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Global aircraft charter specialist Chapman Freeborn is reporting high demand for passenger charters to Johannesburg and other South African destinations ahead of next summer’s World Cup.

The world’s first conference dedicated to carbon fibre recycling offered a broad analysis of the current recycling technologies, commercial applications, the latest research results and future opportunities in this field.

Chapman Freeborn assisted with the preparations to launch to the widely-anticipated SMOS/Proba-2 on November 2nd by providing seven flights for engineers and European Space Agency (ESA) representatives over a two-month period.

Air Charter Service is enjoying a record year, and its Middle Eastern office in Dubai is leading the way...

Chapman Freeborn Airchartering's Beijing office is set to participate in the upcoming China Hangzhou Business & Private Jet Expo (CJHE) - the first Chinese international trade-oriented exposition for business and private aviation.

Chapman Freeborn Airchartering has announced the formal expansion of its global charter coverage into South Africa.

Chapman Freeborn Airchartering has reported a hugely successful first year of business for its 24-hour ACMI division.

Chapman Freeborn has completed the air transportation of 30 portable housing units from Ras al-Khaimah, UAE, to Kabul, Afghanistan in support of relief projects in the Yakatoot area, east of the capital.

Demanding applications require a keyboard built to withstand maximum abuse in all environments. The customisable "Grizzly Xtreme" is super rugged.

Q-Pulse will allow the GCAA to bridge the gap between regulator and regulated. By providing aviation organisations with direct, access to the GCAA safety and security reporting system, findings can be captured and tracked.

Waste tracking and disposal is a major concern for industry. Regulations have to be adhered to that include the requirement for regular reporting to relevant regulatory authorities. Matrix Tracker system has been created to address these needs.

Global aircraft charter specialist Chapman Freeborn has risen seven places in the Sunday Times HSBC Top Track 250 list.

Chapman Freeborn has been heavily involved with the effort to get rescue teams and emergency aid supplies to the thousands affected by the earthquake and typhoons in South East Asia and a tsunami in the South Pacific.

The global aircraft charter specialist's Poland office has assisted in a high-profile public art project dropping bookmarks containing poetry on cities that have subjected to aerial bombing raids.

Chapman Freeborn Aviation Services has reported a sharp increase in demand for passenger air charter flights to and from Iraq over the past six months.

Avoiding eye contact with strangers on public transport has become a way of life for many city dwellers, sadly especially in London, and now airlines are suggesting a tube-esque set up on their flights…

Promount is the latest tool mounting solution to be released from GSF Slides. GSF now supply a complete range of safe stowage equipment including telescopic slides, drawer slides, drawer handles, linear rails and Promount Tool Mounting Brackets.

A customer required a CCTV system that would integrate seamlessly into a control and data acquisition system for a large test facility. KineticaRT selected AXIS video over IP servers to provide the required functionality, performance and scalability.

If you never got the chance to fly Concorde whilst it was in service, don’t despair, just head to Surrey and check out the world’s first Concorde flight simulator, which will allow visitors to ‘fly' the iconic aircraft across the globe….

Strong growth has helped TBDUK, the ground support equipment manufacturer, to continue it’s business expansion plans with the acquisition of prestigious engineering company Owen Holland Engineering.

Engineers at the Institute for System Level Integration (iSLI) are to begin work on the development stage of a £3.3millon project to design a wireless sensor system set to become a standard feature of the next generation of commercial aircraft.

Award-winning company Chapman Freeborn Airchartering has reported that demand for its On Board Courier (OBC) services is increasing.

PULSE has been approved to international standards for aircraft noise certification

Alcoa’s new 20 inch forged aluminium wheel blanks use aerospace technology to improve weight and performance

MTL Group is proud to announce it has received a ‘Chairman’s Bronze Award’ from BAE Systems in the UK for the supply of processed steel armour fabrications to provide additional protection in response to recent Urgent Operational Requirements.

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Specialist UK component distributor, APC plc, has signed a distribution agreement with AVX to supply its high reliability capacitors.

News that as many as 3,700 British Airways staff will lose their jobs by next March is confirmation that the firm and the industry has been been hit badly by the global recession.

Firstco have been appointed by Costain as Systems Integrator for the Specialist Systems work at the Gatwick North Terminal Landside Redevelopment

The Crown Of Crucis Cotswolds Country Hotel has made rooms available for visitors to the

A new virtual reality version of the Apollo 11 landing has been created in Second Life (TM) by Birmingham UK based virtual world specialists Daden Limited.

The question on every IT manager mind is what makes Data Domain so hot to NetApp? The Santa Clara, California - based company is a leader in the storage category known as de-duplication.

Chapman Freeborn Airchartering has successfully arranged the first ever charter on LAN Cargo's latest addition to their fleet - a new Boeing 777 Freighter only delivered to the Miami-based airline a few days prior to the flight.

Patriot Aviation, the Cranfield and Gloucester based helicopter and fixed wing aviation business owned by Midlands entrepreneur Sir Peter Rigby, has acquired Heliflight (UK) Limited.

The Whole Truth Coalition and Exopolitics UK will hold the 1st Annual Leeds Exopolitics Expo at Leeds Metropolitan University, Civic Quarter Campus on Saturday June 27th, 2009.

Rapita Systems Ltd. today announced the latest release of version 2.2 of its on-target real-time profiling/timing analysis toolset. RapiTime is aimed at engineers developing real-time, embedded software.

One of the web's largest flight simulation portals, Fly Away Simulation has recently updated their download section featuring many new free downloads for Flight Simulator X, part of the Microsoft Flight Simulator Range.

The Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Market 2009-2019. Our market study reviews leading UAV programmes and products, with the prospects and outlook for providers of UAV systems and technologies.

The military simulation and virtual training market has seen dramatic growth in the last decade and it is expected to grow steadily over the next ten years.

Biometrics have unique physical and behavioural characteristics that can be measured by automated methods. The best known of these biometric identifiers are fingerprints, iris and facial characteristics.

The Global Airborne ISR Market 2008-18-analyses the market for airborne ISR system in leading market worldwide.The report examines how the market will develop over the next 10 years,identifying the key companies & issues that will drive your market.

Visiongain believes that pockets of opportunity within the global military communications market will remain very strong, despite the many constraining economic forces likely to impact upon military budgets during our forecast period to 2019

Unlike other friction stir welders, the LOWSTIR friction stir welding system includes a unit that attaches to most standard milling machines via an ISO taper, making it an affordable option for smaller enterprises.

Majentaonline.co.uk a authourised Autodesk UK reseller are offering a credit crunch money saver on their Autodesk 2010 product range..

Lets face it. How many people get to experience the thrill of flying a jet airliner? Well that’s what we thought and so we came up with a solution. A Flight Simulator Experience that makes you Captain.

Chapman Freeborn Airchartering played a key role in the preparation for Pope Benedict XVI's official visit to Angola, which took place last week. On behalf of its clients, the air charter firm's European offices arranged five separate flights.

Siam Water Flame Co UK Ltd unveil their latest Oxy- Hydrogen Generator for retail in Europe.

Rapita Systems announces the availability of the RTBx real-time data logger family. RTBx makes it easy to collect execution time data from virtually any embedded, real-time target with minimal impact on the execution time of the application.

Autoscribe announces the release of a new version of its ‘Feedback’ management system for use with desktop client pcs and/or over the web. The system may also be supplied as a 'managed services' system.

Experienced UK pilot and CAA approved RTF examiner Jeff McCall has broken new ground in launching the first ever UK flight radio telephony home study course.