Reading Time: 3 minutes The International Air Transport Association (IATA) urged governments to begin careful planning with industry stakeholders to ensure full preparedness when vaccines for COVID-19 are approved and available for distribution. The association also warned of potentially severe capacity constraints in transporting vaccines by air. Preparedness Air cargo plays a key role in the distribution of vaccines […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes VD Gulf is MRO service provider located in Sharjah, the UAE. The company claims to be “the biggest Middle East MRO-provider” already and continues service expansion, having added Boeing 777 service to its portfolio earlier in 2019. VD Gulf offers appealing prices, reportedly as low as ~20% below industry standard, in addition to easily available […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Saudi Drones Summit and Expo was successfully launched on 22nd April 2019 at the Riyadh Marriott Hotel in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The summit opened up at a glorified note observing the “Who’s who?” of Drones domain from Saudi Arabia and across the globe. The Saudi drone also garnered some top notch solution […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Saudi Drones Summit and Expo to take place from 22 – 23 April 2019 in Riyadh“Saudi Drones Summit and Expo” is the first one of its kind in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, this is a must attend event for government and private enterprises looking to reap the benefits of using Drone’s and UAV’s […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The flight test team of the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has completed the first flight testing session of Russia’s advanced MC-21-300 narrow-body twin jet certification campaign. Participation of EASA in the testing of the new aircraft is a prerequisite to its final validation by the European agency. During the certification tests, the behaviour […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes With all the concern and support, the summit has been successfully closed at the Crowne Plaza Shanghai from January 10th to 11th, 2019. This summit is hosted by the Shanghai Society of Aeronautics, Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Shanghai Aircraft Design & Research Institute, China Aeronautical Radio Electronics Research Institute and is co-organized by Shine […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute An Iberia Airbus A340-600, performing flight from Lima (Peru) to Madrid (Spain) with 360 people on board, engine shut down in flight. Aircraft was enroute at FL330 about 660nm southeast of Bogota (Colombia) in Brazilian Airspace when the crew needed to shut one of the four engines (Trent 556) down due to the loss of oil […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Combination of Actual and Visual Conditions to Explore the Intelligent Aviation Manufacturing Way – The 8th China Aviation Industry Summit 2019 is upcoming! Organizer: Shanghai Society of Aeronautics, Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Co., Ltd., of COMAC, Shanghai Aircraft Design & Research Institute of COMAC, China Aeronautical Radio Electronics Research Institute Supporter: China Society of Aeronautics and […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes A. Background Since its inception, the Aviation Industry Summit has been included as one of the “Top Ten Activities” of the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government (The sponsors of Aviation Boutique Week include: Shanghai Pudong New Area Economic and Information Technology Commission, Shanghai Aviation Society, China Commercial Aircraft Co., Ltd. Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Plant, China Commercial […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Rolls-Royce has signed a Trent XWB engine and long-term TotalCare® service agreement with China Eastern Airlines involving the airline’s 20 Airbus A350-900 aircraft. The agreement, worth over over US$1.1bn, is expected to be one of the largest deals announced at the first China International Import Expo (CIIE). Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engines already power all of […]