Aerospace

Shark and seal skins, even speed skater’s suits, are inspiring drag-reduction technologies eyed for coating U.S. Air Force transports and tankers to curb jet fuel consumption.

A Maputo District Court has convicted a former financial director of LAM for abuse of office following a Mozambican anti-corruption task-force investigation into several airline executives last year, reports ch-aviation.

The Boeing Company has reported fourth-quarter revenue of $23.3 billion with GAAP earnings per share of $2.59 and core earnings per share (non-GAAP) of $2.47 reflecting overall solid execution on production programs and services.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) announced that IATA's Cargo-XML messaging standard has now been fully integrated into ASYCUDAWorld, the UNCTAD automated customs management system used by 90 countries worldwide for their customs procedures.

Combined, the companies will have a system portfolio spanning the entire aircraft.

As the global tourism market continues to boom, the inflight catering and travel retail industries are accordingly thriving. The sector has experienced steady growth in the five years to 2016 and, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), will have a global value of US$10.8trillion by 2018, almost double its present worth.

First results seem promising from jointly conducted Boeing-Embraer EcoDemonstrator technology test effort using an E170 prototype.

Lockheed Martin X-56A ready return to flight; Aurora LightningStrike vertical-horizontal transition tests; TsAGI ground-effect transport tested; BAE Systems lasers to create atmospheric lenses; U.S. Army tests Hoverbike for rapid resupply.

Nextant Aerospace, builders of the 400XTi, has announced that its chairman, Kenneth C. “Kenn” Ricci, will receive the Lifetime Aviation Entrepreneur Award at the Living Legends of Aviation 14th Annual Awards, to be held in Beverly Hills, California, on Friday, January 20, 2017.

Here are signposts to follow as the new administration’s choices on defense unfold.

Autonomous systems, terahertz communications, cognitive computing, digitized fabrication—these are the technologies identified as potentially disruptive for aerospace by a panel of experts at AIAA’s SciTech conference.

New uses for additive manufacturing, sometimes in combination with more traditional methods, could be a game-changer in the spare parts industry.

ATR is converting 1980s design drawings to more contemporary digital mockups.

NASA vows to become a “smart buyer” to offset budget threat to X-plane plans as it plans larger, piloted flight demonstrators.

Aviation Africa, which takes place in Kigali, Rwanda on 22-23 February 2017, has announced the first aircraft to be displayed at the event will be a Gulfstream G280 from Savannah-based Gulfstream Aerospace.

MIT’s unconventional D8 configuration gets more conventional as Aurora Flight Sciences works to turn the fuel-saving concept into a practical product.

China featured four large low-frequency radars—at least one of which specifies a detection range against the F-22—along with a new, passive radar. Almaz-Antey was also on site promoting Russia’s counterstealth systems.

Predix drone swarms; Islamic State group UAVs; laser attack-logging app; Alphabet X ends Titan stratospheric internet project.

Safran is hoping changes will help its factories design production lines of the future.

Abu Dhabi Aviation has signed a 20-year fleet management programme deal with Pratt & Whitney Canada for the PT6C-67C engines that power its fleet of AW139 helicopters.

Airbus' commercial aircraft deliveries in 2016 were up for the fourteenth year in a row, reaching a new company record of 688 aircraft delivered to 82 customers.

Airbus buys an electron-beam additive manufacturing machine to 3-D-print titanium airframe structural components for production aircraft.

Airbus and Boeing guidance, until recently, indicated that they expect a 17-year supercycle, but the end came after 12 as the world economy slows.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA)has released data for global air freight markets in September 2017 showing that demand (measured in freight tonne kilometers or FTKs), rose 9.2% compared to the same month in 2016. This was the slowest pace of growth seen in five months. However, it was still significantly higher than the five-year average growth rate of 4.4%.

Oman Air has won two awards at the World Travel Awards Middle East 2017. The national carrier was awarded the top position for two awards in the 'Middle East's Leading Airline - Business Class' and 'Middle East's Leading Airline - Economy Class' categories at a glittering ceremony which was held on 29th October 2017 in Dubai.