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European aerospace giant Airbus won a $1.33 billion deal on June 30 to supply air refuelling tankers to South Korea, beating US rival Boeing, Seoul's military procurement agency said.

Planemaker Airbus increased its 20-year forecast for jet demand by nearly 4 percent on June 15, driven by growth in emerging markets in the Asia-Pacific region and China.

Airbus sees demand for 32,600 new planes worth nearly $5 trillion, up from a previous forecast in September for 31,358 planes worth $4.6 trillion, it said at the Paris Airshow.

European aircraft maker Airbus believes the United States will be the biggest customer for its A400M military transport plane, despite a fatal crash involving one of them during a test flight last month.

Airbus is "watching with interest" to see whether United Technologies Corp (UTC) puts its Sikorsky helicopter business up for sale, the head of Airbus' US division said on June 8.

UTC expects to make a decision on whether the conglomerate will divest Sikorsky in a couple of months.

Tesla Motors boss Elon Musk says his companies don?t need an estimated $4.9 billion in government support they receive, but justified the aid in the cause of creating clean energy.

The billionaire eco-entrepreneur added that the amount was a ?pittance? compared to what the oil and gas industries receive.

Boeing and Turkish Airlines have celebrated a milestone with the delivery of the airline's 125th airplane purchased from Boeing, a Next-Generation 737-900ER, one of 12 airplanes that the Turkish flag-carrier will take delivery of this year, the companies announced in a press release on May 12. 

An Airbus A400M military plane crashed into a field 1.6 kilometers north of San Pablo airport in Seville in southern Spain on May 9 while apparently on a test flight, officials said.

Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said between eight and 10 people were on board, Spanish newspaper El Pais reported. The prime minister's office could not confirm the comments.

The United States announced on March 31 it was lifting its hold on the supply of military equipment to Egypt, which was frozen when the military took power in Cairo nearly two years ago.
   

The air disaster in the French Alps cannot be explained by the age of the Germanwings Airbus A320, which at 24-years-old should still have been in excellent condition, experts said Tuesday.        

Two US astronauts on March 1 stepped out on the third spacewalk to prepare the International Space Station for the arrival of more commercial spacecraft in the coming years.
      
Barry Wilmore and Terry Virts began the spacewalk at 6:52 am (1152 GMT).