Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on Sunday morning, beginning a three-month transit to the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point. It will return 1.4 terabytes of data a day, the highest rate of any NASA astrophysics mission to date, with first images expected in early 2027. DELIVERED EARLY, LAUNCHED EARLY […]
IATA’s July data shows African carriers recording the second highest demand growth of any region at 5.2 per cent, while carrying the lowest load factor in the world at 75.1 per cent, more than ten points below the global average. Capacity across the continent grew 7.3 per cent, outpacing demand and pushing load factors down.
Sikorsky has selected Prague-based Česká letecká servisní as an authorised distribution centre for Black Hawk helicopter parts within the European Union, its first such appointment anywhere in the bloc. More than 150 Black Hawks are currently in EU service. PARTS HELD INSIDE THE CUSTOMS UNION Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, has announced the selection
Aviator Airport Alliance will provide full ground handling for five Lufthansa Group carriers at Gothenburg-Landvetter from 1 December 2026 to 30 November 2030, covering approximately 70 turnarounds per week. The contract begins as the Nordic winter starts rather than in a quiet month. FIVE CARRIERS, SEVENTY TURNAROUNDS, ONE PROVIDER Aviator Airport Alliance has signed
Research commissioned by IFS finds that 66 per cent of industrial decision-makers are likely to invest in agentic digital workers within twelve months, while just 5.7 per cent trust AI to act fully autonomously. The report identifies trust, rather than technology, as the constraint on adoption. THE GAP BETWEEN INTENTION AND CONFIDENCE New research
Sigma Advanced Systems has secured a long-term agreement with Rolls-Royce worth nearly £125 million through Bromford Precision Solutions, the Leicestershire manufacturer it agreed to acquire in July for approximately £11.89 million. The award follows a separate Rolls-Royce agreement of around £300 million secured through Nasmyth. THE RETURN ON A SMALL TRANSACTION Sigma Advanced Systems
SpaceX and the state of Louisiana have announced plans for a high-cadence Starship spaceport in Vermilion Parish, designed for thousands of launches a year with ten launch pads, onsite methane production, power generation, deep-water shipping and an airport. Civil work is expected to begin in 2027, with first launch as soon as 2029. A SITE
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
