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• Rosetta comet chaser picks up speed

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 603
  The Rosetta comet chaser is making one last visit home to Earth: On 13 November, the probe, which was built for the European Space Agency (ESA) by Astrium, Europe’s leading space technology company, will perform its fourth and last planetary swingby manoeuvre, utilising the Earth’s gravitational force to boost its ...
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• CSI Fans! Here’s Your Chance to Chat Live With Two CSI Stars!

  
  CSI Fanatic — Authority: 131
  This week is the big CSI Trilogy week. To support our injoyment of the all- CSI crossover event, TV>com is hosting live chats tomorrow and Thursday with two stars of CSI shows. And if I say so myself, they are both very hot guys! [Image: TV.com] Tomorrow CSI: NY star Hill Harper will ...
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• EADS Continues Efforts To Gain Support Of Tanker

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 143
  It has been reported that EADS spent almost $200,000.00 last quarter on just tanker related lobbying . It is not uncommon for larger companies of all sorts to spend time in Congress working to support their programs and proposals. The KC-X contract being so important this effort will be even more concentrated. ...
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• Men in Beach Shorts: George Eads, Our TV Boyfriend

  
  Famewatcher — Authority: 141
  Did we tell you about our new TV boyfriend George Eads? Of course we did! He is our guy at the moment so bear with us if we regularly blog about him. In fact, we’re pretty sure you will fall in virtual love with him too.Anyhoo, we’ve seen already seen George get formal in his [...]
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• Men in Tuxedo: George Eads, American Hunk

  
  Famewatcher — Authority: 141
  While watching George Eads during his interview at Craig Ferguson’s Late Late Show, we kept thinking, “Where has this George guy been hiding? Damn, he’s a one hot daddy that we’d like to bring home to mama!” Truthfully, we haven’t heard of him before. So we went digging for more info and more pictures of ...
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• A400M Delays Creating Contract Controversies

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 566
  A400M rollout, Seville (click to view full) Airbus’ A400M is a EUR 20+ billion program that aimed to repeat Airbus’ civilian successes in the military market. A series of smart design decisions were made around capacity (35-37 tonnes/ 38-40 US tons, large enough for survivable armored vehicles), extensive ...
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• Dubai Air Show

  
  http://www.fleetbuzzeditorial.com — Authority: 112
  In less than a week, the eleventh Dubai Air Show gets underway. One thing is for certain - that we will not see the multi-billion dollar deals that captivated the show the last time around, nor will we see deals on the scale that Etihad Airways placed at the  Farnborough Air Show last summer either. If anything, ...
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• Prediction: Boeing offers KC-767

  
  Leeham News and Comment — Authority: 513
  With Boeing and Northrop Grumman still in the Q&A stage with the USAF in advance of a Final Request for Proposals in the KC-X competition, we predict that Boeing will offer the KC-767 and not the KC-777. Here’s why: Boeing simply cannot afford another new airplane program right now. The KC-777 is only a ...
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• KC-X RFP Questions And Answers Continue

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 143
  The U.S. Air Force put out a draft Request for Proposal (RFP) in late September. It has proceeded apace with the receipt of questions related to the RFP and putting out answers. The idea is that the type of questions received should help write the final RFP to make it better and get better proposals. The ...
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• South Africa to Cancel its A400M Order

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 566
  Scratch one flag… (click to view full) In April 2005, South Africa’s Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin expected the cost of the SAAF’s 8 planned Airbus A400M medium-heavy military transport aircraft to be EUR 830 million. That converted to R 6.5 billion at those exchange rates, or about $177.75 million ...
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• George Eads is Engaged!

  
  CSI Fanatic — Authority: 131
  [Photo: Newscom] Well, a confirmed bachelor has decided to wed. CSI: Vegas star George Eads finally popped the question to his long-term girlfriend, Monika Casey . The two are now planning to marry as George announced on the Craig Ferguson show this week. “I got engaged actually to a really nice ...
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• India’s Light Helicopter Contract Hits Turbulence, Rises

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 566
  Austrian Alouette-III (click to view full) In 2003, India issued an RFP for 197 light helicopters to replace its Army’s aging fleet of Chetaks (Aerospatiale SA316 Alouette III) and Cheetahs (SE316B Alouette II). These helicopters are old designs, but they have consistently proven themselves in high altitude ...
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• WTO Ruling May Influence KC-X Tanker And More

  
  http://www.fleetbuzzeditorial.com — Authority: 112
  WTO Ruling May Be Linked To KC-X Competition WTO Rulings Mean Compliance For All Parties Final WTO Ruling May Not Differ From Preliminary Report The issue of subsidies between Airbus and Boeing is one that will reverberate for a long time - long after the WTO has ruled on both sets of complaints. Since ...
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• Updating the KC-X competition

  
  Leeham News and Comment — Authority: 513
  While the drama over the 787 Line 2 siting dominated the news last week, there was some stuff happening on the KC-X tanker front. Boeing released this video about its tanker program. Note that KC-767 is shown with winglets, which in airline service are improving fuel burn by more than 4%. Northrop, meantime, ...
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• Northrop Grumman And EADS Keep Pressure On

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 143
  Northrop Grumman and EADS continue their preparation of the battlefield by criticizing the draft RFP put out by the U.S. Air Force a month ago. They believe that by focusing on cost as the prime discriminator in the award that it is biased against their possible proposal. In The Miami Herald article here there ...
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• Multi-mission COMS satellite is ’space qualified’

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 603
  Astrium and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) have successfully completed the mechanical and thermal tests on the Communications, Oceanography and Meteorology Satellite COMS, South Korea’s first multi-mission geostationary satellite, and the first ever of its type to be built in Europe.The development of ...
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• India rushes team to Ecuador to probe Dhruv chopper crash

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) Defence public sector undertaking Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) Friday said it has rushed a three-member team to Ecuador to probe the crash of a Dhruv advanced light helicopter, India’s flagship defence export, this week.Without specifying the reasons behind the Oct 27 crash, HAL said the ...
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• Tanker Contract: Corporate Serfdom or Quality Jobs?

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 658
      Corporate serf masters: same tactics, no matter what the century.         The governors of Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama are pushing the U.S. Defense Department to award in 2010 a $35 billion to $40 billion tanker contract to European-owned EADS/Airbus rather than U.S.-based ...
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• Tanker Contract: Corporate Serfdom or Quality Jobs?

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 770
      Corporate serf masters: same tactics, no matter what the century.         The governors of Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama are pushing the U.S. Defense Department to award in 2010 a $35 billion to $40 billion tanker contract to European-owned EADS/Airbus rather than U.S.-based ...
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• Northrop Threatening No Participation Over Cost Data

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 143
  Yesterday Northrop announced that it is considering not participating in thew new KC-X competition . They are concerned that the the way the price requirement is structured may not be fair to them. They are also pursuing the complaint that their cost data was provided to Boeing during the protest of the last award ...
  2 weeks ago

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