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| Aerospace News |
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| Rolls Royce plant 'may go abroad' |
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Engine maker Rolls-Royce has come under fire after admitting it is considering building a new hi-tech facility overseas rather than in the UK. |
| Independent Sun 7 Aug |
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| Qantas settles with Rolls-Royce |
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Engine-maker Rolls-Royce agrees to pay Qantas 95m Australian dollars ($100m) after one of its engines on a Qantas plane expoded last year. |
| BBC News Wed 22 Jun |
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| Small cracks found in three Southwest Airlines jets |
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Small, sub-surface cracks have been found in three more Southwest Airlines planes like those thought to have caused another to develop a hole in its cabin roof mid-flight |
| BBC News Mon 4 Apr |
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| Southwest Airlines grounds jets over mid-air hole scare |
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The US carrier Southwest Airlines has grounded for inspection about 80 of its planes after a hole opened up in mid-air in the roof of one of its aircraft. |
| BBC News Sat 2 Apr |
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| Virgin warned before wheel cracked |
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Virgin Blue was warned that wheels on its Boeing 737 aircraft could crack months before a wheel broke apart after landing in Melbourne, investigators have revealed. |
| theage.com.au Jan 2011 |
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| GE Aviation Wales creates 100 engineer jobs at Nantgarw |
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A total of 100 skilled jobs are being created at GE Aviation Wales aircraft engine maintenance factory near Cardiff. |
| BBC News Wed 26 Jan |
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| Qantas begins legal action against Rolls-Royce |
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Qantas has begun legal action against the engine supplier Rolls-Royce following the explosion of an engine on one of the airline's Airbus A380s |
| BBC News Thu 2 Dec |
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| Judicial review begins over Hunterston coal power plan |
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A judicial review into plans to build a new coal-fired power station at Hunterston in Ayrshire begins at the Court of Session in Edinburgh later. |
| BBC News Tue 16 Nov |
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| Rolls-Royce value falls by £1.2bn after jet accident |
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Rolls-Royce, one of Britain's last remaining manufacturing giants, was facing tough questions over the safety of one of its jet engines last night amid suggestions a design flaw may have caused one to explode. |
| Independent Sat 6 Nov |
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| Sheffield Forgemasters' £80m nuclear parts loan axed |
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An engineering firm's expansion plans, which would have created 180 jobs, have been halted after the government cancelled an £80m loan. |
| BBC News Thu 17 Jun |
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| EasyJet maintenance company shuts down at Stansted |
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SR Technics, the maintenance company that oversees the easyJet fleet, is to close operations at Stansted airport, throwing 345 aviation engineers out of work. |
| Times Online Mon 22 Feb |
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| Japanese company admits faking safety reports on seats it made for 32 airlines |
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A Japanese company admitted last night that it had falsified data after its seats, used by dozens of international airlines, failed safety tests. |
| Times Online Tue 9 Feb |
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| Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner finally takes off |
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Boeing’s hope for a more profitable future took off yesterday with the maiden flight of its much-delayed 787 Dreamliner, the company’s first new aircraft in 15 years. |
| Times Online Wed 16 Dec |
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| Airbus A400M finally flies for first time but faces £10bn cost overruns |
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More than three years late, Airbus's A400M military transport finally has finally taken to skies in a successful first flight in Seville. |
| Telegraph Fri 11 Dec |
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| Rolls-Royce in $2bn engine orders |
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Rolls-Royce says it has won orders to make $2bn(£1.2bn) of aircraft engines to power Airbus planes for Air China and Ethiopian Airlines. |
| BBC News Mon 16 Nov |
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| Gearbox crack found in Canadian Sikorsky helicopter |
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A problem with Sikorsky S-92A helicopters — one that was believed to be limited to S-92A choppers used in the European offshore oil industry — has been found in a Halifax-based S-92A. |
| CBC Mon 2 Nov |
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| Airbus prepares for A350 take-off with new factory in North Wales |
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The aerospace giant has started work on constructing a 46,000 sq m factory at its site in Broughton, North Wales |
| Times Online Thu 29 Oct |
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| North Sea helicopter gearbox checks ordered |
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Manufacturer Sikorsky is telling helicopter companies worldwide to carry out inspections after cracks were found in the gearboxes of S-92 helicopters. |
| BBC News Sun 11 Oct |
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| The Big Question |
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Why has another Airbus crashed, and is flying becoming more risky? |
| Independent Wed 1 Jul |
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| Yemen Airbus jet crashes in Indian Ocean |
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AYemeni airliner Airbus 310 with 153 people on board has crashed in the Indian Ocean |
| BBC News Tue 30 Jun |
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