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Kawasaki dumps Airbus contracts
Key 787 supplier Kawasaki Heavy Industries is dumping its contract to supply A321 fuselage parts to Airbus, according…
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Humble pie in the sky
The Times of London takes Airbus and EADS management to task in this column by Toby Moore. http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,10295-2294212,00.html
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General assembly
Aren’t Internet search engines wonderful? Turns out that not only is there something called Assembly Magazine, said magazine…
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The A380: Grounded Hamburgers
Current problems with the A380 have their roots in some layoffs at Hamburg more than a decade ago,…
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Flight and the Xbox
Flight International had a whole bunch of post-Farnborough updates http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles/2006/08/01/Navigation/177/208160/Farnborough+review+Back+to+form.html on Monday, many of them revolving around Airbus’…
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The A380 is really big and really neat
Singapore Airlines’ new A380s will have “sit-down pubs with real barstools and onboard duty-free shops,” according to McClatchy-Tribune…
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The finer points of point-to-point
USA Today sent a reporter and photographer to take a 15-hour flight from Chicago to New Delhi, chronicling…
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ShareValue payouts
In the next couple weeks, Boeing employees will receive the stock portion of their stock-and-cash payouts from the…
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Missed Connexions
Boeing’s experiment as an aerial Internet service provider seems to be over, based on hints CEO Jim McNerney…
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McNerney takes shots at ‘Xbox’
Airbus’ proposed new A350-XWB isn’t a threat, Boeing honcho Jim McNerney said during Wednesday’s conference call.
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EADS profits drop with delays
It was a bad day for the new leaders of EADS, who reported today that the profits at…
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Boeing pays the price for ethics problems
So tomorrow’s story in The Herald will focus on what was said about the 787 during today’s second-quarter…
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Boeing could report loss Wednesday
That’s what Bloomberg News is reporting, based on conversations with analysts. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aZUvJkQF5oyM&refer=us Despite the big gains in sales…
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Of big jets and human nature
Here’s an interesting opinion piece from The New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/060731ta_talk_surowiecki Granted I don’t normally turn to that magazine…
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Two-weeks’ notice
Ahh … last week, while all the big players in aviation and aerospace were sweating it out in…
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Baseler on the 737’s replacement
Boeing Blogger-in-chief Randy Baseler wore his VP of marketing hat on Wednesday to deliver the company’s updated 20-year…
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Halftime report from the World Aerospace Cup
Airbus — already reeling after its long-time French captain Noel Forgeard was sent off for headbutting his German…
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Great Google-y moogly
You may recall that Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page last year decided to sink a big…
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Aussie official cheesed off at Boeing
Boeing is taking on the chin — and in the pocketbook — today.
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Forgeard fights back
EADS co-CEO Noel Forgeard is resisting calls from Germany for his resignation, according to a number of reports…