that contract?
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Taking the private jet to Copenhagen

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:58:10 GMT

Hypocrisy is the vice we find hardest to forgive, but it’s also the one we most enjoy discovering in others.
Source: EcoEarth News

Aerospace firm AIDC vying for COMAC 919 contracts

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:08:07 GMT

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taiwan's leading aerospace company said Saturday that it will vie for contracts to participate in a large passenger aircraft development program announced by China's state-run Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd. (COMAC).
Source: China Post

Navy's hunt for new carrier-operated fighters begins

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:38:37 GMT

New Delhi: The Navy has launched a hunt for a new set of fighter jets to operate from the aircraft carriers it will have in service five to six years from now.
Source: DNA India

Drug seizures in west Africa prompt fears of terrorist links

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:05:53 GMT

There was little for the investigators to go on. The remains of the plane's skeleton, smouldering on a remote airstrip in the Sahara desert, revealed few clues.
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Has Boeing started static tests of 787?

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:33:37 GMT

"A wing load test on the static test 787 in the 40-23 began at 4:30 PM today and was completed at 7:20 PM," he wrote. "Second test scheduled to begin at 8:00 PM." Boeing has told me they will let us know only when static testing is done.
Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer

KLM biofuel flight fuels hopes for green airlines

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:47:33 GMT

At Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport last Monday a gaggle of aviation executives, politicians and journalists trooped aboard a KLM jumbo jet for a flight to nowhere.
Source: Times Online

Quoted in 'Move gaining to break up big banks'

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:31:35 GMT

said in Philadelphia Inquirer:

Boeing, Caterpillar, Coca-Cola, Microsoft . . . they can't have their financial needs met at the Bank of Burbank

Quoted in 'Big grant puts Clemson in the wind turbine business'

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:03:26 GMT

said in Anderson Independent-Mail:

If we link together CU-ICAR, Boeing and this announcement, we are having a positive affect on the self-concept of South Carolina doing world-class research and manufacturing in our state

Photo from AP Photo

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:41:25 GMT

JAT Tehnika mechanics work on maintening of Russian Transaero Boeing 737, in front of JAT Boeing 737-300, in technical maintenance hangar at Belgrade International airport, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009.

Photo from AP Photo

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:56:22 GMT

A visitor takes a picture of Boeing passenger airliner models on display at the China Aviation Expo in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009.

Boeing 777 Wing Load Test

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:19:25 GMT