Aerospace

Panasonic Avionics is providing critical communications on board a high-tech flying hospital used to transport Ebola patients from Africa to overseas care facilities. An Airbus A340-300 aircraft, which is chartered from Lufthansa by the German Foreign office, has been converted into a hospital aircraft with isolation chambers for patients diagnosed as suffering from the disease.

Replacing tailrotor driveshafts and gearboxes with electrical generators and motors promises to increase helicopter safety and performance.

U.S. Navy’s need to fly Triton UAS in international airspace gets ahead of plans for common approach to airborne sense-and-avoid.

Mooney’s secret design partner; unmanned firefighting team; Sesar’s UAV trials; Darpa’s missile-defeating laser pod; morphing quadcopter’s narrow purpose

U.S. Air Force completes air collision prevention tests as prelude to development of fully integrated safety system for fighter aircraft.

Facing increased competition, Bombardier has updated its popular super-midsize business jet with improved avionics, more powerful engines, new winglets and cabin enhancements. For a modest price increase, the resulting Challenger 350 provides a significant increase in value.

NASA already is learning about distributed electric propulsion from a unique low-cost testbed, as it completes high-power static tests ahead of low-speed taxi trials leading to high-speed runs on the dry lakebed at Edwards AFB, California, in January.

Fusion physics is an elegant and simple concept, but it masks a series of very hard-to-solve basic engineering problems.

USAF Test Pilot School involves students in testing Auto ACAS collision avoidance system, providing benefits for all parties involved in the process.

Aviation Week Senior Editor Guy Norris takes us on a test flight of the automatic air collision avoidance system, auto ACAS, with the U.S. Air Force 416th Flight-Test Sqdn.

Ethiopian Airlines has been voted as the Best Foreign Airline of the Year from Africa at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport ( KLIA) 9th Annual Awards held on 21 November 2014.

Testing USAF’s new fighter collision avoidance poses challenges in preventing mishaps during the test-flight evaluation process

The UN coordinator announces the end of the epidemic in the area Djera, Democratic Republic of Congo. After 3 months of air rescue alongside the organizations on the ground, the end of this mission allows ASF to consider a commitment in other areas affected by the epidemic.

Aviation Africa 2015, the launch event organised by Arabian Aerospace and African Aerospace magazines is garnering strong support from the aviation industry.

According to an in-depth study conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) on behalf of DHL Express, approximately 40% of global SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) do not perceive Africa as a growth opportunity, despite the positive economic growth stories and growing middle class in the regions

Russian Helicopters has launched flight tests on the first prototype of the multirole Mi-171A2 helicopter.

Until recently, the future appeared bright for aeroengine titan Rolls-Royce.

Ethiopian Airlines has announced that it has received its fourth B777-200 LR freighter.

Unmanned aircraft are most often viewed as augmenting manned aircraft, perhaps eventually replacing some of them, but a more likely future lies in their becoming intimately essential to each other. Two new U.S. research notices give hints of such an outcome.

Real-time strain sensing allows small unmanned aircraft to redistribute lift in flight, paving the way for lighter, more flexible wings.

Lockheed Martin has crafted a new, reduced cost plan to “optionally man” its U-2.

Ethiopian Airlines has secured a USD 41.4 million 7-year junior loan facility from ING Capital LLC for the acquisition of two Boeing 777 freighter aircraft.

Jettainer is taking over the supervision and maintenance of containers and pallets for Equatorial Congo Airlines (ECAir).

Flying far is more important than flying fast, Japanese fighter technologists have found in studies aimed at defining their country’s next combat aircraft. Researchers are also emphasizing that Japan’s next fighter should share targeting data and carry a big internal load of large, high-performance missiles.

Air Partner and Envirotainer have been assisting in the humanitarian response to the Ebola crisis.