Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
A joint project involving Israel Aerospace Industries, the Technion, the Israel Innovation Authority, the Ministry of National Security and the Israel Fire and Rescue Authority has completed the first flight test of a fire detection system mounted on the APUS 25 VTOL drone, capable of locating fire outbreaks to metre-level accuracy and transmitting alerts directly […]
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has completed construction of its Indiana Payload Integration Facility at Crane, a 68,000-square-foot purpose-built site able to integrate, test and prepare up to six experimental hypersonic payloads simultaneously in support of programmes including the Multi-Service Advanced Capabilities Hypersonic Testbed. SIX PAYLOADS IN PARALLEL, BUILT TO RAISE TEST CADENCE Kratos
Hisdesat has appointed Airbus Defence and Space prime contractor for SpainSat NG-III, a secure communications satellite carrying active X-band antennas that provide the capability of 16 conventional antennas and can reconfigure their coverage up to 1,000 times per second while detecting and mitigating electronic interference. THIRD SATELLITE IN EUROPE’S MOST ADVANCED SECURE COMMUNICATIONS CONSTELLATION
Willie Walsh has assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer at IndiGo, four decades after beginning his aviation career as an Aer Lingus pilot and days after concluding his tenure as Director General of IATA. He inherits an airline operating more than 430 aircraft and nearly 2,200 daily flights, with an explicit mandate to accelerate
Airbus Helicopters has delivered the first NH90 Standard 2 to the French Armament General Directorate, a variant of the NH90 TTH developed specifically for special operations. France has ordered 18 aircraft for delivery by mid-2029, to be operated by the French Army Aviation special forces squadron at Pau, with Spain joining the programme in December
IATA’s June air cargo data shows African carriers with the fastest year-to-date demand growth of any world region at 11.1%, more than double the global average of 4.9%. Over the same period African capacity contracted by 0.7%, and in June alone available lift fell 7.1% while every other region added capacity — leaving the continent’s
The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore has awarded Thales a contract to develop the NexGen Air Traffic Management System and two air traffic control radars, replacing the current LORADS III system with the TopSky – ATC One solution. Scheduled to enter operational service by 2030, the system is specified to handle up to one million
Avolon has reported second quarter net income of US$209 million, up 45% year-on-year, taking trailing twelve-month net income to US$702 million — already ahead of the US$591 million recorded for the whole of 2025. Lease revenue and operating cashflow both declined sequentially from the first quarter as the lessor sold 30 aircraft against 21 acquisitions,
Egypt’s National Air Navigation Services Company has signed a contract with DFS Aviation Services, becoming a customer of the DAS A² Academy in Langen, Germany. The programme will train approximately 80 Egyptian air traffic management professionals in Controller–Pilot Data Link Communications, SID/STAR familiarisation and air navigation procedure design. AGREEMENT SIGNED IN CAIRO WITH MINISTRY REPRESENTATION
The Cessna Citation CJ3 Gen3 prototype has completed a first flight of nearly two hours from Wichita, reaching 41,000 feet and 278 knots indicated. With the milestone, all three next-generation Citation light jets — the CJ4 Gen3, CJ3 Gen3 and M2 Gen3 — are now in flight testing, each bringing Garmin Emergency Autoland to the