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Commercial

UK project to install hybrid-electric power in BN-2 Islander
Rolls-Royce has unveiled its involvement in an aircraft electrification project that could ultimately deliver a 19-seat passenger type powered by a hybrid-electric powertrain.
Under Project Fresson – named after pioneering Scottish aviator Ted Fresson – R-R will participate in an initial effort to design, manufacture and integrate a hybrid-electric powertrain onto a nine-seat Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander.
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Airlines

Qantas seeks to close 'gaps' on Project Sunrise jet offers
Qantas is seeking better offers from Airbus and Boeing regarding various aspects of the aircraft proposal each airframer is submitting for the Australian carrier's ultra-long haul Project Sunrise programme.
While the airframers have put forward "best and final offers" for Project Sunrise – with the A350 and 777X competing for the deal – Qantas believes they still fall short of its requirements.
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ANALYSIS: The complex background to Emirates’ Dubai deals
It has been an extraordinary two years for Emirates since the aerospace world last gathered in its backyard for the biennial Dubai air show.
Since the beginning of the previous show in November 2017, the Dubai flag carrier has placed orders and commitments for over 190 widebodies. But amid substitutions, programme terminations and renegotiations has actually ended this year’s Dubai show just 31 net orders ahead of where it was back in 2017.
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SpiceJet and Gulf Air sign MoU for wide-ranging cooperation
Indian low-cost carrier SpiceJet and Bahrain's Gulf Air have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore opportunities for cooperation.
This includes interlining and codesharing, coordinating cargo services, along with opportunities to collaborate in pilot training and engineering services.
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Air Peace expands regional fleet further with ERJ-145s
Nigerian operator Air Peace is to acquire a pair of Embraer ERJ-145s, expanding the airline's regional fleet.
The aircraft are being sold through Skyworld Aviation, which identifies the jets as having serial numbers 145379 and 145481.
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DUBAI: Emirates to take 30 787-9s and trims 777X deal
Middle Eastern carrier Emirates has revised its previous tentative agreement for Boeing 787s, opting to take 30 of the 787-9 variant rather than the larger 787-10.
Deliveries of the aircraft, worth $8.8 billion, will commence in May 2023 and continue for five years.
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Airports

Lack of investment into European airports to affect future development
ACI Europe has drawn attention to the lack of investments into transport infrastructure throughout Europe, stating that the region is facing a €12.3 billion investment gap over the next five years, adding to a 12 per cent shortfall between needed and realised airport investment since 2013.
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Philadelphia International Runway 27L extension completed
Following a five-year construction period, the extension project for Runway 27L at Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) has been completed. The expansion of one of the two main runways at the airport has added an extra 1,500ft to the current runway, lengthening to a total of 12,000ft.
Mayor of Philadelphia, Jim Kenney, said: “The completion of this effort represents not only the extension of a runway and an expansion of taxiways. This project is about something bigger, which is about connecting Philadelphia to the world.
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Aviation Quote

I belong to a group of men who fly alone. There is only one seat in the cockpit of a fighter airplane. There is no space alotted for another pilot to tune the radios in the weather or make the calls to air traffic control centers or to help with the emergency procedures or to call off the airspeed down final approach. There is no one else to break the solitude of a long cross-country flight. There is no one else to make decisions.
I do everything myself, from engine start to engine shutdown. In a war, I will face alone the missiles and the flak and the small-arms fire over the front lines.
If I die, I will die alone.

- Richard Bach, Stranger to the Ground, 1963.