for over 25 years the new runway at Heathrow has been a hot topic of debate. In 2010 permission to expand the Airport was withdrawn owing to the fact it blighted the lives of many thousands of people living in the region. However, moving forward five years, this situation changed when the Airport Commission recommended
Cathay Pacific, the home airline of Hong Kong, is further extending its partnership with Rolls-Royce, with a new Efficiency Service Solution to reduce fuel consumption. Under a five-year agreement, Rolls-Royce will analyse the flight data of 189 aircraft operated by the airline and its wholly owned subsidiary Dragonair. Rolls-Royce will deliver this service by deploying
In an eagerly anticipated outcome, the House of Representatives has passed a five-year bill that will not only see the provision of funding for America’s roads, bridges and transport systems but also, crucially, the revival of a charter for the US Export-Import Bank which expired midnight, June 30th this year. Between then and now the
ST Aerospace, with an established global track record on aircraft maintenance and modifications, now extends its maintenance support from military forces, commercial airlines to the world’s first commercial spaceline. Its US affiliate company VT San Antonio Aerospace will be providing a series of D-level heavy maintenance checks on the Virgin Galactic’s Boeing 747-400 aircraft –
In a political move aimed at stopping Airbaltic from purchasing Sukhoi Superjets, the Latvian government has continued with its aggressive policy against Moscow and is now prepared to inject €80 million into the airline to help complete the purchase of thirteen Bombardier CS300 jets, 10 ordered in December 2012 and 3 which were ordered in
Bombardier has delivered the first of two specialized Challenger 605 aircraft ordered by the Hong Kong Government Flying Service. This multi-role aircraft can be used for search and rescue, VIP transportation, medical evacuation, as well as other special missions. The Challenger multi-role aircraft will replace the existing search and rescue aircraft currently operated by the
Swiss Air-Rescue Rega has placed an order for three AW169 light intermediate twin-engine and one GrandNew light twin-engine helicopters which will join the current fleet of a GrandNew and nine single-pilot configured Da Vinci helicopters. The aircraft will perform emergency medical service and search and rescue missions (EMS/SAR) all over Switzerland, from the lowlands to
Testing is underway on the first demonstration core for the GE9X engine that will power the Boeing 777X aircraft. During initial testing at GE Aviation’s altitude facility in Evendale, Ohio, the demonstration core successfully operated at maximum or redline speeds over the entire GE9X flight envelope and exceeded the engine’s compressor pressure ratio 27:1, which
With the Thai civil aviation authority failing to tackle a number of major flaws in its commercial aviation standards, the FAA has been left with no option but to downgrade Thailand’s Department of Civil Aviation from Category 1 to Category 2. As a consequence, Thai airlines are now prohibited from either launching or expanding networks
Boeing, the University of British Columbia (UBC) and SkyNRG, with support from Canada’s aviation industry and other stakeholders, are collaborating to turn leftover branches, sawdust and other forest-industry waste into sustainable aviation biofuel. Canada, which has extensive sustainably certified forests, has long used mill and forest residues to make wood pellets that are used to
