All aerospace news – Page 1021
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Embraer considers development of larger aircraft
Embraer is studying the possibility of developing a larger commercial aircraft either alone or in partnership with another company, but says it has no near-term...
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This Week briefings
Bell Helicopter last week laid off around 500 employees, representing 4% of its total workforce and...
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Manager buys out EADS Sogerma landing-gear MRO unit
EADS Sogerma has agreed to sell its landing-gear maintenance division EADS Revima to a holding company co-owned by two individuals, one of them the division's...
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PICTURE: KLM returns to Liverpool after 70-year break
Dutch carrier KLM is resuming services between Amsterdam and the northern UK city of Liverpool after a 70-year break. Its KLM Cityhopper subsidiary...
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London-New York via space
Could suborbital flight be a substitute for intercontinental supersonic transport?
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Pawan Hans aims for charter flights to Andaman and Nicobar
Pawan Hans, India's largest operator of civil helicopters, hopes around 2010 to begin fixed-wing charter operations with services to the country's outlying...
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Accident reports slammed for ignoring engineers
The ability of airlines to learn from accidents involving maintenance errors is severely compromised by the failure of investigators to include in their...
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FAA issues final rule to increase airliner explosives survivability
The US Federal Aviation Administration has issued a final rule that will require manufacturers of newly certificated commercial aircraft after 28 November...
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Virtual UK UAV airspace integration testing success
A three-day virtual unmanned air vehicle exercise that saw aircraft successfully avoided in the synthetic airspace environment has been completed...
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NewsEmirates blames 'foreign object' for September's A380 grounding
Emirates is attributing the mysterious electrical glitch that grounded its first Airbus A380...
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Italian Space Agency plans its relaunch
Italy is a prime mover in European space programmes, but its national ambitions could be affected by ESA budget needs
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Italian regions join forces in co-operative
ALLIANCES United with Campania Italian regions are joining forces in a co-operative in a bid to beat recession and compete on the world stage AIMEE...
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Congress told: make NTSB official space accident investigator
A commercial human spaceflight safety report for Congress has recommended that new legislation should be passed to put the US government's National...
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NASA has two weeks to avoid Hubble May deadline miss
NASA has confirmed it will be unable to launch the Hubble Space Telescope fourth and final servicing mission until...
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Gulfstream fly-by-wireless trials to continue
Gulfstream says it will continue testing a fly-by-wireless system on its G550 advanced flight controls aircraft until...
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Embraer opens third company-owned service centre in USA
Embraer has opened the last of its three planned company-owned service centres in advance of first deliveries of its...
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FAA calls for check of factory installed 737NG engines
The US FAA is proposing that operators of nearly 500 US-registered Boeing 737 Next Generation (NG) aircraft inspect the twin-jet's aft engine mounts to determine...
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Wireless IFE continues to challenge suppliers
Challenges associated with bringing wireless in-flight entertainment (IFE) systems onboard aircraft remain great enough that hardware giants Panasonic and...
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France to vote on increasing crew retirement age cap
France's National Assembly will tomorrow vote on a change in the law which proposes increasing French commercial pilots' maximum retirement age from 60 to...



















