Aircraft News - Europe.Nov 20, 2006 Airbus Airbus EADS EADS European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company N.V. EADS Expeditionary Air Defense System (USMC) EADS Extended Air Defense Systems EADS Environmental Assessment Data System EADS Echelons Above Division Study says it is not looking for Airbus investors. An EADS spokesman on Thursday denied media reports that the company is looking for a partner to invest in jetmaker Airbus. BAE Systems recently sold back its 20% stake in Airbus to EADS, making EADS the sole owner. Nov 17, 2006 Airbus Airbus EADS Denies Seeking Airbus Investor. European aerospace group EADS denied plans to sell part of its Airbus planemaker unit to Gulf investors to raise money for a new aircraft -- but doubts remained over how the A350 would be funded. Nov 16, 2006 Airbus US files updated WTO See World Trade Organization. complaint on Airbus. The U.S. on Wednesday warned that Airbus would break trade rules if it accepted state aid to build the wide-body A350. The U.S. made the statements in an updated complaint filed with the World Trade Organization against European government spending on Airbus. Nov 16, 2006 Airbus Airbus A350 Decision Within Two Weeks. Airbus on Tuesday promised its staff and investors a decision within two weeks on whether to go ahead with the USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. $10 billion A350 XWB XWB Extra Wide Body (Airbus) . Nov 14, 2006 Airbus Airbus to outsource work on new jet. Airbus says it will outsource $3.5 billion in work on its new mid-sized jet, the A350XWB, according to media reports. The company hopes outsourcing lowers the cost of developing the plane. Nov 14, 2006 Airbus Regulators travel on A380 final test flights. FAA and EU representatives are traveling on an Airbus A380 undergoing a final round of airworthiness air·wor·thy adj. air·wor·thi·er, air·wor·thi·est Being in fit condition to fly: an airworthy helicopter; airworthy avionics. test flights. The A380 is on track for certification in mid-December, a company spokeswoman says. Nov 14, 2006 Airbus Questions linger about Airbus A300 rudders. American Airlines, a group of pilots and other aviation observers say the NTSB NTSB abbr. National Transportation Safety Board did not fully consider evidence suggesting potential flaws with the rudders of the A300 that may have contributed to a fatal 2001 crash. Instead, the board attributed the crash of an American Airlines A300 in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. mainly to pilot error. Last year, mechanics inspecting the rudder of a FedEx A300 found about three square feet of unsuspected and previously undetected damage to the composite structure. Nov 13, 2006 Boeing, KLM KLM Kaiserliche Marine (Enigma: Rising Tide game) KLM Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (Royal Dutch Airlines) KLM Klub Langer Menschen (German: Tall Person Club) KLM identified as converting six 737-800 options to firm orders. Boeing revealed yesterday that KLM converted six options for 737-800s that will be delivered before mid-2008. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, the Dutch arm of Air France KLM, had ordered six Boeing Next-Generation 737s, worth about USD$423 million at list prices. Nov 13, 2006 Finnair Technical Finnair Technical Services signed a three-year general terms maintenance agreement with KLM for performance of airframe checks on the Dutch carrier's 10 MD-11s. Nov 14, 2006 Finnair Technical, LOT Polish Finnair Technical Services and LOT Polish Airlines LOT Polish Airlines (Polskie Linie Lotnicze LOT, short name PLL LOT) is the national airline/flag carrier of Poland, based in Warsaw. It operates scheduled passenger and cargo services. Domestic services link Warsaw with ten cities. signed an agreement for the overhaul of eight ATR ATR Achilles tendon reflex, see Ankle reflex 72 landing gear sets on aircraft operated by the carrier's EuroLOT subsidiary. Nov 17, 2006 Icelandair Cargo, Precision Conversions, Boeing Precision Conversions delivered a 757-200 converted freighter to Icelandair Cargo last week. Modification was performed at Flightstar Aircraft Services in Florida. Nov 15, 2006 Lufthansa Systems Lufthansa Systems said Asiana Airlines selected the Lido Operations Center and Lido Briefing solutions in a five-year deal to support its flight planning processes. The agreement extends the existing cooperation between Asiana and LHS (filename extension) lhs - The filename extension for literate Haskell source files. covering revenue accounting and MRO MRO In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Mauritanian Ouguiya. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. management. Nov 17, 2006 Martinair, Pratt & Whitney Martinair will be P&W's European launch customer at the engine provider's new EcoPower service center station at Schiphol. "The engine washing process is a closed-loop, environmentally friendly system that uses atomized water to wash aircraft engines," P&W said in a statement. "Not only does the system avoid potentially harmful runoff from the washing process, but it also is more effective and much faster than traditional engine-washing processes." EcoPower was established in 2005 at New York JFK and Los Angeles International. Nov 14, 2006 Rolls-Royce, Tiger Airways Rolls-Royce Wins USD$100 Mln Tiger Airways Contract. British aero-engine maker Rolls-Royce said on Tuesday it had won USD$100 million share of an order by Singapore-based Tiger Airways for V2500 engines and aftermarket services. Nov 14, 2006 TAP Maintenance TAP Maintenance & Engineering is working to become a significant third-party player in South America following its acquisition of VEM-Varig Engineering and Maintenance earlier this year. TAP, which led the consortium that purchased the Brazilian company, invested [euro]20 million in the recently renamed VEM VEM Versatile Exercise Mine (US Navy) VEM Volume Electronic Mail (Canada Post Corporation) VEM Virtual Electron Microscope VEM Value Engineering Manager VEM Value Estimation Model Maintenance & Engineering, in which it holds a 51.1% stake. The VEM unit is 2.5 times larger than the TAP MRO center in Lisbon. 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