Aviation News - December 2004

General

Marine Explorers Search for Earhart Plane

Small Plane Crashes After Landing On a 18-wheeler

Tragedy Strikes Texas Air Aces...Again

Commercial

Chinese Aviation Opening Wider to EU

Japan Airlines orders 30 Boeing 7E7

Man Makes Bomb Threat On US Airways Flight

Flying This Christmas? Be careful what you pack!

Boeing Confirms 64 Orders for 7E7

Airbus near 1.4 billion dollar deal with China on 5 A380

Airshows

Snowbird Accidents

2 Snowbirds Crash during Training, 1 Pilot Dead

Military

BAE Shows off new JSF Helmet

North Korea Deploys New Missiles

China Spies on Canadian Science And Tech

Palestinian Groups Building Homemade Missiles

China Plans to Purchase New Weapons from Russia

China and Russia to Hold Large Military Exercise

F-16s Give Demonstrations at AeroIndian 2005

F-22 Crashes, Pilot Ejected

Korea to Introduce F-15K

Iran "will defend nuclear sites"

B-2 Spirit Finds New Home in the UK

Ariane Rocket Launches French Spy Satellite

US Prepares to Shut Down GPS Satellites

Eurofighter Tranche 2 Officially Signed

Salyut MMP to Deliver 250 Engines for Chinese J-10

First US Missile Defence Test Fails

Bell Helicopter Readies For V-22 Full Rate Production

Commies on the Rise, China and Russia to conduct first joint military exercise

Three Russian GLONASS (GPS) Satellites Ready for Launch

Thales Welcomes 59 Orders for Rafale

Blue Angel Down

India to Purchase Gripens?

Misc

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Merry Christmas

UFO explodes Chinese City

Russia Unveils New Clipper Spaceship

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