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Airbus is preparing its E-Fan electric aircraft demonstrator for a groundbreaking flight across the English Channel next month.

Elbit Systems is back at the Paris Air Show with an expanded portfolio of high tech systems. This time the company is introducing a number of advanced avionic innovations, taking cockpit man-machine interfaces to new heights.

The bit that will join the engine to the wing of an Airbus A350 – impressively illustrates the turnaround achieved in the fortunes of Gardner Aerospace.

IAI and Airbus want to follow successful Heron lease to Germany with the top-of-the-line Heron TP.

A roundup of news from the Paris Air Show.

Textron AirLand’s $20 million Scorpion Light Attack Armed Reconnaissance gains momentum with possible landing of a launch customer.

Aviation needs equivalents of the “concept car” to spur it forward, says new exhibitor NewFace.

MBDA will be the lead contractor developing the Medium Extended Air Defense System for Germany, which recently selected Meads over the Raytheon Patriot missile defense system.

Having only last month been formed to build the U.S.-designed Alliance StarLiner 100 50-seat regional jet airliner in China, Chongqing Commercial Aircraft Corp. has come to its first Paris Air Show with two major sales – together worth $3 billion – under its belt. A third contract is in the works.

Eduardo Munhos de Campos, who was vice president for sales at Embraer until last October, is heading efforts to establish a single, unified worldwide com- mercial structure for the Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100).

Aviation Week marked the retirement of a long-standing ally with presentation of a montage of historic front covers marking his tenure to Patrick Guerin, Director of the Paris Air Show.

Thomas Flohr, founder and chairman of VistaJet says he’s confident of receiving his first Global 7000 in 2018.

Pratt & Whitney is enjoying a profitable Paris with contract signings for engine supply and manufacturing support.

Stratasys is showing large components destined to fly in an Atlas 5 launcher next year as part of its avionics cooling system.

Weapons and upgrades could define the next era for the worldwide fighter market.

Captains Mark Elliott and Estaban Arias flew the new 108-pax Bombardier CS100 regional jet in Swiss Airlines livery from Montreal-Mirabel to Paris last Friday so that it could be displayed at this week’s Paris Air Show.

Dassault Aviation’s versatile large cabin twin will be Beijing Red Cross Emergency Medical Center’s first fixed wing aircraft dedicated to medevac services.

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Turkish Aerospace Industries has chosen the Light Helicopter Turbine Engine Company’s (LHTEC) CTS800 turboshaft as the powerplant for Turkey’s twin-engine indigenous utility helicopter program.

Pratt & Whitney says retrofits of the F135 engine to enable unlimited operations in the F-35 are happening faster than originally planned and are on track for completion by early 2016.

Sierra Nevada and its Turkish partner STM have established a new company to build updated versions of the Dornier 328 and 328Jet in Turkey.

Turkish Aerospace Industries is displaying its Anka B unmanned aerial system (UAS) as it looks for an export customer.

Pratt & Whitney has taken delivery of a giant welding machine set to play a critical role in the company’s military and commercial engine production.

Airbus is teaming up with Singapore-based MRO provider ST Aerospace and Elbe Flugzeugwerke to give the passenger-to-freighter conversion of its A320/A321 aircraft a second try.

Designed by an Oklahoma State University graduate student, the Unmanned Cowboys Atlas UAV cages its propeller inside a sphere for safe flight indoors and outdoors.