Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
Archer Aviation and AEG have announced an exclusive multi-year collaboration to develop a vertiport at L.A. LIVE, the four-million-square-foot entertainment district adjacent to Crypto.com Arena. It would be the first vertiport announced in downtown Los Angeles, in a zone hosting 18 Olympic and Paralympic sports. AN ANCHOR SITE IN THE ZONE WHERE THE GAMES CONCENTRATE […]
Aeromexico intends to fit SURF-A across its entire Boeing 737 NG and 737 MAX fleet, making it an early adopter of a cockpit alerting system that warns crews when another aircraft is on, entering or crossing the runway they are using. Honeywell expects certification on the 757, 737 NG and 737 MAX by the end
EASA issued two airworthiness directives on 24 August. One imposes immediate dispatch restrictions on 108 Airbus A350-1041s over a lightning protection non-compliance that could create an ignition source in an empty fuel tank. The other requires repetitive inspection of tail gear boxes across the Leonardo A109 family after reports of darkening oil. The procedural routes
Aerospace logistics specialist B&H Worldwide has appointed Matt Silverberg as Chief Executive Officer with immediate effect. Silverberg will lead the company’s global operations from the United States, while Stuart Allen becomes Chairman and Board Advisor and continues to support the executive team from Singapore. A SUCCESSION STRUCTURED TO RETAIN THE OUTGOING CHIEF EXECUTIVE B&H
Airlink will launch the first ever scheduled service between Gqeberha and Mbombela’s Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport on 16 November, operating three times weekly with a 44-seat Embraer ERJ140. Days earlier the airline staged a two-aircraft formation flyby over Ellis Park in green and black liveries ahead of the Springboks–All Blacks series. A ROUTE DEFINED BY
A GE Aerospace nozzle designed in the early 1990s to explore fighter agility, flown on a modified F-16 across 95 sorties and then shelved, has been retrieved, refurbished and integrated with an F110-GE-129E engine to give Shield AI’s X-BAT the ability to take off and land vertically. A QUESTION ABOUT ENGINES, ASKED THIRTY YEARS AGO
An attitude control problem aboard Katalyst Space’s LINK spacecraft means it will not capture and boost NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory to a higher orbit as planned. LINK will still attempt rendezvous and proximity operations to demonstrate satellite servicing capabilities, with Swift now expected to re-enter the atmosphere later this year. THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE IS
Qatar Airways has completed Starlink installation across its Boeing 787-8 sub-fleet in seven months and has become the first airline globally to operate Starlink-equipped 787-9s, taking its total equipped widebody fleet to 150 aircraft with the full 787 programme due for completion by the end of 2026. THREE FLEET TYPES, THREE PROGRAMMES, ONE SEQUENCE
A weather systems contract signed with Indonesia’s meteorological agency in 2024 has cleared its financing condition and will now proceed, covering automated observing systems at eight airports, wind shear alerting at four, and a volcanic ash dispersion capability for a country with an estimated 80 active volcanoes. A CONTRACT THAT WAITED TWO YEARS FOR ITS
United and CAE have completed the first phase of expansion at the airline’s Flight Training Center in Denver, adding 40 devices since 2022 to reach 86 in total across nearly 700,000 square feet. A second phase on newly rezoned land near Denver International Airport is expected to break ground in 2027 and be operational around
