Airbus Family Flight
Air show with an A350 XWB, an A400M, an Eurofighter Typhoon and an H160 helicopter.
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First crash of an A400M in Spain
/Voir la version française plus bas/ One of the new A400M military transport aircraft crashed Saturday, May 9 near Seville in southern Spain. It was a test flight, conducted systematically before a new airplane is delivered to the customer. This usually occurs with a reduced crew. This is the first accident of this type of…
Russian Super Aircraft Carrier – Project 23000E (Shtorm)
Project 23000E or Shtorm (Storm) is a multi-purpose, heavy aircraft carrier project being designed by the Krylov State Research Center for the Russian Navy. The cost of the supercarrier is estimated as being between $1.8 billion and $5.63 billion (at August 2015 exchange rates), with development expected to take ten years. The carrier is being…
Spanish BPC to Turkey
The projection ship ordered by Turkey will based on the Spain LHD ship Juan Carlos 1 (built by the Spanish shipyard Navantia) which also serve as the base of 2 futurs Australian Canberra-class landing helicopter dock (LHD) HMAS Canberra and HMAS Adelaide. In 2004, French company Direction des Constructions Navales (DCN) and Spanish company Navantia…
2017 : A Continental Free Trade Area in Africa?
Under the aegis of the African Union, the 54 states will set up a “Schengen-like” borderless area in 2017 to boost trade. Negotiations for the establishment of a Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) in Africa were formally launched in June 2015 at the African Union Summit in Johannesburg. A year later, a boost seems to…