Aerospace

As Airbus decides to terminate A380 production, IBA asks what the future holds for airlines and investors.

Ethiopian Cargo & Logistics Services, Africa’s largest cargo operator, has been crowned with ‘African Cargo Airline of the Year’ and ‘Air Cargo Brand of the Year in Africa’ Awards for the fourth year in a row at the STAT Times International Awards for Excellence in Air Cargo held from February 19 to 21 in Johannesburg.

The Airbus Foundation, together with its partners – The Little Engineer and Dare to Dream – has launched the Airbus Little Engineer robotics programme in Botswana.

French helicopter company, Héli-Union, has announced a new partnership with Angolan business jet charter operator and service and maintenance provider, Bestfly, writes Jon Lake.

Rolls’ composite fan and case evaluation marks the next step toward full-scale UltraFan flight-test demonstration.

CityAirbus arriving; Siemens-powered regional; tackling icing dangers; a better Hero; electrifying rotorcraft.

Ethiopian Airlines has finalised all preparations to once again celebrate International Women’s Day by operating an All- Women Functioned Flight this time on Addis Ababa – Stockholm - Oslo route on March 08, 2019.

O.R Tambo International Airport, South Africa’s biggest and busiest port of entry, was named African Airport of the Year at this week’s Air Cargo Africa conference and exhibition. This was the fourth time the airport has won the award.

Superbly engineered but environmentally and economically flawed, Concorde is a key source of lessons learned for today’s supersonic aircraft developers as the design icon marks its golden anniversary.

Too fast and too slow: lessons learned from two failed and very different supersonic transport ventures.

Fixed engines, V-tails and distributed flight control systems will feature in Leonardo’s tiltrotor tech demonstrator.

Certification program steps up as Bell 525s go north for cold-weather testing.

The proposal’s co-sponsor may be ill-informed on aviation’s benefits and accomplishments, but the industry needs to read the tea leaves and move fast.

The chairman of IATA - International Air Transport Association - H.E. Akbar Al Baker, the CEO of Gulf carrier Qatar Airways is planning a hard-hitting message about the future for aviation in the current highly politicised environment when he delivers a keynote address at next week's Aviation Africa event.

Aerion sees low noise and emissions as key to the return of supersonic air transport.

Gulfstream Aerospace will showcase the clean-sheet, record-breaking Gulfstream G500 along with the class-leading, super-midsize Gulfstream G280 at the 2019 Aviation Africa Summit & Exhibition from Feb. 27- 28 in Kigali, Rwanda.

The A380 is the symbol of Europe’s ambition to become an equal competitor to Boeing. While Airbus reached its target anyway, the program failed.

NASA’s Low-Boom Research Demonstrator is not a prototype, but it may pave the way for a new civil supersonic generation.

The African Airlines Association (AFRAA) Secretary General, Abdeerahmane Berthe accompanied by Camair-co chief executive officer, Ernest Dikoum, met the Minister Deputy Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic of Cameroon, Mohamadou Moustafa, the Minister of Transport of the Republic of Cameroon, Honourable Jean Ernest Ngalle Bibehe and other government stakeholders in Yaounde ahead of the 51st AFRAA Annual General Assembly (AGA) and Summit.

For three days, from December 3-5, the Egyptian International Exhibition Centre in Cairo hosted the country’s first ever defence exhibition – EDEX 2018. Alan Warnes was there.

Ordnance Survey’s mapping HAPS; French airship advances; UAV launch on the move; Siemens powers Sun Flyer; Offshore wind-energy kites.

Over the next five years, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are expected to increase commercial aircraft production by 21%.

Elroy Air aims to extend the reach of express logistics by developing an unmanned cargo aircraft to connect smaller, more remote communities.

Sikorsky’s helicopter charter subsidiary will operate S-76s for on-demand service Blade in return for data on urban air mobility.

Fourteen airlines have already confirmed their participation at CONNECT Middle East, India & Africa – co-located with Arabian Travel Market 2019 and taking place at Dubai World Trade Centre on Tuesday 30th April and Wednesday 1st May.