Aerospace

Ethiopian Airlines has announced that it has - for the fifth year in a row - won the 2015 Airline Reliability Performance Award from Bombardier Aerospace on May 26 at the Sheraton Arabellapark Hotel in Munich, Germany.

EgyptAir has recently visited the New Suez Canal project, due to be opened in August. The delegation was headed by Capt. Sameh El-Hefny, Chairman and CEO of EGYPTAIR Holding Co. and Capt. Ahmed Adel, the vice president, in addition to CEOs and a group of the senior managers of the company.

Ibdar Bank (Ibdar, the Bahrain based Islamic wholesale investment bank, together with Dubai-based Palma Holding received the African Aviation Awards' “Aircraft Finance Deal of the Year” for their successful structuring of a 12-year agreement for acquiring four brand new Bombardier Q400 Next Gen aircrafts and leasing them to the Ethiopian Airlines.

NASA advances supersonics; robots meet Darpa’s challenge; wood to fuel Alaska flights; UAVs inspect EasyJet airliners; kite-surfing UAVs, “drone”-detecting radar and all-in-one 3-D-printed UAV.

Volcanic eruptions can cause widespread flight disruptions. Now Israel’s Elbit is working to upgrade its low-visibility enhanced vision systems to detect ash clouds.

AFRL updates its unmanned-aircraft sense-and-avoid system to reflect latest position on requirements for access to national airspace.

OEMs must question assumptions about what makes the supply chain competitive and rethink the way they allocate resources accordingly.

It is supersonic chicken-and-egg: a low-boom demonstrator is needed to enable quiet supersonic transport, but is there market demand for a demonstrator?

Turkey has been stirred by the unmanned revolution but can all the platforms under development find customers?

Malaysia’s CTRM has learned a thing or two in overcoming production difficulties.

Global satcom solutions provider INMARSAT says a Gulf carrier will sign up for its new GX Aviation service, billed as the first truly global, high-speed broadband in the skies, at next month's Dubai Airshow, writes Barbara Saunders.

EW & Radar Turkey 2016 is to take place 22-23 March next year in Ankara.

A senior delegation comprising of key dignitaries and officials from the global Aviation sector visited the Air Traffic Management facility in Dubai Air Navigation Services offices (DANS) in Al Maktoum International Airport (Dubai South).

ECAir has highlighted its plans to play a part in implementing a real strategy of cooperation between African airlines at the 71st Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), which is combined with the World Air Transport Summit, taking place 7-9 June at the Loews Miami Beach Hotel in Miami, USA.

Ethiopian Airlines has announced that Ethiopian Airlines chief executive officer Tewolde Gebremariam was awarded the 2015 International Grand Prix special ‪award on Wednesday June 3, 2015 in a ceremony held in Milan.

The first Routes Middle East and Africa event was held in Bahrain on the May 31 – June 2, 2015 and one Middle East exhibitor, Oman Airports, was looking to build direct routes with African carriers and partner with Oman Air to enhance the Muscat hub connectivity.

Even with massive damage inflicted deliberately, advanced stitched carbon-fiber structure passes NASA tests with flying colors.

As the 757 ecoDemonstrator program ends, Boeing studies options for what comes next.

Russia’s low-drag, low-noise airliner; Google undeterred by solar UAV crash; Europe to take down space debris; university research: modeling vortices, deterring birds, quieter honeycomb, sound-wave inspections.

The solar powered aircraft of Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg - Solar Impulse 2 - has achieved the longest exploration leg of its Round-The-World mission, completing its trip from Japan to Hawaii.

Etihad Airways continues to support global arts and culture by becoming one of the main partners of the Zurich Film Festival, which takes place from 24 September to 4 October 2015.

Turkish Airlines has won two awards at Airfinance Journal's Awards Night, which is considered to be the “Oscars” of the aviation finance.

Etihad Airways has retained its title as the Middle East's Leading Airline for a ninth consecutive year at the World Travel Awards.

Finmeccanica–AgustaWestland has delivered an AW139 intermediate twin engine helicopter to the Government of Ivory Coast for passenger transport missions, making it the first AW139 to enter service on the Ivory Coast.

With commercial aircraft output continuing to rise and military aircraft production set to increase, Aviation Week looks at the pressures facing the global aerospace industry.