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Magazine Issue

Dubai Air Show: ShowNews Day 1

November 08, 2015

On The Cover

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Little and Large: A380 and Jetman

Nov 06, 2015
Swarming like bees around an elephant, Yves Rossy, the Swiss inventor of the jet engine-powered wing, and his protégé Vince Reffet, earlier this month conducted an unprecedented formation flight over Dubai with an Emirates Airline A380.

Fighters

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Fighter Buyers are Spoilt for Choice

Nov 07, 2015
A customer starting a new competition today is spoilt for choice. At the upper end of the European offerings, the Typhoon and Rafale are superficially similar, but the former excels in acceleration, supersonic maneuverability and altitude while the latter still leads in range and diversity of weapons.
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Typhoon Upgrades Could Win Export Orders

Nov 08, 2015
With the UAE's fighter requirement still unfilled, a sale to Kuwait agreed in principle, and possible interest from other nations in the region, Typhoon might once again be the talk of the show.

Unmanned Systems

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Thales Aims Armed Watchkeeper at Middle East

Nov 08, 2015
There are a number of ironies surrounding the growing maturity of the military unmanned air systems market as far as the Middle East is concerned.
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UAE Drone Can Clear Fog At Airports

Nov 08, 2015
A team of three PhD students from the Sharjah campus of Khalifa University may have found a method of solving a perennial problem for the region's aviation industry. And in the process, they could also have identified a new application for unmanned aircraft.

Defense

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Rosoboronexport Increases Sales To Middle East

Nov 08, 2015
Russia’s government arms trade agency Rosoboronexport is restoring ties with Iran, continuing deliveries to Syria and otherwise planning to boost sales to the Middle East region.
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Saudi Becomes World’s Largest Weapons Importer

Nov 08, 2015
In 2008, the sale of U.S. precision-guided weapons to Saudi Arabia was controversial in Congress. But the sale of all kinds of weapons to the oil-rich kingdom has picked up, particularly since 2010.
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GainJet Hopes To Show Long-Range 737

Nov 08, 2015
Athens-based VIP charter operator GainJet Aviation is fitting a state-of-the-art quick-change auxiliary fuel tank system to its Boeing 737-400 Classic and hopes to fly it here to the Dubai Airshow.

Business Aviation

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MEBAA Makes Difference To Business Aviation

Nov 08, 2015
The Middle East Business Aviation Association does much more than hold a conference and show in Dubai every two years. It is working hard to develop business aviation across the region, and can point to meaningful results.
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Middle East Business Aviation Growth Slows

Nov 07, 2015
Middle Eastern business aviation activity is pretty resilient, say many in the industry, but while some try to talk the market up, others working at the sharp end cast a relatively gloomy picture and await an upturn in activity.
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Lektro Celebrates Its 70th Anniversary

Nov 08, 2015
Lektro is celebrating its 70th year in business while at the Dubai Airshow, where it will deliver a new tug to Al Bateen’s premier FBO, Dhabi Jet.
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Sharjah A More-Intelligent Gateway, Says Gama

Nov 08, 2015
Gama Aviation’s Sharjah fixed base operation has tightened up its business aviation ground-based costs and can now offer services 20% below the regional market average, says Gama Managing Director for MENA Martin Ringrose.
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GainJet Grows Managed Fleet

Nov 08, 2015
Business jet operator GainJet Aviation of Athens last month added a Challenger 604 and a Gulfstream 650 to its managed fleet of business jets, and is expecting two more aircraft by the end of the year, according to CEO Capt. Ramsey Shaban.
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Falcon Aviation Starts Scheduled Flights

Nov 08, 2015
Falcon Aviation Services, a corporate jet and helicopter service provider, is now offering offshore transportation to Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Co., from its base at Al Bateen Executive Airport, the region’s only dedicated business aviation airport.
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Embraer Hopes For First Middle East E2 Orders

Nov 08, 2015
Embraer is hoping to win its first order from the Middle East for its next-generation E-Jet E2 as the prototype regional airliner comes together at its headquarters in São José dos Campos, Brazil.
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DC Aviation Al-Futtaim Stands Alone

Nov 07, 2015
Two years on and the German-UAE joint venture between DC Aviation and Al-Futtaim is still the only standalone fixed-base and maintenance business aviation company at Dubai World Central with its own purpose-built property.

Missile Defense

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UAE is Driving Next Generation Patriot

Nov 07, 2015
Interoperability is the watchword for the next phase of development of the Patriot missile-defense system. And it is Patriot users in the Middle East who are leading the way.
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Iranian Missile Threat Drives Middle East Defenses


Nov 08, 2015
Despite U.S. efforts to integrate missile defenses, Gulf countries buy their own point-defense systems.

MRO

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‘New’ Ameco Will Keep Focus On International Business

Nov 08, 2015
The restructuring earlier this year of one of the world’s leading maintenance, repair and overhaul organizations, Ameco Beijing, will increase its competitiveness at home and overseas, and bring new capabilities to its customers.

Rotorcraft

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Airbus H160 Makes Dubai Show Debut

Nov 08, 2015
Airbus Helicopters is hoping it can generate interest in its new H160 twin-engine medium helicopter here in the Middle East.
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Northstar Negotiating On 60-70 Armed Bell 407s

Nov 08, 2015
Northstar Aviation, the UAE-based company which has developed a bespoke armed version of the Bell 407 light helicopter, is in negotiations with several Middle Eastern states for more sales of the aircraft.
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Bell Helicopter Mulls Model 505 Ramp Up

Nov 08, 2015
With 350 orders in the bag, Bell Helicopter Textron (Chalet A434) is considering an early ramp up in production of the new generation Model 505 JetRanger X.

Air Transport

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Dubai Airshow Biggest And Best Ever

Nov 08, 2015
This year’s Dubai Airshow is going to be bigger, better and more varied than anything that has gone before, says Michele van Akelijen, managing director of show organizers F&E Aerospace.

Opinion

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Delta’s Dubai Blues

Nov 08, 2015
Delta Air Lines is quitting its exclusive Atlanta-Dubai route; political shenanigans seem to be at work.