An official Chinese report outlines the efforts that Avic’s factories and research institutes are putting into advanced manufacturing technology, from friction-stir welding to resin-transfer infusion.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
