When they perform their debut Dubai display at the air show this week, British aerobatic team The Blades will add another country to the lengthening list of places they've taken their increasingly popular brand of aerobatics.
Airbus Helicopters has tested a rapid obscuration technology for the military version of its H145M twin-engine light utility helicopter to reduce aircraft and troop vulnerability while loading and off-loading.
Bell is hoping its new Model 525 Relentless super-medium, twin-engine helicopter can crack open the VIP market in the Middle East currently dominated by competitors such as Leonardo and Sikorsky.
The de Havilland name has returned to aircraft manufacturing with completion of its $300 million acquisition of the Dash 8 program from Bombardier on June 1 by Canada’s Longview Aircraft Capital.
Parcel delivery by unmanned air vehicle is capturing the imagination of UAV manufacturers and the shopping public alike, prompting a multiplicity of start-up projects. In an already crowded field, AGC Managing Partner Alexander Ostrovoy believes he has a winner.
Next year’s huge Expo 2020 exposition will drive records for business aviation in the region, with annual bizjet traffic to Dubai likely to double to 30,000 as visitors flock to the show.
Abu Dhabi-based Calidus burst onto the aeronautical scene exactly two years ago when the B-250 prototypes — one flying, one statically exhibited — were unveiled at DWC, to general surprise, on the opening day of the show.
Etihad Cargo says that its new CCC – Cargo Control Center – strengthens the airline unit’s “proactive service delivery capabilities” via active monitoring of some 3,000 daily shipments across more than 250 daily flights, as well as its UAE-wide road feeder services.
Global maintenance specialist Lufthansa Technik has doubled the size of its Middle East center in the Mohammed bin Rashid Aerospace Hub, at Dubai South, in the year since it opened, and now offers airlines more services from there.
Ahead of the Dubai Airshow, where his organization hosts a number of UK companies in the British Pavilion, ADS CEO Paul Everitt tells ShowNews’ Angus Batey that the industry is in good shape to handle whatever happens next.
The United Arab Emirates Air Force’s new airborne early warning platform, the Saab GlobalEye, has made its public debut four years after contracts were signed at the Dubai Airshow.
Space tourists could lift off from a spaceport in the United Arab Emirates under an agreement between the pioneering commercial space operator and the UAE.
It is not just in naval training where the UAE is taking a lead. The nation is also in the process of standing up a comprehensive system to train its RPAS pilots, sensor operators and mission specialists.
Either Bahrain or Qatar look likely to be the first country to receive modifications to their AGM-88 HARM (High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile) inventories following the announcement earlier this year by the U.S. government of a contract award to HARM supplier Raytheon.
Despite tensions between Gulf Cooperation Council states, the Iranian missile threat requires regional cooperation as the “best shot to defend the UAE is not always from the UAE. It may be Qatar or Oman,” says U.S. Air Force chief of staff Gen. David Goldfein.
As it enters its eighth decade, the Farnborough Airshow remains one of the world's pre-eminent aerospace events. But it faces a number of challenges, all outside of its control, which have forced organizers into some significant changes ahead of the 2020 edition.
Complex operations in Syria, conducted between September 2015 and April 2018, have emerged as the best and most comprehensive proving ground for hardware produced by Russia’s defense industry.
GE is resuming its production ramp-up of GE9X engines for Boeing’s 777-9 following the faster-than-expected test and validation of fixes to the durability problem which forced the airframe maker to delay the big twinjet’s first flight into early 2020.
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Airbus secures a record-breaking order for its A320neo family of jets at the Dubai Airshow, while Boeing announces FlyDubai has ordered 175 737 MAX aircraft.
