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Who's Who |
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Mike Berry.
President Aviation Services & Vice President Middle East Execujet
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Having initially established himself as a Chartered Accountant in South Africa, Mike Berry has since been involved in a variety of industry sectors ... |
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Embraer unveils upgraded version of Phenom 300E,...
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Embraer has launched an upgraded version of the Phenom 300E, in a move designed to boost the appeal and value proposition of the best-selling... |
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PrivateFly’s fastest flight takes only 16 minutes |
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PrivateFly, the on-demand private jet charter booking platform, has reported its fastest ever ‘Go now’ flight; taking just 16 minutes... |
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Dassault delivery down by 1 jet in 2019 |
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Dassault delivered 40 business jets in 2019, one fewer than it did in 2018. The total of 40 aircraft was five fewer deliveries than the...
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Emirates to launch daily service from DXB to Penang via.. |
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Emirates announced recently its plan to launch a new daily service from Dubai (DXB) to Penang International... |
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Wizz Air eyes Middle East for further expansion... |
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Wizz Air is looking east rather than west for further expansion in the wake of an ambitious move to establish a Middle... |
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ANA, Singapore Airlines deepen existing partnership |
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Star Alliance carriers All Nippon Airways and Singapore Airlines have signed a joint venture agreement to deepen.... |
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Military Aviation |
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Lockheed Martin’s SSR technology to provide...
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Through partnerships with the US Government, Spain, Japan and Canada, Lockheed Martin’s solid state radar (SSR) technology... |
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Poland to acquire 32 Lightning II fighter jets worth... |
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Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak has signed a contract worth $4.6 billion under which... |
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Pentagon’s top AI official to retire this summer... |
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The Pentagon plans to announce soon that Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan, the Department of Defense’s top... |
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First Triton drones arrive in Guam
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Two new US Navy drones arrived in Guam over the weekend for their first mission in the Pacific region, expanding... |
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MRO |
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ST Engineering awarded $808m worth MRO contracts... |
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ST Engineering’s aerospace unit has clinched $1.1 billion ($808 million) worth of new MRO contracts in the... |
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HAECO ITM signs technical support agreement with... |
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HAECO ITM has signed an inventory technical support agreement with Thai low-cost carrier NokScoot.. |
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StandardAero acquires turbine component coating specialist TRS Ireland |
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US maintenance provider StandardAero has acquired turbine component coating specialist TRS Ireland. |
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Training and recruitments |
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women in aviation |
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Cobham recruits first female cadet pilot |
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Cobham Aviation Services have recruited Ruby Blagrove, the group’s first female cadet pilot. The 19-year-old from McLaren Vale, South Australia,... |
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THY breaks record with 35-fold increase... |
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Turkish Airlines (THY) broke an all-time record in terms of the number of female pilots, with a thirty-five fold increase from just six.... |
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Space Today |
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Maxar Technologies to demonstrate in-space assembly using robotic arm. |
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Maxar Technologies recently announced a $142 million NASA contract to demonstrate in-space assembly using a robotic arm... |
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NASA unveils 16 payloads for private lunar landers |
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The commercial spaceflight industry is thriving, and regulators won't get in the way. That's the message that speakers at the 23rd Annual... |
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Did You Know ? |
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Only 5% of the world’s population have ever been on an airplane
Though the aviation sector is growing rapidly, according to the statistics only 5% of the world’s population has ever flown on an airplane. Many people, especially from the underdeveloped regions, have never ever been in an aircraft and it is not likely that they will have an opportunity to fly in all of their lives. However, at the same time a small minority of the world’s population fly very regularly.
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Breakthroughs |
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New crew lands on Mars for rare dual-habitat simulation |
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A new crew has arrived on "Mars," at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in Utah, for a rare dual-habitat simulation to see ... |
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Toyota invests $394m in electric air taxi startup Joby Aviation. |
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Toyota Motor Corp. has invested $394 million in US electric air-taxi startup Joby Aviation as lead investor in the recent $590 million Series... |
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