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Finnair: No Need to Change Speed Sensors

by Mr. Plane on August 3, 2009

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Image via Wikipedia Finnair says it has already changed the speed sensors on its Airbus A330 and A340 planes. Leading aircraft manufacturer Airbus recently called for airlines to switch most speed sensors to U.S.-made parts on its jetliners in the wake of the jet disaster in June. Finnair spokesman Taneli Hassinen says the company switched [...]

Finnair’s fourth Airbus A330 enters service

by Mr. Plane on June 23, 2009

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Image via Wikipedia Finnair’s fourth Airbus A330 aircraft, registration OH-LTP, makes its first commercial flight to Delhi today, after which it will make regular scheduled flights on Finnair’s long-haul network. With the addition of the fourth aircraft, Osaka will be served with the A330 as of 6 July. The arrival of the new A330 aircraft [...]

Airbus Licenses Vivisimo Velocity Search Platform

May 28, 2009 Manufacturers

Image via Wikipedia PITTSBURGH, May 27 /PRNewswire/ — Vivisimo (vivisimo.com), a leader in enterprise search, has entered into a major agreement with aircraft manufacturer Airbus for the license of the Vivisimo Velocity Search Platform. The license covers the corporate-wide intranet for Airbus and some extranet services for Airbus customers, indexing up to two petabytes of [...]

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Translation error over “cancelled” Airbus order

March 3, 2009 Manufacturers

China on Tuesday denied that any orders from Airbus had been cancelled. The statement followed a report in a Chinese newspaper that Airbus did not expect to realize a target, set in 2005, of selling jets in China this year. “The Civil Aviation Administration of China has never made any decision to cancel any aircraft [...]

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Airbus denies China aircraft order cancelation report

March 2, 2009 Manufacturers

Airbus SAS, the world’s largest commercial plane maker, denied a report that says the company didn’t expect to sell 150 jets to China this year due to the dampening expansion plan of Chinese airlines, sources reported. Airbus told sources that the company is still in steady talks with Chinese firms and the report was untrue. [...]

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Brazil’s Embraer plans to cut around 4,200 jobs

February 24, 2009 Manufacturers

Image via Wikipedia Brazilian aerospace conglomerate Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáutica, S. A. (Embraer) has revealed plans to cut around twenty percent of the company’s workforce of 21,362 people. Twenty percent is over 4,200, but Embraer have not revealed exact numbers. The firm has also scaled back predictions for deliveries and revenue. Estimated delivery figures for [...]

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Airbus sees first A400M delivery in 2012

February 11, 2009 Manufacturers

Image via Wikipedia Airbus will not deliver its first A400M military transport aircraft before the end of 2012, and the delays are exacerbating tensions within the European aircraft maker’s management, newspapers reported on Tuesday. Le Figaro said on Tuesday that delays could cost Airbus an overall 5 billion euros ($6.45 billion), citing people “with a [...]

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Big plane buyer sees tough times for Boeing, Airbus

February 9, 2009 Aviation

Two aviation-industry billionaires had tough messages for Boeing workers at a reception before an airplane delivery at Boeing Field in Seattle Friday morning. Steven Udvar-Hazy, chief executive of Boeing’s largest customer, predicted that both Boeing and Airbus will sharply reduce their output in the coming months. Udvar-Hazy said jet production could drop by a third [...]

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