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Qatar Airways: the 787 fly back to

Qatar Airways started to fly on the route between Doha and London Heathrow with Boeing 787 Dreamliner after the stop flights to the world of this type of aircraft in January .

The Doha becomes the first company in the world to operate regular services to and from the United Kingdom with the 787 Dreamliner. the beginning of May the first of five 787 Dreamliner fleet currently in Qatar Airways had already resumed operations on the route between Doha and Dubai .

Over the next few weeks, the aircraft will be introduced on other long-haul destinations including Zurich , Monaco and Francoforte .

"We are thrilled that our 787 Dreamliner is back in the sky ” have detto Akbar Al Baker, the CEO of Qatar Airways .

Here it is… the new A350 XWB in a fantastic video!

Airbus: the team at Politecnico di Milano selected for the final round of the competition Fly Your Ideas

The team composed by students of the Politecnico di Milano is one of the five selected by Airbus , between 618 participants to take part in the final stage of the third edition of the international competition Fly Your Ideas. The other teams that will participate in the final come from Australia , Brazil, India and Malesia . Flybrid , this is the name of the Italian team , wanted to Toulouse and 12 June 2013 to present at the headquarters of Airbus their project before a jury made up of representatives and experts from the aviation industry . The winning team will be awarded a prize of € 30,000 , while the runners-up will receive a prize of € 15,000 .

The winners will be announced at an exclusive ceremony to be held in Paris , at the UNESCO headquarters , the 14 June 2013. UNESCO has in fact given his patronage to this competition that puts students in the whole world the challenge of developing innovative ideas in the service of more sustainable aviation .

Airbus: completed the livery of the first A350 XWB in Toulouse

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Airbus announced that it has completed the painting of the first A350 XWB denominato "MSN001" . The aircraft was released by the painting of Toulouse with the character actor Airbus livery . The completion of this stage demonstrates full compliance with the deadlines established that will bring the aircraft MSN001 on its first flight .

The the painting process was completed in less than seven days and follows the completion of the test FTI (flight-test-instrumentation) del MSN001 . Last month the aircraft was equipped with engines , and has passed a series of intensive vibration tests of the soil . The MSN001 will soon begin the final checks before the maiden flight scheduled during the summer .

Born Aeropolis. Conference on Campania aerospace sector

sm-convegno3 Successful participation in the public meeting on the future of the sector promoted by the Campanian Aeropolis .

The event was held in Naples Saturday 4 May in the halls of the Foundation Valenzi over crowded every available space .

The community bell convened by the Air Force has discussed the future of the industry in a regional round table , coordinated by Antonio Ferrara, president of Aeropolis and completed by Paolo Graziano , president of the Industrial Union of Naples . numerous and significant contributions to the discussion that have come from many a crowded audience of entrepreneurs , representatives from institutions and companies . In the dining room also workers , operators, trade unionists and representatives of large national companies in the sector . Present managers and managers of research centers and training , university professors and researchers . He participated Dr . Sergio Mazzarella, author of the recent book on the history of the aviation industry bell .

100 years of Alenia Aeronautica

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Alenia Aermacchi celebrates its first century of existence . One aeronautical company in the world that can boast a hundred years of activity under a common brand name , was established way back in 1913 by Giulio Macchi as Società Anonima Nieuport-Macchi . A century later, the name Alenia Aermacchi collects the entire Finmeccanica's aeronautical sector , the largest Italian industrial group in the field of high technologies .
Nata il 1 ° gennaio 2012 from the merger of Alenia Aeronautica , Alenia Aermacchi and Alenia SIA , the current Alenia Aermacchi is the final resting place of an integration process launched in the mid-sixties with the aim of competing in international markets that already and then called for solid companies with a range of products.
Alenia Aermacchi today has about 12.000 employees – against 10 workers needed in 1913 to build the first monoplane Nieuport-Macchi – and is the major industrial player in the country in this field , with balanced activity between the civil and defense .