With the South Korea air force “Black Eagles” display team featuring on the cover of this week’s Flight International, what better excuse to celebrate – somewhat at random and in no particular order – 10 military flight display teams that may be coming to an air show near you. 1. Italy The Frecce Tricolori (Tricolour Arrows), known formally as the 313&...
Eurocontrol has successfully signed two agreements to exchange flight plan data. The first is with the General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the second is with the Department of Airspace Control (DECEA) of Brazil; both were signed at the ATC Global 2015 exhibition in Dubai and held between the 5th and 7th of this month. The agreement with the GCAA includes...
Moscow is ready to consider a possibility of selling Sukhoi fighters to Venezuela; at present it is waiting for Caracas’ inquiry, Voenno-promishlenniy Courier reports with reference to Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov. «There is a certain procedure for inquiring about purchase of some military equipment. I am confident that the President, Minister of Defense of Vene...
The test laboratory of AeroComposit continues testing of prototypes cut from components and companion panels, manufactured in the network of a project for development of composite wing for MS-21 passenger short- and medium-haul aircraft, i-Mash reports. We remind you that wing panels, drainage tanks, spars and panels of the fuselage’s center section are manufactured using a vacuum infusio...
Refinements to ionization techniques have allowed Aviation Clean Air (ACA) to develop a system that promises to remove harmful pathogens, allergens and unpleasant odors from aircraft of just about any size. The U.S.company already holds STCs to fit the system on Boeing Business Jets and the Gulfstream G550 and is now looking to offer it more widely to other corporate and privat...
Building on its reputation as a completions specialist, Switzerland-based Amac Aerospace is taking on a growing portfolio of maintenance work. The company expanded the scope of its work when it secured FAA repair station status in June and will open a fourth hangar at its Basel headquarters by year-end. So far this year, Amac’s maintenance team has been busy handling heavy...
Stuart Jet Center, one of two FBOs at Florida’s Witham Field/Martin County Airport, has broken ground on a 24,000 sq ft hangar that, when completed in next year’s first quarter, will allow the Avfuel-branded service provider to shelter the latest ultra-long-range business jets. The $2 million project, wind-coded to meet Miami-Dade specifications for hurricane safety, will inclu...
A former senior official in Ukraine's security service said he doubted the final report on the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 would provide conclusive answers. The Dutch Safety Board report, to be published on October 13, is keenly awaited by governments and relatives of victims who hope it can shed light on responsibility for the crash over east Ukraine last year in which 298 peopl...
State-owned carrier Air India has put on sale nine of its 21 Dreamliners (B787-800) to raise over 7,000 crore rupees to fund acquisition of new aircraft and also for repayment of the bridge loan availed earlier for purchasing these Boeing 787-800s. These nine planes were inducted in the national carrier's fleet between March 2014 and June this year. Air India would also lease back t...
China's startup Qingdao Airlines (QW) is to be rebranded itself as Newloong Air once its shareholding transfer is completed. According to a source familiar with the matter, the first aircraft for Newloong Air has completed its first flight in Toulouse, France, which is an Airbus A320-200 (Registration B-8283) featuring semi-finished new livery of the rebranded airline....
Europe's top aviation safety chief has warned that hackers could maliciously infiltrate an aircraft's critical systems. Speaking to French aviation journalists on Thursday, Patrick Ky, executive director of the European Aviation Safety Agency, said a consultant hired by the Cologne-based agency managed to exploit vulnerabilities in the ACARS (Aircraft Communications Addressing and Repor...
An air accident report into a crash between two Ryanair aircraft at Dublin airport has revealed difficulties with "winglets" -- the upturned end points of wings -- which are increasingly being fitted to aircraft across the world. In two separate crashes at Dublin airport, the winglets of Ryanair Boeing aircraft struck other Ryanair aircraft during taxiing on the gr...
