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Airbus and its partners demonstrate how sharing the skies can save airlines fuel and reduce CO2 emissions
Nov 12, 2021 (SPX)
The "final demonstration" test flight took place on 9 November 2021 involving two A350 test aircraft, MSN1 and MSN59, the former as the leader aircraft and the ...
Eagles collaborate in unique high-altitude simulation training
Nov 09, 2021 (SPX)
Despite her low oxygen intake, her dexterity was perfect, and each crease of her creation was exact. There was only one problem: Her short-term memory was so co...
Preventing contrails with the right flight altitude
Nov 04, 2021 (SPX)
During the trial, the technical feasibility of contrail prevention, the accuracy of ice-super-saturated region forecasts and the operational feasibility of vert...
EU's 'green' chief challenged over private jet trips
Nov 04, 2021 (AFP)
Her spokesman on Thursday defended her chartered aircraft flights on some trips within Europe, saying she holds down a job "where relations with partners who ar...
Lockheed Martin, Rafael Partner To Develop SPICE-250 Weapon System For US Military
Nov 03, 2021 (SPX)
The addition of SPICE 250 builds on a 2019 teaming agreement, where Lockheed Martin and Rafael agreed to jointly market SPICE 1000 and SPICE 2000 guidance kits ...
UK defends PM's plan to jet out of COP26
Nov 01, 2021 (AFP)
Aviation -- especially the private kind -- is a bete noire of the environmental lobby as it emits vastly more carbon per passenger than other forms of transport...
American Airlines cancels 100s of flights due to staff shortage
Oct 31, 2021 (AFP)
The website, which tracks delays and cancellations in the US skies, showed that American Airlines cancelled more than 800 flights on Friday and Saturday and exp...
Turkey pressing US for F-16 fighters after F-35 plan killed
Oct 29, 2021 (AFP)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on October 17 that Ankara wants to buy the cheaper F-16s using the $1.4 billion it allotted for the cancelled F-35 d...
Airbus flies back to profit, raises full-year target
Oct 28, 2021 (AFP)
Airbus, which said it has delivered 424 planes since the beginning of the year, said in a statement that it booked net profit of 404 million euros ($470 million...
Aerospace Systems Directorate collaborates with partners to build innovative airframe
Oct 28, 2021 (SPX)
A&P Technology, Hawthorn Composites, the University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI) and Kratos created a manufacturing solution for attritable aircraft prim...
ESA acts to make air travel greener
Oct 28, 2021 (ESA)
ESA has worked with Inmarsat to develop a space-enabled digital alternative to traditional air traffic control that enables pilots to take more efficient trajec...
Fuel cells for air transport ground breaking ceremony for the BALIS test field in Empfingen
Oct 28, 2021 (SPX)
New generation of fuel cell systems to enable zero-emission takeoff The BALIS project, led by the DLR Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics, focuses on fuel c...
Boeing reports Q3 loss as 787, Starliner woes drag down results
Oct 27, 2021 (AFP)
The company had posted a profit in the second quarter after six straight losses, but wound up back in the red in the three months ended September 30 with a loss...
Israel holds largest-ever air force drill with UAE visit
Oct 25, 2021 (AFP)
Amir Lazar, chief of Israeli air force operations, told reporters the drills "don't focus on Iran", but army officials have said the Islamic republic remains Is...
Flying green will be more expensive
Oct 22, 2021 (AFP)
Like many countries, airlines the world over have pledged net-zero emissions by 2050 as has the European Union, putting pressure on the aviation industry among ...
Fly more, pollute less -- the great aviation conundrum
Oct 19, 2021 (AFP)
Slashing pollution from the industry is among the major challenges facing the world as leaders meet later this month for a key climate summit in Britain. - How ...
Erdogan says talks under way with US to buy F-16s
Oct 17, 2021 (AFP)
Washington excluded Ankara from NATO's F-35 stealth fighter jet programme in 2019 after Turkey purchased Russian S-400 defence air systems in defiance of warnin...
Student experiments float over New Mexico
Oct 07, 2021 (SPX)
Launched Sept. 14 from Fort Sumner, New Mexico, the balloon carried the High-Altitude Student Platform or HASP, with its 11 student experiments and also 23 stud...
Zero net emissions by 2050: a huge challenge for airline industry
Oct 05, 2021 (AFP)
At its general assembly in Boston Monday, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said it is now aiming for "net zero carbon emissions" by the middle...
World airlines commit to 'net zero' CO2 emissions by 2050
Oct 04, 2021 (AFP)
"For aviation, net zero is a bold, audacious commitment. But it is also a necessity," Willie Walsh, director general of the International Air Transport Associat...
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