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Ryanair's Boeing 737s could soon share a hangar with Aer Lingus's Airbus A330s. (Photos by Gordon Gebert [top] and Mark Hsiung [bottom])

Ryanair Again Attempts Aer Lingus Takeover With $880 Million Bid

The Dublin-based low-fare airline said that it planned to offer $1.65 (€1.30) per share for control of Ireland's flag carrier, which would represent a 39 percent premium over Tuesday's closing price of Aer Lingus shares on th...
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At the Spirit AeroSystems Boeing Thank You celebration. (Photo by Spirit AeroSystems)

Boeing Execs Visit Tornado-Ravaged Spirit AeroSystems to Thank Employees

Two months after a tornado shuttered a Kansas factory that builds many critical Boeing aircraft components, some of the airframer's top brass visited Spirit AeroSystems to pay thanks to the men and women who quickly got the fac...
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Photos: Bizjet Bonanza at the NBAA Northeast Forum 2012

The annual event showed off the wares of 35 aircraft, ranging from the AgustaWestland AW139 helicopter to the Piaggio P.180 Avanti turboprop to Embraer's biggest business jet, the Lineage 1000.
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English: Mounted under the fuselage of a modified Lockheed L-1011, the Orbital Sciences X-34 technology demonstrator is taken aloft for its first captive carry flight. (Photo by NASA/Tony Landis)

Live Video: Pegasus Rocket Launch From an Lockheed L-1011 Airliner at 12:00 PM ET Wednesday

A Pegasus rocket carrying the NuStar spacecraft is set to launch from the belly of a Lockheed L-1011 flying 40,000 feet over the Pacific Ocean at around 12:00 pm ET on Wednesday.
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All that's left of CSA's ATR 42 OK-KFM is a charred pile of debris. (Photo by pozary.cz)

Two Airliners Destroyed by Hangar Fires On Consecutive Days in Prague and Antigua

A CSA Czech Airlines ATR-42 and a Dash 8-300 flown by LIAT were destroyed in separate hangar fires this past weekend.
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