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21 min ago | Sofia News Agency

Varna Airport Open for Business

The airport in Bulgaria's Black Sea city of Varna is open for business and has resumed its normal schedule, the management announced Saturday.

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Related Topix: Bulgaria, World News, Commercial Aircraft, Civil Aircraft, Airbus Aircraft, Airbus A320

4 hrs ago | Pleasanton Weekly

Beware the bomb bay

I have never considered myself an adventurous person. I favor turn signals, never go anywhere without a map and a cell phone, and I've made it all the way to 23 without taking candy from a stranger.

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Related Topix: Cellphones, Pleasanton, CA, Boeing Aircraft, Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, Consolidated Aircraft, Consolidated B-24 Liberator, Military Aircraft

8 hrs ago | BBC News

Airshow marks US 'friendly invasion'

A Hawker Hurricane X, Supermarine Spitfire Mk I, Republic P-47G Thunderbolt and P-51C Mustang Princess Elizabeth will fly in its spring show.

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Related Topix: Hawker Hurricane, Military Aircraft, Hawker Aircraft, Supermarine Spitfire, Supermarine Aircraft, World News, Queen Elizabeth

12 hrs ago | Gretna Breeze

Nelnet says it has 300 openings; Netflix's comeback begins Sunday

Student loan company Nelnet says it will seek to fill more than 300 jobs in Lincoln over the next three months.

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Related Topix: Procter and Gamble, Household Products, Boeing Aircraft, Commercial Aircraft, Boeing 787

Fri May 24, 2013

Reuters

AirAsia may order 50 more Airbus jets: CEO

The additional aircraft would be mainly for the market in India, where it expects its new affiliate, AirAsia India, to launch in the fourth quarter.

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Related Topix: Commercial Aircraft, Civil Aircraft, Airbus Aircraft, Airbus A320, Recreational Vehicle, Monaco

New Media Journal

Video: Private Pilots Detained, Searched for Mysterious Reasons

The first search by federal agents in tan jumpsuits was comparatively unobtrusive, a brief delay in Oklahoma that all but passed from Gabriel Silverstein's mind by the time he landed in Iowa City four days later, on May 5. That fuel stop, one of many made during a business trip from New Jersey to California and back in the Cirrus SR22 that ... (more)

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Related Topix: Civil Aircraft, Cirrus SR22, Cirrus Aircraft

Detroit Free Press

United to offer lie-flat seats on international flights

United Airlines will offer lie-flat seats on all international long-haul flights from New York.

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Related Topix: Associated Press, us Travel, Travel, Commercial Aircraft, Boeing Aircraft, Boeing 757, Home Listing, Home

WAPI-AM Birmingham

British Airways Aircraft Catches Fire, Makes Emergency Landing

A British Airways flight from London to Oslo made an emergency landing at Heathrow airport Friday morning after a fire broke out shortly after takeoff.

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Related Topix: Commercial Aircraft, Civil Aircraft, Airbus Aircraft, Airbus A319

Hollywood Reporter

Heathrow Airport Runways Closed After Plane 'Fire'

BA said the Heathrow to Oslo service turned back after a technical fault at about 09:00 BST.

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Related Topix: Commercial Aircraft, Civil Aircraft, Airbus A319, Airbus Aircraft, Business News

KMBC-TV

Emergency landing closes Heathrow runway

A British Airways plane made an emergency landing at London's Heathrow Airport Friday morning after developing a technical fault, the airline said.

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Related Topix: Travel, United Kingdom Travel, Europe Travel, London, United Kingdom Travel, Commercial Aircraft, Civil Aircraft, Airbus A319, Airbus Aircraft

Burnley Citizen

Heathrow said that all passengers and crew had been safely evacuated from the plane

Heathrow said that all passengers and crew had been safely evacuated from the plane following the incident at about 9am on Friday.

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Related Topix: Commercial Aircraft, Civil Aircraft, Airbus Aircraft, Airbus A319

The Straits Times

Japan's ANA to resume Boeing 787 flights on Sunday

Japan's All Nippon Airways, the launch customer for Boeing's 787 "Dreamliner," will resume commercial flights of the aircraft on Sunday, just over four months after the jets were grounded due to smouldering batteries.

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Related Topix: Commercial Aircraft, Boeing Aircraft, Boeing 787

Thu May 23, 2013

PortStanleyNews.com

Aircraft Additions to Air Show

Things are really starting to take off! Three additional aircraft have been added to the impressive array of aircraft "coming in for a landing" at the Great Lakes International Air Show at the St.

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Related Topix: BAC Aircraft, BAC Strikemaster, Military Aircraft

News Times

GE sees ceramics improving jet engine performance

A worker loads a container holding ceramic matrix composites components inside a high-pressure autoclave for curing.

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Related Topix: General Electric, Financial Services, Aerospace-Defense, Commercial Aircraft, Boeing Aircraft, Boeing 737

Fiji Times

Namuka-i-Lau touches down

AIR Pacific's second Airbus christened Island of Namuka-i-Lau landed yesterday at the Nadi International Airport in another historic achievement for Fiji's aviation industry.

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Related Topix: Commercial Aircraft, Airbus Aircraft, Airbus A330, Oceania, World News, Fiji

Al Bawaba

Emirates to Increase Flights to Colombo from 30th June

Emirates, one of the world's fastest growing airlines, will increase capacity on its services to Colombo from 30th June 2013, with the addition of three more flights per week, the airline announced today.

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Related Topix: Commercial Aircraft, Boeing Aircraft, Boeing 777

Marin Independent Journal

Feds investigate after plane parts hit Ga. home

Federal authorities are investigating after a Boeing 747 on approach to Atlanta's airport lost parts from its right wing that landed on a woman's house.

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Related Topix: Boeing 747, Commercial Aircraft, Boeing Aircraft, US News, Federal Aviation Administration, Atlanta, GA

Limerick Today

World's largest aircraft stops over in Shannon

A PLANE purpose built to transport a shuttle for the Soviet space programme landed in Shannon Airport this week, drawing gasps from the large numbers of plane-spotters awaiting its arrival.

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Related Topix: Antonov An-225, Military Aircraft, Antonov Aircraft

Forbes.com

Cirrus Aircraft Climbs To Post-Recession Heights With New Jet And Chinese Investment

The great recession has been tough on light aircraft manufacturers. Deliveries of single-engine piston planes have plunged from 2,097 in 2007 to just 817 last year , according to the General Aviation Manufacturers Association .

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Related Topix: Flying, Life, Hobbies, Civil Aircraft, Cirrus SR22, Cirrus Aircraft, Cirrus SR20, Autos

Wed May 22, 2013

Blackpool Today

Tributes to dad killed in aircraft crash

Tributes have been paid to a man killed when the light aircraft he was flying in flipped on a North Wales runway.

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Related Topix: Civil Aircraft, Piper Cherokee, Piper Aircraft