Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, the US Air Force Test Pilot School and industry partners have demonstrated sensor-driven autonomy on a fighter aircraft, with an AI agent aboard the X-62 VISTA using targeting information from an operational Legion Pod sensor to fly 27 intercepts against a live T-38 across eight flights. CLOSING THE SENSOR-TO-ACTION LOOP IN […]
The founding-era documents carried across the United States by the Freedom Plane are on display at Seattle’s Museum of History and Industry until 16 August, concluding a tour spanning eight states in four months — and ending in the city where Boeing was founded 110 years ago. A TOUR THAT ENDS WHERE THE COMPANY STARTED
The Federal Aviation Administration has announced 339 Airport Infrastructure Grants totalling $870 million to airports in 44 states and two territories, led by $289 million to Los Angeles International Airport for a terminal access road. The award falls in the fifth and final year of the programme’s authorised funding under the 2021 infrastructure statute that
The Fuerza Aeroespacial Colombiana has signed for two KC-390 Millennium multi-mission aircraft with mission equipment, an integrated support package and an offset programme, making Colombia the thirteenth country to select the type and adding an aerial refuelling capability configured to operate alongside its recently acquired Gripen fighters. A TANKER-TRANSPORT CHOSEN WITH THE FIGHTER FLEET IN
Joby Aviation and Atoms, the industrial AI and infrastructure company founded by Travis Kalanick, have formed a strategic partnership to acquire and develop vertiport sites in Florida, New York, Texas and California — the markets where Joby is preparing early operations under the FAA’s eVTOL Integration Pilot Program. BUILDING THE GROUND SIDE BEFORE THE AIRCRAFT
Bombardier is displaying the Challenger 3500 at the Latin American Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition in São Paulo from 4 to 6 August, as part of a regional tour taking the super-midsize jet to ten cities across Mexico, the Caribbean, and South and Central America. A SHOW APPEARANCE POSITIONED WITHIN A WIDER REGIONAL CAMPAIGN
Leonardo has completed its involvement in the National Quantum Science and Technology Institute, an Italian national programme funded under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan and NextGenerationEU. The company committed 32 personnel across Genoa, Rome and Florence to work spanning quantum architectures, photonic technologies, device integration and demonstrator modelling. A NATIONAL PROGRAMME STRUCTURED AROUND SPOKES
Tajikistan’s national carrier has received its first Boeing 737-8, the first 737 MAX to enter service in the country, leased from Dubai Aerospace Enterprise as the first of a two-aircraft commitment. The delivery advances a fleet renewal strategy that also includes planned 787 Dreamliner operations. AN ALL-BOEING OPERATOR MOVES TO THE CURRENT GENERATION Boeing
Airlink will launch three weekly flights between Johannesburg Lanseria and Harare from 15 November 2026, operated by an Embraer E190. It will be the first scheduled airline service ever flown between the privately owned airport north-west of Johannesburg and the Zimbabwean capital, and Airlink’s first scheduled operation from Lanseria. A SECOND JOHANNESBURG GATEWAY ON SOUTHERN
Air France has introduced a new cocktail offer across all long-haul flights and all travel cabins, developed with chef mixologist Matthias Giroud. Quintessence, a cognac-based reinterpretation of the Boulevardier, is served in Business, while L’instant Cassis, a modern take on the Kir Cassis, is offered in Premium and Economy. A CABIN PRODUCT DECISION EXTENDED BELOW