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The Royal Air Force has confirmed that the 2020 RAF Cosford Airshow has been officially cancelled. The organisers originally postponed the event hoping to run the airshow later in 2020 but say they are now clear that the precautions necessary to safely run the airshow under guidelines to prevent the [read more]

Canadian airframer Bombardier has completed its departure from the commercial aircraft market following the sale of its CRJ series to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd for $550m (£439m). Bombardier has built commercial airlines for 3 decades and has brought aircraft including the Dash 8, C-Series and CRJ models. The rights to [read more]

A run & cycle event on the runway at London Southend airport last week has raised over £6000 for the NHS. The team of 40 participants were joined by Southend East MP James Durridge for the event which saw them aim to run and cycle 290km (180 miles). They actually [read more]

Pressure is growing on British Airways (BA/BAW) as the BA Betrayal campaign gets support from well known faces across social media. The campaign set up by Unite aims to bring public attention to the planned blanket dismissal of all British Airways staff and the re-employment of some onto new contracts [read more]

The British School of Aviation (BSA) is marking its re-opening by offering a complimentary place on its Boeing 787 Dreamliner Engineeer type-rating course. The six-week-long course will be the first face to face training carried out by the school since February. BSA is based at London Luton and normally operates [read more]

The pilot of a Cirrus SR22 (G-CTAM) was able to avoid a potentially fatal crash by deploying the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS) earlier today. The aircraft was on a flight from Dunkeswell Airfield in Exeter to Lee-On-Solent before the pilot lost control of the aircraft for an unknown reason [read more]

Watch live as a new era of human spaceflight gets underway when American astronauts are once again launched on an American rocket from American soil on a mission to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will fly on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, lifting off on [read more]

Wizz Air has announced five new routes from London Luton, most of which will start in Summer 2020. The new routes are all to destinations in mainland Spain, Balearic Islands and Canary Islands showing that, as travel restrictions ease, Wizz Air is thinking that Spain will be a busy destination [read more]