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• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
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• Virgin Atlantic mulls in-flight connectivity for 2011 deliveries

  
  Runway Girl — Authority: 538
  Virgin Atlantic queried travelers on whether or not they are interested in seeing in-flight connectivity on board its aircraft. Company head of product and service Chris Birch says the first opportunity that Virgin Atlantic will have "to do anything about this" is 2011, when new aircraft are delivered. According to ...
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• Airbus A400M First Flight Early December

  
  Flightstory.net - Aviation Blog — Authority: 120
  This week Airbus announced that the first flight of the Airbus A400M has been scheduled to the week December 7 - 13, if weather permits. The A400M is the new European airlifter of the 21st century. It has more than twice the payload and volume of the C-130 Hercules and C-160 Transall, that it will replace. It will ...
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• Again, Boeing v. Airbus in Tanker War III

  
  The Platform — Authority: 535
  In this corner, the Boeing KC-767 Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: Sometime in the next few weeks, the Pentagon will release its final bid specifications for a new generation of Air Force refueling tankers. Wait. Didn’t that happen in 2002?…
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• Quick Look at Airbus A380

  
  Enjoy Last Minute Travel Tips — Authority: 128
  Airbus A380 has two passenger deck, thus making it the biggest airliner so far. Its pre-production designation code was A3XX. The length of A380 is longer than the length of a football field. Here’s the Airbus A380 Dimensions in metric terms:Overall length: 73 metersHeight: 24,1 metersFuselage diameter: 7,14 ...
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• November 28 in history

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 446
  On November 28: 1520 Three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. 1582 William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway paid a £40 bond for their marriage licence. 1628   John Bunyan , ...
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• Runway Free – Red Watermelon

  
  Christopher Ross — Authority: 145
  Now flying to Sydney, Australia!---Enter the fast paced and exciting world of Runway on your iPhone and iPod Touch. You start the game as the lead Air Traffic Controller at Honolulu International Airport. Help Gulfstream G650 aircraft land at your airport before they run out of fuel. Direct them to the gate to ...
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• Recovery

  
  Worldman — Authority: 112
  All went well. The surgery lasted 3 hours. It is quite impressive to see what is going on in an operating theatre. Cables hooked to you, oxygen mask on your face and the "game over" machine making noises and checking your "basic data" all the time. As they promised me, I was able to leave the hospital the same day. I ...
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• Interiors Of The Luxurious A 380 Airline

  
  Shareordie — Authority: 138
  The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, wide-body, four-engine airliner. It’s actually the largest passenger airliner in the world. Also named Superjumbo, this airliner provides seating for 525 people in a typical three-class configuration or up to 853 people in all-economy class configurations. The A380 has a design ...
  3 days ago

• KC-30 MRTT refuels fighters through boom, drogues

  
  Leeham News and Comment — Authority: 122
  EADS released these photos of the KC-30 MRTT refueling fighters. The company previously released photos of refueling as viewed through the 3D controller’s panel video screen. The MRTT has now “passed gas” (as we like to say, much to the consternation of the more straight-laced crowd) through the new flying boom ...
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• Airbus A320 vs. Boeing 737

  
  http://www.fleetbuzzeditorial.com — Authority: 112
  Airbus A320 Aims To Bridge Gap With 737 No 737/CFM56-7BE Technology For A320 One of the key news items at the Dubai Air Show was that of Airbus announcing that “sharklets” or winglets would be available on the A320 family from late 2012. It marks a major step for the A320 family , having already tested ...
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• A330 MRTT Tanker Simultaneously Refuels Two Fighters

  
  DefenceTalk | Defense & Military News - Forums - Pictures - Weapons — Authority: 556
  ARLINGTON, VA: The A330 Multi-Role Tanker Transport (A330 MRTT), an Airbus Military program, has performed the first simultaneous fuel transfer with its all-digital hose-and-drogue system, fueling two fighter aircraft at the same time. The hose-and-drogue fuel transfers occurred on November 18 during a flight test ...
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• Airbus tanker refuels two fighters at same time

  
  Kansas.com Blogs Master Site Feed — Authority: 577
  An Airbus A330 tanker for the first time refueled two fighter jets simultaneously during a flight test sortie. The tanker, using its left and right under-wing pods, transferred more than 25,000 pounds of fuel to two NATO F/A-18 fighters, according to EADS, the parent company of Airbus. The refueling was done by ...
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• USAirways defers Airbuses; may help in United competition

  
  Leeham News and Comment — Authority: 122
  US Airways early this morning announced it has deferred deliveries of 54 Airbus wide- and narrow-body airplanes from 2010 to 2013 and beyond, including the A350 from 2015 to 2017. While a blow to Airbus on the one hand, it could help the company win the order on at United Airlines on the other. The battle between ...
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• Airbus 380: A $500 million gift for someone who owns it all!

  
  Luxurylaunches.com — Authority: 605
  While gifting your loved ones, who mean a lot, timing or occasions are of barely any essence. But still with the season of sharing just around the corner, the December issue of the Robb Report has put together a very exclusive “Ultimate Gift Guide” for those lucky souls who just don’t know what to gift family ...
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• Airbus A380 – The Future of Flying?

  
  Global Holidays Travel Blog — Authority: 128
  The Airbus A380 is the largest, most comfortable, spacious and quiet passenger aircraft to ever take to the skies. In May 2009 the Airbus A380 had carried over 1.5 million passengers and done over 41,000 flying hours. Singapore Airlines was the first airline to start using the A380 on its Singapore to Sydney route ...
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• Going On A Euro Tour

  
  Guide To A Great Vacation — Authority: 142
  A popular travel itinerary runs from Amsterdam tours to London bus tours, to Paris city tours. These cities are all cultural Meccas of fashion, music, architecture and culinary arts, which would make a very well-rounded trip of Europe. Most people take just a little less than two weeks on their European vacations and ...
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• Naverus, a Company That Makes Flight Paths Greener, Gets Acquired by GE

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 703
  deals , acquisitions , Aviation Gregory T. Huang wrote: Kent, WA-based Naverus , which develops navigation technologies for airplanes, has been acquired by GE Aviation, a Cincinnati-based division of General Electric. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed today in GE’s official announcement ...
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• Down to Two: United weighs its widebody options

  
  FlightBlogger - Aviation News, Commentary and Analysis — Authority: 471
  PODCAST: I discuss the United order with Addison Schonland of IAG and Julie Johnsson of the Chicago Tribune. Late last week, The Chicago Tribune reported that United Airlines had narrowed its options for the first phase of its wide-body fleet renewal to two choices: The Airbus A350 XWB and Boeing 787 ...
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• KC-767 to benefit from 787 “surge” line

  
  Leeham News and Comment — Authority: 122
  Key points: The ability to increase production rates to sell more 767s in the coming years; Lower production costs, which will be built into the KC-X bid in the hot competition with the expected Northrop Grumman KC-30 submission. Boeing’s proposed KC-767 refueling tanker will benefit from plans to establish a ...
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