China's attempts to modernise its armed forces have brought big increases in defence spending every year for several years, and the shopping-list is still growing: fighter aircraft, frigates, nuclear submarines and now aircraft-carriers.
He was referring instead to the genetic fact that he is a great grandson of Clyde Cessna, an early airplane manufacturer and one of the founders of the private aviation industry that ultimately spawned today's rapidly growing business-aircraft market.
Through its innovations and the growing range of aircraft offered, the European consortium became the second largest maker of commercial aircraft worldwide, deferring only to Boeing while relegating McDonnell Douglas to a distant third place by the mid 1990s (prior to its merger with Boeing in 1997).
The commercial aircraft maker Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáutica plans to develop regional jets with the China Aviation Industry Corporation II in an effort to tap China's growing demand for aircraft.
JetBlue increased its second-quarter capacity by 101percentt over the period last year, and it is growing about 15 aircraft a year.
The government could have stepped in later to allow only those airlines with credible business plans to fly again.Lessor of two evils?Arguably, however, the most significant change in the industry since the early 1990s has been the growing role of aircraft lessors.
The results of this study, when taken in conjunction with the authors previous studies into cracks growing under combat aircraft load spectra, illustrate how for cracks that grow from small naturally occurring material discontinuities under operational load spectra crack growth can often be easily and accurately computed.
Now fast enough to accompany Japan's growing fleet of aircraft carriers, she was reclassified as a fast battleship.
On 1 June 1935, the Kongō was dry-docked at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal in preparation for upgrades that would enable her to escort Japan's growing fleet of aircraft carriers.
Malaysia said it received new satellite images from French authorities showing "potential objects in the vicinity of the southern corridor," an area where a growing number of aircraft and ships have been combing for traces of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
During the war it had been demonstrated that battleship-on-battleship engagements like Leyte Gulf or the sinking of were the exception and not the rule, and with the growing role of aircraft engagement ranges were becoming longer and longer, making heavy gun armament irrelevant.
