Advanced Electronics Company (AEC)of Saudi Arabia and US firm Rockwell Collins today agreed to co-develop and market products and solutions to customers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and throughout the Middle East.
CAE today announced that CAE Flightscape has been awarded a contract to deliver a comprehensive flight recorder playback and analysis laboratory for Saudi Arabia's General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA).
SELEX Communications,part of the Finnmeccanica Group,and Sirio Panel - has been awarded two contracts worth a total of 5.6 millions Euro by Pilatus Aircraft for the supply of communication and identification avionic systems and of cockpit panels
Qatar Airways has signed a deal with Optimized Systems and Solutions (OSyS) for help in improving fleet fuel efficiency and establish effective emissions monitoring, reporting and verifications (MRV) to meet new emissions trading scheme (ETS) requirements
EgyptAir has selected Rockwell Collins' suite of avionics for eight Boeing 737 NG aircraft. Deliveries are scheduled from September 2010 through August 2012.
Qatar Airways, Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP) and Qatar Petroleum (QP) announced yesterday that they will jointly carry out engineering, economic analysis and move into the development of sustainable bio jet fuel that will also look into ways for production and supply, with the support of Airbus.
The Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) and CFM International today jointly announced that the advanced new LEAP-X1C engine has been selected as the sole western powerplant to launch the new C919 single-aisle aircraft scheduled to enter commercial service in 2016.
Etihad Airways has joined the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group (SAFUG), an airline-led industry working group established in 2008 to accelerate the commercialisation and availability of sustainable biofuels.
Bombardier Aerospace announced today that its Enhanced Vision System (BEVS) and Head-up Display (HUD) for the Challenger 605 jet has received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification.
Dr. Ramin Khadem, chairman of Odyssey Moon Limited, gave an account of his company's planned commercial moon missions and made a case for the region to look further for its space exploration.
Virgin Founder, Sir Richard Branson and SpaceshipOne (SS1) designer, Burt Rutan, have revealed SS2 to the public for the first time since construction of the world's first manned commercial spaceship began in 2007. SS2 has been designed to take many thousands of private astronauts into space after test programming and all required U.S. government licensing has been completed.
Abu Dhabi-based Yahsat is preparing for the launch of its next-genration Yahsat 1A platform in early 2011. If successful Yahsat 1B would follow it in late 2011.
The United Arab Emirates plans to launch DubaiSat-2 in 2012, just three years after the launch of the first Emirati satellite to be sent into orbit, according to Ahmed Al Mansoori, director general of the Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST).
There was no shortage of space companies looking for investors on day one of the Global Space Technology Forum, even if some were more subtle than others.
GE Aviation Czech is set to begin by year-end certification testing of its new H80 turboprop engine, which will produce up to 800 shaft horsepower (shp) to power utility, agriculture and business and general aviation aircraft.
Does the Middle East really want a regional space administration? And if it does what form should it take? That was the subject of a discussion forum held on the first day of the Global Space Technology Forum in Abu Dhabi, although the conclusion was far from positive.
The Middle Eastern nations have spent billions on building some the most modern and well-equipped airport terminals in the world. But the operators face some uniquely challenging conditions out on the airfield, writes BRENDAN GALLAGHER
Like it or not, emissions trading schemes will soon be a fact of air transport life. The Middle East's airlines are as well placed as any to take the pain out of compliance, writes BRENDAN GALLAGHER
