Aerospace

MENA Aerospace is to participate in this year's Dubai Airshow, marking the second time the company has taken part in the prestigious event.

With FAA approval to use unmanned aircraft for aerial photography and a deal with Planet Labs to buy satellite imagery, Woolpert plans to bring the two together to enable new geospatial information services.

South African Airways (SAA) is exploring emergency funding options as part of a 90-day action plan intended to restore the state-owned carrier to solvency after it confirmed today that it is “technically insolvent”.

Studies suggest that with air transportation demand set to double by 2030, nearly a million new pilots, maintenance technicians, air traffic controllers and cabin crew will be needed to keep the industry moving forward.

Unmanned aircraft guides firefighting robot; carrier landings made easier; a simpler approach to thrust vectoring; unmanned helicopter competes on cost with cargo trucks; Europe steps up work on reusable spaceflight.

Low-cost X-planes, electric propulsion and autonomous vehicles to get a boost under NASA’s aeronautics research plans for 2015 and 2016.

Bell Helicopter has announced the successful first flight of the Bell 525 Relentless. The maiden flight of the super-medium helicopter took place at the company's aircraft assembly centre in Amarillo, Texas.

From X-planes to the “black budget” to where the U.S. is placing its technology bets for the future, our editors discuss what’s buried in President Obama’s fiscal 2016 budget request to Congress.

Two people who'd fallen in love after meeting on a Turkish Airlines flight returned, exactly one year later, to take their romance to another level.

The Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) has announced the expansion of its Basic Aviation Risk Standard (BARS) suite of documents aimed at managing aviation risk for contracted aircraft operations.

The time is right to consider the propensity of the A&D industry to innovate and the aimpoints on which its response to the Pentagon’s call should be targeted.

On the 100th anniversary of NACA, NASA rededicates itself to pursuing the fundamental technologies that made its predecessor so successful.

Aviation Africa, organised by Arabian Aerospace and African Aerospace magazines, is gathering senior, influential industry figures from both Africa and the Middle East for the Aviation African 2015 event taking place May 10-11 2015 in Dubai.

Etihad Airways carried a record number of passengers and cargo in 2014, marking its strongest operational performance to date.

The African Business Aviation Association (AfBAA) has announced that its Regional Symposium for this year will be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Dr. David Leffler, Executive Director at the Center for Advanced Military Science (CAMS) in Fairfield, Iowa offers a new option for military planners.

Flying in the dark when manned aircraft are grounded for safety, Lockheed Martin’s Indago small quadcopter provides fire intelligence.

Any budget-driven delay in the Future Vertical Lift program would put at risk industry’s ability to develop an advanced rotorcraft, warns the U.S. Army.

JAXA flight-tests electric propulsion; laser images airflow over A320 in flight; 3-D printing an engine combustor casing; small UAS takes water samples; Bicycle Shop, a nod to the past with an eye on the future.

Ethiopian Airlines and Liège Airport, Belgium, have agreed to extend for another five years their win-win partnership for the transport of air cargo between Africa and Europe.

Students of post-Cold War aerospace are intimately familiar with the Last Supper.

GE makes strides in lightweight ceramic matrix composite blade technology.

Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS) SOC has contributed to the refurbishing of a rural school's library, by providing much-needed Information and Communications Technology (ICT) infrastructure which include Broadband Internet Connectivity and End-User Equipment.

Botswana's Police Service (BPS) today signed for a contract for three new AS350 B3e 'Ecureuil” Airbus Helicopters aircraft for its Police Air Support Branch.

DHL Express has won a record number of external awards for its business in Sub Saharan Africa in 2014 – almost triple that of 2013 – demonstrating the success from its 2014 strategy to create greater service quality and increase employee engagement.