With its first regulation allowing routine use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in national airspace now in place, the FAA is moving ahead with its next rulemaking actions to expand beyond the initial strict limitations placed on UAS use.
All Nippon Airways (ANA) has five of its Boeing 787s out of action as it continues inspections due to concerns about turbine-blade erosion in the fleet’s Rolls-Royce engines.
Mitsubishi Aircraft last week aborted two transpacific ferry flights intended to open the way for more intensive flight testing of the company’s MRJ regional jet in the U.S.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed a way of reinforcing composites using tiny carbon nanotubes (CNT) that testing has shown can increase strength by 30%.
All Nippon Airways has six of its Boeing 787s out of action as it continues inspections due to concerns about turbine blade erosion in the fleet’s Rolls-Royce engines.
Aireon, Nav Canada’s joint venture with Iridium Communications, is set to launch 10 ADS-B payload-carrying satellites via SpaceX launch vehicles in mid-September, Nav Canada CEO Neil Wilson says.
An appeals court in Amsterdam has upheld a ruling that prohibits strikes by KLM ground staff through Sept. 4, arguing that industrial actions would “very seriously” disrupt air travel at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport (AMS) during the summer holiday peak period.
Air New Zealand’s plan to accelerate the retirement of its remaining Boeing 767s will allow it to trim capacity growth and also improve fleet efficiency.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau and a government research lab will set loose “drifter buoys” along with satellite tracker-equipped models of the flaperon from MH370 found on La Reunion Island in July 2015.
Now that a new bilateral aviation agreement between Mexico and the U.S. is in force, U.S. airlines have a chance to fly to more destinations in the two countries without the restrictions mandated by the former agreement.
Alarmed by a rising number of the most severe types of runway incursions, the U.S. NTSB has launched a one-year special investigation report in cooperation with the FAA, unions and industry.
With a new U.S. administration and Congress set to take office in January, original equipment manufacturers are working methodically but quickly to line up all the necess
The head of the Air Line Pilots Association’s (ALPA) dangerous goods panel said the first draft of a performance-based packaging standard for lithium-ion batteries will not be ready by November, and will likely slip into early 2017.
