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Real drama or hoax? Balloon goes up on boy in the attic who sparked alert

16.10.09

Dramatic story of the six-year-old American boy who was feared trapped in a runaway homemade helium balloon may all have been a hoax... more

British arms company struggles in US market

18.09.09

Chemring became the latest British arms company to report that a major US military contract has gone with a whimper rather than a bang.... more

US targets Cobham in survival-gear probe

16.07.09

British defence group Cobham has been raided by Pentagon and NASA investigators... more

F22 fighter withdrawn from Paris in spy row

15.06.09

Depressed it may be in the teeth of the worst slump in history but the much-awaited fixture of the aviation industry, the Paris Air Show, took off amid a Franco-American spying row... more

WORLD: Plot to blow up American jets and Jews

21.05.09

Four Muslims have been arrested over a plot to shoot down US military aircraft and simultaneously blow up two synagogues in New York... more

Here comes top-security travelling White House

30.03.09

White House aides are putting the finishing touches to President Barack Obama's eagerly anticipated first major foreign trip ... more

Captain Cool: Darling, I've had an accident

16.01.09

The pilot who crash-landed his plane into the Hudson river called his wife and said: "There's been an accident."... more

Obama 'might favour' Boeing over Airbus

11.09.08

Engineering: Analysts are trying to second-guess US presidential candidates' positions on the disputed US Air Force tanker deal... more

One small step for Southfork: Pam in talks to pilot Branson's virgin flight to space

02.08.08

Former Dallas star Victoria Principal is aiming to be the first woman commercial pilot in space. She has revealed she wants to pilot the company’s SpaceShipTwo.... more

Kristofferson joins Obama�s backing band

28.03.08

Not afraid to speak his mind as far as politics is concerned, Kris Kristofferson shows support for Barack Obama.... more

US tanker deal row escalates

20.03.08

Defence giant Northrop Grumman has heightened the war of words with Boeing over a controversial air-tanker contract from the US Air Force... more

Right show, wrong critic

05.10.07

Basic training has plenty of laughs, but is essentially a rollercoaster monologue about racism, relationships and reconciliation.... more

It's just a boy thing, dude

26.07.07

Transformers have always been boy-toys and this may explain why, of all the summer blockbusters, this one feels the most macho. ... more

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