Etihad Airways, in collaboration with the National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD), has launched two community outreach activities in Kenya with donations of blankets and school supplies to the Dream Children's Home, and the Children in Freedom organisation.
General Electric’s T700 is one of the most-produced military engines. Now the U.S. Army has launched a competition to replace the popular turboshaft and reengine its AH-64 Apaches and UH-60 Black Hawks.
Kuwait looks set to abandon the existing privatisation process for its flag-carrier in favour of a watered-down flotation that will leave 75% of the airline under government control, chief executive Rasha Al Roumi said.
For many years Africa has been seen as a high-risk investment. Access to structured finance has been hard to break through, but are things changing? From modernising fleets to introducing new business aircraft, international markets are responding.
Boeing could have sustained the venerable C-17 line profitably for at least few more years, but several factors dictated that closing it is the smarter way to go.
Wide-area imaging for ScanEagle; parafoil sensor extends ship’s horizon; new look at anti-misting kerosene to prevent fuel explosions; new variable-stability helicopter with train test pilots; hybrid cargo airship nears design freeze.
Sikorsky looks forward to working with Lockheed Martin, post-merger, on defining the next steps for the so-far industry-funded S-97 Raider high-speed helicopter program.
The key challenge to integrating the two systems is to avoid scenarios in which evading one threat might inadvertently put the aircraft in danger from another type of collision.
After an eleven hour pit-stop in Muscat (Oman) made by Solar Impulse's CEO and co-founder André Borschberg, the attempt of achieving the First Round-The-World Solar Flight continued onwards to India.
The third edition of World ATM Congress opened today at the IFEMA Feria de Madrid and is expected to top last year's record attendance of 6,265 individuals from around the world. This year's Delegate Conference features a new format and a strong programme of high level speakers discussing the key challenges facing the industry. The Exhibition offers 104 free education sessions in multiple theatres, including the WiMAX Forum. In three short years, World ATM Congress has grown to become the largest air traffic management (ATM) exhibition in the world.
Middle East airlines including Saudi Arabian Airlines, Oman Air, Airlines, Qatar Airways, and Etihad, have made the shortlist for the Airline Amenity Bag Awards in Hamburg in April.
The Middle East and North Africa Business Aviation Association (MEBAA) has signed the official agreement for the organisation of MEBAA Show Morocco with El Aoufir Zouhir, director of the Office National Des Aéroports (ONDA), at an official ceremony in the presence of Aziz Rebbah; the minister of equipment, transport and logistics.
As fans get bigger to reduce fuel consumption, so do nacelles, and new designs are needed to reduce drag and weight. Enter UTC Aerospace Systems’ ecoIPS “shrink-wrap” nacelle for future airliners.
A paradigm shift is underway, whereby historical players from the old military-industrial complex are bound to become marginalized and lose out to the new players of the digital economy.
Aspen Medical International (AMI) will this week begin operating a Beechcraft Corporation 1900C (B1900C) from James Spriggs Payne Airport, Monrovia, Liberia.
Norway’s Norsk Titanium to partner with U.S. state to create a factory to enable industrial-scale additive manufacturing of aerospace-grade components.
Spurred by consumer demand, enabled by consumer electronics, cubesats are becoming more capable and commercially viable, says Scotland-based developer Clyde Space.
Team hopes stratospheric mountain waves and polar night jet stream will combine to propel Perlan 2 glider into the stratosphere and a record altitude for sustained level flight of 90,000 ft.
In partnership with Eastern Airways, Bristow Africa is in the final stages of launching a new jet charter service between Lagos and the Port Harcourt Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Base using Bristow-branded Embraer 135 aircraft.
Africa is to get its own business aircraft show following a deal signed today by the continent's business aviation association, AfBAA and Times Aerospace publisher of African Aerospace.
