With Airbus lighting up the sky on Saturday night – they went one better by lighting up the Dubai Airshow on Sunday’s opening day with a massive 255 Airbus A321neo and A321XLR deal with the low cost carrier consortium Indigo Partners.

After attracting new customers amid the pandemic and recovering faster from the crisis than other aviation sectors, business aviation in the region is also benefiting from warming diplomatic ties, MEBAA founder Ali Alnaqbi says.

The Middle East is a small but important market for Bombardier business jets, with customers seeking the range to travel to Europe and North America.

Gulfstream Aerospace has appointed Empire Aviation Group as the authorised international sales representative for Gulfstream business aircraft sales activities in India.

The Dubai Airshow – one of the few major aerospace events in the world to not have to cancel its event during the past two years – is all all set to welcome back the world.

RedTail Flight Academy continues the tradition of the Tuskegee Airmen.

Wichita State University’s National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) has conducted a full-scale fuselage drop test using anthropomorphic test dummies and post-mortem human passengers inside a Challenger 601 fuselage to validate advanced virtual engineering models of the same test set-up. 

Electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) air-taxi developer Overair has begun full-scale ground tests of the 20-ft.-dia. rotor system that will power a flying demonstrator of the company’s Butterfly quad-tiltrotor starting late in 2022 or early in 2023.