Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
The Federal Aviation Administration has set out its full deployment roadmap for Mobile Clearance, the digital departure clearance capability allowing general and business aviation pilots to request IFR clearances through ForeFlight and Garmin applications, with evaluation ending in February 2027 and nationwide deployment following — a decade after concept development began with MITRE in 2016. […]
Boeing and General Motors have signed a definitive agreement to sell HRL Laboratories — the Malibu-based research institution they have jointly owned since its founding lineage began in 1948 — to IBM, which intends to use HRL’s silicon-spin qubit expertise to accelerate its quantum computing roadmap, with both sellers retaining partnership arrangements on quantum applications.
NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev have landed safely in Kazakhstan aboard Soyuz MS-28, concluding a 241-day mission that covered 3,856 orbits and more than 102 million miles — and produced research spanning cancer drug delivery, in-space semiconductor manufacturing and two spacewalks including the Canadarm2 robotic arm repair. PARACHUTE-ASSISTED
Sling Aircraft North America has announced the Sling 2M, a MOSAIC-compliant version of the South African-manufactured Sling NGT trainer with a 1,540 lb gross weight, IFR capability and the Garmin AXIS Flight System as standard — with factory production ready to ship immediately, on the day the MOSAIC rule takes effect. BUILT ALONGSIDE THE STANDARDS
FL Technics has appointed Saulius Bajarunas as Chief Executive Officer effective 1 September 2026, elevating an executive who has played a central role in the MRO provider’s international expansion, as outgoing CEO Zilvinas Lapinskas assumes the top role at parent company Avia Solutions Group. INTERNAL SUCCESSION FOLLOWS PARENT COMPANY LEADERSHIP CHANGE FL Technics, the
The Department for Transport has announced the eight successful projects in round one of its Zero Emission Flight Demonstrator competition, distributing approximately £7.2 million in public funding against total project costs of £11.5 million — with the majority directed not at aircraft development but at the hydrogen refuelling and electric charging infrastructure that zero-emission aircraft
ICAO’s 2025 Safety Report documents commercial aviation’s safest year by accident rate on record, with fatal accidents falling 60% year-on-year to just four — but total fatalities rose from 296 to 387, with a single accident accounting for 260 deaths, underscoring the enduring challenge of preventing rare but catastrophic events in an industry carrying nearly
IATA’s Board of Directors has appointed Saadia Zahidi, a Managing Director and Member of the Managing Board of the World Economic Forum, as the ninth Director General of the International Air Transport Association, effective 1 November 2026 — making her the first woman appointed to lead the association since its founding in 1945. A HISTORIC
NASA and Blue Origin have signed an annex to an existing Space Act Agreement to conduct second stage hot fire testing of the New Glenn rocket on the historic B-2 test stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, supporting Artemis programme milestones and the broader goal of establishing a sustained lunar presence. B-2 STAND
ST Engineering’s Digital Systems business has secured new counter-drone deployments in Asia outside Singapore, covering both an air defence application and the protection of multiple critical infrastructure sites, as the Singapore-listed technology and engineering group continues to expand its counter-UAS capabilities across the defence and public security sectors. DEPLOYMENTS SPAN AIR DEFENCE AND CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
