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.
Lockheed Martin is close to signing a contract with Egypt to buy a seventh batch of F-16s although the company confirms that several Middle Eastern forces have expressed interest in fifth generation capabilities.
The first Airbus Military A400M military airlifter has landed back in Seville, Spain today at 14:02 local time (13:02 UTC) after completing a successful maiden flight lasting 3h 47min following its take-off at 10:15 local time.
Airbus operators in Europe are being called on to inspect and replace parts on Hamilton Sundstrand ram air turbines (RATs) following an EASA directive on the back up power generation systems.
The latest Gulfstream business jet, the large-cabin, mid-range G250, has successfully completed its first flight. Gulfstream designed and built the super mid-size business jet in collaboration with IAI.
flydubai took delivery of its sixth aircraft in a little over six months today and thge aircraft is being readied for Sunday's inaugural flight to Bahrain
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.
Jet Professionals, the global aviation staffing subsidiary of Jet Aviation, has extended the scope and reach of its Crew Advantage membership program to include MENA and Asia regions.
Airlines, airports, air navigation service providers and manufacturers are calling for a global approach to reducing aviation emissions and are united in a commitment: to improve fuel efficiency by an average of 1.5% per year to 2020; to stabilize carbon emissions from 2020 with carbon-neutral growth; and to a net reduction in carbon emissions of 50% by 2050 compared to 2005.
Bahrain's national carrier Gulf Air embarded on a mercy mission today to dispatch relief cargo to help people affected by the recent Typhoon Ketsana (locally called Typhoon Ondoy) in the Philipppines.
Qatar Airways is celebrating the launch of scheduled services to Australia following the airline's inaugural flight into Melbourne on Sunday... and is promoting itself in Europe as the fastest link between London and the Victoria capital.
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.
Algerian national airline Air Algérie has signed a contract for four ATR 72-500s. This agreement, valued at some US $ 82 million, was signed today in Algiers in the presence of Mr. Amar Tou, Algeria's Minister of Transport. Deliveries of the aircraft will take place in 2010.
