Revelations that Google co-founder Larry Page is personally funding not one but two “flying-car” startups puts spotlight on widening efforts to bring a new class of aircraft to market.
Confronting increased competition from long-haul and low-cost airlines, Korean Air is making strategic moves to strengthen its position in passenger and cargo markets.
Montreal is home to the third-largest commercial aerospace cluster in the world, and Quebec’s provincial government is moving to expand and diversify an industry that is critical to the local—and national—economy.
Bogota-based Avianca Holdings seeks possible foreign partners, bringing a potentially huge opportunity for Delta Air Lines and a big risk for United Airlines.
With its selection as a third cargo carrier in NASA’s second-round Commercial Resupply Services competition, Sierra Nevada Corp. is pushing Dream Chaser into the international marketplace.
European airlines agree that consolidation is the way to go. But there is a disconnect between statements and action: Few deals have actually taken place, and airlines are finding it hard to attract investors.
Business aircraft operators have reason to be concerned that, thanks to ADS-B technology, their aircraft can be monitored by anyone with an appropriate receiver.
This was supposed to be a pivotal year for Airbus. But the carefully scripted ramp-ups have been blown off course by suppliers, whose late deliveries have left nearly complete airplanes missing everything from engines to bathroom doors.
Textron Systems’ unmanned RQ-7B soars past its 1-millionth flight hour, with the vast majority of those spent shadowing insurgent forces in Iraq and Afghanistan from above.
International route realignment has already led the airline to retire its fleet of Boeing 777-200ERs. Another major adjustment will occur in late 2017, when the airline begins taking delivery of Airbus A350s, which will eventually replace its A380 fleet.
With coming end of economic sanctions against Iran, airframers expected more orders from country’s airlines. Many financial system issues slow the progress.
Technology news from ILA Berlin: Airbus advances hybrid helicopter; Bauhaus designs city-center STOL port; THOR, a 3-D-printed, Airbus rotating VTOL hybrid airship; Airbus wants your ideas.
Readers comment on inadequate crew training in responding to cockpit-related problems; call for formal recognition, training of UAS controller position.
The impetus for Boeing’s supposed 737 MAX stretch has grown since some long-standing customers started splitting purchases to include both MAXs and A321neos.
