He may have reversed his campaign position on the export credit agency, but U.S. President Donald Trump is remaining consistent when it comes to one aspect of who will run the Export-Import Bank under his administration: It will be a critic.
To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected]. For a complete list of Aviation Week Network’s upcoming events, and to register, visit www.aviationweek.com/events (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) Apr. 21— The Society of Experimental Test Pilots, 7th Annual Flight Test Northwest Symposium, Museum of Flight, Seattle, Washington, http://www.setp.org/symposium/meetings/northwest/
Israel’s Urban Aeronautics is talking to potential partners and investors about developing a four-seat “flying car” based on the Cormorant vertical-takeoff-and-landing unmanned transport aircraft in prototype flight testing.
UPS has expanded its global dangerous good shipping policies to include 400 new products that can be shipped on its air network worldwide, the company said in a statement.
Arconic Chairman and CEO Klaus Kleinfeld, who led the breakup of Alcoa in 2016 and the formation of his aerospace-focused successor, suddenly has left the positions at the top due to “poor judgment,” as part of an activist shareholder dispute.
AWES is a potential alternative to wind turbines. The technology, developed by Ampyx, uses a fixed-wing autonomous air vehicle tethered to an offshore platform.
The technology can be used to protect the leading edges of wings; horizontal and vertical stabilizers; engine inlet lips; and vanes and aircraft nose cones and is suitable for commercial; regional; business aircraft; rotorcraft; and unmanned aircraft.
In a recent regulatory filing with the U.S. Transportation Department, Southwest argued that the other airline does not satisfy ownership requirements under the U.S.-Costa Rica air transport agreement.
The viral video of a 69-year-old man being violently dragged off a United Express jet April 9 for refusing to give up his paid seat was just too much for the U.S. Congress to pass up.
U.S. President Donald Trump believes the bank, which provides loan guarantees and other assistance to foreign customers buying U.S. goods, “is a very good thing." That is a reversal of what he said while campaigning for office.
A newly established unit in HNA Group’s business-aviation empire has received its air operator’s certificate from the civil aviation authority of Guernsey, a British dependency in the English Channel.
The first 737-9, the second member of Boeing’s 737 MAX family, made its first flight from the company’s Renton, Washington, facility on April 13, marking the start of a planned nine-month flight test and certification campaign.
A nearly head-on runway collision at 134 kt. between a departing Batik Air Boeing 737-800 and an unpowered TransNusa Aviation ATR 42-600 in Jakarta on the night of April 4, 2016, could not have been avoided, even if the 737 crew aborted the takeoff at the first sign of trouble.
The lawyer representing David Dao, the passenger violently dragged off a United Airlines flight April 9, said he is preparing to file a lawsuit against United for using “unreasonable force and violence” against the passenger.
Despite satisfaction about the continuing prosperity of the French aerospace industry, lobbying group GIFAS expressed concern April 13 that a notable proportion of small- and medium-sized enterprises are making losses.
