EcoPulse Hybrid Aircraft
Aviation engineering news

EcoPulse Hybrid aircraft passes key milestone

The EcoPulse Hybrid aircraft being developed by Daher, Safran and Airbus has successfully passed its Preliminary Design Review (PDR), a key milestone in the development of the aircraft. The PDR is a key step towards validating the project’s feasibility as well as firming up the architecture towards a first flight [read more]

Sun Express 737
New Routes

Sun Express to launch Manchester to Antalya Flight

Turkish-German airline Sun Express (XQ/SXS) is set to launch a direct flight from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) to Antalya in Turkey in 2021. The service will begin on the 26th March 2021 and will initially operate twice-weekly before increasing to four-flights-per-week from 30th May 2021. “After a year of staying at [read more]

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Features

Interview: Thales Alenia Space Team

The number of off-world projects currently in development is staggering.Earlier this month China’s Chang-E 5 landed on the moon to collect up to 2kg of regolith samples and return them to Earth. This is a short mission – Get up, Get rocks, Get home – but even this takes years [read more]

British Airways Airbus A380-800 G-XLEC (Image: Max Thrust Digital)
Airline news

British Airways banned from Hong Kong

British Airways (BA/BAW) has been banned from flying passengers into Hong Kong until 25th December after a flight landed in Hong Kong on 8th December with four passengers who tested positive for COVID-19. In addition to the four COVID-19 positive passengers, one passenger also failed to comply with prevention requirements. [read more]

Aer Lingus A330
Airline news

Aer Lingus UK files for UK-US Routes

Aer Lingus has filed for permission to operate a number of UK to US routes using its new subsiduary, Aer Lingus UK. Aer Lingus UK is currently in the process of obtaining an Air Operators Certificate (AoC) from the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority and is hoping to launch transatlantic flights [read more]

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Military aviation news

US Navy training with RAF in Scotland

A US Navy contingent, including Poseidon and F-35 aircraft, have this week been training with the Royal Air Force in Scotland. RAF Lossiemouth, where the RAF’s recently acquired P-8A Poseidon aircraft are based, has been hosting the US detachment as part of “training and maritime security tasks”. The RAF declined [read more]