Despite torrential rain, The Paris Air Show opened with a burst of contracts for British and European companies, including Rolls-Royce, Bodycote and Safran... more
466 passengers on the Qantas Airbus A380 forced to make an emergency landing in Singapore this month were 'very lucky' it did not explode in mid-air, killing everyone on board, aerospace experts said... more
Plane parts maker GKN wins contracts to make components for Rolls-Royce and General Electric aircraft engines and parts for Airbus’s new 350 XWB plane... more
Airbus’s parent company, EADS, dives to a heavy loss and scraps its dividend after the expense of A380 super jumbo worsened the effect of charges on the delayed A400M military aircraft... more
British engineer Senior gets over the sombre mood in the defence sector by reporting healthy sales growth and raising its profit forecasts for this year... more
Airbus has been lent £340 million by the government, a deal that should secure 5,000 jobs but which is thought to be half the amount that the plane manufacturer had wanted... more
Air France is equipping all its flights using long-haul Airbus jets with new speed sensors after last week's disaster over the Atlantic, it was announced ... more
Searchers have found 15 more bodies from a crashed Air France jet and retrieved a large amount of debris from the plane that plunged into the Atlantic in the worst air disaster since 2001... more
Interview: Sir Stelios doesn’t make it easy to run easyJet. So it’s another knight out and one more stepping in at the airline where he still calls the shots... more
Transport: The airline leasing company that oils the wheels of the global aviation industry is up for sale in an increasingly desperate attempt by its parent AIG to raise up to $10 billion... more
The three High Street banks taking refuge in the Government's lifeboat were the biggest fallers among blue-chip stocks today as City investors became increasingly disillusioned with the terms of their proposed fund-raisers.... more
When Yell was floated by its private-equity backers not all that long ago, it was fashionable for companies to have as much debt on their balance sheet as they could possibly support because that was the way to maximise the returns to shareholders. ... more
Noel Forgeard, former co-chief executive of Airbus maker Eads, has been released on bail after nearly 36 hours in Paris police custody over alleged insider trading... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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