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NewsCranfield Aerospace boosted by £10.5m cash injection
UK-based Cranfield Aerospace Solutions (CAeS) is to receive a £10.5 million ($13.9 million) funding boost after investment pledges from HydrogenOne Capital Growth (HGEN) and Safran Corporate Ventures.
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NewsEthiopian names ASKY head as new chief executive
Ethiopian Airlines has named its former chief operating officer and the current head of its joint-venture carrier ASKY Airlines, Mesfin Tesew Bekele, as its new chief executive.
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NewsCargoLogic Germany suspended from EU airspace, while CargoLogicAir's freighters sit idle
Volga-Dnepr Group-linked carriers CargoLogic Germany and the UK’s CargoLogicAir appear to have been caught up in the fall-out from sanctions imposed on Russia’s aviation industry.
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NewsEngine part from crashed China Eastern 737 found, as search for flight-data recorder widens
Aircraft components from the China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 that crashed in central China have been found more than 10km away from where the aircraft is said to have gone down, say investigators on the third day of search and rescue operations.
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NewsJapan lifts ban on PW4000-powered 777s
Japan has lifted an operating ban on all Pratt & Whitney PW4000-powered Boeing 777s, more than a year after it was imposed following a serious engine failure on a US aircraft.
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NewsIAI explores aerospace co-operation with Morocco under new pact
Moroccan and Israeli representatives have reached a provisional agreement over co-operation in the aerospace sector, which is likely to explore initiatives on aerostructures and cabin interiors. The memorandum of understanding was signed during a meeting in Rabat between the Moroccan trade and industry minister, Ryad Mezzour, and Israel Aerospace Industries ...
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NewsEASA demands rigour in crew behaviour assumptions during aircraft certification
Europe’s air transport safety regulator is underlining the important of human factors consideration in the design of large aircraft and their systems by putting forward a structured methodology to validate assumptions about expected flight crew behaviour. The methodology is being put forward in a proposed certification memorandum by the European ...
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NewsSingapore to fully reopen borders, ease entry testing requirements on 1 April
Singapore will fully reopen its international borders to vaccinated travellers from 1 April, as part of a broader easing of pandemic restrictions in the city-state.
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NewsEx-ST Engineering aerospace chief joins newly-formed AirAsia Aviation board
AirAsia Aviation Group has formed its board of directors, whose members include the former head of ST Engineering’s aerospace division.
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NewsEFW clinches European type certification for A320P2F
Aircraft modification joint venture EFW has secured supplemental type certification from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) for its first Airbus A320 passenger-to-freighter conversion programme.
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NewsFormer 737 Max technical pilot not guilty of misleading FAA: reports
Former Boeing chief technical pilot Mark Forkner has been exonerated of defrauding the US government in connection with the investigation of the FAA’s evaluation and certification of the Boeing 737 Max aircraft, according to media reports.
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NewsUS airlines urge Biden to strike mask mandate and pre-departure Covid tests
US airlines have asked the government to eliminate the federal mask mandate that has been in place for more than a year, as well as the pre-entry Covid-19 test requirement for international travellers.
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NewsDelta takes delivery of first Airbus A321neo in Hamburg
Delta Air Lines has taken delivery of the first of 26 Airbus A321neo aircraft it expects to receive this year.
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NewsSouth African regulator suspends LHT’s international unit as impact of Comair probe widens
South Africa’s aviation regulator has temporarily suspended the aircraft maintenance organisation approval of Lufthansa Technik Maintenance International (LTMI) pending the resolution of two outstanding issues raised in a recent audit.
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AnalysisWhy Putin’s Ukraine campaign has backfired
When Moscow’s forces invaded neighbouring nation on 24 February, the Kremlin seriously underestimated the resolve of Kyiv’s smaller military – and the international community.
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NewsClean Aviation takes off as it seeks bids for share of €735m in funding
EU-backed research and innovation funding body Clean Aviation has opened its first call for proposals, with €735 million available to industry to accelerate green technology development.
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NewsGE starts testing of T901 engine for US Army
GE Aviation has begun delayed bench tests of its first T901-GE-900 turboshaft, the engine that will in future power a huge swathe of the US Army’s rotorcraft fleet.
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NewsLong-serving Ethiopian Airlines chief to step down
Tewolde GebreMariam is to take early retirement after more than a decade at the helm of Ethiopian Airlines because of ill-health.
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NewsStrong summer recovery drives reduction in Aegean 2021 losses
An increase of almost two-thirds in revenues last year over the pandemic-hit 2020 helped Greek carrier Aegean Airlines to cut pre-tax losses to €72.5 million ($79.8 million).
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NewsRussian aircraft ban and airspace closures redraw European overflights map
Prohibitions on Russian aircraft and airspace access has resulted in a substantial reduction in overflights of neighbouring countries, with those crossing Poland down by a third and those over Latvia and Lithuania respectively down by 25% and 46% in the month to 14 March. Pan-European air navigation agency Eurocontrol attributes ...