As part of a plan to change this, a jumble of aircraft factories and research centres have been lumped together in a new United Aircraft Corporation (UAC).
But he does not think it is worthwhile to re-engine the aircraft because the savings would be tiny compared with the extra costs of having two different engines on a fleet of aircraft.
" "The pilot, after a lot of damage to the aircraft, was faced with a situation of either ditching the aircraft in the ocean or bailing out or landing the aircraft, and he made the choice that everyone would have wanted him to make -- to land at the nearest available airfield, which happened to be on Chinese soil, And he did it well.
It was flown by 13 different pilots on 57 operations during the Battle of Britain and it successfully brought down a number of aircraft.
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Boeing made a modest advance after news of a large aircraft order from the aviation leasing subsidiary of General Electric.
Airlines that need very big planes have instead opted for the new Airbus, which the Toulouse plant is expected to produce at a rate of four aircraft a month.
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The aircraft made up a small part of Operation Bolero, a build-up of allied aircraft in Britain championed by President Franklin Roosevelt.
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French forces now control Kidal airport after a number of aircraft, including helicopters, landed there overnight.
Its building of a first aircraft carrier was part of that and would have a profound effect on the balance of forces in the region, he said.
The FAA issues ADs when it discovers a potentially unsafe condition on a type of aircraft, and it wants airlines to inspect their fleets or conduct preventive maintenance.
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In the autumn it could not cope with a bulging order book and halted production lines for a month to complete a number of aircraft that were missing parts.
Unlike the U.S. commercial aviation industry, with strict Federal Aviation Administration oversight that can ground a fleet of aircraft, the cruise industry is largely accountable to countries like Panama or the Bahamas -- which may or may not want to offend their cruise line friends in Miami.
NetJets fractional aircraft ownership allows individuals and companies to buy a share of a private business jet at a fraction of the cost of whole aircraft ownership, and guarantees availability 365 days a year with just a few hours' notice.
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Look at how most Western leaders reacted when Ronald Reagan sent a handful of American aircraft to conduct a punitive raid against Libya in 1986.
Its only other lifeline is the possibility that it may secure a portion of work on 30 new British Royal Navy warships, a new generation of aircraft carriers, type 45 frigates and combatant landing craft.
Profits have been hit hard by the near-collapse of the company's commercial space-launch business, a dwindling share of the aircraft market and a government investigation into its military business.
The MM600 is double-sided mat designed with foundation of a solid piece of 3mm thick aircraft-grade aluminum to provide a flatter, more rigid surface and no-slip rubber corners to minimize slippage during frenzied gaming sessions.
Her passengers have included Rockefellers, a former New York Stock Exchange head, the owner of a major aircraft company, and Porsche and BMW board members.
As of December 31, 2011, it had a fleet of 102 aircraft comprising 81 single- aisle jet aircraft, 19 twin-aisle wide body aircraft, and 2 turboprop aircraft.
For a man who was staring death in the face a few weeks ago, trapped in the twisted wreckage of a light aircraft with aviation fuel leaking all around him, Nigel Farage is on remarkably good form.
Dramatic video playing over and over on TV and the internet of a cargo 747 aircraft falling out of the sky shortly after take- off at Bagram Air Base has left some nervous fliers even more nervous that this could happen on a passenger airline.
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The Civil Aviation Authority allowed a phased reopening of airspace after a reassessment of the risk to aircraft.
Final deliveries of the F-22 were completed in the second quarter with a total of 187 aircraft built under the program.
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On 29 December, the crash-landing of a Tupolev-204 aircraft was recorded on the dashboard camera of a car on a nearby motorway.
The Park Place search begins a day after the NYPD announced that Boeing officials had determined that the 5-foot-tall, 3-foot-wide wreckage is a support piece attached to the wing of an aircraft, and not a piece of landing gear as originally believed.
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Practical experience with a real commercial aircraft is a requirement of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) if students are to qualify as licensed aircraft maintenance engineers.
As a condition of its return, FAA officials said, the airline will operate a substantially smaller fleet of aircraft.
When it came to foreign representation, a couple of countries sent aircraft carriers and others a destroyer.
Most new aircraft experience issues of this sort, an inevitable consequence of a test program becoming a production aircraft and the sheer complexity of modern airliner design.
Yet there remains a powerful bureaucratic resistance to the development of a technology which could make a generation of much-loved aircraft irrelevant.
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