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Dubai Air Show Digest
 
More than a decade after Airbus and GE parted ways over failed plans to power the A350, the two companies have begun preliminary talks aimed at potential development of an “evolved” GEnx-based engine design for possible future variants of the big twinjet.
 
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Despite tensions between Gulf Cooperation Council states, the Iranian missile threat requires regional cooperation as the “best shot to defend the UAE is not always from the UAE. It may be Qatar or Oman,” says U.S. Air Force chief of staff Gen. David Goldfein.
 
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General Electric is resuming its production ramp-up of GE9X engines for Boeing’s 777-9 following the faster-than-expected test and validation of fixes to the durability problem which forced the airframe maker to delay the big twinjet’s first flight into early 2020. 
 
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Russian Helicopters has bought its impressive Mil Mi-38 twin-engine heavy helicopter to Dubai for its international debut.
 
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The United Arab Emirates Air Force’s new airborne early warning platform, the Saab GlobalEye, has made its public debut four years after contracts were signed at the Dubai Air Show.
 
It is not just in naval training where the UAE is taking a lead. The nation is also in the process of standing up a comprehensive system to train its RPAS pilots, sensor operators and mission specialists.
 
Bell is hoping its new Model 525 Relentless super-medium, twin-engine helicopter can crack open the VIP market in the Middle East currently dominated by competitors such as Leonardo and Sikorsky.
 
When they perform their debut Dubai display at the air show this week, British aerobatic team The Blades will add another country to the lengthening list of places they've taken their increasingly popular brand of aerobatics.
 
The addition of the Space Pavilion at Dubai Air Show 2019 comes as the UAE increases its focus on space and prepares for a Mission to Mars.
 
Michele van Akelijen, chief executive officer of Dubai Airshow organizers Tarsus F&E, is spoilt for choice when asked what she is most looking forward to. But it's space that seems to have captured her imagination - and that of the United Arab Emirates as a whole. 
 
Space tourists could lift off from a spaceport in the United Arab Emirates under an agreement between the pioneering commercial space operator and the UAE.
 

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