Propulsion has been a strategic factor since the early days of aviation. Steam engine, like Clément Ader on the Eole or the Avion III, electric engine as for the balloon…
Anaheim, 29 January 2020 – Airbus Helicopters added 250 helicopters to HCare Smart and Infinite contracts in 2019, increasing to 2,250 the number of aircraft now covered by a global…
Geneva – The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the International Union of Railways (UIC), to strengthen their cooperation in standard setting and…
ESA, NASA, the European Commission. The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) and the National Oceanic. Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have renamed the upcoming Sentinel-6A satellite after Earth…
The U.S. agency will use the aircraft for security during rocket launches, emergency medical services and qualified personnel transport. Anaheim, 28 January 2020 – The National Aeronautics and Space Administration…
As the French Government presented the country’s ambitions with regards to sustainable aviation fuel, in Toulouse, Airbus, Air France, Safran, Suez and Total acknowledge the launch of a new Call…
Bremen, 23 January 2020 – The Bartolomeo platform from Airbus gives new opportunities for research on the International Space Station (ISS). The European Space Agency ESA has now firmly booked…
Toulouse, 16 January 2020 – Airbus has successfully performed the first fully automatic vision-based take-off using an Airbus Family test aircraft at Toulouse-Blagnac airport. The test crew comprising of two…
On 9 and 10 December last in Paris, the Air and Space Academy and the Naval Academy organised a symposium entitled “Towards unmanned aircraft and ships” at the DGAC headquarters….
2019 brought a challenging period for aviation industry. Boeing MAX grounding, “flight shame” movement, airline bankruptcies and other important events made a huge impact on the annual results. However, positive…
Marignane, 17 January 2020 – Laurence Petiard has been appointed Head of External Communications for Airbus Helicopters, effective January 2020. In this new role, she will be in charge of…
CHICAGO, Jan. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Boeing (NYSE: BA) President and CEO Dave Calhoun issued the following statement regarding the announcement today of a US-China trade deal: Boeing has a long-standing partnership…
CHICAGO, Jan. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Boeing (NYSE: BA) President and CEO Dave Calhoun issued the following statement regarding the announcement today of a US-China trade deal: Boeing has a long-standing partnership…
The Rosalind Franklin rover of the joint ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars mission completed a series of environmental tests at the end of 2019 at Airbus, Toulouse, France. This included final thermal and…
Since January 1, 2020, Bruno Pasini has been appointed Executive Vice President of Safran Electrical Components, the subsidiary of Safran Electrical & Power specializing in electrical components. Bruno Pasini started…