As part of a significant stride towards fostering sustainable travel, Google has spearheaded the formation of an advisory committee to refine and augment Google’s Travel Impact Model (TIM). The search giant aims to offer travelers more precise flight emission estimates and advocate for environmentally-conscious travel decisions. The committee is an…
Favorable regulatory policy will lead to growth of Additive Manufacturing (AM) also known as 3D printing technology in the aerospace sector in the next decade. In a recent B2B technology survey, ABI Research finds that 44% of manufacturing companies currently have 3D printers in operation, however, most of these deployments…
Today is Amelia Earhart’s birthday. She is remembered because she was lost. I have a bone to pick with Amelia. Not because she disappeared, but because while she was with us she gave the worst possible advice to a young girl thinking of a future career in aviation: “perfect yourself…
The Hanseatic city of Hamburg has invested in the future of aviation by opening a state of the art aeronautical research centre which will foster new technologies to improve the aerospace industry. The new 26,000 square metre ZAL TechCenter of Applied Aeronautical Research will house up to 600 specialising in…
Gogo has announced a new Major Capacity Agreement with satellite company Intelsat on the Intelsat Globalised Network, becoming the anchor tenant for the world’s first GEO/LEO Shared Network, Intelsat/OneWeb. “Gogo’s open strategy gives us the ability to look to the entire satellite market for innovation, and Intelsat’s EpicNG satellites combined…
Airlines launch new long-haul routes and set new records, on the same week that NASA announces new low-boom Supersonic aircraft project. So which way are we headed around the world? The long and winding road, or fast as the meteor flies?
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Boeing has released two videos to commemorate its 100th Birthday. The first, simply named ‘Thank You’ is a look back at the last 100 years of the company’s history against the backdrop of American history.
Hello Kitty finally lands in Houston on EVA Air’s Shining Star Jet service. EVA Air‘s Chairman KW Chang was captain in charge for the inaugural nonstop Taipei–Houston flight of the airline’s latest too-adorable for words Hello Kitty plane, which arrived at Houston Airport for the first time on Friday, June 19, 2015. The livery of the new…
Airbus predicts that commercial aviation will need 31,000 new aircraft with 100-seat or greater capacity, a market worth $4.6 Trillion over the next twenty years. It attributes this demand to growing passenger traffic. Boeing projects new commercial aircraft demand to be worth $5.2 Trillion over the next twenty years, consisting…
In his State of the Industry address to the IATA Annual General Meeting (AGM) today, Tony Tyler, IATA’s Director General and CEO said, when referring to systems which would, among other safety improvements, prevent another MH370: “This is not science fiction.” “A large commercial airline going missing without a trace for…
