All aerospace news – Page 762
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NewsStrategy Awards: Regional Leadership
Presented to Bill Ayer, chief executive of Alaska Air Group
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NewsGol expects WebJet integration to be easier than VRG acquisition
Gol is confident its proposed acquisition of fellow Brazilian low-cost carrier Webjet will be easier in terms of integration than its previous purchase of Varig successor VRG, and it expects to enjoy annual synergies of 100 million reais ($63.7 million) within two years.
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NewsWhat comes after Atlantis?
As NASA prepares to bring the Space Shuttle home for the last time this week, the flagship International Space Station programme loses its principle supply-and-service vehicle and the US space programme returns to its uncomfortable late-1970s status of being unable to launch an astronaut to orbit
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Business Aviation - In Brief
South Korea and Israel are considering a broad range of industrial co-operation in aerospace and defence.
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Embattled Tiger Australia appoints high profile safety advisor
Tiger Airways Australia has appointed an ex-Qantas chief pilot as a safety advisor to the CEO.
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NewsNASA, ULA sign agreement to develop human-rating Atlas V rocket
United Launch Alliance (ULA) and NASA have announced the signing of an unfunded space act agreement (SAA) to develop human-rating the Atlas V rocket.
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Launch site readied for world's most powerful rocket
SpaceX yesterday broke ground on a launch site at Vandenberg AFB's Space Launch Complex 4 East for its Falcon Heavy rocket.
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NewsShannon re-opens after ATR 72 gear collapse
Shannon airport has re-opened after an incident yesterday in which an Aer Lingus Regional ATR 72's nose-wheel collapsed on landing. Operating as flight...
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NewsAmeco Beijing plans merger with Air China Technics
Air China plans to merge its maintenance arm, Air China Technics, with its MRO joint venture with Lufthansa, Ameco Beijing, to become a major global maintenance,...
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NewsTiger Australia 'breached' AOC months before grounding: CASA
Tiger Airways Australia had breached its air operator's certificate before the country's safety regulator issued a show cause notice (SCN) to the airline...
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Progress for Legacy 500 as fuselage sections are mated
Embraer has mated the three fuselage sections of its Legacy 500 midsize business jet prototype.
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NewsThe power of silence
Don't shout it out loud, but Sikorsky's Firefly will be the first manned helicopter lacking both engine and gasoline, as it is powered by an electric motor fed by battery cells
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NewsUS safety regulators push FAA to bolster MD-11 hard landing prevention
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is strongly urging the FAA to adopt new regulations specific to Boeing MD-11 aircraft to stave off a raft of hard landings that began in 1993 and continued through 2010.
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Boeing and ANA complete 787 service ready validation
Boeing and 787 launch customer All Nippon Airways (ANA) have completed the service ready operational validation (SROV) trials, covering routes to and from Tokyo's Haneda International airport.
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NewsXcor to fly telescope
XCOR and the Planetary Science Institute (PSI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to fly a scientific payload aboard Xcor's Lynx suborbital...
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NewsBusiness Aviation - In brief
A Daher Socata TBM 700 has become the first single-engine aircraft to complete a 2,220km (1,200nm) flight from Hong Kong to Beijing, China.