Gama Aviation’s Sharjah fixed base operation has tightened up its business aviation ground-based costs and can now offer services 20% below the regional market average, says Gama Managing Director for MENA Martin Ringrose.
This year’s Dubai Airshow is going to be bigger, better and more varied than anything that has gone before, says Michele van Akelijen, managing director of show organizers F&E Aerospace.
Athens-based VIP charter operator GainJet Aviation is fitting a state-of-the-art quick-change auxiliary fuel tank system to its Boeing 737-400 Classic and hopes to fly it here to the Dubai Airshow.
Satair Group is expanding its 3,700-square-meter facility in Dubai by 800 square meters to increase capacity to support aircraft operators in the region.
Lockheed Martin could offer Turkey’s Stand-Off Missile as a weapon for U.S. Air Force and Navy F-35s, after signing a deal with a Turkish manufacturer to develop the weapon.
Emirates wants more airline operational data for the Airbus A350 before making a decision about an order for the type, or for more Boeing 787s, the airline's President Tim Clark said at the Dubai Air Show.
As combat aviation evolves, the plethora of sensors and subsystems fielded on individual platforms increases. Today's fighter jets carry more ISR capabilities than specialist recce platforms of the past, while gesture- or voice-controlled cockpits are no longer the preserve of science fiction.
The ‘Spirit of the Emirates’ project would see a fleet of three Zeppelin NT airships carrying paying passengers on flights of between 30 minutes and three hours.
As missile technology improves, the challenge of seeing the threat requires new thinking. Overlaying complementary sensor capabilities can help maintain coverage, while interoperability between allies will reinforce the defensive posture.
AVIC is displaying a model of the FC-31 outside China for the first time and stated it has plans to fly a production version of the fifth-generation fighter by 2019.
With the UAE's fighter requirement still unfilled, a sale to Kuwait agreed in principle, and possible interest from other nations in the region, Typhoon might once again be the talk of the show.
Aviation Week Senior Editor Guy Norris has been selected to receive the 2015 Lauren D. Lyman Award for outstanding achievement in aerospace communications.
Dubai will be hosting a second aviation event at the end of this month when the World Air Games arrives on November 30. That’s why Canadian aircraft manufacturer, Viking Air is delivering a new-built DHC-6 Twin Otter 400 to Skydive Dubai for taking competing parachutists aloft.
Interoperability is the watchword for the next phase of development of the Patriot missile-defense system. And it is Patriot users in the Middle East who are leading the way.
Two years on and the German-UAE joint venture between DC Aviation and Al-Futtaim is still the only standalone fixed-base and maintenance business aviation company at Dubai World Central with its own purpose-built property.
Middle Eastern business aviation activity is pretty resilient, say many in the industry, but while some try to talk the market up, others working at the sharp end cast a relatively gloomy picture and await an upturn in activity.
A customer starting a new competition today is spoilt for choice. At the upper end of the European offerings, the Typhoon and Rafale are superficially similar, but the former excels in acceleration, supersonic maneuverability and altitude while the latter still leads in range and diversity of weapons.
Swarming like bees around an elephant, Yves Rossy, the Swiss inventor of the jet engine-powered wing, and his protégé Vince Reffet, earlier this month conducted an unprecedented formation flight over Dubai with an Emirates Airline A380.
