Aerospace

By Joe Anselmo, Guy Norris
Aviation Week editors discuss the failures by Orbital Sciences and Virgin Galactic.
Space

The Dubai Airshow will return in 2015 from the 8-12 November, at its purpose built venue, Dubai World Central.
Aerospace

Abu Dhabi Airports along with Abu Dhabi Convention Bureau, and Etihad Airways will host 1000 delegates from over 200 airlines and airports at this year's 134th IATA Slots Conference taking place from the 10th – 12th June at Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre.
Aerospace

MEBAA has announced the launch of an extended MAIS programme.
Aerospace

David Storch, chairman and chief executive of AAR has been named to the US President's advisory council on 'Doing Business in Africa,' a 15-member panel of private sector business leaders charged with helping the American administration strengthen commercial engagement between the United States and Africa.
Aerospace

A new summit and exhibition covering the dynamic growth of African aviation and its strong links with Middle East investment, support and competition is to be held in Dubai next year.
Aerospace

By Steve Nichols
Arabian Aerospace has been at Day One of the Airport Show in Dubai. In our exclusive video programme we talk to event director Daniyal Querishi about what the show offers; Rene Vuillemin of Europoles about its innovative airport lighting; Volker Brandt of Nerak describes its luggage conveyor systems; and Richard Isles of Ultra Global PRT explains how it can automatically transport airport passengers from A to B.
Aerospace

News and financial agency Reuters has reported that the board of Alitalia – Italian national airline - will be meeting on Monday to consider a proposition from Abu Dhabi's Etihad Airways to buy almost half of the ailing Italian carrier.
Air Transport

Senior Editor for Avionics and Safety John Croft visits Honeywell's Flight Deck of the Future (FD-X) Lab to see some of the advanced technologies being developed there, including eye-tracking, gesture- and voice-control modalities for next-gen cockpits.
Air Transport

Universal Avionics is about to certify a new flight deck called InSight that tightens the working relationship between pilot and machine with a blend of higher-resolution 3-D synthetic vision, larger displays and new icon-based command-and-control architecture. The system is the first major integrated cockpit refresh in nearly a decade from the company that first certified synthetic vision for the multifunction display in 2002, light airplanes in 2005 and air transport cockpits in 2006.
Aerospace

Engineers at Honeywell’s Flight Deck of the Future Lab help develop advanced cockpit technologies
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Biggest challenge to delivering packages direct to customers using unmanned aircraft may be the recipients themselves.
Aerospace

New avionics company Genesys Aerosystems, an amalgam of S-Tec and Chelton Flight Systems, is concentrating on special missions needs to make its mark in the Avionics realm
Aerospace

After astronauts install a special 3-D printer in the ISS’s Microgravity Science Glovebox and set up the high-definition video cameras that will watch its extruder and work platform from two different angles, controllers at a small startup company in California will send signals to begin making things in orbit.
Space

By Antoine Gelain
Musk’s approach strikes me as very similar to one used by another great creator and businessman of his time: Walt Disney.
Space

AIM Aviation is sponsoring the Etihad Airways Worldwide Staff Conference 2014.
Aerospace

By Fred George
Improving on the best-selling super-midsize jet
Business Aviation

Air traffic safety in African airspace and environmental sustainability dominated discussions and presentations at the third annual Air Traffic & Navigation Services (ATNS) AVI Afrique 2014 Africa Aviation Innovation Summit held yesterday, 28th October 2014 at the CSIR International Convention Centre in Pretoria.
Aerospace

Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises will be presented with Denel's Annual Report for the 2013-14 financial years.
Aerospace

A fully loaded Norwegian aircraft with emergency aid will head for The Central African Republic (CAR).
Aerospace

Ethiopian Airlines Aviation Academy is equipping its training fleet of Cessna 172 Skyhawk piston aircraft with the latest 155hp turbodiesel aero-engines from Continental Motors.
Maintenance & Training

Night Vision Goggles (NVG) have been introduced for use by helicopter pilots flying for the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) air ambulance.
Aerospace

The newly established Algerian flight academy -Aviation Training School (ATS) – part of the Red Med Group, located in Hassi Messaoud (Algeria), has launched its business with a DA40 NG from Diamond Aircraft with option for further expansion in 2015.
Maintenance & Training

Repairing what is arguably the most complex single part of an engine calls for staying on top of technology in your workshop.
MRO

By William Garvey
Terrafugia continues to make inroads on its quest to be a ‘flying automobile’ or roadster aircraft, depending on your point of view
Business Aviation