As the UAE celebrated innovation week, global aviation and aerospace industry leaders have identified key innovation areas they believe will transform the aviation, aerospace, defence and space industries in the near future.
Emirates SkyCargo recently shipped its 35,000th tonne of Cool Chain products through its exclusive freighter hub at Al Maktoum International-Dubai World Central (DWC), which opened earlier this year.
Etihad Airways Partner (EAP) airlines Etihad Airways, Alitalia, airberlin and Jet Airways have announced that Starcom, part of Starcom MediaVest Group, has won the contract to become the airline group's new global media agency, following a joint tender sent to several leading agency networks.
International fears over Ebola led to the postponement of the inaugural African Air Expo in Ghana last year – but now dates have been set for the revival of the Expo with the first edition being officially scheduled for 12-14 October, 2016.
The company behind the Meteor air-to-air missile’s throttleable ducted ram-rocket propulsion, Germany’s Bayern-Chemie, says a feasibility study shows the technology could power a Mach 5-plus lower-tier ballistic-missile interceptor.
Over the past 12 months dnata has invested more than GBP20 million in facilities, equipment, training and technology to support the growth of aviation in the United Kingdom.
Emirates has released the results of a study developed by Frontier Economics, a leading European consultancy, which reveals the socio-economic impact of Emirates and the wider aviation industry to the UK economy.
Its next X-plane may still be on the drawing board, but NASA is already learning the challenges it will face building and testing the aircraft, which will demonstrate distributed electric propulsion.
Commercial aviation is justifiably proud of its achievement in driving down fuel burn since the dawn of the jet age, but has it done all that it could?
Air-to-air photography and an image-processing technique that shows shock waves of a supersonic aircraft in flight will help validate design tools for low-boom demonstrator.
The Solar Impulse team in Abu Dhabi along with the Mission Control Center (MCC) in Monaco, have witnessed Solar Impulse take-off yesterday to reach Muscat, Oman, before crossing the Arabian Sea to Ahmedabad, India.
Boeing is testing a deployable wingtip feature, the first of its kind to enter service on any commercial airliner, that will increase the 777X's overall span for flight and retract for ground operations.
The country’s efforts to develop an indigenous sounding rocket and nanosat launch capability advance, as Nammo plans a suborbital test flight of a new hybrid rocket motor.
As satellites and their antennas get bigger, they become harder to launch. Spacecraft-maker Space Systems/Loral thinks on-orbit self-assembly, reconfiguration and repair using an onboard robotic arm could make satellites more powerful and more flexible over their lifetimes.
