Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
Leonardo has launched a new challenge on its Solvers Wanted technology scouting platform seeking technologies for In-Situ Resource Utilisation on the Moon and other planetary bodies, offering selected projects up to €50,000 each and a 12-to-18-month co-development programme with the company’s Space teams. Applications close on 30 September. FOUR TECHNOLOGY AREAS COVERING THE LUNAR RESOURCE […]
The African Airlines Association, the Airlines Association of Southern Africa and IATA have issued a joint call for African States to implement Advance Passenger Information and Passenger Name Record systems in line with ICAO standards — and, pointedly, to fund those national border security programmes from government budgets rather than through charges levied on airlines
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, United Airlines and the US Department of Transportation have announced a capital investment programme of more than $20 billion at Washington Dulles International Airport, nearly tripling the $7 billion previously allocated. The decade-long project will replace the C/D Concourse, extend the AeroTrain system and retire the airport’s mobile lounge people
Bell Textron has been awarded an estimated $300 million contract from the Department of the Navy for Structural and Power Improvements for NextGen Effects upgrades to up to 49 US Marine Corps AH-1Z Viper and UH-1Y Venom aircraft, with work beginning at the Amarillo Assembly Center in mid-2027 and first deliveries of upgraded aircraft in
Aviation advisory firm ALTEA has published a checklist for business aircraft owners choosing a Fixed Base Operator, arguing that rising costs, staffing pressure and a series of recent ground incidents make operational quality, pricing transparency and security more consequential than the visible standard of the terminal facility. SURFACE COMPARISON IS NO LONGER SUFFICIENT ALTEA,
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Syensqo has secured a new long-term supply agreement with Airbus covering prepregs, RTM resins, adhesives and primers across the manufacturer’s commercial aircraft, defence and space, and helicopter platforms — locking in materials supply for a customer executing one of the steepest production ramp-ups in commercial aerospace history, and doing so for the one Syensqo division
Airbus flight test aircraft MSN707 has completed the longest flight in its programme to date, returning from Melbourne to Toulouse in 24 hours and 24 minutes covering 12,460 nautical miles — a development flight validating the fuel, cabin and crew rest systems that will underpin Qantas’s Project Sunrise routes, with two Qantas captains on the
Boeing delivered 171 commercial aircraft in the second quarter, up 14% year-on-year and its highest quarterly total since 2018, while beginning the transition to a 47-per-month 737 production rate and activating low-rate initial production on the 737 North Line. Certification flight testing has been completed on the 737-7 and 737-10, and the 777X has entered
ACC Aviation has completed an independent aircraft asset monitoring assignment for an international aviation finance institution, providing continuous technical oversight across a portfolio of next-generation commercial aircraft — an engagement model that reflects lenders’ growing emphasis on protecting collateral value throughout the financing term rather than assessing it only at the point of transaction. CONTINUOUS
Textron has reported second quarter 2026 revenues of $3.8 billion and adjusted earnings of $1.62 per share, with revenue growth across all four manufacturing segments — while disclosing that its full-year outlook depends on additional US government funding for the MV-75 Cheyenne programme, and confirming it has initiated a sale process for its Industrial segment.
