France-based Airbus AS has secured a total of 211 orders at the 12th Dubai Airshow worth $20.5 billion. The order involves 135 firm orders worth $13.7 billion (130 A320neo and five A380s) and 76 memorandum of understanding (MoU) worth $6.8 billion.
Qatar Airways finally returned to the table to sign a $6.5-billion deal with Airbus.
Boeing (NYSE: BA) anticipates that the Middle Eastern airlines will need an estimated 2,520 airplanes worth $450 billion by 2030.
Oman Air, the Sultanate of Oman's flagship carrier, and Boeing (NYSE: BA) announced an order for six Boeing 787-8s at the Dubai Air Show.
Brazilian aerospace conglomerate, Embraer sees a market demand of 310 jets in the 60-120 passenger jet segment in the Middle-East in the period 2011-2030.
Emirates Airlines kicked-off the Dubai Air Show on Sunday with a huge order for 50 long-range Boeing 777 valued at $18 billion. This is the single largest commercial airplane order in Boeing's history by dollar value.
Emirates airline placed a blockbuster order for 50 Boeing 777 jetliners at the Dubai Air Show on Sunday, underscoring the confidence brimming among fast-growing Gulf airlines despite growing fears of stalling global growth.
Emirates airline placed a blockbuster order for 50 Boeing 777 jetliners at the Dubai Air Show on Sunday, underscoring the confidence brimming among fast-growing Persian Gulf airlines despite growing fears over the world economy.
A Boeing Co. airplane order worth as much as $15 billion from host airline Emirates looked set to fire up the Dubai Air Show on Sunday as Gulf airlines expand in the face of growing fears over the world economy.
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Astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of wounded Representative Gabrielle Giffords, was scheduled to fly aerobatics in a P-51 Mustang in the Reno air show on Saturday, a Giffords' spokesman said.
The death toll in the vintage plane crash at the Air Race Show in Reno, Nevada, rose to nine on Saturday. The authorities said that the pilot and eight spectators were killed and several others injured.
Nine people were killed and more than 50 others were injured when a vintage World War Two fighter plane crashed near the grandstand at a Nevada air race, authorities said on Saturday.
Investigators were still trying to find out what exactly caused the World War II vintage racing plane to plunge toward spectators at the Reno air races on Friday.
A vintage World War II plane crashed into a crowd and killed at least 12 people in Nevada on Friday.
Just as a Russian company announced its big idea to build an orbiting hotel 217 miles above earth, A Russian Progress M-12M cargo ship has crashed nto the Altai Republic failing to reach orbit.
Just as a Russian company announced its big idea to build an orbiting hotel 217 miles above earth, A Russian Progress M-12M cargo ship has failed to reach orbit, according to the Interfax news agency.
It may take a while to get there, but it seems that the prospect of a space hotel is not that far off as a Russian company announces plans to build an orbiting hotel 217 miles above Earth.
It was a horrific tragedy amid Sunday's the air show where sky divers and stunt pilots entertained thousands of audience at Selfridge Air National Guard base, when a stunt wing walker plunged 200 feet to his death.
A wingwalker at an air show near Detroit fell to his death on Sunday, after he tried to transfer from an aircraft to a helicopter and plunged about 200 feet to the ground, officials said.
An avalanche of airplane orders from the largest U.S. airlines may be on the way, with at least four major carriers in talks to buy fuel-efficient narrow-body planes to renew aging fleets.
World's first serial hybrid electric aircraft was unveiled at the Paris Air Show, Le Bourget 2011. The DA36 E-Star aircraft is developed and designed by EADS and Siemens, with the goal of reducing noise and emissions by 25%.