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Airbus

The team from the New York City Police tug on the rope connected to the Airbus A320 during the fourth annual 'Plane Pull' May 20, 2013 at JFK airport in New York. Teams of police officers from London's Metropolitan Police Service, city police officers, state police troopers and employees of British Airways PLC and JetBlue Airways Corp. race to move the Airbus A320 jet 100 feet in the fastest time, during the competition to benefit the charity Joining Against Cancer in Kids. The team had the winning time of 26 seconds.

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  • China signs deal to buy 60 Airbus jetliners

    political leverage. Purchases often are announced in connection with high-level official contacts.France reported a $34 billion trade deficit with China last year and accounts for less than 2 percent of Chinese foreign trade.___Airbus: www.airbus.com   Read more »

  • Airbus to drop lithium-ion batteries in A350

    with the 787 batteries remain unclear, Airbus decided to make the switch "to optimize program certainty," Greczyn said. Airbus is a unit of Netherlands-based EADS NV.The Wall Street Journal first reported on Airbus' decision to drop the lithium-ion batteries,   Read more »

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About Airbus

Airbus SAS (pronounced /ˈɛərbʌs/ in English, /ɛʁbys/ in French, and /ˈɛːɐbʊs/ in German) is an aircraft manufacturing subsidiary of EADS, a European aerospace company. Based in Toulouse, France, and with significant activity across Europe, the company produces around half of the world's jet airliners.

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