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Rolls Marks Trent And Advance Milestones

Rolls-Royce has passed two major milestones in the next phase of its current and future civil engine development strategy.

DEFENSE

Raytheon Protesting USAF’s J-Stars Northrop Radar Pick

The U.S. Air Force has chosen Northrop Grumman’s wide-area surveillance radar for its future J-Stars platform over Raytheon’s “Archimedes” sensor.

 

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DEFENSE

Malaysian Fighter Pilots Train With Indigenous Threat Simulator

Malaysia has fielded a locally developed threat simulator to train its fighter pilots to deal with ground-based defensive systems such as surface-to-air missiles and radar-guided guns.

BUSINESS AVIATION

Textron Launches New SkyCourier Turboprop With Cargo, Pax Versions

Textron Aviation has launched a new twin-engine, utility turboprop called the Cessna SkyCourier 408, with entry-into-service scheduled for 2020.

 

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TECHNOLOGY

Global MRO Planning To Use Augmented Reality Technology

Augmented technologies let users see the objects actually before them, along with virtual images, instructions and notes. The tools are being developed rapidly and are seen a possibly of great use in aircraft maintenance in two basic ways.

MRO

Fast 5: Why Airlines In China Could Access More Biofuels in 2018

At a celebration for Hainan Airlines’ first transcontinental biofuel 787 flight, Darrin Morgan, Boeing’s sustainable biofuel strategy director, talks to Aviation Week about the future of biofuels within aviation.

 

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