The Lockheed Martin subsidiary’s S-97 RAIDER aircraft have taken flight at a US Army base in support of its bid for the FARA program. Two Sikorsky Technology-built S-97 RAIDER aircraft have taken flight before US Army officials and personnel at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. The demonstration was aimed at supporting the firm’s bid for
US regional carrier ExpressJet is gearing up to take back to the skies nearly a year after it was forced to cease operations, after losing its sole major contract with United Airlines. According to a filing with the Department of Transportation, ExpressJet is looking to resume short-haul regional operations as soon as May this year,
Engineers have located additional manufacturing flaws in a significant number of 737 MAX jets following earlier inspections into possible electrical issues within the cockpit. Last week, World of Aviation reported that dozens of 737 MAX jets were grounded due to production problems resulting in possible electrical faults within the aircraft cockpit’s backup power control unit.
Ryanair has officially lost its ongoing battle against a number of European Union nation-states bailing out their national airlines. The giant European budget airline has legally challenged the European Commission’s decision to approve a number of states to financially bail out major national airlines in the bloc, namely Sweden, Denmark and Finland. The European Court
Developers Asobo has also created ‘hand-crafted’ replicas of Megève, Nice, and Rotterdam The Hague airports as well as introducing more minor updates to 100 other airports across Europe.
UAE-based low-cost carrier Air Arabia has welcomed the delivery of one Airbus A321-200LR aircraft, on long-term lease from US aircraft lessor Air Lease Corporation. The aircraft, a longer-range variant of the Airbus A321-200neo, is powered by CFM International LEAP-1A32 engines, according to ALC, and is the final aircraft in a six-aircraft lease arrangement made between
