Passenger growth is estimated to grow three-fold by 20137, by which time 500 million people are expected to fly to, from or within India. Currently aviation in India supports 7.5 million jobs and 30 billion Rupees (US$420 million) of GDP (1.5% of the economy). Alexandre de Juniac, the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) Director General […]
BAE Systems Regional Aircraft has completed the engineering and installation of an ADS-B (Out) modification on two Avro RJ aircraft belonging to two separate operators, leading to the awarding of European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) Approval Certificate 10066079 for this major change modification. On the back of this approval, CityJet of Ireland, Europe’s biggest Avro
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Los Angeles, California-based Planet Nine (P9), the US’ newest boutique ultra long-haul charter specialist, makes its debut at the NBAA San Jose Regional Forum this week to present is latest Dassault Falcon 7X on the static display. It’s second 7X (N119NE) entered service several weeks ago, luxuriously outfitted with 16 VIP seats, including six individual
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The Supervisory Board of Lufthansa Technik AG has appointed Sören Stark to the Executive Board, effective January 1, 2019. Stark will be responsible for the areas Fleet Services, Base Maintenance, Components, Logistics, IT and Quality Management. Stark, who holds an advanced degree in industrial engineering, will take over from Dr. Thomas Stüger who is retiring
JETcopter, a VTOL aviation startup, has announced the launch of tests of a new type propulsion system for VTOL aircraft. This new propulsion system consists of two centrifugal air turbines in enclosed housings, each 200 cm (6.6 feet) in diameter, that will rotate in opposite directions at a high RPM to create thrust similar to
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Joramco, the Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) engineering division, has successfully performed maintenance on one of flyadeal’s A320s, the Saudi low cost carrier. The layover took place during last month for 20 days duration. Saudia, the flag carrier of Saudi Arabia, announced the creation of flyadeal on 17 April 2016. The venture is part of Saudia
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GKN Aerospace will develop and manufacture two full scale turbines for the Prometheus low-cost re-usable rocket engine demonstrator on liquid oxygen and methane propellants. The turbines will generate power for the methane fuel system, with the first turbine to be delivered at the end of 2019. Manufacturing will take place in cooperation with partners and
Czech Airlines Technics (CSAT), a daughter company of the Czech Aeroholding Group which provides aircraft repair and maintenance services, has appointed a new Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors. Effective September 3, 2018, Mr. Igor Zahradníček will be in charge of finance, development, procurement and logistics at the company. “Czech Airlines Technics is a company
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