Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
The UK investment targets a backlog of around 7,500 A320 Family aircraft, three-quarters of them A321s, and follows separate expansion already under way at Airbus’s
The tool now running in Washington, D.C. airspace consolidates around 200 data streams into a single predictive system, with United, Delta, American and Southwest among
New York State is contributing a further $8.4 million in tax credits toward the project, which will upgrade a site that has served as GE’s
The uncrewed fighter has flown alongside crewed F-35 and F-15E jets as the US Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft programme accelerates toward production. General Atomics
The deal marks Exolaunch’s move beyond satellite rideshare integration and comes as its acquisition by EQT Private Equity is expected to close by the end
HAECO becomes one of only four sites worldwide authorised for major Trent 1000 module swaps, as the MRO group also extends its two-decade base maintenance
The proposed directive would require inspections on 95 US-registered aircraft after Boeing reported some elevator control bearings may have been installed incorrectly, or without sealant, during production. The FAA has proposed a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Boeing 737-8,
The Johannesburg-based University of the Witwatersrand and the Institut Superieur de l’Aeronautique et de l’Espace will align their engineering curricula and run a reciprocal faculty exchange, backed by Airbus Southern Africa. AIRBUS, WITS UNIVERSITY AND ISAE-SUPAERO SIGN AGREEMENT TO BOOST
Sandra Diaso, Head of Human Resources at private charter and ACMI operator KlasJet, argues that what keeps professionals in aviation for decades has less to do with cockpits than with how freely people move between departments. WHY AVIATION CAREERS BECOME
2005 – JetBlue Airways Flight 292, an Airbus A320, makes an emergency landing in Los Angeles, California because of landing gear steering failure.
2002 – Air Canada Douglas DC-9 makes final flight to place of honour at the Canada Aviation Museum
1994 – Introduction: Hongdu JL-8
1984 – First flight of the Dassault Falcon 900
1979 – Two RAF Hawker Siddeley Harrier jump-jets from RAF Wittering collide over the UK. Both pilots ejected safely. One of the jets broke up in midair and fell harmlessly into a field but the other dropped onto the center of Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, destroying two houses and a bungalow.
1967 – Hawker Siddeley Kestrel, XS693, fitted with 19,000-lb. thrust Bristol-Siddeley Pegasus 6 engine, crashes during trials at Filton, Sqn. Ldr. H. Rigg escaping safely.
1964 – First flight of the North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world’s first Mach 3 bomber in Palmdale, California.
1961 – First flight of the Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter
1942 – First flight of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress
1939 – First flight of the Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar
1916 – One only prototype Avro 521 fighter, 1811, (a serial that duplicated one assigned to a Bleriot monoplane), assigned to Central Flying School Upavon, crashes killing pilot Lt. W. H. S. Garnett.
1913 – The first aerobatic maneuver, a sustained inverted flight, is performed in France.
1802 – Frenchman Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes the first parachute descent in England, jumping from a balloon over London.
