2012-01-17 (China Military News cited from gulf-daily-news.com) -- Saudi Arabia has agreed to co-operate with China on the civilian use of nuclear energy as part of a package of deals, Saudi state news agency SPA reported.
It did not provide further details on the nuclear co-operation agreement which was signed by ... READ MORE

2012-01-16 (China Military News cited from ezega.com) --  Ethiopian Airlines has awarded a new maintenance hangar construction project worth 100 million dollars to the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) after a competitive bid, according to Capital.
“The maintenance hangar has been awarded to AVIC and we are talking about the ... READ MORE

2012-01-13 (China Military News cited from The Straits Times and by Grace Ng) -- The Singapore Air Show hopes to build a bigger Chinese presence at its exhibitions, as China moves towards becoming the world's No. 2 aviation market in the next two decades.
It hopes to offer a stage for Chinese ... READ MORE

2012-01-11 (China Military News cited from australianaviation.com.au) -- Eurocopter has released enhanced performance specifications for its EC175 medium utility helicopter, due to begin deliveries later this year.
Under the revised specs, Eurocopter upped the baseline payload/radius of action capacity to 16 passengers at 135 nautical miles, a 30 per cent increase ... READ MORE

2012-01-05 (China Military News cited from china.org.cn) -- China's largest-ever civil helicopter on Thursday received its certification from the Civil Aviation Administration of China, the country's civil aviation authority.
The move marks the official approval for the 13-tonne AC313, Asia's largest helicopter, to enter the market, said the Aviation Industry Corporation ... READ MORE

2012-01-02 (China Military News cited from ainonline.com and by Thierry Dubois) -- Lao Airlines, the national airline of Laos, expects to take delivery of its first Avic “Modern Ark” MA600 turboprop “sometime after February,” marking the 56-seat turboprop’s entry into revenue service outside China. The only other two existing MA600s, ... READ MORE

2011-12-29 (China Military News cited from Chinanews.com and by Wang Jian) -- The manufacture of the “leading edge slat” of China's large C919 passenger plane started on Dec. 26 in the AVIC Changhe Aircraft Industry Group, according to the Office of Scientific and Technological Industry of National Defense in Jiangxi ... READ MORE

2011-12-27 (China Military News cited from Guangming Daily) -- The Chinese Academy of Aerospace Engineering and Technology Development Strategy, China's first state-level aerospace strategy research institute, was founded in Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics on Dec. 25.
The academy will cooperate with the yet-to-be-built National Laboratory of Aeronautics and Technology ... READ MORE

2011-12-21 (China Military News cited from Xinhua) -- On the morning of Dec. 9, Su Bo, vice minister of Industry and Information Technology announced that the research and development work of the preliminary design stage for C919 large passenger aircraft had been complete and valid, and the overall technical scheme ... READ MORE